Quotations

"I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions."

— Nik Wallenda, American high wire artist, first to successfully walk over Niagara Falls, June 15, 2012

"I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a process we'll start working on. I'd say within three to five years I'll accomplish that as well."

— Nik Wallenda, American high wire artist, June 23, 1979

"Napoleon is dead - but Beethoven lives."

— Bruno Walter, German-American conductor, born September 15, 1876

"Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again."

— Andy Warhol, American painter, died February 22, 1987

"I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money."

— Andy Warhol, American painter, born August 6, 1928

"When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums."

— Andy Warhol, American painter, born August 6, 1928

"There came without warning a flowing into me of that which I have come to associate with the gods. I went to the open door and looked up at the mesas with something akin to awe. It forced me into the open where I could look up to those high places on which humans do not dwell. Then it left me—perhaps to return to those sacred places."

— Edith Warner, American tea room owner, born 1893

"Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake."

— Robert Penn Warren, American poet, born April 24, 1905

"You are alone with the Alone, and it is His move."

— Robert Penn Warren, American poet and novelist, born April 24, 1905

"Everything seems an echo of something else."

— Robert Penn Warren, American poet, died September 15, 1989

"Dust does rise, doesn't it? And so can I."

— Dionne Warwick, American singer, born 1940

"A fool will lose tomorrow reaching back for yesterday."

— Dionne Warwick, American singer, born 1940

"Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them."

— Dionne Warwick, American singer, born 1940

"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."

— Booker T. Washington, African-American educator, died November 14, 1915