Walt Whitman Quotes

Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing.

Walt Whitman

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• I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Up
  • Conversation
  • Talking

• Have the courage to act instead of react.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Courage
  • Act
  • React

• I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

  

  Iain Banks
  • School
  • Remember
  • Water

• Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Book
  • Hope

• It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Mean

• The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Film
  • First
  • Two

• I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect for being one of the greats in hip-hop, and because of that, the fire never burned out. There's more and more of a need for me to succeed or take the legacy a step further, and that's what it is.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Respect
  • Fire
  • Legacy

• Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely.

  

  Lane Evans
  • World
  • Live
  • Brave

• The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Women
  • Inspiration
  • Storytelling

• I don't have a steady relationship. That's something that women in politics deal with. For some reason, men in politics seem to have a larger charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Men
  • Women
  • Relationship

• You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Done

• Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarrassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom, till too late, discover how I ought to act.

  

  Frances Burney

• The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Law
  • Suffering
  • Hero

• Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Real

• I ain't good looking And my hair ain't curls But my mother she give me something It's going to carry me through this world.

  

  Eleanora Fagan
  • World
  • Good
  • She

• Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Time
  • Good

• Schiller writes in a letter to Goethe, 17 December 1795 of a ‘poetic mood’. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one’s thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Nature
  • Thoughts
  • Mood

• The admission to Harvard College depends upon examinations; and if this boy passes the examinations, he will be admitted; and if the white students choose to withdraw, all the income of the college will be devoted to his education.

  

  Edward Everett
  • Education
  • College
  • Boy

• I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • World

• Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness.

  

  Randy Savage
  • Single
  • Desert
  • Grain

• We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God… Among the tribes our creed could be only like the desert grass – a beautiful swift seeming of spring; which, after a day’s heat, fell dusty.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • Spring

• All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Brain

• Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Bird
  • Rocking
  • Shuttle