Life Quotes

I did some pretty embarrassing modeling, like catalogs and QVC. I know there's probably a stereotype where all pretty girls think they're unattractive, but modeling is the worst thing for your self-esteem, because you're never pretty enough, you're n...

Whitney Cummings

I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn't have ...

Whitney Cummings

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

Whittaker Chambers

A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.

Whittaker Chambers

For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed...

Whittaker Chambers

My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking ...

Whittaker Chambers

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

Whittaker Chambers

In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.

Whittaker Chambers

I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism.

Whittaker Chambers

I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.

Wilhelm Canaris

The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.

Wilkie Collins

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.

Willa Cather

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

Willa Cather

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

Willa Cather

When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.

Willa Cather

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

Willa Cather

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

Willa Cather

People have to understand how important it is for the players to let off steam, switch off and relax.

Will Carling

People complain professional sportsmen are locked away but when they get out and enjoy themselves, people have a go.

Will Carling

It's liberating and rewarding to see your own ideas coming to fruition.

Will Champlin