David Whyte Quotes

We're moving toward the kind of work world which has less security. But we hope it has more creativity and possibility of real engagement.

David Whyte

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkHopeCreativityMovingWorld

I have a sweet tooth the size of Connecticut. It's a problem.

Jennifer Nettles

SweetProblemSizeSweet ToothTooth

On college campuses, in newsrooms, and now in the highest corridors of power, with Barack Obama in the Oval Office, the politically correct Left is wielding its weaponry with the confidence that it can take down any group, anyone, or anything.

Andrew Breitbart

ConfidencePowerCollegeDownGroup

My stated goal as a filmmaker is to feel something. Is to have a palpable emotion in my life, carry it through the gauntlet of the filmmaking process and try and have it land for an audience at some point during the viewing experience. That to me is successful filmmaking.

Jeff Nichols

LifeExperienceMeMy LifeGoal

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

Townsend Harris

WarDangerousPresidentMoreUnited

Light doesn't penetrate beneath the surface of the water, so ocean creatures like whales and dolphins and even 800 species of fish communicate by sound. And a North Atlantic right whale can transmit across hundreds of miles.

Rose George

LightWaterOceanFishSoundRight

We will welcome them with bullets and shoes.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

ShoesWelcomeWillBulletsThem

I'm from Jersey, so I have a love of T.G.I. Friday's and chain restaurants in general. When you go to a Friday's, it seems like everyone's on ecstasy and way too happy anyway.

Lorene Scafaria

LoveHappyFridayYouGoWay

We're basically this very young species, only 200,000 years old. We're one of the newcomers, and we're going through the same process that other species go through, which is, how do I keep myself alive while taking care of the place that's going to keep my offspring alive?

Janine Benyus

MyselfCareProcessPlaceGoYoung

As for my studies in school, I was a solid student. I was strong in English and Latin, but I got lost anytime the subject included math. I wish I had paid more attention to biology and science in general, subjects that came to interest me as an adult. I could have gotten better marks, but I never took a book home, never did homework.

Dick Van Dyke

HomeScienceSchoolMeBookBetter

If you're going to break the rules, you have to live with the consequences.

Brandon Webb

LiveYouConsequencesRulesBreak

I'm always going to try to win with a positive mindset.

Brock Osweiler

PositiveWinMindsetTryAlways

When I came to the last line of 'Car Crash While Hitchhiking,' I read it as a pitiless statement of indifference: a refusal to warn the family of their impending collision, a refusal to help when miraculously spared, a refusal to act on the empathy hiding behind the story's language.

Anthony Marra

FamilyCarEmpathyStoryLanguage

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