Willis R. Whitney Quotes

A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander Into regions yet untrod And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.

Willis R. Whitney

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• I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Character

• I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Think
  • Law

• Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Culture
  • Movies
  • Big

• Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Trouble
  • Individual
  • Last

• I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

  

  Rachel Field
  • May
  • Think
  • Ambition

• I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Work
  • Lucky
  • Everyone

• At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • Attention
  • College
  • Same

• I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • School
  • Home
  • Workout

• Have a little faith. Don't give up.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Up
  • Faith
  • Give

• That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Why
  • Team
  • Sports

• I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Compassion
  • Ugly

• I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Why
  • Simple

• I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.

  

  Raekwon
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Taste

• The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Society
  • Opportunities

• I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Time
  • Work
  • Success

• That Lana Del Rey is quite cute, isn't she? I quite like her.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Cute
  • Lana Del Rey

• It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • People
  • Different
  • Beautiful

• By being friends with all, we are not alone.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Friends
  • Alone
  • Being

• Form follows beauty.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Beauty
  • Form
  • Follows

• The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Success
  • Measure
  • Experiments

• I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• I'll find places to grab as I walk and talk, sometimes even walking backwards because I have more control that way. People have no idea that I'm doing this.

  

  Montel Williams
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Walking

• It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age'; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Age
  • Chance
  • Human Beings

• A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander Into regions yet untrod And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.

  

  Willis R. Whitney
  • Science
  • Wander
  • Persistent