Noel John Whittaker Quotes

At home we have always regarded the dining table as the prime seat of learning. We planned it so it was impossible to see or hear a TV from the table, and it has paid dividends in the volume of ideas that have been shared over the evening meal.

Noel John Whittaker

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• Meal

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• Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Him
  • Near
  • Unto

• As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • United States
  • Israel
  • Relations

• The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Space
  • Thoughts
  • Encouragement

• I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
  • Know
  • Restaurant

• Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Employment
  • Economists

• I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Time
  • Party

• I just want to do great work: work that inspires people... To know that you are given this gift in life and that you can gift other people with it, that's the most rewarding thing for me.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Want
  • Way
  • Wrong

• Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Best
  • Television
  • Vacation

• The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Different
  • Idea

• He that is rich is wise.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Wise
  • Rich
  • He

• Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Free
  • Peace
  • Environment

• I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, 'That's a huge idea.' Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Fear

• Sittin' in the mornin' sun, I'll be sittin' when the evenin' comes. Watchin' the ships roll in; And I watch 'em roll away again. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, Watchin' the tide roll away. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, Wastin' time.

  

  Otis Redding
  • Time
  • Sun

• I'm glad to know that I can host the 'Today' show for 16 years and not be a trending topic. And all the sudden I'm on 'Royal Pains,' and I'm a trending topic. There's something a little strange about that.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Today

• You're living in a fantasy to think that music can actually change something.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Music

• All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.

  

  Jane Grey
  • Good
  • True
  • Shadow

• 'Switched at Birth' has an amazing cast, including an Oscar winner and two Emmy nominees. The writing is very innovative, and the show's producers have redefined U.S. TV by launching a mainstream show which includes multiple deaf cast members whose characters communicate only in ASL (American Sign Language).

  

  Rachel Shenton
  • American
  • Members
  • Mainstream

• Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

  

  Euripides
  • God
  • Mad
  • Destroy

• There is a point. I don't know what it is, but everything I've had, and everything I've lost, and everything I felt-it meant something. Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living. That's what I've learned. That's what I'm going to be doing from now on. Living. And loving, as sappy as it sounds

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Sound

• Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

  

  John Milton
  • Consequence
  • Tyranny
  • Anarchy

• I don't think, that all my stuff could've been records. Some, maybe. The ones that I really wanted to be records, those are the ones that are going into the box.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Wanted
  • Stuff
  • Records

• At home we have always regarded the dining table as the prime seat of learning. We planned it so it was impossible to see or hear a TV from the table, and it has paid dividends in the volume of ideas that have been shared over the evening meal.

  

  Noel John Whittaker
  • Learning
  • Ideas
  • Table