William Whipple Quotes

I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.

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• When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Up
  • Country
  • American

• Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Character
  • Genes

• Produce great men, the rest follows.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • Men
  • Rest

• It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Team
  • Play
  • Church

• My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • School
  • Library
  • Grandmother

• We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Myself
  • Intellectual
  • Were

• The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Different
  • First
  • Elected

• Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Children
  • Help

• If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Moving Forward

• Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Day
  • Taken
  • Boy

• Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Why
  • She
  • Bad

• My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Dad
  • College
  • Paid

• God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Importance
  • Supreme

• There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • Better
  • Famous

• I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • People
  • Dance
  • Thought

• A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Different
  • Think
  • Want

• The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Experiences

• Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

  

  Kyle Kinane
  • Real
  • True

• I’m still spry, but I feel the teeth gnawing, and believe me, my friends, it was better to be young.

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Believe
  • Friends

• So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Music
  • Long
  • Meaning

• I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Men
  • Long
  • Government

• The dynamic character of China's nonstatist economic transformation, including its social openness to the rest of the world, is not mutually compatible in the long run with a relatively closed and bureaucratically rigid Communist dictatorship.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Long
  • Character

• I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.

  

  William Whipple
  • Long
  • Sorry
  • Gentleman