All Quotes

What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems.
‐‐ Duke Snider

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.
‐‐ George Saunders

What a privilege and honour it has been to be part of seven years of magic in a tent - 'The Great British Bake Off.'
‐‐ Mary Berry

What a privilege it is to be an American!
‐‐ Thomas Starr King

What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.
‐‐ Morris Dees

What a profound privilege to go from one who took the oath from a judge to one who now is in the position to administer the oath as a judge.
‐‐ Sri Srinivasan

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
‐‐ Marcel Proust

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
‐‐ James Russell Lowell

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.
‐‐ Alice James

What a song is is a subjective thing. There's no one real definition for it.
‐‐ The Edge

What a sound money system does is to stabilize all the elements in it, and reduces the uncertainty that people confront. And the one thing all human beings do when they are confronted with uncertainty is pull back, withdraw, disengage, and that means economic activity, which is really dealing with people, just goes straight down.
‐‐ Alan Greenspan

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
‐‐ Lord Byron

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
‐‐ Bernard Williams

What a stupid attitude we have in this country to personal stories.
‐‐ Amanda Burton

What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.
‐‐ Roger Ebert

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
‐‐ Dan Quayle

What a thing, Europe. Europe! The cultured Europe! We are the barbarians, the Indians, the blacks, the southerners. How cynical is Europe. Chavez the tyrant! Chavez the strongman! Chavez, who wants to stay forever. While there, they have kings, my friend!
‐‐ Hugo Chavez

What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.
‐‐ James J. Gibson

What a thrill it is to have my writing recognized by an institution as admirable and vital as the National Endowment for the Arts.
‐‐ Dean Bakopoulos

What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.
‐‐ Dinah Sheridan

What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom relegated some poor yearning dope to a lavender ghetto of losers, self-deluders, and social rejects.
‐‐ James Wolcott

What a war in Iraq will not do is bring about peace in the Middle East or end the injustices that feed resentment and breed terrorists.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
‐‐ Dan Quayle

What a woman is taught, she shares with her family.
‐‐ Amanda Lindhout

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
‐‐ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
‐‐ Thomas Mann

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
‐‐ Lillian Hellman

What a world we live in. I want to be incredibly close to the heart of it all. To live honestly, truthfully and to be completely present is the ultimate enterprise.
‐‐ Dianna Agron

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
‐‐ Barbara Kingsolver

What a writer's message is is totally unimportant. Either he is agreeing with life by affirming, or he is saying life is just a bowl of wormwood.
‐‐ Stanley Elkin

What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.
‐‐ Thomas Starr King

What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
‐‐ Nathan Lane

What about feeling sorry for those who pay the taxes? Those who are people that no one feels sorry for. They are asked to give and give until they have no more to give. And when they say 'enough,' they are called selfish.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.
‐‐ Mikhail Gorbachev

What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.
‐‐ Joseph Barbera

What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?
‐‐ David Suzuki

What about passion, dedication, loyalty? Can a robot provide those? No! On the other hand, it's easier to retire a robot when its day is done.
‐‐ Stanley Bing

What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is, while the creative community admittedly leans left, Hollywood has become a corporate town.
‐‐ Steven Levitan

What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?
‐‐ Daphne du Maurier

What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again.
‐‐ Sheryl Sandberg

What about those who help growth indirectly, those who stay at home and look after others - mothers, carers of elderly parents or sick relatives who save the state millions of pounds annually. What is their worth? How is their value to be determined?
‐‐ Noreena Hertz

What actor do you really take seriously who becomes a singer? It's kind of ridiculous. I can't think of anybody.
‐‐ Kirsten Dunst

What actor wouldn't want to work with Mel Gibson?
‐‐ Jim Caviezel

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.
‐‐ Robert Morgan

What advice do I tell my grandson? I listen to him.
‐‐ Roy Haynes

What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.
‐‐ James Sanborn

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.
‐‐ George Ayittey

What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.
‐‐ Christopher Fry