Walks Quotes
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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)
It is portentous, and a thing of state That here at midnight, in our little town A mourning figure walks, and will not rest, Near the old courthouse pacing up and down.
(Nicholas) Vachel Lindsay— 1914 The Congo and Other Poems,'Abraham Lincoln Walks At Midnight'.
There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to goif there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
Bernard Malamud— 1973 Rembrandt's Hat,'The Man in the Drawer'.
MORAL: When Wealth walks in at the Door, the Press Agent comes in through the Window.
George Ade— The Through Train, Knocking the Neighbors (1912)
Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.
hans christian andersen— The Story of a Mother
The great white cold walks abroad!
richard hovey— "Dartmouth Winter-song", p. 80.
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)
Modestus said of Regulus that he was "the biggest rascal that walks upon two legs."
pliny the younger— Book I, letter 5, 14.
We have a saying in the union: "If a fellow looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, the possibility is that he is a duck." That is the way with a Communist. If the guy does everything that the party does, the prospects are very good that he is a party member or fellow traveler.
walter reuther— Regarding Communists; hearing before the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare (1953)
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.
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)
Often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events, And in to-day already walks to-morrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— The Death of Wallenstein, Act v, scene 1.
Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow, by a short circuit providing the certainty of complete and inalterable truth. Science meanwhile advances at its gradual pace, often slowing to a crawl, and for periods it even walks in place, but eventually it reaches the various ultimate trenches dug by philosophical thought, and, quite heedless of the fact that it is not supposed to be able to cross those final barriers to the intellect, goes right on.
stanisław lem— Ch. 2 (His Master's Voice (1968))
When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence, a mien which seems to say, "You are looking at somebody now." ... this inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.
rollo may— p. 84 (Love and Will (1969))
The man who consecrates his hours By vig'rous effort and an honest aim, At once he draws the sting of life and death; He walks with nature and her paths are peace.
Edward Young— Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night II, line 187.
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.
Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly, That walks at dead of night, or takes his stand O'er some new-open'd grave; and, (strange to tell!) Evanishes at crowing of the cock.
robert blair— Robert Blair, The Grave, line 67.
He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day; But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon.
john milton— John Milton, Comus (1637), line 381.
He that has light within his own cleer brest May sit i'th center, and enjoy bright day, But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day Sun; Himself is his own dungeon.
— John Milton, "A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634," lines 380–84, republished in The Works of John Milton (1931), vol. 1, part 1, p. 99. The title was changed to "Comus" for the stage version in 1737.
The spirit walks of every day deceased.
Edward Young— Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night II, line 180.
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
And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before.
robert bridges— Robert Bridges, The Clouds have left the Sky.
How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.”
— Elaine Scarry, quoted by Kristie S. Fleckenstein in Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching p.36
Now the frosty stars are gone: I have watched them one by one, Fading on the shores of Dawn. Round and full the glorious sun walks with level step the spray, Through his vestibule of Day.
bayard taylor— Bayard Taylor, And in the Cloven Pine.
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.
