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

• We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.

  

  Plato
  • Cities
  • Destruction
  • Wrecks

• The very flowers are sacred to the poor.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Flower
  • Poor
  • Sacred

• To terrorize a man into believing in God is never the work of God, but the work of human expediency. If we want to convince a congregation of a certain thing, we may use terror to frighten them into it; but never say that is God's way, it is our way. To call that God's method is a travesty to the character of God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • God
  • May

• How to describe the excitement I felt when I saw this beautiful work and realized its potential? I guess it's like when, after a long journey, suddenly a mountain peak comes in full view. You catch your breath, take in its majestic beauty, and all you can say is "Wow!" It's the moment of revelation. You have not yet reached the summit, you don't even know yet what obstacles lie ahead, but its allure is irresistible, and you already imagine yourself at the top. It's yours to conquer now. But do you have the strength and stamina to do it?

  

  Edward Frenkel
  • Work
  • Journey
  • Beauty

• Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Past
  • Imagination
  • Vision

• Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Guarantee
  • Obnoxious
  • Uneducated