Sidney Poitier Quotes

When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours.

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• The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Walks
  • Heels
  • Idealist

• I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Music
  • Yoga
  • Cinema

• Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Men
  • Professional
  • Happens

• What happens in the heart simply happens.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Heart
  • Happens
  • Simply

• A lot of funny stuff happens in Canada.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Funny
  • Happens
  • Canada

• No, I don't have a plan. Whatever happens happens. There's never a plan.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Happens
  • Plan
  • Whatever

• Something funny always happens in every show in the UK and I genuinely love touring the UK because it's where I'm from. I just get a warm feeling when I'm home.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Home
  • Feeling
  • Funny

• I'm really interested in kind of weird social situations and cliques, watching girls vying for attention, watching how the popularity thing happens. I've always thought too hard about everything.

  

  Lorde
  • Attention
  • Weird
  • Everything

• No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.

  

  Doris Day
  • Up
  • Matter
  • Happens

• I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Artist
  • Term
  • My Own

• Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Life
  • Cold
  • Philosophy

• The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Hope
  • Happens
  • Teaching

• I enjoyed running at that pace, I tried to just hang on to Valentino.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Running
  • Pace
  • Hang

• I think doing anything having to do with war, you walk away so very grateful for everything you have and the safety that you have.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Safety

• I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and desolation which abides with me. My circumstances allowing of nothing but the ejaculation of one-syllabled reflections, a written monologue by that most interesting being, myself, may have its yet to be discovered consolations.

  

  Alice James
  • Writing
  • May
  • Interesting

• Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Everyday
  • Miracle
  • Happens

• You're not the same after, say, an incredible love affair that went very well or a love affair that went bad. Or something that happens to your health, or something that happened to somebody else's health, that is close to you. Or something that happens professionally.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Love
  • Bad
  • Health

• In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Life
  • Way
  • Interesting

• You know you can be having a bad day and someone will walk by and say: 'Hey, I love you, Will.' That really cheers you up. That's a really lovely thing.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Knows
  • Lovely
  • Walks

• I play Xbox. I have a little boy to look after. I have dogs. You know, I have things to do. I would love to be able to sit down and watch something like a movie. I watch my own movies because I have to.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Movie
  • Play
  • Dog

• Be my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • World
  • Love
  • Friend

• I don't think Bono decided to be ambitious, he just is. But if this country ever ran out of electricity, just shove a plug up his hole and it would run for a week.

  

  Gavin Friday
  • Country
  • Ambitious
  • Electricity

• I hike every day with my dog, after the kids are off to school. I tend to get wrapped up in all the things that need to be done during the day, so I really am strict about setting that time aside for myself and not scheduling anything before eleven, so I can get my hike in.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours.

  

  Sidney Poitier
  • Happens
  • Walks
  • Pace