English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Walker Percy Quotes

What does a man live for but to have a girl, use his mind, practice his trade, drink a drink, read a book, and watch the martins wing it for the Amazon and the three-fingered sassafras turn red in October? Art Immelmann is right. Man is not made for suffering, night sweats, and morning terrors.

Walker Percy

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving. Carla Bley
'Party Down' is the most fun I've ever had working in my life. We shoot 10-episode seasons and we shoot it in 10 weeks, so it's very brief: 4-day episode shoots. You never get sick of anybody, and it never feels like a drag. It's way, way, way too short. Lizzy Caplan
For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war. Armstrong Williams
Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases. Rick Renzi
Paul McCartney quote: "Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds."
Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds. Paul McCartney
Sylvia Plath quote: "And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I..."
And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die. Sylvia Plath
The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general. John Charles Polanyi
Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another. Anton Chekhov
Simone de Beauvoir quote: "When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the..."
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. Simone de Beauvoir
One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address - 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small. Jon Postel
Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant. Chuck Palahniuk
In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed. Edgar Allan Poe
Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible? Barry Goldwater
Trevor Rabin quote: "Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I..."
Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately. Trevor Rabin
Sun Myung Moon quote: "Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each..."
Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government. Sun Myung Moon