Walker Percy Quotes
Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone’s finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?Walker Percy
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
Carl Sandburg -
My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
Caitlin Moran -
The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
Orison Swett Marden -
I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
Olivia Culpo -
It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. -
What is a farm but a mute gospel?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!
Olivia Williams -
I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
Hale Irwin -
Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
Earl Butz -
Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
The inventory goes down the elevator every night.
Fairfax Cone -
We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.
Nate Ruess Fun.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Philadelphia loves its team, and being able to win a World Series for the city, fans, players and our Phillies organization meant so much to me.
Pat Gillick -
Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.
M. F. K. Fisher -
My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.
Gail Carson Levine -
I regret all of my books.
Zora Neale Hurston -
Safer chemicals and more energy-efficient technologies can provide cooling without severe climate implications. Shifting to these alternatives could avoid the equivalent of 12 times the current annual carbon pollution of the United States by 2050.
Frances Beinecke
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What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.
Carl Maria von Weber -
If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
John W. Gardner -
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts and to the singing of a bird outside his window and to the far-away voice of the sea.
Axel Munthe -
I have found an honest and excellent man Eugène Manet, brother of Edouard Manet who, I believe, sincerely loves me. I have entered into the positive life after having lived for a long time in by chimeras.
Berthe Morisot -
On Putin's order, Russian security services try to destabilize NATO allies the U.S. has sworn to defend.
John McCain -
Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone’s finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?
Walker Percy