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Walt Whitman Quotes

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Walt Whitman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892

Topics

Growth Time Free Language Race

I do believe in ghosts, or at least in some kind of persistent spiritual echoes of the past in certain places.

Jennifer McMahon

Past Spiritual Believe Kind Places

I used to get two racquets a year. As you can imagine, they didn't last me too long.

John McEnroe

Me Year Long You Two Used

A lot of people say, 'AC/DC - that's the band with the little guy who runs around in school shorts!'

Angus Young

School People Say Band People Say

It doesn't matter who scores as long as we win the match. I'll obviously try to get on the board, but the more important thing is to be prepared for the match.

Son Heung-min

Win Long Be Prepared Important Try

I am convinced that, because the criminal justice system is run by humans, it is naturally subject to human error. There is no rational basis to believe that this same type of human error will not infect capital murder trials.

Tom Price

Justice I Am Believe Run Trials

On 'Hairless Toys,' I've tried to create an ambiguous character to go with an ambiguous record. She's anything but rock n' roll - she's so not rock n' roll that, in a twisted way, she's kind of radical. She's like someone from my memory, almost like my mother, and she's lost in some space-time between the 1960s and the late '80s.

Roisin Murphy

Mother Character Memory Someone Late

I just have tried to adapt to the constant changes that happen all the time in my schedule and try and find any sort of mini-predictability and balance within my very unpredictable life.

Mikaela Shiffrin

Life Time Balance Find Adapt Try

That's why you can't be a true Yankee without winter: because all the best pleasures are earned - the fire, the fried oysters; the warmer seasons, too. Who knows the real worth of summer at the beach without a good taste of the seaside in winter?

Julia Glass

Winter Good Best Beach Fire Seasons

There are some things people avoid saying in interviews because they sound pompous or sentimental or too mystical.

Derek Walcott

People Saying Sound Sentimental Some

I was inspired by my dad; he played trumpet in high school.

Bria Skonberg

School High School High Trumpet He

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

Bob Uecker

Baseball Who Am I Without Where Who

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - those guys were great.

Rick Nielsen

Great Band Those Guys Sensational