Jimmy Walker Quotes

You still have to go perform; it doesn't matter what the tournament is.

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• Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Fear
  • Fall
  • Climb

• The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Fall
  • Failure

• I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Tradition
  • Feet
  • Stand

• I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Look
  • Three
  • Ahead

• The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Trying
  • American
  • Happiness

• Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Today
  • Hand
  • Government

• If it can be profitable to be green, that's just smart business.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Business
  • Smart
  • Green

• If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Movie
  • Point
  • Direct

• I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.

  

  Tabare Vazquez
  • Work
  • Together
  • Aging

• I have this very abstract idea in my head. I wouldn't even want to call it stand-up, because stand-up conjures in one's mind a comedian with a microphone standing onstage under a spotlight telling jokes to an audience. The direction I'm going in is eventually, you won't know if it's a joke or not.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Want

• There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Words
  • Thought
  • Without

• A person who's a bitch would seem to be mean for no reason. I'm not a mean person. Maybe I'm rude without being aware of it - that's possible.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Rude

• Leo Ryan's life and his deeds are about a life that was so much more than Guyana. He was relentless in his search for answers, answers that were not readily available by just asking questions...We remember him today because his story is so much like those of most Americans; we want to believe the best and we sometimes hear the worst.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Remember

• The human voice conspires to desecrate everything on Earth.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Earth

• If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Life

• Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

  

  Benjamin Haydon
  • Art
  • Reality

• Everybody says black makes you look slimmer, but what about those other colors that also complement your skin tone or your figure and things like that?

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Black

• Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming.

  

  Corrine Brown
  • People
  • Work
  • Waiting

• The situation's fraught, Fraughter than I thought, With horrible, impossible possibilities!

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Situation
  • Impossible
  • Possibility

• The '60s are my favorite decade - with the Cold War, the women's movement. And then there's the music, the fashion, the clothes, the hair.

  

  Margot Robbie
  • Music
  • Women
  • War

• There's this accent that I think everybody has when they grow up going to an international school. It's a mix of not quite English, not quite American. When I moved to L.A., it just went completely American.

  

  Daniela Ruah
  • Up
  • School
  • American

• There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Chance
  • Demands
  • Storyteller

• I bought Jayne Mansfield's mansion in L.A. after her death. I had met her in England and remembered her perfume. When I moved in, I could smell her, and I saw her apparition.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Death
  • England
  • Perfume

• You still have to go perform; it doesn't matter what the tournament is.

  

  Jimmy Walker