Kimbrew Walter Quotes

#1. When indeed you positively press your face, so to speak, against the crystalline window of your eyes, your mind is apt to become a perfect vacuum.
("Out Of The Deep") #Quote by Walter De La Mare

#2. Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse! #Quote by Walter Isaacson

#3. There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention. #Quote by Walter Darby Bannard

#4. The idea that even the brightest person or group of bright people, much less the U.S. Congress, can wisely manage an economy has to be the height of arrogance and conceit. #Quote by Walter E. Williams

#5. We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable, I do not think, the majority of our people, of making the decisions that have to be made at election time and particularly in the selection of their legislatures and their Congress and the presidency, of course. I don't think we're bright enough to do the job that would preserve our democracy, our republic. I think we're in serious danger. #Quote by Walter Cronkite

#6. When he (Walter Cronkite) drank, he had an appetite for both history and political bullshit. #Quote by Douglas Brinkley

#7. Hence, though there can be no rule in so capricious a passion, early love is frequently ambitious in choosing its object; or, which comes to the same, selects her (as in the case of Saint Cecilia aforesaid) from a situation that gives fair scope for le beau ideal, which the reality of intimate and familiar life rather tends to limit and impair. I knew a very accomplished and sensible young man cured of a violent passion for a pretty woman, whose talents were not equal to her face and figure, by being permitted to bear her company for a whole afternoon. #Quote by Walter Scott

#8. I never do, I don't even go to the retrospectives. #Quote by Walter Hill

#9. An increasing amount of climate research suggests a possibility of global cooling. #Quote by Walter E. Williams

#10. We have to work together to do a better job than we did in the last few generations. #Quote by Walter Munk

#11. All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says. #Quote by Walter Wriston

#12. He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision. #Quote by Jess Walter

#13. The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. #Quote by Walter Benjamin

#14. Elect me to office. I will protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Because there's no constitutional authority for Congress spending on the objects of benevolence, don't expect for me to vote for prescription drugs for the elderly, handouts to farmers and food stamps for the poor. Instead, I'll fight these and other unconstitutional congressional expenditures? I'll tell you how many votes he'll get: It will be Williams' vote, and that's it. #Quote by Walter E. Williams

#15. When the Founders thought of democracy, they saw democracy in the political sphere - a sphere strictly limited by the Constitution's well-defined and enumerated powers given the federal government. Substituting democratic decision making for what should be private decision making is nothing less than tyranny dressed up. #Quote by Walter E. Williams

#16. Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view. #Quote by Walter Murch

#17. Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust. #Quote by Walter Scott

#18. I was in a bibliophile's Eylsium. #Quote by Walter Moers

#19. We do not spend a great deal of time talking to management. #Quote by Walter Schloss

#20. Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting. #Quote by Walter Kirn

#21. Whatever happens on the golf course is OK, because if I put the ball in trouble I know that I have the skills to get it out of trouble and back into play. #Quote by Walter Hagen

#22. They know how to work without waste of energy. In order to get the best that is within themselves, they learn to eliminate from their thoughts and actions everything which subtracts from their purposes. #Quote by Walter Russell

#23. The birds on the branches, the lilies in the field, the deer in the forest, the fishes in the sea, countless hosts of happy men, exultantly proclaim: God is love. But underneath all these sopranos, supporting them as it were, as the bass part does, is audible the de profundis which issues from the sacrificed one: God is love. #Quote by Walter Lowrie

#24. I've traveled more this year than any other living human being, and if I'd traveled any more I wouldn't be living. #Quote by Walter F. Mondale

#25. Hope is the mother of faith. #Quote by Walter Savage Landor

#26. A poor old Widow in her weeds
Sowed her garden with wild-flower seeds;
Not too shallow, and not too deep,
And down came April -- drip -- drip -- drip.
Up shone May, like gold, and soon
Green as an arbour grew leafy June.
And now all summer she sits and sews
Where willow herb, comfrey, bugloss blows,
Teasle and pansy, meadowsweet,
Campion, toadflax, and rough hawksbit;
Brown bee orchis, and Peals of Bells;
Clover, burnet, and thyme she smells;
Like Oberon's meadows her garden is
Drowsy from dawn to dusk with bees.
Weeps she never, but sometimes sighs,
And peeps at her garden with bright brown eyes;
And all she has is all she needs --
A poor Old Widow in her weeds. #Quote by Walter De La Mare

#27. When serious people of good faith disagree, they've got to go back into the narratives and come at it again. One of the problems in the church is that people are not willing to do that. People have arrived at a place where they think they have got the answer. #Quote by Walter Brueggemann

#28. For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day. #Quote by Walter Lippmann

#29. Rule 1. Original data should be presented in a way that will preserve the evidence in the original data for all the predictions assumed to be useful. #Quote by Walter A. Shewhart

#30. We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote triumphs of the abstract intellect, seem to carry us into a region different from our own-to be in a terra incognita of pure reasoning, to cast a chill on human glory. #Quote by Walter Bagehot

#31. If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder. #Quote by Walter Damrosch

#32. That's the easiest 69 I ever made. #Quote by Walter Hagen

#33. It is possible to insult Americans?"
"They are automatically insulted and enraged," said the young composer. "They form splenetic organizations by the hundreds, and write letters to periodicals and congressmen. They gather in mobs and pay no attention. They hang people without trial and shoot citizens down with machine guns out of passing cars. They will despise you because you do not eat the same things they eat for breakfast. They even apply indifference. #Quote by Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#34. What the myth founds is a double existence between the upper world and the underworld: a dimension of death is introduced into life, and a dimension of life is introduced into death. #Quote by Walter Burkert

#35. Of all the train, none escaped except Wamba, who showed upon the occasion much more courage than those who pretended to greater sense. #Quote by Walter Scott

#36. Suddenly, Walter was aware of all the things he did not know. There were hundreds--thousands--of books in the world, and he had read only a handful of them. One day he would die, a myriad of books unread, his knowledge of the world incomplete. #Quote by Barbara Wersba

#37. While the Constitution is what the judges say it is, a public issue is something that Walter Cronkite or John Chancellor recognizes as such. The media by themselves do not make the decisions, but on behalf of themselves and larger interests they certify what is or is not on the nation's agenda. #Quote by Fred W. Friendly

#38. The night was a magnificent confirmation of "women and children first," yet somehow the loss rate was higher for Third Class children than First Class men. #Quote by Walter Lord

#39. Perhaps no matter how fast computers progress, artificial intelligence may never outstrip the intelligence of the human-machine partnership. Let #Quote by Walter Isaacson

#40. W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say hullo. Say hullo and how d'ye do, How's the world a-usin' you? . W'en you travel through the strange Country t'other side the range, Then the souls you've cheered will know Who you be, an' say hullo. #Quote by Sam Walter Foss

#41. The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance. #Quote by Walter Brueggemann

#42. I don't feel unfriendly, ma'am," said Mrs. Wiggins. "Only towards Mr. Margarine. You know very well why." Mrs. #Quote by Walter R. Brooks

#43. I believe that one of the secret engines that allows cinema to work, and have the marvelous power over us that it does, is the fact that for thousands of years we have spent eight hours every night in a 'cinematic' dream-state, and so are familiar with this version of reality. #Quote by Walter Murch

#44. There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways. #Quote by Walter Darby Bannard

#45. Two aspects of thinking in particular are pronounced in both creative and hypomanic thought: fluency, rapidity, and flexibility of thought on the one hand, and the ability to combine ideas or categories of thought in order to form new and original connections on the other. The importance of rapid, fluid, and divergent thought in the creative process has been described by most psychologists and writers who have studied human imagination. The increase in the speed of thinking may exert its influence in different ways. Speed per se, that is, the quantity of thoughts and associations produced in a given period of time, may be enhanced. The increased quantity and speed of thoughts may exert an effect on the qualitative aspects of thought as well; that is, the sheer volume of thought can produce unique ideas and associations. Indeed, Sir Walter Scott, when discussing Byron's mind, commented: "The wheels of a machine to play rapidly must not fit with the utmost exactness else the attrition diminishes the Impetus." The quickness and fire of Byron's mind were not lost on others who knew him. One friend wrote: "The mind of Lord Byron was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness." Byron's mistress, Teresa Guiccoli, noted: "New and striking thoughts followed from him in rapid s #Quote by Kay Redfield Jamison

#46. The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great. #Quote by Walter Savage Landor