While Quotes

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.

Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

I kind of realized I could sing, so I played around with that for a while. And that led me to acting in itself, which I came more passionate about by the age of 15.

I love how the men stand around cooking the barbie while the women have done all the work beforehand doing the marinade and making the salads and then everybody says, 'what a great barbie' to the guy cooking. A barbecue is just the ultimate blokes' pastime, isn't it?

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

I flew back and forth and did episodes of Roseanne while I was at Yale.

While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.

I've done a lot of collaboration over the years, but right now I'm enjoying writing by myself and just being me again for a while.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program.

That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law.

Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.

While Slovakia did not make the first round of NATO membership, as various requirements and reforms are instituted, these actions will enhance the opportunities to join NATO.

The planet's spinning a thousand miles an hour around this gigantic nuclear explosion while these people roll these machines with rubber tires over this hard surface that we've laid down over the planet so that we can easily move ourselves back and forth.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence.

While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way.

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

Talking to other people while you're cooking, it doesn't come naturally.

I sit every once in a while and I think about plays and films I can do with William Petersen into our eighties. He's the most incredible scene partner I've ever had.

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.