While Quotes

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination.

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.

I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy.

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.

I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.

While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease.

I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.

It's funny, because I'm a man of strong opinions and when I make one, I stand by it even if it starts to appear incorrect to me after a while.

While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.

I mean, you know, God knows everything, but I'm not quite that good. Every once in a while, something will slip by me.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.

I just like to do covers, every once in a while. If someone pays me to go into the studio, I'll do it.

It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs.

The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction.

After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

Everything is dead while it lives.

I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got to treat them with love.

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.