The Whole Quotes

Acting is fun. It's not my whole life. It's not my entire being. It's secondary to my life. My life is primary. I'm running in the primary, as you know.

It's being a grown up, which I never figured out how to do, scrubbing the tub, and remembering to eat and shampoo my hair. It's the basics: I can write a whole book, but I cannot handle the basics.

if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

There is no thing we cannot overcome Say not thy evil instinct is inherited, Or that some trait inborn makes thy whole life forlorn, And calls down punishment that is not merited.

It is a common fate -- a woman's lot -- To waste on one the riches of her soul, Who takes the wealth she gives him, but cannot Repay the interest, and much less the whole.

Did you ever feel like the whole world was going to a party and your invitation got lost in the mail?

I needed to see, needed to know, needed a whole lot more.

But I so want to walk that razor's edge, Take feeling to a whole new level.

By focusing on the community, you can learn more about the whole country.

I'm actually just playing honest, whole young women.

The whole history of life is a record of cycles.

Poor cow, you'll get your dumb man. You'll see your whole life coming at you in the back of his hand.

They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

I grew up around horses, but acting and riding on camera is a whole different thing.

My whole family is very sarcastic and constantly making jokes.

I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all!

Spring's first conviction is a wealth beyond its whole experience.

The whole "misery loves company" thing never applies more than when you're breaking up. The thought that the other person is doing fine is simply too much to bear.

I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I'm a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was born in India but I was raised in Canada.

There's a whole world of bad TV that's along similar themes - the cop drama.

Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.

The biggest problem is that people want to tell the whole story, and they write letters that are way longer than anything I could possibly run.

There's not a thing wrong with you, you're right the whole way through.

The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.

My whole experience into the sitcom world, it was, like, "This is like theater, this is like film... This is a hybrid of everything I love to do. A live audience and rehearsals and... more food!"

I mean, I do consider that my music is pop because Ive been influenced by pop music my whole life; I grew up in the States and 80s pop music was my biggest influence.

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

I think that whatever you do, if you're a singer, a rapper, an architect, dentist, treat that like when you're doing it, your whole career depends on that moment.

I think that was the smartest thing [immigration policy], he [Donald Trump] is done in his whole campaign there .

The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced Billy Elliot is very, very exciting.

You don't really want to load up a whole lot, probably anything more than four hours before the race. I needed something to make me feel full, but I certainly didn't want it to make me feel stuffed.

You make a lot of mistakes. I haven't seen that movie [The Lost World] in 20 years. But if I saw it, I'm sure I could pick out a whole lot of mistakes.

At IMVU, we opened up our board meetings to the whole company.

I've had pets my whole life, and I grew up with pigs and cows.

I took to religion at about age 12; it was very hard for me to be Sabbath observant as a kid in a home which was not Sabbath observant. I think my parents thought the whole Jewish thing was a phase.

Unfortunately, nigh the whole world is now duped into thinking that silly fill-in forms on web pages is the way to do user interfaces.

I've always been a good flier. I love the whole experience.

Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together.

You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.

I lived in New York for maybe a year and a half, from '95 to '97, but I live in Dallas. My whole family is there.

I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.

The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.

You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

I'll always be making music. I'd like to do it my whole life - although I also love words and want to write short stories. But right now, my songs are kind of my short stories.

I think my whole living in vain involves me. I know that the biggest help for me is to help someone else in so many different ways.

I think that's part of the whole denial and suicidal mechanism [ of the human's race] right "Oh my God, the house is on fire." You sleep through the smoke.