Walker Percy Quotes

Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.

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• It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Important
  • Read
  • Little

• The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Great
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • She
  • Book
  • Remember

• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Italian
  • Saying

• Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Limit

• No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Movie
  • Perfect
  • Wine

• When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Musicians

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Know
  • Moral
  • Difficult

• I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • American
  • Body
  • New York

• Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Faith
  • Passion

• I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Me
  • President
  • Excuse

• I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Think
  • Acting
  • Theatre

• One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Free Press

• Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • True
  • Self
  • Consequences

• We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • World
  • Change
  • Space

• Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Soul
  • House
  • Body

• I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Lost
  • Myself
  • Like

• I believe the director is the one that sets the mood and if you have this hysterical director it's a domino effect. I would work for him forever, for nothing. Don't tell my agent that.

  

  Elizabeth Pena
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Forever

• I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.

  

  P. D. James
  • Kitchen

• There's so many gatekeepers to getting in front of showrunners or executives. If we pull those middlemen out, and we get women in rooms with the executives, the people hiring, it seems to break down barriers. Because they can no longer say, 'There just aren't any women to hire,' when you're surrounded by fifty of them.

  

  Allison Schroeder
  • People
  • Women

• Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.

  

  Alan Dean Foster
  • Up
  • Why
  • Science

• Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Great
  • Small
  • Connection