Top 29 Whitelaw Quotes
#1. I expect you (William Whitelaw) were as impressed as I was to read of the recent electrocution in Florida of a character called John Spenkelink in the electric chair. It seems that a full six minutes passed before Spenkelink was dead, during which time he hopped about like a prawn on a hot plate.
William Donaldson
#2. I don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy.
Margaret Thatcher
#3. Look, there's more to this than either of us thought." Finch waited for her to continue. He knew the pattern: whenever she had new information, she needed to assess what part she could reveal to him. He realized she needed another prod. "Jennie, I didn't have to tell you about the Whitelaw's
D.F. Bailey
#4. Dreaming is good. But working to make those dreams come true is even better.
Joel L.
#5. When you get real stage fright, it comes like a sledgehammer out of the blue in the middle of something that you know you've done too many times before, and there's no rhyme or reason for it. It's something quite different from being nervous. It's almost paralysing.
Billie Whitelaw
#6. Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one.
William Least Heat-Moon
#9. When you believe your lie, it will curse your life forever.
Robert Ahaness
#10. That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
Joseph Barbera
#12. It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
William Whitelaw
#13. I very often wake up at two in the morning with my stomach going over. Sometimes it's difficult to work out why - it's all the things you've put to one side during the day.
Billie Whitelaw
#14. I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.
William Whitelaw
#15. The drum is surely the lord of music, is it not?
Xunzi
#17. It is not optimism, Daniel Jackson, merely the refusal to fail.
Sonny Whitelaw
#18. Quite honestly, most of us don't live in a world with perfect loam.
Mark Whitelaw
#19. I do talk a lot - far more than my husband - but I'm not good at talking to a lot of people. I either talk a lot of rubbish - which I'm sure I do a lot of the time anyway - or I stare at the soup. I'm no good at social presentation.
Billie Whitelaw
#20. Steve McQueen was the guy who said less, and everything was all behind his words and what he didn't say, and you still felt emotionally connected and rooted behind him.
George Tillman Jr.
#23. Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.
William Whitelaw
#24. Wherever her feet pass, white flowers part the grass.
L.J.Smith
#25. The day when we shall know exactly what electricity is will chronicle an event probably greater, more important than any other recorded in the history of the human race. The time will come when the comfort, the very existence, perhaps, of man will depend upon that wonderful agent.
Nikola Tesla
#26. I've never been a career builder. I didn't go to drama school and hardly went to any school at all.
Billie Whitelaw
#27. I said to my agent, 'I want short, sharp, well-paid jobs because I haven't got time for anything else.'
Billie Whitelaw
#28. Death's not one of those things that frighten the life out of me. Getting up on stage with the curtain going up frightens me more.
Billie Whitelaw
#29. For the khan, we will take their cities, their women, and their lands. This is the great raid, the farthest strike in the history of the nation of Genghis. We will not be stopped.
Conn Iggulden
