The Whole Quotes

That's my job, to motivate people. I can do more, show people more things. That's really why I play basketball. That's my whole purpose of playing basketball.

We share something in common with the fabric of the whole universe that connects us.

With a pop album you can listen to one or two songs from it, but a music album is really an experience. It's not something a whole lot of rock bands do.

It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible.

The whole truth... sings only - and all lovers are the song.

We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.

'A friend,' he repeated, sentimental suddenly. 'Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.'

Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts to be true.

In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at.

Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments.

I wanted to be an actor my whole young life. My dad was an actor, obviously - he won an Academy Award, but I had no idea what was involved. I had all the wrong ideas about acting.

My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.

I am the pinball geek of the band, probably of the nation of Canada. I've been a pinball fan my whole life. I started collecting machines in the late '90s.

The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very accurate.

... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.

I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole creation ends.

Maybe it's a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play's a little more pertinent now.

The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the whole equation, to be show business and art at the same time.

Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie.

This whole pre-criminal investigation, where we watch everybody, all the time, just in case, is really an extraordinary departure from the Western liberal tradition.

The whole Melrose series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.

I was neither doing these people nor myself a favor by showing up when my heart wasn't in it. There were not getting the real me, the whole me, the true me.

Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.

In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.

My feelings were hurt. Once I started I couldn't seem to let it go. Be strange if the person who matters most in the whole world couldn't hurt your feelings, wouldn't it?

By removing that which is petty and self-seeking, we bring forth all that is glorious and mindful of the whole.

Thankfully, the life of an actor can be quite balanced anyway. If you look over the course of a whole year, you do tend to have periods of down time. So, it's about managing the balance.

Drama drama drama. The public wants it, so let them get the whole ugly mess. Why not?

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.

I knew how to act and had studied acting and enjoyed it, but I'd never pushed myself to really perform as an actor, and create a role, and have the whole character's backstory.

I think filmmakers, in general... There are some awesome, really great filmmakers - but on the whole, filmmakers, actors, I think they are the biggest bunch of whiny, over-paid babies on the planet.

I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.

The whole community must be saved [in Tibet].

It's not only America. Terrorism now is a threat to the whole world.

Fortunately, I'm in a band with people who really like and respect each other personally.That makes this whole experience so much better.

Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of carpentry in the whole of the human workshop.

I'm lucky to have worked with great actors, my whole career.

I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.

I wondered, "Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?

If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got worse, I'm not sure how I would have slept that night.

My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!'

The whole thing with modeling with Estee Lauder - no one could have a better, nicer modeling job.

You've got to do everything, everything's got to be pointing in the same direction and you've got to really turn this whole economic engine from one that's based on fossil fuels to one that isn't.

but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer the questions they already ask.

It’s just that I’m the kind of person,' Rebecca continued, 'that thinks if you took a map of the whole world and put a pin in it for every person, there wouldn’t be a pin for me.

... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure.