Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? – Walt Whitman
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. – Walt Whitman
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. – Walt Whitman
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. – Walt Whitman
There is nothing like the way people feel after theyve seen The Intouchables. They feel amazing. The word of mouth on this film is incredible. Its intelligent-feeling good. Youre not insulted by the low-browness or stupidity of some of the humor. Its so smart and terrific. – Harvey Weinstein