Walt Whitman Quotes

I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-washed babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.

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• I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Always
  • Mirror
  • Little

• When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Paris

• You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • You
  • Know
  • Learn

• 'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Play
  • Like
  • Paradox

• Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Women
  • Experience

• My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Home
  • House
  • Design

• What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • American
  • Today

• The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Day
  • Strange
  • Once

• I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you have to acknowledge that there's a huge fan base for it, and these people are really sweet. You can't stereotype a 'Star Wars' fan.

  

  Ralph Brown
  • People
  • Star
  • Sweet

• A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Band
  • Face

• Jews have a tendency to become comedians.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Become
  • Jews
  • Comedians

• We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Work
  • Women
  • Fighting

• I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Like
  • Actor
  • Being

• I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Book
  • Rock
  • Star

• Fandom is amazing.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Amazing

• I love science fiction. There are ways in which this community kept me and my partner alive through some very, very bad years, and I will always acknowledge that.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Science
  • Community
  • Always

• I don't watch much television.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Television
  • Watch
  • Much

• We manufacture automotive components including critical engine and axle parts for passenger cars, diesel engines and medium & heavy commercial vehicles. Till 1997, our focus was almost entirely on the domestic market with a relatively insignificant portion of revenues from exports.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Focus
  • Insignificant
  • Till

• Es gibt Fälle, ... wo jeder Trost niederträchtig und Verzweiflung Pflicht ist.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Trust me: I've been travelling, making movies, and spending the remainder of my time at home.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Time
  • Home
  • Trust

• There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Wisdom

• I have given them life instead of death, freedom instead of the cords of superstition, beauty and truth instead of corruption and exploitation. The old bad days are over for them, the Light of the Aton has risen, and they can dwell in peace and harmony freed from the shadow of fear and oppression.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Bad

• The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him.

  

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Children
  • Father
  • Moments

• I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-washed babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Death
  • Birth
  • Contained