While Quotes

I got to have a TV show that really was the talk of the nation for a while there. So I'm a very lucky guy.

While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better.

Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.

He gave us the lakes for our Northern boundary, and the rivers stretching to the seas upon whose waters floats our commerce to the nations of the world; while man has done all that can be done by science to bind us together.

While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent.

So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

You got to get it while you can.

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.

Me and my partners had been stealing cars for a while.

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.

After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.

Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written.

Denzel has been that leading man, but it took him a while to get to Training Day and Hurricane Carter.

I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good voice. I don't think that for a while I did. Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

I'd better make hay while the sun shines.

While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave 'em a bit of thigh.

Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good.

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.