Whittle Quotes

#1. Yes, I have been forced to whittle down the facts, and to be a liar, but it is not one universe, there are millions, almost as many as the number of human eyes and brains in existence, that awake every morning.

Marcel Proust

#2. He no longer heard Kellhus speak so much as observed him cut and carve, whittle and hew, as though the man had somehow shattered the glass of language and fashioned knives from the pieces.

R. Scott Bakker

#3. No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.

H.L. Mencken

#4. Gentlemen, I give you the Whittle engine.

Frank Whittle

#5. Don't whittle your potential, just because others don't believe in you. The only worthy question is "Do You Believe in You?

Manprit Kaur

#6. Being female was so hard. Always having to rearrange yourself, to pluck yourself and whittle yourself and deprive yourself and inspect yourself in order to feel comfortable in this world.

Laura Kasischke

#7. I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want to do. You don't always whittle down, sometimes you whittle up.

Grace Paley

#8. We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil whoops, as he whooped of old; It's clever, but is it art?

Rudyard Kipling

#9. I think that the older you get, the more you become your true, essential self. You find the things that make you happy. You whittle away the parts of yourself that mean less to you.

Tom Ford

#10. Because the truth is, the world will probably whittle your daughter down. But a mother never should.

Meg Wolitzer

#11. Indeed, as Peter Whittle recounts, during World War II efforts to solve the question so sapped the energies and minds of Allied analysts ... that the suggestion was made that the problem be dropped over Germany, as the ultimate instrument of intellectual sabotage.

Brian Christian

#12. They who trim themselves to suit others will soon whittle themselves away.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#13. He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.

Raymond Hull

#14. Though it is the hardest thing, to work out one's weight and heft in the world, to whittle down all that I am and give it a value.

Anna Funder

#15. Whittle was an amazing chap. Tiny, stubborn, unstoppable - jet-propelled! It's amazing the impact his invention has had upon the world.

Adam Hart-Davis

#16. September 11 Never a trial that He is not there. Never a burden that He does not bear. Never a sorrow that He does not share. Moment by moment I'm under His care. - D.W.Whittle

Maggie Oman Shannon

#17. Not that I was morbidly obese or anything. But I guess I was hanging on the hope that one day I might accidentally whittle down to my inner toothpick.

Adele Griffin

#18. Once, I started listing off all the people that I truly cared about. When I got to number seven, Penelope told me I either needed to whittle down my list or stop making friends immediately. My mother says you should never have more people in your life than you could defend from a hungry rakshasa.

Rainbow Rowell

#19. The novelist's
any writer's
object is to whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, isfatal is when he does not know what he does mean: he has no point to sharpen.

Elizabeth Bowen

#20. Some actors count their lines as soon as they receive a script. I'm the opposite. I try to see how many lines I can whittle down. You can say just as much in 4 as you can in 14.

Glenn Ford

#21. I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.

Sarah Dessen

#22. I like a man who can build things. Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold.

Rachel Bilson

#23. I can change, whittle my square edges to fit in a round hole. God, I hope I'm never going to massacre myself that way.

Sylvia Plath

#24. The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away

Charles Schwab

#25. I have like 250 letters that I have to whittle it down to 150. Only then do you have the whole overview of a book. When it was finally edited, at least my take was, everybody's lying. You know?

Don Novello

#26. Jupiter is so big and its gravitational pull so strong that man would find it difficult to move about on the surface. The answer is to whittle it down to proper size with terrajets and nuclear power, using the debris to increase the size of Jupiter's moons so they, too, can be colonized.

Fritz Zwicky

#27. Well, that's what it was bloody well designed to do, wasn't it?

Frank Whittle

#28. If I start quoting myself, someone shoot me. My people are from Texas, so they'd know what to do.

T.D. Whittle

#29. If you could have a news program without commercials, it would be better. But is a news program with commercials better than no news program at all? My view was, I'll take the one with commercials versus no news program at all.

Chris Whittle

#30. Any idiot can build bombs. Our Trinity sits not on some desert sand seared into glass at an abandoned, sad pillar of stones. It's in our heads and our hearts, it's in our genes, this beautiful, gorgeous marriage of money, freedom and ingenuity.

Bill Whittle

#31. She liked to believe that she might embody a grace and dignity in death that eluded her in life.

T.D. Whittle

#32. I've never used chat-up lines; I don't have the gift of the gab.

Ricky Whittle

#33. I remember what it feels like to come with open hands and heart and I am, again, awed by the Story of in the beginning, water into wine, love held by nails, the veil torn, resurrected life. He is real, more real than anything I will ever see with my eyes, hear with my ears, or touch with my hands.

Lisa Whittle

#34. Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.

Bill Whittle

#35. A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

Frank Whittle

#36. Nothing penetrates the liberal's sense of moral outrage.

Bill Whittle

#37. Joe Biden would probably be running a Denny's if he wasn't Vice President.

Bill Whittle

#38. We can all do something to help end domestic violence. A Real Man would never abuse his partner or children, and I am proud to put my name to the Women's Aid Real Man campaign.

Ricky Whittle

#39. I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.

Ricky Whittle

#40. The best food I've had was actually in catering at 'Single Ladies.' It's insane. I can't live in Atlanta. In fact, even if I'm offered, I'm not sure I could come back for another six months, because I'll just be fat.

Ricky Whittle

#41. If you have something Negative to say, then, say it in a Positive way. Don't set out to hurt people or their careers. We all deserve a fighting chance to succeed at what we do.

Patsy Whittle

#42. I grew up assuming that I would be in public service. I never planned to be in business.

Chris Whittle

#43. The definition of a Racist is anybody winning an argument with a liberal.

Bill Whittle

#44. You tell the big lie by carefully selecting only the small, isolated truths, linking them in such a way that that advance the bigger lie by painting a picture inside the viewer's head. The Ascended High Master of this Dark Art is Noam Chomsky.

Bill Whittle

#45. Government can take your money at gunpoint; businesses have to persuade you.

Bill Whittle

#46. I'm ambitious and I'm determined and I know where I'm going to be. It's not where I want to be, but where I'm going to be.

Ricky Whittle

#47. I had always realized it was desirable to gear down the jet.

Frank Whittle

#48. Civilizations fall because the people inside the Sanctuary throw open the gates.

Bill Whittle

#49. If it's ALL about me, it's NOT about MUCH!

Bill Whittle

#50. Those who say it cannot be done should not get in the way of those doing it.

Richard Whittle

#51. We've gone from looking up at the moon to looking down at Instagram.

Bill Whittle

#52. Liberals want Conservatives to shut up. Conservatives want Liberals to keep talking. Because our arguments make sense and theirs don't

Bill Whittle

#53. I have always thought beach weddings are beautiful. A sunset ceremony with a beautiful sky, white drapes and fire lanterns.

Ricky Whittle