All Quotes

The whole business of reading English Literature in two years, to know it in any reputable sense of the word - let alone your learning to write English - is, in short, impossible.
‐‐ Arthur Quiller-Couch

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.
‐‐ Anson Mount

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
‐‐ George McGovern

The whole cast of 'Company' was invited to Hal Prince's house. This is one of the highlights of my life. We all sat in the living room. Sitting on the floor, I was right by the piano.
‐‐ Donna McKechnie

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.
‐‐ Anderson Cooper

The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette

The whole celebrity thing never is normal and I think the fuller your life is, the more you are able to just kind of call a truce with it on a good day.
‐‐ Michelle Pfeiffer

The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation.
‐‐ Andy Serkis

The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is.
‐‐ Randy Harrison

The whole Christmas story was probably a later addition to the gospel narratives, presented only by the authors of Matthew and Luke. Mark and John seem never to have heard of the manger in Bethlehem, the Massacre of the Innocents, the hovering star, the three wise men, and so forth.
‐‐ Jay Parini

The whole climate is changing: the winds, the ocean currents, the storm patterns, snow packs, snowmelt, flooding, droughts. Temperature is just a bit of it.
‐‐ John Holdren

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.
‐‐ Major Owens

The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started.
‐‐ George Murray

The whole concept behind 'Forty Chances' is really a mindset: If everybody thought they had to put themselves out of business in 40 years, you had 40 chances to succeed in what your primary goals are, you would probably be more urgent and you would be forced to change quicker.
‐‐ Howard Graham Buffett

The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.
‐‐ Leigh Steinberg

The whole concept of rewarding customers is a big trend.
‐‐ Sam Altman

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.
‐‐ Taylor Hackford

The whole concept of the travel agent is absurd. They appear to be agents of the traveller but are actually agents of the airlines.
‐‐ Stelios Haji-Ioannou

The whole concept of treating people with dignity and respect is a concept that isn't a business concept, it's a life concept. It's who you are at the end of the day.
‐‐ Greg Brenneman

The whole consideration of - ... am I being compared as such and such's grandson and son - that was minuscule compared to the problems I was having just working... I didn't have time to start worrying about who I was in the eyes of the public.
‐‐ Jamie Wyeth

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
‐‐ Tom Wolfe

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
‐‐ M. Scott Peck

The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.
‐‐ Ken Livingstone

The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
‐‐ Stevie Ray Vaughan

The whole debate on what food is best for us is complex, ongoing and often controlled by vested interests.
‐‐ Jasper Carrott

The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.
‐‐ Rafer Johnson

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
‐‐ Gustave Flaubert

The whole dream of having your own place is great, but the reality is having to cook and clean yourself and do the washing and make sure there's milk in the fridge. But you have to grow up some time.
‐‐ Michelle Ryan

The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch.
‐‐ Henry Flynt

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
‐‐ Lord Melbourne

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.
‐‐ Pericles

The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '60s, and '70s, writers were on TV a lot, and they were allowed to misbehave a lot.
‐‐ James Wolcott

The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
‐‐ C. V. Raman

The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way we've taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when it's too late.
‐‐ Clayton M. Christensen

The whole environmental policy in the Netherlands has no substance any more.
‐‐ Pim Fortuyn

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.
‐‐ Chuck Jones

The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection.
‐‐ Gordon B. Hinckley

The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you've done everything extremely well. The problems start on the third day, and continues for the rest of your life.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

The whole experience co-curating the Biennial was a learning experience. The Suburban and The Poor Farm are not institutions. They are not by design, organized around power structures. Because I am someone who thrives on delineating context, seeing up close the inner workings of the museum was not wasted on me.
‐‐ Michelle Grabner

The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.
‐‐ Lea Thompson

The whole experience of 'Eastbound' has been completely unexpected and super-surprising every step of the way.
‐‐ Danny McBride

The whole experience of getting an album from an artist you like and listening to it from beginning to end is sort of gone. Now it's piecemeal.
‐‐ Tom Scholz

The whole experience of working on this movie was so fun, and I had more fun working on that than I've had on anything else. I had more fun working than on my days off.
‐‐ Josh Duhamel

The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp.
‐‐ Halston Sage

The whole fame and fortune thing is addictive.
‐‐ Jimmy Nail

The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you - and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
‐‐ Campbell Scott

The whole family is tight. We all really love each other.
‐‐ Kieran Culkin