Walt Whitman Quotes

Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.

Walt Whitman

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• Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

  

  Yannis Stournaras
  • Difficult
  • Patience
  • Lie

• We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Fly

• I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Why
  • Know
  • Well

• The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Technology

• Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Life
  • Good
  • Music

• The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Mistake
  • Errors
  • Religions

• Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's Day. If you're married, you can't win on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Guy
  • Like
  • Thing

• I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Way
  • Person
  • Feel

• My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • She
  • Mother
  • Kind

• Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

  

  Cavour
  • Tax
  • Imbeciles

• If, when I leave this earth, I'm remembered for 'Fargo,' so be it. But I think old Marge Gunderson is gonna get a run for her money with Olive Kittredge.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Money
  • Think
  • Earth

• We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from - and with - each other.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Power
  • Science

• Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Love
  • Eyes
  • Pain

• I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Writer
  • Thriller
  • Chambers

• Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Nature
  • Deep
  • Gentle

• Good supporters who have single daughters say, 'Hey, you need to take my daughter out.' And it's awkward.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Good
  • You
  • Single

• The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Life
  • Time
  • Writing

• Mute nostril agony.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors

• You see guys that have been in the league for a long time and have taken that opportunity to not only make their game better but to make the people around them better. And to help them know things that maybe you wish you had known.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I actually think there's a potential, a crazy potential, that network TV could become something valuable and worthwhile, just because of fear on the part of the networks.

  

  Bob Odenkirk
  • Fear
  • Crazy

• Those days of every child having a mummy and daddy who lived at home - Daddy went to work, and Mummy stayed at home and took care of everyone - those days have almost gone, and it's so much more unconventional now.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Work
  • Home
  • Child

• I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • World
  • Work
  • Family

• I did 32 years of political cartoons, one every day for six days a week, I wrote and drew every word, every line. That body of work is the one I'm proudest of.

  

  Jerry Robinson
  • Work
  • Political

• Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Poetry