Walker Percy Quotes

Oh the crap that lies lurking in the English soul. Somewhere it, the English soul, received an injection of romanticism which nearly killed it.

Walker Percy

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• It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • History
  • Soul
  • Political

• Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Trying
  • Man
  • English

• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Crazy

• I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Past

• I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Girl

• I auditioned for this agency. I got an advertisement first, and then something else, which I got fired from. It was soul-destroying. And then the next thing I got, I thought was going to be my big break, and they cut the role. It was only the year that I started auditioning for 'Star Wars' when I really started getting roles.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Soul
  • Star
  • Thought

• I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Music
  • Love
  • Soul

• It simply feels right to me to blend the glittery delights of New York City with a largely raw vegan diet - with the soul-deep conviction that animals are not ours to eat, wear, exploit or experiment on.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Soul
  • City
  • Deep

• I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Good
  • Music
  • Soul

• What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Lies
  • inspirational
  • Comparison

• It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?

  

  Kate Bush
  • American
  • Think
  • English

• The Ewoks were definitely a challenge of writing 'The Jedi Doth Return.' After having done so many things with characters who don't speak English, how was I going to make them stand out? Jedi is also rich with emotional material, particularly Darth Vader's transformation from the dark side back to the good.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Done

• When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Soul
  • Mortgage
  • Norm

• Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Place

• If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • World
  • Soul
  • Me

• Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.

  

  A. James Clark
  • English
  • Rome
  • Letter

• The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

  

  Karl Marx
  • English
  • Spirit
  • Revolution

• I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Up
  • Family
  • City

• Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

  

  George A. Smith
  • God
  • Soul
  • Freedom

• There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Soul
  • Freedom
  • Cries

• The Media is ruled by Satan. But yet I wonder if many Christians fully understand that.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart
  • Wonder
  • Satan

• Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Coffin
  • Loss Of Time
  • Your Honour

• When I'm on a plane, I am the annoying person humming into my phone. Sitting there static with nothing to do, a lot of melodies come to me. So I've written a lot of songs on planes.

  

  Kiesa Rae Ellestad
  • Annoying

• Oh the crap that lies lurking in the English soul. Somewhere it, the English soul, received an injection of romanticism which nearly killed it.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Soul
  • English
  • Lies