All Quotes

Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.
‐‐ Jack Kornfield

Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck has found that the way parents offer approval affects the way children perform, even the way they feel about themselves.
‐‐ Amy Chua

Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And they always increase a star's fan following.
‐‐ Randolph Scott

Westerns are cool, man. I'm big on Westerns. I just love the grittiness.
‐‐ Ramon Rodriguez

Westerns are fun. I wish more of them would be made. When you're out there on a set, carrying a gun, riding a horse, you kind of get lost in that make believe world.
‐‐ Ricky Schroder

Westerns are simple stories where there's good and there's evil and where people had a sense of space and freedom. Growing up in the city, as a kid, you've never really seen that before. It's a beautiful dream to go from concrete to big skies, dirt and horses.
‐‐ Antoine Fuqua

Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not.
‐‐ Barry Pepper

Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.
‐‐ Brion James

Westerns were all daddy liked to watch. Give me some Clint Eastwood, some Charles Bronson, and I was a happy girl. It was our father-daughter bonding.
‐‐ Melissa Marr

Westerns were always my favorite things when I was little. And it always bothered me when cowboys were too clean in movies, or when they wore their guns like they had an outfit on. It always worked better when a guy looked sweaty and smelly; I hadda believe, I hadda believe that.
‐‐ Michael Keaton

Westlife earnt millions. We were on the 'Irish Times' Rich List. And then... I'm not!
‐‐ Shane Filan

Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.
‐‐ Karl Philipp Moritz

Westminster is a jungle - and the hunter can always smell fear on its prey.
‐‐ Charles Kennedy

Weston Bakeries is proud to support local children's charities across Canada. We believe the more we invest in our kids' futures today, the better our communities will be tomorrow.
‐‐ Galen Weston

Westward, ever westward.
‐‐ Henry Wells

Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years.
‐‐ David Wain

'Wet Hot American Summer' was sort of lowbrow genius, you know? But smart in its cultish silliness. It wasn't considered something of great cultural caliber. But like many cult pieces, it sort of became something culturally relevant, which I think is what's so wonderful about it.
‐‐ Lake Bell

Wexford started off as a very conventional, tough cop and not a very original character because I had no idea I was writing a series, of course. I had no idea I'd created a series character.
‐‐ Ruth Rendell

'Whale Talk' is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn't draw the tough parts out of thin air; they are stories handed to me by people in pain.
‐‐ Chris Crutcher

Whales are killed today to supply the limited demand for whale meat or to be used in pet foods or as fodder for fur-bearing animals used in the fur trade.
‐‐ Paul Watson

Whaling was the oil business of its day.
‐‐ Nathaniel Philbrick

What a ball from Frank. Frank and I go back years. He used to do that when I was at Ajax.
‐‐ Dennis Bergkamp

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.
‐‐ Georges Bizet

What a bitter, bitter thing is the service of Satan, even in this world!
‐‐ George Muller

What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.
‐‐ Madeleine Albright

What a blessing that God allows a life to come through your body, and then allows you to place that body in a body bag and take it out. I had to say that there's a magnificent something that God has for me to do, to give me that level of completion. That level of experience. It's unspeakable.
‐‐ Iyanla Vanzant

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
‐‐ Helen Keller

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
‐‐ Charles Darwin

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
‐‐ Herbert Spencer

What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.
‐‐ Jami Attenberg

What a child can do in cooperation today, he can do alone tomorrow.
‐‐ Lev Vygotsky

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
‐‐ P. D. James

What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.
‐‐ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.
‐‐ Edith Head

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
‐‐ Simone Weil

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
‐‐ Chinua Achebe

What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again.
‐‐ Agnes Smedley

What a crazy idea to put me on a family show!
‐‐ Howard Stern

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.
‐‐ Robert E. Lee

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
‐‐ Bruce Barton

What a day-to-day affair life is.
‐‐ Jules Laforgue

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
‐‐ Edgar Degas

What a dichotomy. What conflicting ideas that we love and embrace these women, and entrust them to raise our children and to feed us and to bathe us, but we keep something as silly as a bathroom separate.
‐‐ Kathryn Stockett

What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.
‐‐ Gene Tierney

What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.
‐‐ James Gray

What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.
‐‐ John Hughes

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
‐‐ Sigmund Freud

What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.
‐‐ Rodney Dangerfield

What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.'
‐‐ John Sentamu