William Wharton Quotes

Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is they'll listen to you just so you'll have to listen to them.

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• When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Up
  • Time
  • Money

• If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Time
  • May
  • Day

• I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

  

  Sally Field
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Fighting

• One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Better
  • Laugh

• My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.

  

  Yuna
  • Home
  • Attached
  • Malaysia

• I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • School
  • High
  • Think

• Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Word
  • Ownership
  • Possessions

• I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.

  

  Young Thug
  • Want
  • Forever
  • Rap

• Scotland is the Canada of England!

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • England
  • Canada
  • Scotland

• In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • American
  • Percent
  • Fertility

• Design is the Zeppo Marx of management disciplines - the one that everyone seems to forget.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Design
  • Forget
  • Management

• Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Like
  • Prince
  • Beatles

• The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in front of strangers in the course of their work. Actors do.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Work
  • Community
  • Strangers

• A vase of unbaked clay, when broken, may be remoulded, but not a baked one.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • May
  • Broken

• But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Together
  • Fire

• Housing is a social issue: how we live and where we live.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Live

• It's not easy to date when you're hefty. Besides I like feeling thin because it makes me feel amorous.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Feeling

• Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.

  

  Alexander Wang
  • Important
  • Rest
  • Understanding

• The indisputable fact is that nutritional science is the most powerful weapon available to win the war on cancer.

  

  Joel Fuhrman
  • War
  • Science
  • Powerful

• It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with every draught in the house; people brought it home on their shoes, they breathed it in off their newspapers. There was no way to control it.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Women
  • Home

• I wept that all must die -'Yet Love,' I cried, 'doth live, and conquer death -'And Time passed by,And breathed on Love, and killed it with his breathEre Death was nigh.More bitter far than allIt was to know that Love could change and die -Hush! for the ages call'The Love of God lives through eternity,And conquers all!'

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • Time
  • God
  • Live

• When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

  

  David Starr Jordan
  • Dog
  • Moon

• Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is they'll listen to you just so you'll have to listen to them.

  

  William Wharton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Listen