All Quotes

A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer and you should probably get these published; when you grow up and write a novel, get in touch.'
‐‐ Bob Shacochis

A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.
‐‐ Charles C. Mann

A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age.
‐‐ Chuck Klosterman

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.
‐‐ Brit Marling

A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.
‐‐ Scott Cook

A whole generation of people that didn't know me from 'SNL' recognize me from 'Weeds' now. People recognize me once in a while and appreciate the work. It gets a little embarrassing but it's good. If you work as an accountant, you don't have people coming up to you in the streets saying, 'Hey, great job on tax statements!'
‐‐ Kevin Nealon

A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies generations of docile workers for the music industry. What can you expect from downtrodden workers who see music as a type of profession, like stenography, and not an act of creation that by its nature is subversive?
‐‐ Itay Talgam

A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music.
‐‐ Archie Shepp

A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from 'The Simpsons.' To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt.
‐‐ Jonah Hill

A whole host of things that we now know are drugs turn out to be plant alkaloids.
‐‐ Gregory Petsko

A whole lot of Americans have never met a Mormon.
‐‐ Rodney Stark

A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.
‐‐ Anne Lamott

A whole new career opened up for me when I was in 'Lord Of The Rings' and 'Star Wars.'
‐‐ Christopher Lee

A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you can buy at a reasonable price.
‐‐ Peter Mayhew

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.
‐‐ Herbert Hoover

A whole range of things are done to ensure services remain safe and sustainable because that is the absolute paramount duty of the health board.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

A whole series of events pushed me towards meditation, and now it's become such an integral part of the way I manage myself. It's a tool for me; when you're an entrepreneur, and you're pulled in every direction, it is wonderful to have this discipline.
‐‐ Imran Amed

A whole set of values comes with fast food: Everything should be fast, cheap and easy; there's always more where that came from; there are no seasons; you shouldn't be paid very much for preparing food. It's uniformity and a lack of connection.
‐‐ Alice Waters

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.
‐‐ Charles M. Schulz

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.
‐‐ Richard Le Gallienne

A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.
‐‐ Barbara Corcoran

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
‐‐ Samuel Goldwyn

A wide variety of devices beyond personal computers are arriving, many of which will be used to browse the Web... The Flash engineering team has taken this on with a major overhaul of the mainstream Flash Player for a variety of devices.
‐‐ Kevin Lynch

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.
‐‐ Susan Cain

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
‐‐ Samuel Richardson

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.
‐‐ Jim Samuels

A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.
‐‐ Lucy Stone

A wig is a wig is a wig.
‐‐ Billy Zane

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.
‐‐ Robert M. Gates

A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.
‐‐ Jacques d'Amboise

A will finds a way.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.
‐‐ Joanna Baillie

A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
‐‐ Felicity Huffman

A win is a win.
‐‐ Stefan Edberg

A win is a win, regardless of how you look at it.
‐‐ Alonzo Mourning

A win is a win, which is about that particular moment.
‐‐ Viswanathan Anand

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
‐‐ E. E. Cummings

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.
‐‐ Saul Leiter

A window of opportunity for me usually involves a rock.
‐‐ Jay London

A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.
‐‐ John Avlon

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
‐‐ Larry Bird

A winner never stops trying.
‐‐ Tom Landry

A winner never whines.
‐‐ Paul Brown

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
‐‐ Sydney J. Harris

A winner-takes-all economy that offers only limited access to the middle class is a recipe for democratic malaise and dereliction.
‐‐ Klaus Schwab

A winning effort begins with preparation.
‐‐ Joe Gibbs

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
‐‐ Sophocles

A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it.
‐‐ Scott Walker

A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
‐‐ Paolo Bacigalupi