William Wharton Quotes

People can't fly because they don't believe they can. If nobody ever showed people they could swim, everybody'd drown if they were dropped into the water.

William Wharton

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• Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Painting
  • Kitchen
  • Busy

• I talk every day about doing the right thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Day
  • Doing The Right Thing

• He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Sports
  • Golf
  • Sound

• Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!

  

  Candice Olson
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Girl

• I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Artist
  • First
  • Portrait

• People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Personality
  • Smiling

• I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Time
  • School
  • Model

• When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Pretty
  • Space
  • Walk

• You who speak languages, you are such liars.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • You
  • Speak
  • Liars

• You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • You
  • Times
  • Become

• These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • You
  • Know
  • Fifties

• The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Important
  • Marriage
  • Expectation

• There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.

  

  Najib Razak
  • People
  • Good
  • Progress

• The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Acting
  • Part
  • Hardest

• I'm very excited to have a girl.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Girl
  • Very
  • Excited

• Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Great
  • Succeed
  • Founders

• It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just more sensitive, and there's a burden to that.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Great
  • Human
  • Better

• I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Creativity

• Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Up
  • Man

• When John Lennon sings, 'Oh, my love/For the first time in my life/My eyes are wide open' - these songs have an intimacy for me that's not just between people, I realize now, not just sexual intimacy. A spiritual intimacy.

  

  Bono U2
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• There's a direct link between percentage of young people that are educated and how we live our lives.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • People
  • Live

• A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains. We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration of standing closer to mysterious skies, for the feeling of triumph that comes from having labored to reach a summit.

  

  Earl Hamner, Jr.
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Beauty

• People can't fly because they don't believe they can. If nobody ever showed people they could swim, everybody'd drown if they were dropped into the water.

  

  William Wharton
  • People
  • Fly
  • Swim