Kayden Walker Quotes

You're only gonna get in trouble, so why even bother?"
"I bother because it's wrong. I bother because you don't deserve it. I bother because you fucking mean something to the girl I'm head over heels for and Eric, I bother because you mean something to me. ~ Melyssa Winchester

She's not like other girls because she's different. I want her kind of different. ~ Melyssa Winchester

At some point we all have to grow up. Sure, high school might be the best years of our lives the way people say, but when that's over what are we gonna have? An old football career if we don't play college ball and a whole lot of broken people on our conscience. I don't want that.
Maybe there's hope for me after all. ~ Melyssa Winchester

I wish she had half a clue what seeing that happy face does for me. I can't quite explain it to myself, but I really wish she could know. It's like when she does it, it's all I can see and I want more of it. Especially after the day we've had. I always want her making happy faces. ~ Melyssa Winchester

I guess that's what happens when you've lost everything that had any real meaning. You become numb to what's left. ~ Melyssa Winchester

You never got her last name, did you?" Kayden asks, covering his mouth with his hand to try and hide a laugh. The one that still breaks through and makes the urge to hit him even worse.
"It didn't seem important. You wanna clue me in?"
"Taylor. Cadence Taylor. Dumbass. ~ Melyssa Winchester

If Isabelle Reagan can take a guy like me and turn him into someone worthy of respect then it's mind blowing to think what she can do for the rest of the world. What we could do for it together. We might be able to change it. ~ Melyssa Winchester

I've known you a long time. I've seen you before you made the team and gained the popularity, turning into the jerk that's standing here now. I've seen you care about people even though you didn't want anyone to know you did. I heard some stuff today and it's because I know the person you used to be that I'm here. ~ Melyssa Winchester

Dillon; somewhere in there is the guy I met four years ago. The decent one that wasn't always so fucking mad at the world. I get why you do the shit you do, but take it from someone who knows, it's not worth it. ~ Melyssa Winchester

Dean Walker, my brother. The man that's well on his way to earning the proud title of town drunk. ~ Melyssa Winchester

My heart is broken
It is full of lettuce and celery
~ from "GACELA OF YOUNG LOVE SINGING",
SINGERS AND WINNERS by Lyndon Walker. ~ Lyndon James Walker

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do. ~ Alice Walker

I make films and do the publicity and interviews, but then I want to get away from it all and be on my own. ~ Paul Walker

I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast. ~ Alice Walker

Empathy, the way that we can place ourselves, imaginatively, in the position of another person, is at the heart of what we do as readers, as people striving for a generous understanding of one another. ~ Brenda Walker

I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity. ~ Paul Walker

I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people belonging to my class think they're better than other people. You're damn right we're better. We're better because we do not shirk our obligations either to ourselves or to others ... we live by our lights, we die by our lights, and whoever the high gods may be, we'll look them in the eye without apology. ~ Walker Percy

I love my work, apart from when it's driving me crazy. But I get to be interested in stuff and think like a filmmaker as I'm buzzing about the world and then see an opportunity to make a film, and then make it happen. ~ Lucy Walker

You know Shug will fight, he say. Just like Sofia. She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what. ~ Alice Walker

All the rival presidential candidates called themselves Republicans, and each claimed to be the logical successor to the Jeffersonian heritage. Ironically, what the campaign produced was the breakup of the party and the traditions everyone honored. One-party government proved an evanescent phase in American history. ~ Daniel Walker Howe

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul. ~ Alice Walker

Judgements like "right" and "wrong"; only build barriers and encourage shame within individuals. ~ Rebecca Walker

Perhaps there will be a slight streak of green, a patch that will deepen and then grow. Then another patch on the horizon, like a green searchlight. And then shivering curtains of light can fill the sky, or looping spirals, or flickering flames of green and purple, and candy-apple red. It feels as if they should be accompanied by dramatic sounds, the bangs of fireworks or the roars of rockets. But these are utterly silent, almost solemn in their dancing. And yet they can be comforting in their own way; as if in this remote and frozen wilderness there's something else out there that is alive. ~ Gabrielle Walker

I felt an urgency like love. ~ Karen Thompson Walker

Joanna wondered if so elegant a man could, in truth, be a pirate.
Still, she could not deny the air of mystery about him or the intense fire in his dark eyes.
'Twas as if Lucifer himself had paid them a visit. ~ Regan Walker

I am performing this role of the artist and this role of the 'negress' coming into a white-box institution. It's kind of a self-appointed role: the self-designated negress. ~ Kara Walker

Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me. ~ Alice Walker

Today the Justice Department released e-mails where Walker criticized America. In the e-mails he said he never wanted to set foot in America again. See, that's the good part about hanging somebody. Their feet don't touch the ground. ~ Jay Leno

You know you're old when your walker has an airbag. ~ Phyllis Diller

Most nervous I've ever been is probably the 2007 Walker Cup. I was a little boy playing with these 8 or 9 other guys that were the best amateurs in the country. ~ Rickie Fowler

Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone. ~ Alice Walker

Funny. The woman was funny. Add that up with cute as a button, smart as a tack, and surprisingly tough underneath that cupcake exterior, and Frank understood why Ghost went all Cro-Magnon around her. ~ Julie Ann Walker

Some people will do schlock or anything, just to get their name on it. ~ Mort Walker

I prioritise my time so what needs to be done, gets done. ~ Karen Walker

The swift greyhounds chased him for hours, wearing the wolf down, tiring him out so he would be too weak to give more than a token fight at the end.

He remembered this tactic well from when he had been the hunter on the horse....

At least I know what happens next. ~ E.D. Walker

Because Augustus was not a hiker, but a walker of life ~ Miguel De Unamuno

We'll look to the fall and if there is a new president and a new Senate that's part of a Congress willing to change, that's the next step. ~ Scott Walker

As a Bolling in Feliciana Parish, I became accustomed to sitting on the porch in the dark and talking of the size of the universe and the treachery of men; as a Smith on the Gulf Coast I have become accustomed to eating crabs and drinking beer under a hundred and fifty watt bulb - and one is as pleasant a way as the other in passing a summer night. ~ Walker Percy

Some guys live in worlds where pawns stay pawns. I'm one move from king. ~ Darnell Lamont Walker

I have no clue if it's true and I don't much want to look, but I bet a war happens inside the cocoon. ~ Darnell Lamont Walker

He didn't wait for her approval, simply yanked one cup of her bra down and marveled at the berry-colored nipple that sprang into view. ~ Julie Ann Walker

The Drama Years is filled with heart-stirring stories, just-been-there advice from recent teens and practical, actionable tips for parents. It's full of real girls talking about everything from stress and body image to love and materialism. Reading this book, I cringed in recognition of my own drama years, just wishing this book had been around back then and so grateful I'll have it as a guide for my own daughter. ~ Melissa Walker