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
Quotes to Explore
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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 -
I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.
Halsey -
It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.
Victoria Pratt -
I live for my daughter. Every decision I make is about her and for her. It's great. She's perfect.
Gareth Gates -
There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.
T-Pain -
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
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Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)
Ludwig van Beethoven -
Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.
Clifford D. Simak -
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 -
I'm not gonna live my life on one side of an ampersand.
Amanda Palmer -
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 -
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
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The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Buddha -
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 -
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 -
Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.
Brian Epstein -
I just sort of grew up with music always in the background like a soundtrack. And it really hit me hard when The Beatles came along, like so many people. That got me started digging back further to Chuck Berry.
Paul Rodgers Bad Company -
I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.
Claudia Christian
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In a way that somebody else converts to Judaism or becomes a Hare Krishna, I belong to the church of fried chicken.
Padma Lakshmi -
Every human mind you've ever looked at … is a product not just of natural selection but of cultural redesign of enormous proportions.
Daniel Dennett -
This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.
James Agee -
I feel like the sky in my mind is bigger when I meditate. It helps you fight the classic battles we're all fighting: trying to find love, trying to find satisfaction in your career.
James Edward Olliges Jr. -
Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again.
Scott Adams -
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