Home / Quotes / Quote by Loudon Wainwright III

Quote by Loudon Wainwright III

“It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.”

Quote by Loudon Wainwright III

Author

Loudon Wainwright III

Loudon Wainwright III is an American singer-songwriter celebrated for his witty and introspective lyrics. Born on September 5, 1946, he has been a prominent figure in the music industry since the 1960s. Wainwright's music often reflects his personal experiences and observations, combining humor with poignant storytelling. more

You May Also Like

“Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more than we could ever use in just about 8 minutes. And it's wireless!”

Use Happens Energy Fun Millions Minutes Environmental Nuclear Miles Enormous Fusion Wireless Nuclear Bomb Nuclear Energy Fission Nuclear Reactors Nuclear Fission Nuclear Fusion

Author:William McDonough

“Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.”

Enough Running Three Fun Hours Environment Television Beer Electricity Potatoes Couches Recycling Recycled Environmental Sustainability

Author:Denis Hayes

“Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point.”

Want Should Party Missing Politician Boxes Voters Gang Ballots Guessing Second Guessing

Author:Nick Clegg

“I want to quit. Not performing, but being a woman altogether. I want to throw my hands in the air, after reading a mean Twitter comment, and say, 'All right! You got it. You figured me out. I'm not pretty. I'm not thin. I do not deserve to use my voice. I'll start wearing a burqa and start waiting tables at a pancake house. All my self-worth is based on what you can see.' But then I think, F*** that ... I am a woman with thoughts and questions and s*** to say. I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story - I will.”

“Those who boast about being "brutally honest" are usually more brutal than honest.”

Fun Honest Brutal Boast Brutally Honest

Author:Lori Palatnik

“I salute you! There is nothing I can give you which you have not; but there is much, that, while I cannot give you, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today. Take Heaven. No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instant. Take Peace. The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet, within our reach, is joy. Take Joy.”

World Giving Heart I Can Today Joy Lying Fun Heaven Behinds Shadow Instant Gloom Salute

Author:Giovanni Giocondo

“Life is so generous a giver but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power. Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the angel's hand that brings it to you. Everything we call a trial or a sorrow or a duty, believe me that angel's hand is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing presence. Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty beneath its covering, that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage then to claim, that is all.”

“The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.”

Has Beens Self States Fun Goal Self Realization Realization Reaching Something New Far Away

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we are in need of *at the time that we are reading.* How obvious the thought seems once it has been articulated! As with love, politics, or friendship: readiness is all.”

Needs Giving Writing Has Beens Seems Reading Fun Information Obvious Readiness

Author:Vivian Gornick

“I actually started to think a lot about the difference between a creative gesture and a noncreative gesture. I decided that all gestures were creative. Because you always have to make a decision at some point.”

Thinking Fun Differences Decision Creative Decided Gestures

Author:Andrea Zittel