Walker Percy Quotes
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
Patrick Swayze -
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
A. R. Ammons -
That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
Walter Jon Williams -
Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
Ted Allen -
The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.
Halldor Laxness -
Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.
Aeschines
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I don't think working in superheroes is slumming it. I'm proud of this form. I like this. There's nothing inherently masculine about power fantasies. There's nothing inherently masculine about superhero comics. There's nothing inherently masculine about mythology. About science fiction.
Kelly Sue DeConnick -
Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.
Arne Duncan -
We want the people of Japan to know that the people of Hawaii welcome them to the Hawaiian Islands.
David Ige -
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
Frederick Douglass -
I don't think anybody is ever going to call me to play someone who is mousy and demure.
Drea De Matteo -
It's really hard for men to tell other men 'I love you' without putting a 'man' at the end of it. Like, 'I love you... man.' You just can't look at another man and say, 'I love you.'
Channing Tatum
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The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that.
Mark Spitz -
At least 10 ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the border in Texas.
Jeff Duncan -
Straight people say, 'You know you're just gay,' and gay people say, 'You know you're just gay.' There is such a thing as bisexual!
Andy Dick -
This entire opus is respectfully dedicated to all those who have loved unconditionally only to have their hearts unanaesthetically ripped out: Base not your joy on the deeds of others, for what is given can be taken away. No hope = No fear.
Peter Steele -
Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?
Paul Cezanne -
You know, the big Valbowski is a lot like concrete mix. You know? You just get it a little wet, take a step back, and watch it get ROCK HARD!
Val Venis
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In my time it was the Kennedy call to public service in the Third World. Had there been no Peace Corps, my life would have been radically different.
Paul Tsongas -
Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.
Henry Ward Beecher -
You need to learn independence. You have to be independent - it builds character.
Mike Tyson -
I have a wide spectrum, a wide demographic. I have the young girls, I have the gay community, I have many regular theatergoers. I do feel a tremendous responsibility and pride to be a role model for some of these young people.
Idina Menzel -
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.
Walker Percy