John Whiting Quotes

We did not take into consideration how the community felt about P.S. Jones. Since, ... I've had time to reconsider.

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• I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.

  

  Imelda May
  • Style
  • Colour
  • Grey

• I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Trying
  • Book

• We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Think
  • Want
  • Cloud

• You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Money
  • Power
  • Story

• I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Work
  • Done
  • Morning

• I decided to start acting in my mid-twenties. I studied pre-med, and I have a bachelor's degree in Biology, so when I decided to pursue a different career, I got a lot of, 'What on earth are you doing?' But, I gave myself a year and thought, 'You know what, I'm going to just beat the odds.'

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Different
  • Career
  • Earth

• The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Food
  • Water
  • Cooking

• I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Work
  • Know
  • Day

• We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Up
  • Women
  • She

• The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • History
  • Man
  • Present

• When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Long
  • Health
  • Day

• That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

  

  Galway Kinnell
  • Poetry
  • Understand
  • Profound

• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Spring
  • Landscape
  • Awakening

• Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Family
  • Man

• I am happy in Paris.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Happy
  • Paris

• You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Game
  • You
  • Alert

• The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Faith
  • Day
  • Responsibility

• Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways.

  

  Jonathan Galassi
  • Life

• We are all immersed in the atmosphere of our own thinking, which is the direct result of all we have ever said, thought or done. This decides what is to take place in our lives.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Lives
  • Atmosphere
  • Direct

• I think women bring a different perspective and that we tend to be more collaborative in our approach. I served in the Iowa Senate back in the '90s, when there weren't a lot of us. At the time, I think there were five or six women, and two or three of them were Republicans and two or three were Democrats.

  

  Patty Judge
  • Time
  • Different
  • Women

• Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Speak
  • Situation
  • Uncomfortable

• We did not take into consideration how the community felt about P.S. Jones. Since, ... I've had time to reconsider.

  

  John Whiting
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