Walks Quotes - Page 12

• To understand others you should get behind their eyes and walk down their spines.

  Rod McKuen

  Eye, Understanding, Should

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• I keep remembering from my early student days how I would walk at night through the streets, my hands bunched into fists in the pocket of my coat, my head hunched deep into my collar, and how I used to say, 'I want to work, I shall work'--and then I would come back home and be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.

  Etty Hillesum

  Determination, Home, Night

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.317, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.

  Joseph Joubert

  Mother, Country, Nursing

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• A comedian is not funny unless he is taking his demons out for a walk.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Comedian, Comedy, Demon

  Cynthia Heimel (1988). “But Enough about You”, Fireside

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• Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.

  Teresa of Avila

  Disappointment, Kitchen, Tasks

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1957). “The Complete Works of Saint Teresa of Jesus: Book of the foundations. Minor prose works. Poems. Documents. Indices”

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• ... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.

  Freya Stark

  Thinking, Government, Civilization

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• I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear.

  Marie Dressler

  Dog, Horse, Block

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• I never would just open a door and walk through, I had to bust it down for the hell of it. I just naturally liked doing things the hard way.

  Edna Ferber

  Doors, Way, Hell

  Edna Ferber (1941). “Saratoga Crunk”

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• It's much harder to work for yourself, by yourself, than to create work for a gallery, because there are no limits and you can do anything you want. It's always easier when you have a parameter, when you have a limit. You can work within the limit and push it and walk the line, but when you're given absolutely no limits, it's harder. You must really think. It's more challenging.

  David LaChapelle

  Thinking, Challenges, Lines

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• I don't believe in premarital sex. It enabled me to date three or four women at the same time, because as long as I wasn't having sex with them, I could always just walk away.

  Terrence Howard

  Sex, Believe, Long

  "Howard's Den". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. August 1, 2007.

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• I'd spent ten years in London, writing and performing my own comedy shows. They gave me the Cheers [scenes], and I thought it was the springboard for chatting about the show, because in England, that's what you do. So I walk in, and I'm looking around, and Jimmy Burrows said, "What are you looking at? You're not here to have a conversation; you're here to audition."

  Shelley Long

  Cheer, Writing, Years

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I try to surf everyday or at least go for a walk on the beach if the waves are flat. The more I travel, the more I appreciate where I live and the ocean.

  Jon Foreman

  Beach, Ocean, Appreciate

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• When the American people look at the political process play out, they hear all the spinning and all the doctrinaire language, and they still walk away with the belief that they're not being represented in Congress, that there's no trust in the executive branch.

  David Gregory

  Play, People, Political

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• I love San Francisco, it's very hard to compete with San Francisco when it comes to availability of product, but one thing you can't replace about Las Vegas or Miami is people are walking in the door and they want to have a good time. They walk in, and this is the start of their good time.

  Michael Mina

  Vegas, Doors, San Francisco

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We walk the same path, but got on different shoes, live in the same building, but we got different views

  Drake

  Views, Shoes, Different

  Song: Bollywood Flow

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• Dare to walk the path that others have feared to travel, and a leader shall then be born.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Leader, Path, Born

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• A dark-skinned human with four arms walks toward me across the floor of the club, clad only in a belt strung with human skulls.

  Charles Stross

  Dark, Skulls, Four

  Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.9, Penguin

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• in McAnally's pub and grill, there aren't any service people. According to Mac, if you can't get up and walk over to pick up your own order, you don't need to be there at all.

  Jim Butcher

  Order, People, Needs

  Jim Butcher (2001). “Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files”, p.6, Penguin

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• Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it. In Los Angeles, it is quite the opposite: it is an older city than it might seem to be, but you don't perceive this -- every day you get out of your home, you are driving somewhere and sometimes you get this impression that everything was put there the night before.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Home, Night, Opposites

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• Distraction and procrastination come in a variety of flavors... when I'm distracted and I walk over and stare out the window, it's a very different experience than when I feed the distraction by cramming in a few emails or make a phone call.

  Linda Stone

  Procrastination, Phones, Different Experiences

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• The warm green of the grass, sprinkled with flowers of many hues, is a carpet whereon we walk with noiseless tread.

  William Wendt

  Flower, Hue, Green

  John Alan Walker, William Wendt (1992). “Documents on the Life and Art of William Wendt, 1865-1946, California's Painter Laureate of the Paysage Moralisé”

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• Well, before writing became all-consuming, I was a quilter, like Hattie and Perilee. I don’t do that anymore, but I do knit, garden and watch the birds in my backyard. I also take lots of walks, do yoga and talk my husband into taking me out to dinner as often as possible.

  Kirby Larson

  Husband, Yoga, Writing

  Hope Is the Word Interview, hopeisthewordblog.com. February 27, 2009.

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• I have an office in my house, with a comfy red print reading chair and a soft cream-colored desk. After I walk Winston the Wonder dog and have my breakfast, I head to my office. Every single day. Sometimes, when I'm working on revisions, I print off my manuscript and go to a coffee shop to work. But mostly you can find me in my office.

  Kirby Larson

  Dog, Coffee, Reading

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• Go and walk with Nature; thou wilt find Full many a gem in her enchanted cup.

  Isaac McLellan

  Nature, Cups, Enchanted

  Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.27

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