Walker Percy Quotes
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
Igor Stravinsky -
Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
Dan Fogelberg -
Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
A. R. Ammons -
Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
Wally Schirra -
An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
Samuel Alexander -
I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
Gareth Gates
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel -
It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
Manfred von Richthofen -
I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
Hannah Simone -
Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
Samuel P. Huntington -
I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
Carli Lloyd -
How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
Maimonides
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Working with so many people from all over the world is extremely enriching and stimulating.
Fabiola Gianotti -
I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
Lana Del Rey -
I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
When I moved to Bombay, it was very harsh. I was nothing like what I am today. I couldn't speak a word of English. In England, people might be very understanding about that, but in Bombay, they're not very forgiving. 'If you don't speak English, how do you expect to work in Hindi films?'
Kangana Ranaut -
Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
Natalia Makarova -
I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.
Tabitha Soren
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To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
Oscar Wilde -
I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainty, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that Certainty and hitch one's waggon to it. The quest for that Truth is the summum bonum of life.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I wish I had taken Spanish instead of French in high school. I could eavesdrop on a lot more conversations on the subway if I knew Spanish.
Meg Cabot -
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
Edward Albee -
Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.
Walker Percy