The Whole Quotes

Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.

The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing.

Love is thick and it swallows me whole.

Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.

The whole season thing is nonsense. It's either beautiful or it isn't. That's something I really learned when I started collecting dresses.

For me, Lancome was more than just a brand. There was something very nostalgic about the name, about the whole story.

I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.

... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. Oh! I hate this world where we are reduced to God.

For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one can anticipate.

[Woody Allen] does very few takes, and he doesn't give a whole ton of directions, although he does give direction.

The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not.

I am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world.

A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.

National parks, zoos, protected areas, polluted seas - using the whole world as a readymade, I thought about it as a stage set. To activate a stage set you need a drama, an actor to offset it.

What gets me pretty pissed off is the whole Monsanto engineered foods issue.

The whole mythology of Westeros begins with the struggle between the Children of the Forest and different warring factions before the first men arrive.

My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas. The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas. That's the real goal.

But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about.

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.

Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.

So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.

Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.

It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice.

I just think this whole thing about not wearing anything twice, I just don't understand it. I think things should be worn. You should bond with your clothing. It should be yours.

I like listening to the whole song. Like my father says, "If you can't pick the whole song, then why are you playing it?"

Actresses are mental on the whole. But I think I'm pretty normal.

It is from the midst of this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs up and carries fertility to the whole world. From this foul drain pure gold flows forth.

For me, the audience is the most important thing in the whole chain, so finding out how they respond to things is a learning curve at all times.

History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole.

It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon.

The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.

It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.

An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.

There's so much craziness that comes along with being a movie star that you can get so confused. Unless you've spent your whole life waiting to be the centre of attention, it's pretty terrifying.

The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just don’t need.

Professionally, I decided to commit a lot of my time to California because there wasn't a whole lot happening for me in New York.

People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a female folksinger. They don't expect the whole thing.

for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.

The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.

I'm very secretive. I'll write a whole novel and revise it, which might take me two years or more, and the people I know best don't know what I'm writing about.

If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.

I'm fine with whatever comes my way, and whatever doesn't come my way I'm fine with too. I have a very laissez-faire attitude with the whole thing.

You can gerrymander one district, but it's very difficult to gerrymander the whole country.

The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.

I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio.

Kant takes a free will to be a being or substance with the power to cause a state of the world (or a whole series of such states) spontaneously or from itself.

Fichte would identify all states of our minds with states of our body - perhaps not merely of our brain, but the whole body as an acting organism.

My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.