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Walker Percy Quotes

You can get all A's and still flunk life.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 28, 1916 - May 10, 1990

Topics

Life You Get Still

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous; there's really nothing to lose.

Love Live Lose Nothing Courageous

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.

Beautiful Imagination Person She Her

For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time.

Time Past Sex Down Crime More

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

Michael Ironside

Writing Acting Lessons Took Had

We expect elections to have contribution limits, and we expect to follow them.

Limits Contribution Follow Expect

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

Michael Tippett

Music Art American You Will Tell

Sometimes I have to be careful not to work out too much because then it makes me so hungry.

Work Me Too Much Sometimes Out

If you're playing the character, you could say to yourself in 16 different ways, What if that didn't bother me? What if I knew exactly what he was talking about? What if I didn't get excited?

Character Yourself Me Talking You

The American people and American businesses are looking to the federal government to lead our nation on the path to economic recovery. It is time to stop splitting hairs. It is time to act.

Path Time Government People Looking

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.

Jonathan Frakes

Life Thought Galaxy Human Naive

I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.

People Down Want Kind Never Image

I got a card in the mail from a close college friend saying that she was proud of me and what I've been doing. It was very sweet and honest. Nobody writes letters anymore, so when you get one in the mail, it feels very special.

Friend College Me Sweet Saying You

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