Walker Percy Quotes

Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

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• He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Heart
  • Freedom
  • Clean

• Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Person
  • Himself
  • Uneducated

• Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Everyday

• The gun is not out of Irish politics.

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Politics
  • Gun
  • Irish

• Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Help
  • Cry
  • Obnoxious

• My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Important
  • Love
  • She

• Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Mind
  • Memories

• I've never regretted anything I've done, even the things that I've failed at. I've often regretted not trying something really big, because you'll never know.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • Trying
  • Done

• My first lip balms were Bonne Bell Lip Smackers, which, correct me if I'm wrong, sometimes had little bracelets attached to the caps-meaning your lip balm could idly dangle from your wrist like a charm bracelet when not in use, not unlike some iPhone accessories.

  

  Emily Weiss

• I'm more relaxed when I can hear the beat clearly all the time I'm singing.

  

  Jimmy Rushing
  • Time
  • Singing

• Sometimes I feel like putting on a blazer with just a T-shirt.

  

  Big Sean

• When you go in to do a screen test, you negotiate your contract and sign all your paperwork before you even get on a plane.

  

  Allison Tolman

• If I didn't have Chip Gaines in my life, I'd still be dreaming in my head - but not acting out on any of that, not living it out.

  

  Joanna Gaines
  • Life

• I've been running since high school. My boyfriend was on the track team, and I'd run with him.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.

  

  David Copperfield
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Rain

• A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common.

  

  Klaus Schulze Ash Ra Tempel

• Anytime you're playing a major, the last four or five holes, it's not going to be easy. It's never a guarantee. It's never easy.

  

  Dustin Johnson
  • Easy
  • Playing
  • Guarantee

• I think my mom just filled me with confidence. I just thought I was the best at everything. Like any mother really.

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Mom

• I learned how but I have a terrible paranoia and fear. I do not drive an automobile.

  

  Nikki Cox
  • Fear
  • Drive
  • Paranoia

• Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Food
  • Cooking
  • Salad

• The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self, with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Mean

• The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the constitution that no man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Power
  • Constitution
  • Congress

• Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Guarantee
  • Obnoxious
  • Uneducated