I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.


Karen Thompson Walker

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Winning doesn't satisfy us -- we need to do it again, and again. The taste of success seems merely t...
STUART WALKER
Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conceptio...
ALICE WALKER
Somewhere in the bible it say Jesus hair was like lamb's wool, I say. Well, say Shug, if he came to ...
ALICE WALKER
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
HERSCHEL WALKER
My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.
HERSCHEL WALKER
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKER
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. T...
WALKER PERCY
Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKER
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
WALKER PERCY
It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have ...
ALICE WALKER
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that tre...
ALICE WALKER
As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produc...
ALICE WALKER
Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
ALICE WALKER
In search of my mother's garden I found my own.
ALICE WALKER
All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never de...
ALICE WALKER
I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is th...
WALKER PERCY
It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black wo...
ALICE WALKER
It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. -Addis...
ADDISON WALKER
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh pea...
THOMAS WALKER
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than...
ALICE WALKER
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to re...
ALICE WALKER
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout
ALICE WALKER
I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be sav...
ALICE WALKER
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
MARGARET WALKER
Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and ...
STANLEY WALKER
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose ...
ALICE WALKER
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.
ALICE WALKER
I'm a pretty agile guy, especially being taller and having done martial arts from about the age ...
PAUL WALKER
As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and p...
ALICE WALKER
I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future t...
ALICE WALKER
Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.
ALICE WALKER
I remember when I first came around, the computer-generated stuff was pretty wicked. I was like, ...
PAUL WALKER
I never learned how to be adequately black. I never learned how to be black at all.
KARA WALKER
I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-p...
LUCY WALKER
I live by 'Go big or go home.' That's with everything. It's like either commit and g...
PAUL WALKER
This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money a...
ALICE WALKER
I've often heard the complaint from both Democrat and Republican voters alike that they hate the...
SCOTT WALKER
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
ALICE WALKER
The thing I like about astronomy is being outside at night and seeing the stars in a dark sky. It ma...
JIMMY WALKER
In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of y...
ALICE WALKER
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
MARGARET WALKER
Thing is, I went to a born-again Christian high school, was brought up in a traditional Mormon famil...
PAUL WALKER
Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificen...
PAUL WALKER
Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a sec...
MARGARET WALKER
Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, ...
ALICE WALKER
I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to wat...
DREAMA WALKER
The par putts sometimes are bigger than the birdie putts.
JIMMY WALKER
When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
MARGARET WALKER
I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious.
ALICE WALKER