Walker Percy Quotes

Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.

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• When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Film
  • Festival
  • Showing

• There was a mission: To match the cover of 'Extraordinary' to the cover of the paperback 'Impossible,' which was commercially successful. Consider the outdoor natural setting, the single girl in motion with her hair blowing, and the cursive font used for the title; both covers have these in common.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • Girl
  • Single
  • Hair

• The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • True
  • New York

• I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Women
  • Politics
  • Now

• The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Money
  • Things
  • More

• It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.

  

  Vanna White
  • World
  • Job
  • Know

• Our first album didn't work because we tried to be something we're not.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Work
  • First
  • Something

• When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Reading
  • Feel
  • Right

• It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Up
  • Song
  • Dream

• I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Think
  • Happiness
  • Sin

• A great fig should look like it's just about to burst its skin. When squeezed lightly it should give a little and not spring back. It must be almost unctuously sweet, soft and wet.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Sweet
  • Spring

• Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Future
  • Die
  • Rich

• In terms of aesthetics, I probably look better than I did when I played.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Better
  • Look
  • Did

• For all the things that make Chicago great, for all the things that make us proud to call ourselves Chicagoans, the violence that is happening corrodes our core. It is not the Chicago we know and love.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Great
  • Know
  • Proud

• When one observes the nightmare of the desperate efforts made by hundreds of thousands of people struggling to escape from the socialized countries of Europe, to escape over barbed-wire fences, under machine-gun fire-one can no longer believe that socialism, in any of its forms, is motivated by benevolence and by the desire to achieve men’s welfare.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • People
  • Believe
  • Men

• All hail Weezy, call it bad weather

  

  Lil Wayne
  • Bad

• El mal, débil, me agita; fuerte, me calma.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Dare to look up to God and say, Deal with me in the future as Thou wilt; I am of the same mind as Thou art; I am Thine; I refuse nothing that pleases Thee; lead me where Thou wilt; clothe me in any dress Thou choosest.

  

  Epictetus
  • God
  • Mind
  • Art

• Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Writer

• Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Jews

• The Lord calls us to love everybody. Every day it's a challenge. Within this sport, I'm called to love everybody. That means that every single German or Canadian that I want to beat, I still have to love. That means competing the way God wants me to compete. That means doing things that might not necessarily be seen as giving me a competitive advantage but instead doing what God would want me to do.

  

  Elana Meyers
  • Love
  • Challenge
  • Advantage

• To me that's a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Help
  • Enjoy
  • Reflection

• Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Jews
  • The Lord
  • Catholics