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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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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.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
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In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.
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Design is the Zeppo Marx of management disciplines - the one that everyone seems to forget.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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A vase of unbaked clay, when broken, may be remoulded, but not a baked one.
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Housing is a social issue: how we live and where we live.
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Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.
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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
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I think that we could be more careful about what we're saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It's unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look.
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Race is the true protagonist of the American novel. Our most popular classic fictions have known this, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Beloved;' all these books take on race or talk it out, often in other forms; they are less 'horror stories for boys' than ghost stories from a haunted conscience.
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I'm an independent woman and a feminist.
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I've been in dance schools since I was four. I went to the Brit school. I did adverts and plays.
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'Junkhearts' is a great story.
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I've been a voice for many people.
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I never collected cars as a financial thing; I wanted to go racing, so I chose the cars I wanted to go racing with. Like the Ferrari 250 GTO. I bought it because it absolutely fulfilled everything I wanted from a car.
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Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.
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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.
