The Whole Quotes

Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology of its own, and no ingenuity will combine all these into a single whole.

I write songs like "The Sweetest Love." Of course I'm a little cheesy. Love is cheesy. Love is corny. But it's also the greatest feeling in the whole world.

Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.

Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful.

Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.

People don't paint for the hell of it. It's a deeply seated thing - a preoccupation - the whole of one's life.

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.

They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me.

Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is the possibility that they will not matter.

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

O God, for as much as without Thee We are not enabled to doubt Thee, Help us all by Thy grace To convince the whole race It knows nothing whatever about Thee.

I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends.

I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it.

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

I'd like to hear them be a bit more creative, though. I've heard 'you're a sieve, you stink' my whole life and you can tell it's obviously affected me.

Only, as long as we're going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value.

I've always been a strong feminist and felt that the image of models was detrimental to women. That whole thing really bothered me. I would think about quitting about once a week.

I can't spend my whole day talking to people.

I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.

The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.

Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.

I always drew dresses. I remember loving Richard Avedon's early Versace campaigns. I used to plaster my whole walls with them when I was a kid.

I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.

Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking.

I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.

I'm young. I'm pretty. And I'm willing to burn the whole world to the ground to get what I want.

I think that the best rock n' roll is about the spirit of being young, the feeling of being 16 and getting crazy with your friends and going out to a show and just that whole feeling.

I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.

I was an actor in Japan and I'm a regular on about three shows. I'm grateful for all of it. My personal activities like that help Big Bang as a whole as well.

The wickets I have played on for my whole career, most of them have been to suit fast bowlers in Australia.

Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

We need prefab housing, we need to repair what can be repaired. We have appealed to the whole world to ship tents and blankets to Pakistan.

I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.

The only times that we can have what we long for are those moments when we stop grasping for it. At such times, all things are possible: "to a mind that is 'still' the whole universe surrenders".

I used to dirt bike a lot. I can't do that anymore. Can't eat a whole lot of chocolate anymore, either. I can't be in 'Indiana Jones' and be a fatso!

When I have a child, it will be probably become my whole life, so I don't want to have any regrets that I should have done more.

In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide.

That was the whole point in forming a band. Girls. Absolutely gorgeous girls

You know, sometimes I swear the whole universe runs on irony.

A good leader shares information, even if they don't know the whole story. Without any information, people create their own, which causes fear and paranoia.

A vicious teacher is just a vicious teacher, as a vicious neighbor may happen to be. But a vicious mother - means that the whole world is vicious.

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent.

What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.

It [winning Oscar] is the most important event in the career of an actor, an extraordinary moment, beautiful. Some people live their whole life just to win an Oscar.

It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole.

A Presence is in control of the whole Universe. You just do your part and relax!