Whalley Quotes & Sayings

To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different. — Johnny Rich

I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar. — Joan Jett

Ctrl + 1" (hold down the Ctrl key and press the number 1). This will zoom the image to 100% magnification and pressing "Ctrl + 0" zooms out to fit the image to the screen. — Robin Whalley

Our ancestors lived in groups of no more than a few hundred people, and those on the other side of a river or mountain range might as well have been living in a separate world. We developed ethical principles to help us to deal with problems within our community, not to help those outside it. The harms that it was considered wrong to cause were generally clear and well defined. We developed inhibitions against, and emotional responses to, such actions, and these instinctive or emotional reactions still form the basis for much of our moral thinking. — Peter Singer

I like the encouragement I get from doing new things. I like to feel scared or challenged in the hope that I can pull it off. That little bit of fear creates an energy that I can channel into the performance. — Joanne Whalley

Kids have been a great clarifier - incredibly rewarding. — Joanne Whalley

That's what acting is about - for me, at least - tackling different personas and characters. — Joanne Whalley

The worst thing for an actor is to be stuck in one kind of thing. But if you're not in people's faces all the time, you can lose traction. And that affects the choice of things you get offered. — Joanne Whalley

Ryan shrugged. 'Maybe. Come on, break a smile and introduce yourself. I don't bite.'

'Stay out of my way,' she said, and before she could turn around, Ryan grabbed her arm.

She flashed him a murderous look.

'Are you tough, Stay Out Of My Way?' he said airily. — Deepika Kumaaraguru

Education is stimulates self discovery. — Lailah Gifty Akita

But come, hear my words, for truly learning causes the mind to grow. For as I said before in declaring the ends of my words: Twofold is the truth I shall speak; for at one time there grew to be the one alone out of many, and at another time it separated so that there were many out of the one; fire and water and earth and boundless height of air, and baneful Strife apart from these, balancing each of them, and Love among them, their equal in length and breadth. — Empedocles

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. — Theodore Roosevelt

....young people unskilled in mathematics, addled by credit cards, and weaned on so-called intelligent design...will somehow retool American science for another generation of world industrial leadership. — Kevin Phillips

Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere! — Joe Lovano

Established actors will challenge you if they don't agree with the way you are taking it, and you have to argue it. But with a younger cast, they are more likely to wonder whether what they are doing is okay instead of trying to second guess the director. That helps push you. — Lenny Abrahamson

What do we get for our trouble and pain?
Just a rented room in Whalley Range. — Morrissey

I don't remember sitting down and saying, 'This is why I want to be - an actress.' I just knew. It was never a conscious decision or a revelation. — Joanne Whalley

When your mother doesn't want to have the sex talk with you any more but instead wants to talk about the possibility that you might have sex on her soft furnishings, it's a watershed moment in any girl's life. I know I'll remember it fondly for many years to come. — Sarra Manning

Free your mind... and your ass will follow. — George Clinton

The only way to improve is to set yourself harder goals. — Joanne Whalley

He'd thought he'd get used to it, even start wanting it, but though it killed his hunger pangs, there was nothing about it that he enjoyed the way he'd once enjoyed chocolate or vegetarian burritos or coffee ice cream. It remained blood. But — Cassandra Clare