Walt Whitman Quotes
I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute toward me.Walt Whitman
Quotes to Explore
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
Umberto Eco -
I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
Kate Smith -
The connection that readers have to 'Rookie' has only meant more and more to me as I get older.
Tavi Gevinson -
I know that might sound silly coming from someone my age, but I remember on my 14th birthday having a crisis like my mom should be having. I kept thinking that I was getting older, and I haven't really accomplished anything. I remember thinking that I better accomplish something real soon.
Q'orianka Kilcher -
I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
Ian Anderson -
The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.
Yayoi Kusama
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
E. T. A. Hoffmann -
With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.
J. B. Pritzker -
The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
Randi Weingarten -
It's really kind of a luxury for an actor to have the opportunity to show such different types of characters. I actually left 'Cowboys & Aliens' and went straight into 'The Change-Up.' It was kind of a funny change of pace.
Olivia Wilde -
As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.
Karen Elson -
'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.
Oscar Isaac
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Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
Barbara Park -
Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.
Namie Amuro -
Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.
Vikram Seth -
Sometimes you have to understand your place.
Zach LaVine -
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
Iris Murdoch -
I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.
Orlando Bloom
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I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.
Tatiana Maslany -
Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the great heavy child's shoes Cosette could still almost have worn, so small was her foot, then the vest of very thich fustian, then the knitted petticoat, the the apron with pockets, then the wool stockings.... Then his venerable white head fell on the bed, this old stoical heart broke, his face was swallowed up, so to speak, in Cosette's clothes, and anybody who had passed along the staircase at that moment would have heard irrepressible sobbing.
Victor Hugo -
Music is a language, a universal language.
Sun Ra -
When I'm done with something, I'm done. I don't go back and listen to and pine for my old albums, or the Lollapalooza days, or 'Psalm 69' selling millions of records. Maybe I'm really just getting old and mellow.
Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs -
I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute toward me.
Walt Whitman