S.L. Walker Quotes

Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

Men get together in pretentious councils to decide what God is, what God thinks, what God wants the rest of us to do for him, and the one thing he never fails to want is more money.

My perfect weekend... anything to do with nature.

Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.

I still remember, as a kid, tying a yellow ribbon around a tree in front of my house during the 444 days that Iran held 52 Americans hostage. Iran is not a place we should be doing business with.

Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did.

You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing.

I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.

And there's the man in the green flag!

My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household.

Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.

The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.

I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.

When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.

If your personality is negative, it means that you do not have the confidence in God and in yourself that is your birthright.

Karate is for life, not points.

(a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.

And there's no damage to the car. Except to the car itself.

In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.

Speaking from memory, I don't know how many points Nelson Piquet has.

What I believe is what I show, if I'm going to write a song about girls I don't want to do it in a way where I'm downgrading a girl.

Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.

I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

I am going to continue to work hard, but I do not take it too seriously, I just do what feels right and I really want to have a good time.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.

OK, Rule number 1: Unless you're served in a frosted glass, never come within 4 feet of my lips.

There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.

You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.

And Damon Hill is following Damon Hill.

If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.

I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory

What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.

Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.