All Quotes

While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.
‐‐ Zainab Salbi

While women were powerfully liberated both externally as well as internally by the feminism of the 1970s, we made some serious mistakes as well.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

While working as a team, you push yourself forward and move outside the boundaries. It's a great thing.
‐‐ Martin Margiela

While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.
‐‐ Meg Rosoff

While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.
‐‐ Jane Gardam

While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written under the sign of a political mood.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay liberation on an individual life (mine) as events paralleled my own growing self-acceptance; in this case, the political truly was the personal.
‐‐ Edmund White

While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic.
‐‐ Charles Frazier

While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time.
‐‐ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

While writing, I'm always so happy in the middle of a book or finishing a book and really hate starting them, so I often think, 'I wish I had a really big book to write to which I could devote seven years of my life.'
‐‐ Geoff Dyer

While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps create a consistent mood for each book.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.
‐‐ Jerry B. Jenkins

While writing my memoir, 'When Skateboards Will Be Free,' I would sometimes have to pore over hours of microfilm at the New York Public Library in order to try to get one obscure detail right. For instance, was the Socialist Workers Party originally called the American Workers Party or the Workers Party of the United States?
‐‐ Said Sayrafiezadeh

While writing 'The Orientalist,' I played a soundtrack that alternated between ragtime and Azeri mugams, Russian operas and German and Italian pop songs from the 1920s and 30s. When I finally finished, I gorged on all my music from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.
‐‐ Tom Reiss

While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.
‐‐ Ivan Pavlov

While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment.
‐‐ Sharon Salzberg

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
‐‐ Francis of Assisi

While you can find zucchini in markets in most places year-round, allowing you to make everything from breakfast dishes like zucchini and onion frittatas to snacks like zucchini-stuffed crab cakes, the onset of fall marks the beginning of hard squash season.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson

While you cannot deliver policies without principles, you cannot deliver principles without having power. You have quickly to move to a stage where, emphasising your principles, you build a programme, then call for popular support.
‐‐ Gordon Brown

While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.
‐‐ Tony Curtis

While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people.
‐‐ Peter Jackson

While you're going through this process of trying to find the satisfaction in your work, pretend you feel satisfied. Tell yourself you had a good day. Walk through the corridors with a smile rather than a scowl. Your positive energy will radiate. If you act like you're having fun, you'll find you are having fun.
‐‐ Jean Chatzky

While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.
‐‐ Shelley Berman

While you're pregnant, I suggest that you eat like you regularly do. Yes you can eat a little more, but eat healthier for as long as you can.
‐‐ Constance Marie

While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.
‐‐ Lyndon B. Johnson

While you're setting something up that's educational for yourself, you have an opportunity to teach others at the same time.
‐‐ Bjork

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant

While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
‐‐ Julia Ward Howe

While your past can inform you and your future can inspire you, the moment of choice exists in the here and now.
‐‐ Debbie Ford

Whilst I love still hiding... games and puzzles to play, I'm not as imprisoned by that need to fill every corner with detail.
‐‐ Graeme Base

Whilst I may look good, I do find it hard to find the right man.
‐‐ Marie Helvin

Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.
‐‐ Karl Philipp Moritz

Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.
‐‐ Mary Astell

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
‐‐ Quintilian

Whilst worthy in themselves, applications shouldn't be the only way to drive basic research.
‐‐ John Sulston

Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this.
‐‐ Deborah Moggach

'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.
‐‐ Damien Chazelle

'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw with drummers.
‐‐ Damien Chazelle

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
‐‐ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It's like bumper cars plus lacrosse meets basketball.
‐‐ St. Vincent

Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.
‐‐ Billy Sunday

Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer.
‐‐ Tom T. Hall

Whiskey will always be a part of my life.
‐‐ Artie Lange

Whistle-blowing and publishing should not be seen as a crime, and certainly not as terrorism.
‐‐ Sarah Harrison

Whistleblowers are typically rendered incommunicado, either because they're in hiding, or advised by their lawyers to stay silent, or imprisoned. As a result, the public hears only about them, but never from them, which makes their demonization virtually inevitable.
‐‐ Glenn Greenwald

Whistleblowers often take very significant efforts to bring us material and often at very significant risks.
‐‐ Julian Assange

Whistleblowing and publishing should not be seen as a crime and certainly not as terrorism.
‐‐ Sara Harrison

White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.
‐‐ Idris Elba