Walt Quotes

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Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

Walt is dead. And, after a couple of hours at Epcot, you'll wish you were, too.

I realized that anyone who dared to hurt me would suffer his full wrath, and Walt wasn’t going to hold him back.

Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.

I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good.'

Walt Disney and I always said we were two children looking for our inner adults.

I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.

I don't know about that. I'm not a very analytical person. I have various impulses. I've often quoted Walt Whitman's phrase "I contain multitudes." I understand that.

It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale, and he has held it captive ever since.

Disneyland is such a big thing to Californians, I discovered that when you cross the border you have to raise your right hand and take an oath that you believe in Walt Disney.

Randy and I were goggle-eyed as we gazed over the wonders of what Walt Disney had wrought. It was a magnificent demonstration of what God could do if He had more imagination.

Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman.

Walt's idea was that - as soon as the people who were dining got through their main course. They were supposed to all be seated, served at the same time, when they got into the dessert.

Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.

That's what Walt Disney did, and Hewlett and Packard, and the people who built Intel. They created a company to last, not just to make money. That's what I want Apple to be.

Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.

I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.

I operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate. ... It operates with the objective to simplify and exaggerate, which is exactly what Walt Disney told his cartoonists.

I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

To restore a sense of reality, I think Walt Disney should have a Hardluckland.

I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.

Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.

We speak with one voice,” Walt said. “Especially on this matter. No one hurts Sadie Kane.

Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.

I want to be the next Walt Disney, only a little more wicked.

There were no jewelry hidden. Walt wanted this atmosphere: They were supposed to live here, they've been outside somewhere, but they could come back at any minute and catch us.

I look like Walt Disney just threw up.

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.

I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.

We blame Walt Disney for goldenrod's undeserved bad name. Despite Sneezy's pronouncement, plants such as goldenrod with heavy, insect-carried pollen rarely cause allergic reaction.

Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is Apple, it's why Walt Disney built Disney World and it's why Vince McMahon makes a billion dollars.

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.

Mickey Mouse was supposed to be called Mortimer, but Walt Disney’s wife found it creepy

My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.

Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.

I blame Walt Disney; well he has to find voice actors better than me somehow doesn't he?

I didn’t even know I could write music, but somehow Walt did. He tapped my hidden talents.

You need that same creative force that exists in a building like Disney [Walt Disney Concert Hall] to actually tackle that most prosaic of problems.

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?