Whole Quotes · Page 150

On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm…

— Joan Didion

I've had a big heart my whole life; all the Korn fans know that. A lot of people told me that I…

— Brian Welch

I'm not sure I believe in the whole 'ghost-afterlife' thing, but I think places are marked by people who have been there.

— Joanne Harris

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business…

— Robert Smith

When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The important thing, once you have enough to eat and a nice house, is what you can do for others, what you…

— Donald Knuth

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in…

— Bruce Davison

In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.

— Matt Taibbi

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

Do you believe God's whole world runs by the laws of the few sciences we have been able to discover? Oh, no,…

— Lincoln Maazel

Those who grasp the whole, will also comprehend all parts of that whole, even when immediate technical understanding is lacking, and recognize…

— Richard Wagner

The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no…

— Carl Jung

The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole…

— Kim Hunter

Purchase items that can be made into several meals, like a whole roasted chicken, or bag of sweet potatoes, and shop the…

— Cat Cora

I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job,…

— Martha Stewart

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole…

— Jose Saramago

Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down, and erects a new structure... The sincere Christian…

— Joseph Alleine

But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly…

— Gary Snyder

In the case of Alex Haley, Haley's material is located at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, primarily. But there are a…

— Manning Marable

Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him…

— Frederick Douglass

If you're writing a song, you have to write something that can be understood serially. When you're reading a poem that's written…

— James Fenton

Egolessness is contentment. Egoless, you don't expect anything, and just a small child smiles at you, but it is so beautiful. What…

— Rajneesh

The first step to get this noble and manly steadiness, is... carefully keep children from frights of all kinds, when they are…

— John Locke

Who is a god? A god is one who has learned the secret of being happy with the whole universe, with every…

— Rajneesh

A little acting debut in Spin City, with Michael J. Fox, which opened up a whole new door for me.

— Heidi Klum

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the…

— Fredrika Bremer

The whole point of rugby is that it is, first and foremost, a state of mind, a spirit.

— Jean-Pierre Rives

There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.

— John Cage

There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

— Oscar Wilde

Apartment living is tough action. Just the whole idea that you share a washer and dryer always freaked me out.

— Joe Rogan

This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.

— David Viscott

But I also live to perform and I've been performing my whole life, whether it's been in sports or you know in…

— Ruben Studdard

I can have a whole year off. I'm really lucky because I'm my own boss, so I make the rules and get…

— Sharleen Spiteri

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

I don't take a whole lot of damage as a fighter, but it happened in football.

— Matt Mitrione

The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material.

— Robin Williams

Axl did sometimes have volatile actions, but I knew that guy as a whole - all the good stuff, too.

— Duff McKagan

To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we…

— Steve Jobs

The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.

— Thomas de Quincey

I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's…

— Lorrie Moore