Whatever Quotes

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

For whatever reason I tend to get roles that are more damaged.

I think that you can take things personally or get hurt feelings as a result of something not working out just because your psyche said it should or you deserve it, or whatever it is.

If you're in the White House, it's your house, and you can invite whatever friend you want.

I definitely wanted to be an actor. I didn't want to be on TV, I didn't want to be famous, I didn't want to be anyone in particular; I just wanted to do it. I see young people now who look at magazines, or American Idol and their goal is to have that lifestyle - to have good handbags, or go out with cute guys from shows, or whatever. But I definitely wanted to be an actor.

Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile.

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places.

When you're a guy and meet a girl the first time, you do whatever it takes.

The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.

For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift.

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

There are pitfalls in World Cups, there are players who can win penalties and players who get the slightest touch and go down holding their face or whatever and get someone sent off. There are all these little things and you're hoping that you're not on the wrong end of it.

Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.

I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

I almost feel like I'm unoffendable now. I can roll with whatever.

Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the relations of this country to Spain offer no ties of gratitude or of blood.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University.

When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus.

When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.

Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television.