Whittled Quotes

13 quotes by 12 authors

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product. — Russell Baker
We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly… — Arianna Huffington
I remember how my Great Uncle Jerry would sit on the porch and whittle all day long. Once he whittled me a toy boat out… — Jack Handey
Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them. — Henry David Thoreau
For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory… — Bob Barr
But all good things come to an end, often a sad angry miserable end. The cause for such an end can usually be whittled down… — James Frey
The chilly December day! two shivering bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio first felt their homemade contraption whittled out of hickory sticks, gummed together with Arnstein's… — John Dos Passos
The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I… — Tim Ferriss
That's what time does: We stand stubbornly like rocks while it flows all around us, believing that we are immutable - and all the time… — Lauren Oliver
The privacy and dignity of our citizens [are] being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But… — William O. Douglas
The privacy and dignity of our citizens [are] being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But… — William Orville Douglas
What but the wolf's tooth whittled so fine The fleet limbs of the antelope? What but fear winged the birds, and hunger Jewelled with such… — Robinson Jeffers
In many places the road was in that condition called repaired, having just been whittled into the required semicylindrical form with the shovel and scraper,… — Henry David Thoreau

Who Wrote These Whittled Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 13 Whittled Quotes as follows: