Upstream Color Walden Quotes

#1. I'm addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#2. You know what I regret the most? Trinity says, her voice just above a whisper.
I don't answer. All I can think about is how crappy it is that my fourteen-year-old sister already has regrets.

Paula Stokes

#3. And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore.

Al Purdy

#4. Without setbacks and mistakes, no experience. Without experience, no learning. And without learning, you'll never truly understand the awakening of your heart's desires.

Robbie Vorhaus

#5. You have the skill. What is more, you were born a woman, And women, though most helpless in doing good deeds, Are of every evil the cleverest of contrivers.

Euripides

#6. No major institution in the US has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve, yet so high a public reputation.

Milton Friedman

#7. A lot of the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites and drag queens. A lot of my early material is that: the wide-eyed adventures of a middle-class boy.

Marc Almond

#8. My future is in Perth, hopefully as a citizen and I want to be an asset to the country as much as I want to be a part of the community and be a citizen.

Kevin Wall

#9. There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters.

Michael Moore

#10. Between the calendar and checkbook, ones priorities are laid bare.

L.R.W. Lee

#11. We've been sitting in our tree chirping like foolish birds for over a century now, wondering why no other birds answered. The galactic skies are full of hawks, that's why. Planetisms that don't know enough to keep quiet, get eaten.

Greg Bear

#12. O, where is loyalty?
If it be banished from the frosty head,
Where shall it find a harbor in the earth?

William Shakespeare

#13. We're not friends, Braden." I pulled his office door open.
"No. We're not.

Samantha Young

#14. This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench! Oh, god! Oh, god! Don't touch me - oh, god!

John Green

#15. People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.

Karl Lagerfeld