Top 100 Walt Quotes
#1. I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy
Walt Whitman
#3. And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman
#4. Believe in your dreams, no matter how impossible they seem.
Walt Disney
#5. What did that Walt Disney song say? Someday my prince will come? Well, mine came alright ... and I don't think Disney would make a song out of it
D.H. Starr
#6. What doesn't kill you leaves scars, ruins your lungs, dries out all your tears, leaves you lying awake at 4 in the morning
wishing you weren't alive.
Walt Whitman
#7. The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss ... it is inevitable as life.
Walt Whitman
#8. The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer ...
Walt Whitman
#9. This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me
Walt Whitman
#10. Don't tell me about the problems - I make the problems.
Walt Disney
#11. 54. The children of the Spanish lion, said Ruben Dario, a born optimist. The children of Walt Whitman, Jose Marti, and Violeta Parra; torn apart, forgotten, in mass graves, at the bottom of the sea, the Trojan destiny of their mingled bones terrifying the survivors.
Roberto Bolano
#12. Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work then try to trump it.
Walt Disney
#13. In this dark, when we all talk at once, some of us must learn to whistle.
Walt Kelly
#14. 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
#15. There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman
#16. I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
Walt Whitman
#17. I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka ... and welcome to my chocolate factory.
Kanye West
#18. I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
Walt Whitman
#19. Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.
Walt Whitman
#20. It is good to have a failure while you're young because it teaches you so much. For one thing it makes you aware that such a thing can happen to anybody, and once you've lived through the worst, you're never quite as vulnerable afterward.
Walt Disney
#21. Look at the films of Walt Disney: 'Snow White' came out in February 1938, and I can't think of another film from that year that's watched as much. The same is true of 'Bambi,' 'Dumbo' ... even, frankly, 'Toy Story,' which is probably watched more than any other movie of 1995.
John Lasseter
#22. Not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,
The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.
Walt Whitman
#23. It's not the winter that bothers me - it's the summers.
Walt Alston
#24. Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?
Walt Whitman
#25. Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.
Walt Disney
#26. To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!
Walt Whitman
#27. It is that something in the soul which says, - Rage on, whirl on, I tread master here and everywhere; master of the spasms of the sky and of the shatter of the sea, master of nature and passion and death, and of all terror and all pain.
Walt Whitman
#28. O Earth, that hast no voice, confide to me a voice!
O harvest of my lands! O boundless summer growths!
O lavish, brown, parturient earth! O infinite, teeming womb!
A verse to seek, to see, to narrate thee.
Walt Whitman
#31. You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in.
Walt Whitman
#32. Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Walt Whitman
#33. When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.
Walt Disney
#34. Levay stated that the followers of Satan should consider Walt Disney as one of their guides.
Gary Margrove
#35. TO FOREIGN LANDS. I heard that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy, Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them what you wanted.
Walt Whitman
#36. While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face.
Leonard Maltin
#37. To me the converging objects of the universe perpetually flow,
Walt Whitman
#38. So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.
Walt Whitman
#39. When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Walt Whitman
#41. Across the river, a row of crystal castles glittered in the sunlight in a way that would make Walt Disney want to throw rocks at his Magic Kingdom.
Shannon Messenger
#42. A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
Walt Whitman
#43. God is not dead-He is merely unemployed ...
Walt Kelly
#44. What blurt is this about virtue and about vice?
Evil propels me and reform of evil propels me, I stand indifferent,
My gait is no fault-finder's or rejecter's gait,
I moisten the roots of all that has grown.
Walt Whitman
#45. Whether you are a consumer, a hardware maker, a software developer or a provider of cool new services, it's hard to make a move in the American cellphone world without the permission of the companies that own the pipes.
Walt Mossberg
#46. But where is what I started for so long ago?
And why is it yet unfound?
Walt Whitman
#47. I will be your poet, I will be more to you than to any of the rest.
Walt Whitman
#49. 'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.
Robert Gottlieb
#51. Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.
Walt Whitman
#52. I will not descend among professors and capitalists.
Walt Whitman
#54. Reexamine all that you have been told in school, or in church or in any book. Dismiss whatever insults your soul.
Walt Wyman
#55. People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working.
Walt Disney
#56. I act as the tongue of you,
... tied in your mouth ... in mine it begins to be loosened.
Walt Whitman
#57. Or may-be one who is puzzled at me.
As if I were not puzzled at myself!
Walt Whitman
#58. Behind every great amusement park is a great fan site.
Walt Disney
#59. To me, every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
Walt Whitman
#61. I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how natural it is for people to want to go to music - a study of rhythm, the dance - the various rhythms enter into our lives every day.
Walt Disney
#62. To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?
Walt Whitman
#63. I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible because dreams offer too little collateral.
Walt Disney
#64. Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.
Walt Disney
#65. I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.
Walt Whitman
#67. At wuntz? What HE do?
What HE do? Who do?
Wuntz do hoo doo? How do he do hoo doo?
Once do who do? What? What!? To wit, WHAT.
Walt Kelly
#68. The projector's beam lay warm on Walt's neck, and he knew they'd all been plucked from danger and love, from another time, another place, and set back into this dark, sticky-floored theater, in the heart of nothing much that mattered.
Alan Heathcock
#69. O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you;
As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you,
Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.
Walt Whitman
#70. Twenty Percent of Zero is Better than Nothing.
Walt Kelly
#71. Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
Walt Whitman
#72. I grew up in central Florida in the nineteen-sixties, barefoot half the time and running around the orange groves where my father worked. I remember flocks of white birds that would lift from the backs of cattle, disturbed by the jackhammers and bulldozers clearing land for Walt Disney World.
Anne Hull
#73. Whitman's poems present no trace of rhyme, save in a couple or so of chance instances. Parts of them, indeed, may be regarded as a warp of prose amid the weft of poetry,
Walt Whitman
#74. Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.
Walt Disney
#75. It had been fun to ride the fairy tale of Baz Acker actually giving a shit about him, but he knew firsthand fairy tales were a lot more Grimm brothers and much less Walt Disney.
Heidi Cullinan
#76. Fantasyland was designed as a home for some of the classic characters [from those films], and as a symbol of the magic, hope and beauty of the human imagination.
Leslie Le Mon
#77. Sure as Life holds all parts together, Death holds all parts together.
Walt Whitman
#78. My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed ... I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home.
Walt Whitman
#79. Sadie, I'm not fragile," he complained. " I don't need a protector."
"Rubinho," I said. " That's macho bluster, and all boys like to be mothered.
Rick Riordan
#80. I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.
Walt Whitman
#81. Be composed
be at ease with me
I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature, Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you, Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you.
Walt Whitman
#82. No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the story is written to the time the final release print comes off the printer, hundreds of people are involved - each one doing a job - each job contributing to the final product.
Walt Disney
#83. Victory, union, faith, identity, time,
The indissoluble compacts, riches, mystery,
Eternal progress, the kosmos, and the modern reports.
This, then, is life;
Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions."
-from "Starting from Paumanok
Walt Whitman
#85. I get the urge to feel it, too, so when she takes her hand away, I turn her toward me and I feel the edges of New Jersey. I kiss Hoboken and Atlantic City. I kiss Newark and Trenton. I kiss Camden, and then I follow the road west, over the Walt Whitman Bridge into Pennsylvania. And I kiss home.
A.S. King
#86. The main quality of leadership ... is courage ! If you can dream it, you can do it!
Walt Disney
#87. All forces have been steadily employ'd to complete and delight me, Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul.
Walt Whitman
#88. When Walt Disney was making his films, he trusted his instincts and made films for himself, but they appealed to everybody, not just kids.
John Lasseter
#89. The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.
Walt Whitman
#90. Walt loved technology. He didn't understand it half the time, but the beauty of good technology was that he didn't have to understand it. Just use it.
Ridley Pearson
#92. Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
Walt Disney
#93. And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?
Walt Whitman
#94. The old cowboy Hershel, "You know what they say about a horse bein' only afraid of two things?"
Walt, "What's that?"
Hershel, "Things that move and things that don't
Craig Johnson
#95. Have you surpassed the rest? Are you the president? It doesn't matter. They will more than arrive there, every one, and still pass on.
Walt Whitman
#96. Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?
Walt Whitman
#97. Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating the talents of those who work for us and pointing them toward a certain goal.
Walt Disney Company
#98. There will never be any more perfection than there is now.
Walt Whitman
#99. Only themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves, As Souls only understand Souls. Walt Whitman
Jed McKenna
#100. Well, at least you have led us to the small mailman and the one who smells of prunes." - "UP
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