Top 100 Whitney Quotes
#1. I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.
Lukas Haas
#2. So while we cannot be godly without the practice of the Disciplines, we can practice the Disciplines without being godly if we see them as ends and not means.
Donald S. Whitney
#3. Heart hurting, I stand rigid in his embrace and stare down Whitney. "Considering you've called me Anna Banana-pants since the third grade," I add coolly, "you're either extremely dense or a liar.
Kristen Callihan
#4. People have been kind enough to compare me to Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. I think it's amazing that they even put my name in the same sentence.
Leona Lewis
#5. The more closed your network, the more you hear the same ideas over and again, reaffirming what you already believe, while the more open your network, the more exposed you are to new ideas.
Whitney Johnson
#6. As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. For years, I'd never understood what it meant when people said they felt like laughing and crying at the same time, until now. (...) I was waking up every morning - reaching for her, rolling over in bed at night to pull her closer, but she was never there.
Whitney G.
#8. Emotional Distress (n.): A negative emotional reaction - which may include fear, anger, anxiety, and suffering
Whitney Gracia Williams
#10. I honestly think you're the most insane and infuriating woman I've ever met. I knew from the moment you gave me a tour of my own goddamn apartment that you were a special brand of psycho.
Whitney G.
#11. Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio
David Foster
#12. Yeah, I'm just here for - I stop for a second, because I'm not sure how to finish the line out loud. To see if I can ever be happy, or even remotely human, again. Would you happen to have the magic cure?
Daisy Whitney
#13. Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I participate in those decisions that affect my life and the lives of my children. It means that I am somebody.
Whitney M. Young
#14. We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core.
Without them, we are empty.
Daisy Whitney
#15. I'm here to change things so that little girls have someone to look up to. I'm here to fight the eating-disorder battle that millions of people are having and I'm standing up and saying that's not okay. Frankly, I can't fail. I will not fail.
Whitney Thompson
#16. I got an 'A' in Business Marketing in college!- as if that means a goddamn thing in the real world ...
Whitney Gracia Williams
#17. Things like dating, family, and friends are just so valuable to me and I didn't want to put any strain on any of those relationships and you can see how the cameras around people can make people a little bit loopy. I didn't want to bring that into my life.
Whitney Port
#18. Growing around great musicians, you just can't help it. I identified with it immediately. It was something that was so natural to me that when I started singing, it was almost like speaking.
Whitney Houston
#19. My mom was there to answer the unanswerable, to make sense of the fault in our life - and we got through that somehow; we came out on the other side. Now I'm 0 for 2 and I don't get any more pitches to swing at.
Daisy Whitney
#20. Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
Orson F. Whitney
#21. When a guy writes a scene where a woman does a deviant sex act on camera, it's objectifying. But when a woman writes it, it's feminism.
Whitney Cummings
#22. I've got a good man. He takes care of me. I don't have to be scared of anything because I know he will kick every ass ... disrespect him and you've got a problem.
Whitney Houston
#23. I'd overheard her several times on her lunch breaks, talking about how she wanted to be married before she turned twenty five. She also apparently wanted to be a stay-at-home mom with six kids, and live in a house in the suburbs. In other words, she was completely out of her fucking mind.
Whitney Gracia Williams
#24. I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.
Eli Whitney
#25. I would be a freak with you anytime, anywhere.
Daisy Whitney
#26. You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done.
Meredith Whitney
#27. Mariah and Whitney Houston were my goddesses growing up.
Ariana Grande
#29. Standing up for what's right is a huge burden to bear. It's normal to have some doubt.
Daisy Whitney
#31. I want to be friends with someone who's interested in more than my pussy."
"I'm interested in your mouth too.
Whitney Gracia Williams
#32. You agreed to the terms, but I'm going to re-iterate them in more serious and final words for you. Until this ends, my cock is the only cock you're allowed to have, your mouth belongs to me, and if you're ever wet and in need of pleasure, you'll wait until I'm available to give it to you.
Whitney G.
#33. Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the noon meal at which all local lines of force converge [is] the Bar Room of the Four Seasons.
Raymond Sokolov
#34. I love Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder, Brandi, Sade, Nat King Cole. I like the Beatles. I listen to a lot of that.
Leah LaBelle
#35. Whitney misread my silent horror. "I'm excited, too! And don't worry, I snagged your friend Ella Francis as well. We can all hang together." Emphasized in that clueless way adults speak when trying to sound hip.
Kathy Reichs
#36. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
#37. I loved Michael Jackson and Madonna. I styled my hair like Whitney Houston.
Concha Buika
#38. From matters as crucial as the death of Jesus, to those as mundane as eating and drinking, the Bible presents the glo ry of God as the ultimate priority and the definitive criterion by which we should evaluate everything.
Donald S. Whitney
#39. My mother sang with me in her stomach; I sang with Bobbi Kris in my stomach. I believe the child starts to develop within, and whatever you read, whatever you think, whatever you do affects the child.
Whitney Houston
#40. I have a cotillion event. Some yacht-club charity fundraiser thingy. Whitney is insisting, and Kit took her side." Three wide smiles. "Oh shut up.
Kathy Reichs
#42. A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander
Into regions yet untrod
And read what is still unread
In the manuscripts of God.
Willis R. Whitney
#43. To succeed as a contrarian you must recognize what the crowd believes, have concrete justification for why the majority is wrong, and have the patience and conviction to stick with what is, by definition, an unpopular bet.
Whitney Tilson
#44. When I ducked out, she was talking to Ana Whitney and some Roarke exec about knitting. The three of them were into it like it was their religion.
J.D. Robb
#45. My dad used to take my younger sister Whitney and I to the firing range, and he'd stand behind us as we shot. We were tiny, tiny girls, only about ten years old at the time, so the recoil when we pulled the trigger would send us flying backwards. But he'd stand behind us and make sure we were safe.
Amber Heard
#46. But she never knew what it was like to walk away from the thing she had most wanted. Years later she would say, Photography allowed me to make the world and be in the world.
Whitney Otto
#47. Kate giggled. "Excellent choice."
"I always make excellent choices."
"I don't know about that."
"Of course I do. I picked ye, didn't I?
Whitney K.E.
#48. He leans in closer and puts his lips near my ear. "Do you feel that, Whitney? That spark? That something that pulls at our souls and demands that our bodies get closer?
Amy Hale
#49. The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
Whitney Young
#50. I wanted to be Whitney Houston at first, and when I started taking voice lessons, my voice teacher kind of geared me more towards opera.
Megan Hilty
#51. Life is short, and life is beautiful, and everything is lovely. Love it, embrace it, smell the lilacs, play with the dog, and love endlessly and fiercely with everything you've got. Live without regret.
Daisy Whitney
#52. It was sweaty Whitney (Houston) in Central Park. She knew that park pretty well. Every bush!
Kathy Griffin
#53. The reason we come away so cold from reading the word is because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation.
Donald S. Whitney
#54. My favorite song is Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You' because my brother used to sing it to me as loud as he could. Annoying then, favorite memory now.
Shelley Hennig
#55. Contrary to your unfounded and silly assumptions, I do not have a panty fetish and I do not sleep with them over my face at night. I do, however, have a new fetish for your pussy, and if you're interested in letting me sleep with that over my face at night, feel free to let me know.
Whitney Gracia Williams
#56. Martin Luther expressed God's expectation of prayer this way: "As it is the business of tailors to make clothes and of cobblers to mend shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray."[2]
Donald S. Whitney
#57. She remembered her fingers threaded through his hair and his kisses in places that made her long for him years later.
Whitney Otto
#58. You don't have a baby based on that publicity madness. People don't live like that. Especially black people who were raised in families with morals and standards and integrity.
Whitney Houston
#59. We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.
Whitney M. Young
#60. I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.
Whitney Houston
#61. Money buys things that people with money never even realize they've bought, like time and freedom.
Whitney Otto
Whitney Otto
#62. The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.
Whitney M. Young
#63. Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.
Whitney Houston
#64. The images enhanced, then negated each other. Nothing was fixed. Nothing is any one thing really, and isn't that the beauty of it all?
Whitney Otto
#65. Good evening, America. I'm a woman, and welcome to The Late Late Show.
Whitney Cummings
#66. Then the two of us stood staring at one another. I had no idea what the fuck just happened, and only a part of me liked it. The other half loved it.
Whitney Gracia Williams
#68. There will always be a spiritual light that beckons to us, giving us the hope of rescue and relief.
L. Whitney Clayton
#69. Are your ellipses (...) implying something significant or do you just enjoy abusing grammar for no reason?
Whitney G.
#70. Positive questions bring out the best in people, inspire positive action, and create possibilities for positive futures.
Diana Whitney
#71. I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the 'Comedy Central Roasts' for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.
Whitney Cummings
#72. Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.
William Dwight Whitney
#73. I'm in shock. Whitney was such an amazing artist. When I started my English career, I wanted to be like her. I loved her so much. My prayers go out to her daughter and to all of her family.
Celine Dion
#74. Certain things we cannot accomplish ... by any process of government. We cannot legislate intelligence. We cannot legislate morality. No, and we cannot legislate loyalty, for loyalty is a kind of morality.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
#75. Sometimes you'll laugh
Sometimes you'll cry
Life never tells us, the when's or why's
When you've got friends, to wish you well
You'll find your point when
You will exhale
Whitney Houston
#76. I remember being an art student and going to the Whitney in 1974 to see the exhibition of Jim Nutt, the Chicago imagist. It was then I transferred to school in Chicago, all because of that show.
Jeff Koons
#77. What are you doing?'
If I texted back too soon, he would think I wasn't doing anything and then he would probably try to come over. I watched another episode before texting him again: 'Watching Kim K. shop for a dress. You?'
He texted back: 'Standing outside your door'.
Shit!
Whitney Gracia Williams
#78. Can we expect the flames of our worship of God to burn brightly in public on the Lord's Day when they barely flicker for Him in secret on other days?
Donald S. Whitney
#79. Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
Orson F. Whitney
#80. The God we worship is no respecter of persons, but He is a respecter of men's rights, and a guardian of them-a fact clearly shown in the heaven-inspired Constitution of our country, and in the Gospel itself, which might be termed the Constitution of Eternity.
Orson F. Whitney
#81. I'm the one who's dating the craft-service guy instead of the producer. Plus, if a producer is going to date a hot young thing, I'm probably not the first person on their list - the weird, quirky, funny girl.
Whitney Cummings
#82. I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.
A. Whitney Brown
#83. My lady makes me do it. I sang Whitney Houston's "Bodyguard".
Kevin Hart
#84. The thing about Whitney," I said, "is that she was always really private. So you never knew if anything was wrong with her.
Sarah Dessen
#85. I'm saying that she (Whitney Houston) looks great for a singer ... the way Courtney Love is a singer.
Kathy Griffin
#86. Some wag remarked that the worst dust storm in history would happen if all church members who were neglecting their Bibles dusted them off simultaneously.
Donald S. Whitney
#87. The truly terrible thing about this life, was not knowing what you want, but only able to recognize what you do not want. You have to spend so much time and energy trying to find it out, time that other people spent in pursuing of their desires.
Whitney Otto
#88. I risk a grin at the thought. Because there's a part of me that likes that idea. Get out of town and never look back.
Daisy Whitney
#89. Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.
A. Whitney Brown
#90. An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor,
Eli Whitney
#91. Did you know that when most people get sentenced to prison, they get care packages, money orders, even a phone call on their first day?" She clenched her jaw. "I got divorce papers." "I told you I'd write.
Whitney Gracia Williams
#92. Friends often think it must be fun to be a painter ... When it's going well, it's far more profound than mere fun; when it's not, it's not fun at all. In either event, painting is always deeply fulfilling.
Steven Whitney
#93. Thus no other object on earth is as valuable as the Bible, for nothing else can provide anything as essential or eternal.
Donald S. Whitney
#94. I broke my heart for every gain, to taste the sweet I faced the pain.
Whitney Houston
#95. I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless.
Whitney Young
#96. At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.
Meredith Whitney
#97. 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 never thin enough.
Whitney Cummings
#98. She's my teacher, my adviser, my greatest inspiration.
Whitney Houston
#100. Trains are all the ways you miss each other - wrong train, wrong tracks, wrong time.
Daisy Whitney
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