All Quotes

What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.
‐‐ Ronnie Dunn

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
‐‐ John Howe

What a gift it would be to receive at Christmastime a greater knowledge of the Lord. What a gift it would be to share that knowledge with others.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

What a good session musician does is listen to the song, to the artist, and to the other players. That way you can help bring out the song and help the artist express what they want to express. It's never about you stepping out and showing you can play something fancy.
‐‐ Benmont Tench

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
‐‐ Terence

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
‐‐ Victor Hugo

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
‐‐ Bill Shankly

What a heaven is love! O what a hell!
‐‐ Thomas Dekker

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
‐‐ Voltaire

What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce.
‐‐ Claire Trevor

What a house. Turns out they're doing OK, the Malfoy's. However, the interior decorating leaves a lot to be desired. And needless to say, Voldemort isn't the greatest houseguest.
‐‐ Tom Felton

What a jolly thing military surveillance is!
‐‐ Belle Boyd

What a joy it is to dance and sing!
‐‐ Angela Carter

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
‐‐ Rodney Dangerfield

What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.
‐‐ Krista Tippett

What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.
‐‐ Eckhart Tolle

What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other beasts. In the process, we discover our shared identity.
‐‐ Diane Ackerman

What a lot of people don't realise is that damage to hair starts from washing your hair in a rush and not taking all the product out such as leave-in conditioners. So I always make sure that I cleanse my hair properly and get the shampoo and conditioner completely out.
‐‐ Genelia D'Souza

What a lot of people don't realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
‐‐ Michael Caine

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
‐‐ Ellen Burstyn

What a magical thing is the bed, and what a vulnerable, innocent creature is the sleeping human - the human who never looks more truthful or pitiful or benign; the curled-up, childlike dreaming soul who has for a few hours become an angel adrift.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
‐‐ Helen Rowland

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
‐‐ Abraham Maslow

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
‐‐ Daniel Webster

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft

What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself.
‐‐ Catherine Crowe

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
‐‐ Robin G. Collingwood

What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
‐‐ Sylvia Plath

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
‐‐ Adlai E. Stevenson

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
‐‐ Joseph Wood Krutch

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
‐‐ Charles Dudley Warner

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
‐‐ Thomas A. Edison

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
‐‐ Meister Eckhart

What a marvelous resource soup is for the thrifty cook - it solves the ham-bone and lamb-bone problems, the everlasting Thanksgiving turkey, the extra vegetables.
‐‐ Julia Child

What a miracle life is and how alike are all souls when they send their roots down deep and meet and are one!
‐‐ Nikos Kazantzakis

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
‐‐ Bertolt Brecht

What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.
‐‐ Patti Smith

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.
‐‐ Nellie Bly

What a nice night for an evening.
‐‐ Steven Wright

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
‐‐ David Hume

What a perfect way to end the home stand, by hitting sixty-two for the city of St. Louis and all the fans. I truly wanted to do it here and I did. Thank you St. Louis.
‐‐ Mark McGwire

What a person feels within themselves and about themselves radiates from them. Trust me, I have worked with people - both men and women - who are not what most would consider conventionally attractive, but who exude such a magnetism about them that people are compelled to watch them on stage or screen.
‐‐ Amanda Schull

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
‐‐ Augustus Hare

What a piece of garbage this smart car is. There's a commercial - the smart car has zero percent interest for six years. Well, good, I got zero percent in six years in buying this smart car. I'll tell you that much. I mean, it's ridiculous. My buddy has a smart car, totaled it. He hit a deer tick.
‐‐ Larry the Cable Guy

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
‐‐ Olin Miller

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!
‐‐ Sydney Smith

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
‐‐ Margot Asquith