S.L. Walker Quotes

I do this 'Walker shake.' You got to get knocked down many times, shake it off. Life is about ups and downs, and you got to keep standing up.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

Well, it was just, the bars was all just like the bamboo roofs and everything. You know. As I say, to me, it's completely spoiled all, all these places now. Make them all just tourist traps.

Ukyo Katayama is undoubtedly the best Formula One driver that Grand Prix racing has ever produced

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.

Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.

Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.

Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

I see so many people who don't want to try, and I say 'I don't care what I ever do, I never give up at anything anymore.' I don't care what it is, you'll never see me give up.

I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth.

Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

Floating in a lake, lying in a hammock, playing a bit of Scrabble...that's what I'm in need of.

It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.

Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does.

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Jenson Button is in the top ten, in eleventh position.

Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.

I don’t believe in originality. You take inspiration from whatever moves you and you find your voice in those things.

I'm still here, I'm still alive, I'm still blessed, on my way to my destiny, because the favor of God is on my life.

And the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn't surprising as this is an all Escort race.

With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is.

Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.

Good photography is unpretentious.

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.

Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls.

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.

I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.

My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.

Allowing God to charge our lives that we may empower people around us to live In a greater relationship with him.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.

Healing begins where the wound was made.

I've never been in love with fashion, actually; trends and catwalks don't interest me. I love clothes; I love them historically and currently. They represent a spirit of the times and the zeitgeist.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

When you put good will out there, it's amazing what can be accomplished.