William Least Heat-Moon Quotes

When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

William Least Heat-Moon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 27, 1939

Topics

PastPeopleRoadYouRightHold

One could argue that our national university system has become a de facto talent drain for much of the country. Many states and communities send their top students away to great schools, never to hear from them again.

Andrew Yang

GreatTalentCountryBecomeNever

I absolutely hate Take That, East 17, the Spice Girls.

Siobhan Fahey

HateSpiceTakeAbsolutelyEast

The domestic policy of any president, U.S. or otherwise, is his or her own concern, as long as democratic norms are followed.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

LongPresidentPolicyOwnHerNorms

How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.

Mary Astell

GoodWorldYouGardenNothingFine

I think there are two types of photographers, those who want to document the world and those who want to create their own world. I am more interested in documenting the world and presenting it to people with the question attached, 'Does this make any sense to you?'

Moby

I AmPeopleWorldThinkYouCreate

I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.

Chuck Barris

PersonalityMeYouNeverHeatTake

I am installed in a fairylike place. I do not know where to poke my head; everything is superb, and I would like to do everything, so I use up and squander lots of color, for there are trials to be made.

Claude Monet

I AmColorPlaceKnowTrialsHead

Well, I get excited about music.

Anthony Kiedis

MusicExcitedWellGetAbout

We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.

Sharon Salzberg

ChangeCourageIgnoranceCompassion

Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.

Thomas Perry

MyselfVillageYesKeepBecoming

I don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit.

Tim Burton

MyselfInterestingLookKindWay

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

Linus Torvalds

LinuxSenseEvenMadeMaterialistic

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