Walker Evans Quotes

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

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• I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Long
  • Now
  • Racing

• I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.

  

  Earl Hines
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Memory

• Humanity will live as long as there are humans.

  

  Vasily Grossman
  • Long
  • Live
  • Humanity

• I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Help
  • Know
  • Die

• When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Time
  • Long
  • War

• That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Long
  • Way
  • Film

• I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Time
  • Long
  • New York

• 'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Die
  • Would
  • Carousel

• It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

  

  Queen Christina
  • Life
  • Long
  • Self

• For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • People
  • Long
  • Poverty

• I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Long
  • You
  • Difficult

• Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Long
  • Family
  • Home

• There are also scientific problems with the concept that each of the creation days was a long period of time.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Time
  • Long
  • Period

• Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.

  

  Venus Williams
  • World
  • Men
  • Long

• There's a bunch of places in the world I haven't been to, 'cause I can only be on a plane for a little bit. I'm like, 'How long is it to get there? Two days on a plane? What? No.'

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • World
  • Long
  • Places

• So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Me
  • Inspired
  • Stories

• It's clear that the medium and long-run fiscal challenges facing the country have to do with the rise of entitlement spending, they have to do with the longer run imbalances that we've created in the structure of the system.

  

  Austan Goolsbee
  • Long
  • Country

• She is such a doer, Cara - she is so ambitious. She has always known what she wants, and she's a hustler. Sometimes I call her, and I'm like, 'You need to help me hustle,' and she is like, 'Come on!'

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • She
  • Help
  • Hustle

• So, loath to suffer mute. We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Air

• I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?'

  

  David Rubenstein

• Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words.

  

  Yasunari Kawabata
  • Soul
  • Words
  • Hand

• Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

  

  Walker Evans
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  • Die
  • Listen