Walker Evans Quotes

I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.

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• It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Reason

• The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Age
  • Medicine
  • Old Age

• I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Body
  • Greek
  • Cheese

• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Death
  • Christian

• I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Best
  • Thought
  • Paradise

• I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Poetry

• In general, I'm rubbish in heels. I love them, and I own a lot because it's like being in a sweet shop: they're pretty. But I'm not good in them. I don't walk nicely in heels.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Like

• I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.

  

  Ian Millar
  • She
  • Remember
  • Wife

• I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Know
  • Dreaming
  • Expecting

• Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.

  

  Saadi
  • World
  • Old
  • Birds

• There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Way
  • Prosperity

• Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Small
  • Attractive
  • Texture

• At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Action

• I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Needs
  • Values

• I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Find
  • Cleaning
  • Demeaning

• The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Memory
  • Two
  • Collection

• I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Stop
  • Successful
  • Ambition

• I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Life
  • Great
  • Long

• We are often wrong about the past, but at least with the past you can change your thinking. We can't do that with the future.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Past

• When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Poetry
  • Write
  • Poems

• I start my process hand written, and then I dump it in. It's like you're getting a second draft 'cause when I put it in the computer, I fix it and change stuff. That's my process. I picked that up from speaking to Neil Gaiman and Joe Hill. I was messing around with the idea of starting to write more, writing a book and doing things like this, and I reached out for advice. They were like, "Oh, we hand write, and then we dump it all in." I was like, "Great! There's no more blank pages."

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Write
  • Start
  • Process

• I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Society
  • Science
  • Dark

• I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Write
  • Wanted
  • Word