Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.
Quotes to Explore
-
I converse with my dog through ESP.
-
I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.
-
When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
-
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
-
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
-
I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
-
I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
-
I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby.
-
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
-
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
-
Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.
-
Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
-
Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
-
I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.
-
I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.
-
It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
-
All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
-
I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.
-
Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.
-
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
-
I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself, and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.
-
Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
-
A reporter once asked me if I ever cried. I wonder if people think I'm just as hard as a rock and have no emotions at all.
-
When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.
