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
  • Words
  • You
  • Story

• Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.

  

  Dennis Banks
  • People
  • Time
  • Words

• There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I'm almost 9,000 days down. There are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Your biggest risk isn't failing, it's getting too comfortable. Every day, we're writing a few more words of a story. I wanted my story to be an adventure and that's made all the difference.

  

  Drew Houston
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Words

• I don't believe in very many things, but art is definitely one of them. And at the top of that list, film and art influence our world's culture much more than many of us understand and fully respect.

  

  Megan Ellison
  • World
  • Believe
  • Art

• One of the challenges of buying local advertising is, how do you know if it worked? How do you know if it's got value? We're moving toward an e-commerce experience for local, an Amazon-like experience for local.

  

  Jeremy Stoppelman
  • Experience
  • Moving
  • Value

• There are two ways of reaching the people. One way is to invite them to come to you, the other way is to go to them.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • People
  • Way
  • Two

• 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