Walker Percy Quotes

I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.

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• What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Desire
  • Space
  • Innovation

• Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Energy
  • Player
  • Year

• Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Work
  • Business
  • Trust

• A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Friends
  • Man
  • Marriage

• I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Life
  • Good
  • Women

• I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Think
  • Change
  • Me

• Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Never
  • Boy

• We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Fear
  • Know
  • More

• Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Looking
  • Someone
  • Letter

• I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Think
  • Doing

• I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Art
  • American
  • Lost

• But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Land
  • Issue
  • Which

• We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Book
  • Freedom
  • Kind

• There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Small
  • Always
  • Same

• The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.

  

  Ian Smith
  • You
  • Question
  • Risk

• I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Rock

• I can live without bread, but I can't live without freedom.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Live
  • Freedom
  • Bread

• The reality is that most celebrity defendants are extremely unknowledgeable, naive, and vulnerable, and if they get into trouble, they usually call their lawyer friends who handle criminal cases, and if they don't know any, they call their business lawyers, who then refer them to lawyer friends of theirs.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Reality

• What challenges me is this - I want to walk out of a film with the experience of having done a film, not with a feeling that I have sleepwalked through it.

  

  Arjun Rampal
  • Done
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• I think, as most of us do, I put such high expectations on myself that this spills over onto other people. And not everyone is wired this way. Some people can shrug expectations off their shoulders like a cardigan, remaining cool and breezy. Others wear them like a parka with a stuck zipper, hot and stifling.

  

  Kristin Armstrong
  • People
  • High
  • Cool

• I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.

  

  Joe E. Lewis

• I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense a population, but we are blessed with a Constitution admirably calculated to accomplish it. Its elastic power is unequaled, which is to be attributed to its federal character.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • Character
  • Power
  • Free

• He who knows syphilis knows medicine

  

  William Osler
  • Knows
  • Medicine
  • Syphilis

• I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.

  

  Walker Percy
  • People
  • Business