Like Whitman Quotes

#1. If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

Gore Vidal

#2. I figure guys are like Whitman's Samplers. I like to take a little bite out of each and then move on before the whole box gets stale.

Sue Grafton

#3. The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.

Mae Whitman

#4. The vice president (Nixon) seems like a man who is acting like a nice man rather than being one.

Ann Whitman

#5. I'm, like, the biggest fan ever of 'Arrested Development.' To be a part of it is incredible. Same goes for 'Parenthood.'

Mae Whitman

#6. Like a stone dropped into a pond, an article of that sort may spread out its concentric circles of consequences.

Walt Whitman

#7. I have learned that to be with those I like is enough

Walt Whitman

#8. There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon a man's bowels; he grows drunk with ecstasy; he grows young and full of glory, he feels that he can never die.

Walt Whitman

#9. Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.

Mae Whitman

#10. Suddenly, out of its stale and drowsy air, the air of slaves,
Like lightning Europe le'pt forth,
Sombre, superb and terrible.

Walt Whitman

#11. There have been a lot of events that have made me really look at the real world, like September 11th. There are so many things that just make you realize that you're not going to live forever and that you have to enjoy every day.

Mae Whitman

#12. Mother prescribing her books like medicines. A good dose of Whitman would set me straight, like castor oil. But at least she was thinking of me. I existed once more.

Janet Fitch

#13. I feel like I am a lot of who I am because I watched these shows that said it was okay to be a total weirdo. Shows like 'Pete and Pete,' 'Hey, Dude,' 'Salute Your Shorts' - that's what I grew up with.

Mae Whitman

#14. I don't think you've ever heard anything bad about me, and I'd like to keep it that way.

Slim Whitman

#15. The Americans, like the English, probably make love worse than any other race.

Walt Whitman

#16. A half-hour conversation with Binky was like eating a Whitman Sampler in one sitting.

Armistead Maupin

#17. Come I should like to hear you tell me what there is in yourself that is not just as wonderful,
And I should like to hear the name of anything between Sunday morning and Saturday night that is not just as wonderful.

Walt Whitman

#18. The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders.

Seamus Heaney

#19. From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master ...

Walt Whitman

#20. O the joy of my spirit
it is uncaged
it darts like lightning!
It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time,
I will have thousands of globes and all time.

Walt Whitman

#21. Loafe with me on the grass - loose the stop from your throat;
Not words, not music or rhyme I want - not custom or lecture, not even the best;
Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.

Walt Whitman

#22. I like to be a lot of different things at once and dress different ways and I change my hair all the time, so being an actor lets me live out the fantasy of living out 100,000 different lifetimes in one, without all of the repercussions.

Mae Whitman

#23. We all have great things on our bucket lists like skydiving, seeing the Northern Lights etc, but what about simply falling in love? Isn't that the most amazing thing we can do?

Walt Whitman

#24. I kind of dress like a boy from the nineties. I like wearing baseball hats. I just like to be really comfortable.

Mae Whitman

#25. You grow. You are large.
You are a 19th century poem.
All of America is inside you,
a catalogue of lives and land
and burrowing things.
-From "Catalogue

Donika Kelly

#26. We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it.

Walt Whitman Rostow

#27. Only themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves, As Souls only understand Souls. Walt Whitman

Jed McKenna

#28. The computer does things that can't be done with hardware, like freezing sounds.

Keith Fullerton Whitman

#29. I'd like the people to remember me as having a good voice and a clean suit.

Slim Whitman

#30. When a small business grows like eBay did, it has a multiplier effect. It creates other small businesses that supply it with intellectual capital, goods and services.

Meg Whitman

#31. You know, I like to think that I will subscribe very much to the core Republican principles of small government. Making a small number of rules and getting out of the way. Keeping taxes low. Creating an environment for small businesses to grow and thrive.

Meg Whitman

#32. In every single 'Tinker Bell' movie, I feel like there's a message that I'm proud to communicate with kids.

Mae Whitman

#33. It's like a prize fighter. He knows he has a fight coming up, so he gets in the gym and trains. So when I have a show coming up, I practice yodeling.

Slim Whitman

#34. So to Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, Christine Quinn, Susana Martinez, Meg Whitman, Sheryl Sandberg, Carly Fiorina and every other woman out there who has ever felt more like a professional juggler than a politician, you are our best hope! Run sister, run.

Nicolle Wallace

#35. Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users' sentiments.

Meg Whitman

#36. I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#37. The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night, Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation: The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I listen closer, I find its purpose and place up there toward the November sky.

Walt Whitman

#38. It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else.

Mae Whitman

#39. I'd like my son to remember me as a good dad.

Slim Whitman

#40. When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.

Sarah Helen Whitman