William Walton Quotes

No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.

William Walton

• Honest
• Streams
• Scholar
• Statesmen
• Preventing
• Quietness

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• Honest communication is a rare thing.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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  • Honest
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• I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Faith
  • Me
  • Always

• I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Love
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• Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Man
  • Honest
  • Blues

• I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Person
  • Honest
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• Let's be honest: I just want a Super Bowl ring.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Want
  • Honest
  • Ring

• I really don't have a need to be on TV all that much, to be honest with you.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • You
  • Need
  • Honest

• I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, let's be honest!

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • Music
  • Country
  • Love

• My parents are really honest when they watch something. My nan is brutally honest. She'll tell me, 'Oh, you looked awful in that scene,' and I'm like, 'Well, I was giving birth at the time, so it probably worked with the character, Nan.'

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • Character
  • Parents
  • Honest

• When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my own voice. My songs are so brutally honest, it would be alien to sing in any accent other than my own. Don't get me wrong - I can imitate singers. I can do bar mitzvahs and weddings.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • American
  • Song
  • Honest

• Moonlight is very honest and very special to me. I feel like this is the most personal music I've made, by far. I'm very proud of it and I'm very excited. It's scary...it's vulnerable and kind of terrifying.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Music
  • Proud
  • Scary

• Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Honest
  • Relationships
  • Maintain

• Of course a picture can lie, but only if you are not honest with yourself.

  

  Andre Kertesz
  • Picture
  • Lying
  • Honest

• Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Music
  • Job
  • Jobs

• We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We're all carried along, by the river of dreams.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Dreams
  • Ocean
  • River

• If you're an honest person, you'll make mistakes, but it'll be okay. The most interesting things happen after making mistakes.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Interesting
  • Mistake
  • Honest

• A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or even sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth having. There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Good
  • Business
  • Truth

• A friend gives hope when life is low, a friend is a place when you have nowhere to go, a friend is honest, a friend is true. A friend is precious a friend is u.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • True
  • Hope

• I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Write

• I'm not a journalist any more. I don't have to stick a microphone up somebody's nostril and I don't have a camera lens behind my shoulder, I think people talk to me in a much franker way.

  

  Gerald Seymour
  • Thinking
  • Behinds
  • Cameras

• I had always wanted to tell a story that was set in Los Angeles in the '50s, because that's where I grew up, and it was the city of my childhood memories.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Up
  • City
  • Childhood

• Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to a stump / Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest.

  

  Charlie Daniels
  • Children
  • Rest
  • Alligators

• No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.

  

  William Walton
  • Honest
  • Streams
  • Scholar