David Whyte Quotes

If you've given away a sense of your own destiny, you need enormous amounts of hierarchy and protection within the structure to make up for what you've given away.

David Whyte

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: 1955

Topics

DestinyYouStructureNeedWithin

New York is in my DNA.

Joe Lhota

New YorkNewDNAYork

To me, creative work is labor, like any other kind of labor. It's got value, and it takes your time, and it's useful to people, depending.

John Darnielle

WorkTimeCreativeValuePeopleMe

We only had a couple of ways for people to hate us on 'X-Files,' including still writing actual fan letters. Now people can instantly tell you, 'Oh my God, I love you,' or 'Oh my God, you are the worst person on the planet.' They actually had to hate you enough or love you enough to write a letter, put a stamp on it and send it.

Jeffrey Bell

LoveGodI Love YouHatePeopleYou

I don't want plastic surgery or fillers or Botox.

Sofia Vergara

WantPlasticPlastic SurgeryBotox

Probably 99 percent of Nuba are subsistence farmers. They have maybe two or three cattle, a few goats. Now there are food shortages, so they're very thin. But traditionally, they are very strong and muscular. They grow sorghum, okra, a bit of corn, some peanuts. If they need money, they'll sell one of their animals or sell some sorghum.

Tom Catena

FoodMoneyStrongGrowNowThree

When the real world intrudes on your musical fantasies, I get put out.

Ry Cooder

WorldRealOutGetReal WorldYour

There are two types of companies in the world: those that know they've been hacked, and those that don't.

Misha Glenny

WorldKnowTwoBeenThoseCompanies

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.

Brian De Palma

InformationBecomeBecauseOurVery

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

GovernmentOpinionBadLittleWhere

I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall.

William Petersen

BadWallListenYearsUpAgainst

You can't stop traffic on Times Square.

Sydney Pollack

YouStopTrafficTimes SquareSquare

The Congress is a power-oriented party.

Sharad Pawar

PartyCongress

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