David Whyte Quotes

Questions that have no right to go away are those that have to do with the person we are about to become; they are conversations that will happen with or without our conscious participation.

David Whyte

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• It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Art
  • Speak
  • Voice

• All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Friends
  • Today
  • Nice

• If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Good
  • Television
  • Too Much

• I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Fighting
  • Mental Illness

• I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Never
  • Even

• Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • You
  • Gold
  • Decisions

• Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Truth Is

• You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Long
  • Support
  • Passion

• It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Important
  • Think
  • Me

• Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Think
  • Well
  • Did

• I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Money
  • Commercial
  • Hobby

• I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • Find
  • Lazy
  • Theater

• Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Different
  • Book
  • Success

• Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Beautiful

• I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Home
  • Worry
  • New Years

• The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Three

• The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Unity

• I remember when my first child was born, and I had a script that was due, and I asked the guy I was writing it for, a guy who I'm now friends with but at the time was not friend with, 'Can I have some extra time? I had a kid born.' He's like, 'No, we need it now.'

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Friends

• The first Disney movie I saw I think was 'Snow White.' I loved all the Disney princess movies.

  

  Lily James
  • Movie
  • Snow
  • Disney

• We've got horse property and there's other stuff to do. Like, four wheel driving, we barbeque, drink beers, sit around and play guitars and have a merry 'ol time.

  

  Lita Ford
  • Time
  • Horse
  • Driving

• I am attracting a new audience now, one that is more open and more spiritually inclined.

  

  Kenny Loggins

• Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too imaginatively walk down those paths - paths of longing, paths of hope, paths of desperation.

  

  Arthur Kleinman
  • Listening
  • Stories
  • Telling

• More than 1 million U.S. citizens live in Mexico, and my country remains the largest source of immigrants to the United States.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Live
  • Country

• Questions that have no right to go away are those that have to do with the person we are about to become; they are conversations that will happen with or without our conscious participation.

  

  David Whyte