David Whyte Quotes

It is difficult to be creative and enthusiastic about anything for which we do not feel affection.

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• But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Writing
  • Band
  • Learn

• You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Qualities
  • Charismatic
  • Revered

• I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • House
  • Loved
  • Living

• Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Always
  • Look
  • See

• If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Action

• When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.

  

  Bart Gordon
  • Time
  • New
  • Chapter

• Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Believe
  • Him
  • Recognized

• Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Soul
  • Someone
  • Save

• I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Moment

• I'm open to the idea of doing more musicals if it's one that I really enjoy.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Enjoy
  • Idea
  • Doing

• Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Change
  • Day

• I am pure Filipino; both my parents are Filipino.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Parents
  • Filipino

• Primary education was in the first place to teach people to be good people. Only secondary education teaches people to also be useful people.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • People
  • Good
  • Education

• I can create for others.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Create
  • I Can
  • Others

• Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Women
  • Writer
  • Him

• I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Politicians
  • Journalists

• I am just trying to make the best possible case for the animals. That is clearly what I have been put on earth to do. Even after I am gone I will try to continue.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Trying
  • Earth

• Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Life
  • Art
  • Celebration

• The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything. 'You people with hearts,' he said, 'have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful. When Oz gives me a heart of course I needn't mind so much.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • People
  • Great
  • Mind

• It's funny to think that at 22 years old, I was really burned out from being on the road for 10 years.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Funny
  • Road

• I cook. I did the Escoffier course in Paris when I was 21 in one of those periods when it was like a pause. I can cook anything Italian, Chinese.

  

  Marie-Chantal Claire
  • Chinese
  • Paris
  • Italian

• If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am I really? I am the author of The World as Will and Representation, I am the one who has given an answer to the mystery of Being that will occupy the thinkers of future centuries. That is what I am, and who can dispute it in the years of life that still remain for me?

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Author
  • Confusion
  • Mistaken

• It’s just a shame that it had to be played that way.

  

  Bo Ryan
  • Way
  • Played
  • Shame

• It is difficult to be creative and enthusiastic about anything for which we do not feel affection.

  

  David Whyte