Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Quotes about whole page 14
Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman
Source: The Bronze Horseman
“The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.”
Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.”
Patrick Rothfuss (1973) American fantasy writer
“The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.”
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer
Source: Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal? (2011), p.38
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
John D. MacDonald (1916–1986) writer from the United States
Travis McGee series, The Deep Blue Good-by (1964)
Source: The Deep Blue Good-By
Context: I am wary of a lot of things, such as plastic credit cards, payroll deductions, insurance programs, retirement benefits, savings accounts, Green Stamps, time clocks, newspapers, mortgages, sermons, miracle fabrics, deodorants, check lists, time payments, political parties, lending libraries, television, actresses, junior chambers of commerce, pageants, progress, and manifest destiny. I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
Source: The speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939
“I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.”
Annie Dillard book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
“To be good, and to do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.”
Abigail Adams (1744–1818) 2nd First Lady of the United States (1797–1801)
Letter to Elizabeth Shaw (1784), quoted in John Adams (2001) by David McCullough, p. 310
Josef Pieper (1904–1997) German philosopher
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, pp. 64–65
Source: Leisure: The Basis Of Culture
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
"The Diamond As Big As The Ritz"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
Jon McGregor book If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
Source: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) South african Nobel-winning writer
Interview with Jannika Hurwitt, published in Paris Review, 88 (Summer 1983) 82–127; reprinted in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Sixth Series (1984) (the interview took place in two parts: fall 1979/spring 1980)
“Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
“I had my whole life planned.. I knew exactly where it was taking me..”
Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants
Source: Water for Elephants
Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
Source: Sexuality and the Psychology of Love
“If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up”
Suzanne Collins book Gregor and the Code of Claw
Source: Gregor and the Code of Claw
Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director
Source: Dona Rosita la soltera
“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.”
Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist
“You oughta be thankful, a whole heaping lot,
For the places and people you're lucky you're not!”
Dr. Seuss book Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?
The last sentence of this statement is often misquoted as "You oughta be thankful, a whole heaping lot, / For the people and places you're lucky you're not!"
Source: Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? (1973)
Context: It’s a troublesome world. All the people who're in it
are troubled with troubles almost every minute.
You oughta be thankful, a whole heaping lot,
For the places and people you're lucky you're not!
“i worried he'd let go, but he didn't. We held hands like this the whole rest of the way home.”
Jenny Han (1980) American writer
Source: It's Not Summer Without You
Rob Sheffield (1966) American music journalist
Variant: I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language.
Source: Love Is a Mix Tape
“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.”
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet
Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye
Ham On Rye (1982)
Source: Ham on Rye
Context: The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves. I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn't understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go.
“Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park.”
Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman
Source: For the Love of the Game: My Story