Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

Kind words not only lift our spirits in the moment they are given, but they can linger with us over the years.

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• An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Me
  • Audience
  • Actor

• If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Words
  • Faith
  • End

• You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I'm interested in. I can't imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as 'Words With Friends' and 'Doom.'

  

  Gail Collins
  • Friends
  • Words
  • College

• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Life
  • Game
  • Words

• I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Music
  • Together

• What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • God
  • Country

• The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Death
  • Man
  • Words

• It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Good
  • Important
  • Words

• Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Great
  • Man
  • Words

• I guess I was just meant to be a secretary who doesn't take shorthand. I'm a lousy typist, too - 33 words a minute.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Words
  • Just
  • Meant To Be

• You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Want
  • Words
  • Know

• To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Bad
  • Words
  • Hate

• A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
  • Music
  • Words

• The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Words
  • Language
  • Beliefs

• I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • People
  • Believe
  • Think

• My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Dream
  • Words
  • Dad

• I like getting 'Times' articles online. But the actual paper just has too many words.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Words
  • Like
  • Paper

• Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.

  

  Ira Glass
  • You
  • Words
  • Story

• One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.

  

  James E. Gunn
  • Up
  • Good
  • Words

• What sentence shall be given on mine? Of man, As ill or well God means me, well or ill Shall judgment pass upon me : but of God, If God himself be righteous or be God, Who being unrighteous were but god of hell, The sentence given shall judge me just...

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • God
  • Judge

• When it comes to shoes, I always think Charlotte Olympia, of course! Her footwear is always feminine and sexy and also just right for every occasion.

  

  Alice Temperley
  • Shoes
  • Sexy

• That would be a good public service announcement for Nickelodeon: 'Hi, this is Bob Saget. Don't fuck that shit. Stay in school. And read!'

  

  Bob Saget
  • Good
  • School
  • Service

• Kind words not only lift our spirits in the moment they are given, but they can linger with us over the years.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Words