Entirely Quotes

My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.

In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

It was improv that really helped me start coming up with recipes and just believe in my instincts. That's why the first recipe I made up was 'I Ain't Chicken Chicken' because I finally felt bold and fearless in the kitchen, which was an entirely new feeling for me.

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world.

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

I've learned that I work best when I'm entirely naked. The recording process was done that way.

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it.

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

My dear, since Eve picked the apple no woman's ever been taken entirely unawares. When a woman's kissed it's because, deep down, she wants to be kissed.

If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control.

For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.

I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.

I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.

Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.