William Least Heat-Moon Quotes

Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in.

William Least Heat-Moon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I'm not really very comfortable being hit on at all.

Jennifer Sky

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For me, every single thing I do seems to be about the process of letting go because that's what I so desperately need to do with so many things: with fear, with what people think of me, and all these things I've worried about my whole life.

John Grant

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Faith is caused by an encounter with something very real but which has extraordinary qualities which intimate the divine; the belief is due to an encounter which specially mirrors some divine quality.

Robert Nozick

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I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

Angela Carter

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The minute a collective alliance fails to live up to its agreement to collective defence, then from that moment on, everybody is on the run.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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I like me Italian girls; half Halle Berry, half Penelope Cruz sort of thing!

Tom Felton

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I won't lie, I didn't know there was a concert. I've always known about the Nobel Peace Prize and the different prizes given out for science and this and that, but I didn't know there was a concert the day after. When they said, 'You're going to perform in Norway for the Nobel Peace Prize concert,' I was like, 'All right, I'm there.'

Luis Fonsi

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I think the Casey Anthony trial caught a lot of news organizations off guard.

Don Lemon

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Whether you're tall and you play a basketball player, or overweight and you play somebody who is dealing with the issues behind the weight, we all have to pull from real life to make those performances authentic.

Chrissy Metz

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I want to help give people the ability to stop and take just a few minutes a day to regroup and refocus: to give them a chance to get perspective on the things that matter and the things that don't.

Ariel Garten

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He has a style that is not my style. And that is fine. That's Donald Trump. And guess what? That's exactly who the base of the Republican Party supported and said that's who we want to carry the banner.

Asa Hutchinson

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I didn't make movies when I was a kid, but I loved them. That was considered a far-fetched dream.

Pruitt Taylor Vince

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