Quotes About Walter

Sneakers was cowritten by Larry Lasker and Walter Parkes—the same pair that, a decade earlier, had written WarGames.

Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.

They climbed down again poorer by one mythic raven, who seemed remarkably sanguine about being left behind with Sir Walter.

How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did sly dog!

Wit is part of the machinery of the intellect.

The old pagan has a sympathy with the religion of enthusiasm far above the reach of the modern Epicurean.

His knowledge of books, however superficial, was sufficient to impress upon their ignorance respect for his supposed learning;

The defect of this religion is, that it is too abstract for the practical, and too bare for the musing.

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.

We observe that one of the great attributes of discretion is that it can mask ignorance of all the most common and lowly varieties, and Walter Moody was nothing if not excessively discreet.

social gospel minister Walter Rauschenbusch proclaimed that if God couldn't be a liberal progressive then we needed a new god entirely.

Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out, armed, and relieve the idle stroller of his convictions.

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

Where the presence of truth should be possible, it can be possible solely under the condition of the recognition of myth--that is, the recognition of its crushing indifference to truth.

In the world's structure dream loosens individuality like a bad tooth.

I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called.

at their disposal. So they assemble in protests to convey their objections. What's wrong with that? A similar outpouring came recently from American Walter Williams, one of my favorite columnists and a conservative economist known

Black detective writers. Chester Himes. Walter Mosley. Rudolph Fisher.

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

This third day of October, 1942, is the first of a new era in transportation, that of space travel

....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay.