Walt Whitman Quotes

What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering if freely forever.

Walt Whitman

• Sky
• Chances
• Good Will

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• I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Running
  • Politician
  • Become

• I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.

  

  Halsey
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Bad
  • Help
  • Script

• I live for my daughter. Every decision I make is about her and for her. It's great. She's perfect.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Perfect
  • Decision
  • Daughter

• There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

  

  T-Pain
  • People
  • Money
  • Leave

• People are always asking me if I'm frightened, hanging out with al Qaeda, but usually those encounters are one-on-one interviews. I'm talking to people whose views I don't agree with, but that happens all the time.

  

  Lawrence Wright
  • People
  • Time

• Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)

  

  Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Friends
  • Comedy

• Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Universe

• How was I supposed to know?She was slowly letting go?If I was puttin her through her hell,Hell I couldn't tell.She could've given me a sign,Could've opened up my eyes.How was I supposed to see?She never cried in front of me.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Up
  • She
  • Eyes

• And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain – and Britain and Socialism are not the same thing...It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people's money.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• I'm not gonna live my life on one side of an ampersand.

  

  Amanda Palmer
  • Life
  • Live

• I have a very difficult time describing my music. Because I run into people in the hardware store and they go, 'Oh, you're a musician. So what kind of music do you play?' And I go, 'Uh, I've been doin' this for many years - I don't know what to call it.'

  

  Les Claypool
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Life
  • Game
  • Design

• The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

  

  Buddha
  • Life
  • Real
  • True

• If I play a video game, I have to get through the whole thing. Like, when the new 'Resident Evil' comes out, I have to sit and do the whole thing. It will consume my life. I'm at a point where I don't have much time to play around anymore, so I don't really get started on the games if I won't be able to finish them.

  

  Ben Schwartz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Game

• Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.

  

  Peter Bart
  • Movie
  • High
  • Past

• But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.

  

  Paul Weyrich
  • Enemy

• Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.

  

  Brian Epstein
  • Management

• Nothing is more frustrating to me than putting a song on an album and regret putting it on there. I'm excited that there are no songs on 'Tailgates & Tanlines' that I'm iffy about.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • Song
  • Regret

• The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.

  

  Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Time
  • Color
  • Sky

• I came from the projects. So there were times I'd wake up at night, and my palms would be itching to get out. But no matter where I was, I always looked at the stars, because there's nothing ugly about the sky. That was my escape.

  

  Sidney Royel Selby III
  • Up
  • Night
  • Sky

• Some believe that those aeroplanes on September 11 came out of a clear blue sky. I believe they came out of a swamp of hatred created by us.

  

  George Galloway
  • Believe
  • Sky
  • Blue

• I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.

  

  William Merritt Chase
  • Believe
  • Painting
  • Sky

• What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering if freely forever.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Sky
  • Chances
  • Good Will