Walks Quotes
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Good luck walks and bullshit flies.
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More Walks Quotes
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
JuliusJ Epstein— 1942 Humphrey Bogart as Rick in Casablanca (with Philip G Epstein and Howard Koch).
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
john updike— On T. S. Eliot (1984) by Peter Ackroyd, in which the Eliot estate forbade quotation from Eliot’s books and letters, The New Yorker (25 March 1985)
If even one Unicorn walks the Earth my power is not complete.
— The Lord of Darkness, in Legend (1986), written by William Hjortsberg
Say not, "I have found the truth ," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
— Kahlil Gibran, in The Prophet (1923)
Does Mum, the Persil-user, still believe That there's no Devil and that youth is bliss? As certain as the sun behind the Downs And quite as plain to see, the Devil walks.
— 1954 A Few Late Chrysanthemums,'Original Sin on the Sussex Coast'.
Ye lovers of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief, Take myadvice, and visit the ancient town of Crieff; The climate is bracing, and the walks lovely to see Besides, ye can ramble over the district, and view the beautiful scenery.
William McGonagall— More Poetic Gems (published1962),'Beautiful Crieff', stanza1.
These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion conscience.
john milton— 1634 Comus, A Mask, l.209-11.
Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.
hans christian andersen— The Story of a Mother
A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No that's trendy!'
billie joe armstrong— Reported in Matt Doeden, Green Day: Keeping Their Edge? (2006), p. 23
You are a spirit, thena god,full capableof making spaceand energy and timeand all things well.And there you crouch, forgottento yourself and hidden fromthe eyes of allpretending there to bea beastthat walks and eats and dies.
l. ron hubbard— "There Is No Compromise With Truth" ( a poem written in 1953 or 1954)
Man dwells apart, though not alone,He walks among his peers unread;The best of thoughts which he hath knownFor lack of listeners are not said.
jean ingelow— "Afterthought".
She walks among the loveliness she made,Between the apple-blossom and the water—She walks among the patterned pied brocade,Each flower her son, and every tree her daughter.
vita sackville-west— "The Island", in Bulletin of the Garden Club of America (1929), p. 1, also in Collected Poems (1934), p. 54
Changi became my university instead of my prison. ... Among the inmates there were experts in all walks of life — the high and the low roads. I studied and absorbed everything I could from physics to counterfeiting, but most of all I learned the art of surviving.
— James Clavell, as quoted in "James Clavell, Best-Selling Storyteller of Far Eastern Epics, Is Dead at 69" by William Grimes in The New York Times (8 September 1994)
And ever since then, when the clock strikes two, She walks unbidden from room to room, And the air is filled that she passes through With a subtle, sad perfume. The delicate odor of mignonette, The ghost of a dead and gone bouquet, Is all that tells of her story—yet Could she think of a sweeter way?
bret harte— Bret Harte, Newport Legend. Quoted by Augustus Thomas in The Witching Hour; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 593-94.
This guy (Pat Robertson) obviously wants to be a prophet so bad. I wonder if he walks around at home dressed up in a bed sheet, talking Aramaic, maybe parting the waters in the bathtub occasionally, just to keep in practice?
pat condell— YouTube video (January 8, 2008; from YouTube)
He walks in the street, a picture of modesty in his felt hat and his gabardine suit, and all the while he's thinking, "I'm immortal." The world is his, time is his, and I'm nothing but an insect.
Simone de Beauvoir— Regina to herself, p. 28
A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.
czesław miłosz— "Before Majesty" (1978), trans. Czes?aw Mi?osz and Robert Hass
The dumping of the mentally ill, full of these new psychiatric drugs, into the streets is a scandal. It’s been carried furthest in New York, where whole sections of the decayed Upper West Side are being filled with pensioners and psychotic patients on stelazine, lithium carbonate, and everything else under the sun. They can’t diagnose the patient, so they give him the whole psychiatric pharmacopoeia at once, and he walks around in a psychotic trance beautifully painted all over with petrochemicals.
kenneth rexroth— "Pysch Ward"
Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners, living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle I, line 13.
When people once are in the wrong, Each line they add is much too long; Who fastest walks, but walks astray, Is only furthest from his way.
Matthew Prior— Matthew Prior, Alma(1718), Canto III, line 194.
For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heav'n and earth.
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book III, line 682.
Because its myriad glimmering plumes Like a great army's stir and wave; Because its golden billows blooms, The poor man's barren walks to lave: Because its sun-shaped blossoms show How souls receive the light of God, And unto earth give back that glow I thank him for the Goldenrod.
lucy larcom— Lucy Larcom, Goldenrod.
He walks without legs, hears without ears, does all the deeds without hands. He enjoys all the juices without a mouth, spells all the truth without a voice, touches everything without hands. He see very object without eyes and inhales all the scents without a breath .
— Tulsidas’s definition of God in verse quoted in A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics, p.36
Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, Prologue to Satires, line 13
With what scientific stoicism he walks through the land of wonders , unwondering …
— Thomas Carlyle, in Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855), "Signs of the Times"
* * * So often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events, And in to-day already walks to-morrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Death of Wallenstein, Act V, scene 1.
She walks in beauty like the night, of cloudless chimes and starry skies. And all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes. Thus mellowed to that tender light which heaven to gaudy day denies.
lord byron— Lord Byron, She Walks in Beauty.
Falstaff sweats to death, And lards the lean earth as he walks along.
— Prince Henry, scene ii
While briskly to each patriot lip walks eager round the inspiring flip; Delicious draught, whose pow'rs inherit The quintessence of public spirit!
— John Trumbull, McFingal, Canto III, line 21.
