William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw Quotes
It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
Quotes to Explore
-
People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
-
All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
-
I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
-
Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
-
The devil made me do it.
-
I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
-
As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
-
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
-
Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
-
The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.
-
Some people may have their doubts about me. But I feel like there's no shot too hard for me to take.
-
I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
-
My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.
-
My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
-
Ay me, how many perils doe enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall!
-
I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
-
The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.
-
Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. 'No artist tolerates reality,' says Nietzsche.
-
The whole Hollywood nightlife thing cracks me up. I can't work and do that stuff.
-
You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
-
I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.
-
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
-
I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.
-
It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
