Walker Percy Quotes

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Walker Percy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LiveAgeGreatManDoingYou

Without third parties, all forward movement stops. They're essential. They're not just OK. They are absolutely essential.

Jill Stein

ForwardMovementWithoutJustOK

I really thought when I was pregnant with my first that it wouldn't affect my work at all; it would just be a baby that grows up on set. And I was absolutely wrong. For women, the high point of their career and needing to have babies just don't really go together.

Jennifer Garner

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Most of the songs I wrote are personal.

Matthew Morrison

PersonalSongsMostWrote

I was in a modeling contest when I was 16. People don't think it's different, modeling versus beauty pageants, but it is. As a model, you're still an individual. When you are crowned a Miss, you are representative of a lot.

Stephanie Sigman

BeautyPeopleThinkYouModeling

I don't want technology to replace teachers, but where there are no teachers, or the teachers are overwhelmed, it can be helpful.

Maryanne Wolf

TechnologyWantTeachersOverwhelmed

When I served in the Army, along the Iron Curtain we had a word for a person who absconds with information and provides it to another nation: traitor. We also had a name for a person who chooses to reveal secrets he had personally promised to protect: common criminal.

Mike Pompeo

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Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.

Miguel Indurain

BrokenWinWillMoreSeenGet

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

Donald Rumsfeld

GoodGovernmentPeopleNewWill

It's just a campy blast. I just want to do as little as I can and make it good, and try not to sell out. I'm sure I will, but I'm just trying to postpone it.

David Spade

GoodTryingI CanWantWillTry

I never did work in the off-season, and I never did play winter ball or anything else. I think it was good for me to get away after a full season... In those days, I don't think anyone ever got too complacent.

Bobby Doerr

WorkWinterGoodMeThinkPlay

You can make jeans and a t-shirt super stylish. It's what you make of it, you know?

Phillip Lim

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After every single take, I laugh. It's my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor.

Seth Rogen

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