While Quotes

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

Sometimes I take a while to get ready to go out. It's not excessive, but it takes me some time to find clean clothes that match.

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

When we awaken, we cannot account for the time spent. We simply don't remember. About the only evidence we have of experiences while we were asleep is when we happen to remember a dream.

For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it.

But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.

I can't really live outside Jamaica. I can be away, but only for a while.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates.

And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.

While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.

He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there's a lot of production going on. I think that's the key and that's the magic, it's making sure that people could still connect with the lyrics while they're on the dance floor.

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.