The Whole Quotes

I'm afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I've got a whole cemetery full of them.

A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.

I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

I wonder if there's such a thing as a spiritual dentist? I think my whole personality is full of cavities!

My first place in Nashville was like Animal House. The whole band lived under one roof, and most nights the jam sessions ended close to sunrise.

As the writer you are the puppet-master and can control everything. Believe me, that is a whole lot of fun because it ain't something that's going to be happening very often in real life!

What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?

Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand.

In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.

I took out a whole fireplace and put in broken glass and installed a burner underneath, so it looks like fire on ice. I did that in my bedroom suite. I'm pretty handy.

I don't find the whole cougar word that offensive.

I've been running my whole life. Running into bars, running around the world. But when you have a child, you can't run. That was a revelation.

For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?

There's a small group of guys in hip-hop that really have money. The whole culture talks about money, but it's a small group that actually has it.

[My mother] worked in the Seagram's Building; it's kind of an iconic '60s skyscraper on a floor so high that your ears popped. And all the women - the whole thing was so very Mad Men, very glamorous.

I can love the whole world except my neighbor.

My weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.

We must have a pure, honest, and warm-hearted motivation, and on top of that, determination, optimism, hope, and the ability not to be discouraged. The whole of humanity depends on this motivation.

We see that the soul is the deepest and the most vital part of the person as a whole. It is often treated as the person, and we actually do this when we talk about "saving our soul."

The whole Gorillaz concept is one for mavericks; it's a way for people who never have a chance to work together being able to ally behind the cartoons.

You can't just look at the side of something that you want to see. You have to look at the whole round object and understand that there are parts of it that you don't like.

My whole approach to marriage is simple: my wife will do something that drives me insane, I won't say anything, and then, later, I'll die of cancer.

As Global Warming raises temparatures, it takes longer to cool pies on window sills, and I wonder if this whole thing was caused by hobos.

The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.

There is something about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world.

Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole.

We live in a climate of fear, and because of this whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion.

The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.

The purpose of the whole [the Comedy] and of this portion [the Paradiso] is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness.

I read the whole Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. They don't take long.

I think O.J. protests too much. Not only did he say he didn't carve the holiday turkey, but he was in the back yard practicing his golf swing the whole time.

I do not go outdoors. Not more than I have to. As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

Perhaps the whole world is actually a banquet, to which every living thing is invited. First you come as guests: then eventually you're on the menu.

I have my whole office set-up at waist level; I don't sit at all during the day. Sitting, to me, is the devil.

I would like to have windshield wipers that do the whole windshield, please.

The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.

I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person.

I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.

If this whole writing thing doesn't work out, I'll be getting right back on the pole.

Every Christian must be fully Christian by bringing God into his whole life, not merely into some spiritual realm.

There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.

They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me.

The land of opportunity spawned a whole new breed of men without souls.

I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie.

I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like this inspire kids to write, or even read a whole book, I think it's good.

It is time to show the whole world that America is back, bigger and better and stronger than ever before!

This whole generation of parents - I'm guilty of it too - does too much for their kids.

The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons.

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.