Quotes of: The-who Keyword

The only people who do plays in LA are people who can't get jobs in TV shows.

William H. Macy

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

William Lyon Phelps

For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.

Yotam Ottolenghi

He who steals a belt buckle pays with his life; he who steals a state gets to be a feudal lord.

Zhuangzi

I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.

Harvey Pekar

You have to really work with someone who you think is going to be a collaborator, who you think understands what you want to do with this movie and how you want to do it.

John Frankenheimer

Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?

Judy Holliday

There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.

Michael Steele

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

Russell M. Nelson

So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.

Olympia Dukakis

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

Paddy Chayefsky

You don’t hunt something that you can live with, you idiot. You can’t have a challenge for a lifetime, it’ll drain you out. You’ll be dead before you even know it. Someone you go all those miles for, someone you change your own skin for, some...

The Cashmere Scarf

We would also have to say goodbye to the joy of watching this next generation soak up the massive quantities of love their grandmother would have given them, and seeing them learn that there was someone in the world who loved them as much as their pa...

The End of Your Life Book Club

The problem is that you are too much in love. You are here because your parents mentioned your name to someone who mentioned your parents' name to someone who mentioned your name to my superior who suggested that I might find a position for you. And ...

The Emperor of Paris

ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met ...

Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

And it is then, when The Cause, with its greedy mouth, tries to take more from you, tries to take that part of you that you cannot give away, it is only then that you realize all of your sacrifices have been for nothing. You have given yourself to a ...

Fractured

Who told you you couldn't come back when you're grown? Was it the same person who told you grown-ups don't cry or blush or clap their hands when they're happy? Don't try to say otherwise, I've seen you fighting like a boxer to change your face so tha...

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

...the secret of the Great Stories is that they no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They d...

The God of Small Things

All wars are sacred,to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn’t make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight? But, no matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble pur...

Gone with the Wind

Mostly we think of people with great authority as higher up, far away, hard to reach. But spiritual authority comes from compassion and emerges from deep inner solidarity with those who are 'subject' to authority. The one who is fully like us, who de...

Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith

With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down and read every word. Because one important thing that can be learned by reading slowly is the seemingly obvious but oddly underappreciat...

Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them