Whitelaw Quotes & Sayings

The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy. — William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

The whitewashing of windows can provide very effective protection against fire resulting from the heat-flash from nuclear explosions. — William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

Quite honestly, most of us don't live in a world with perfect loam. — Mark Whitelaw

I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time. — William Whitelaw

There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

I don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy. — Margaret Thatcher

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

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy. — William Whitelaw

I've never been a career builder. I didn't go to drama school and hardly went to any school at all. — Billie Whitelaw

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

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

I do not intend to prejudge the past. — William Whitelaw

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

You cannot win today's ballgame with yesterday's home runs. — David S. Rosenberg

I was one of those people who was always rather frightened of women politicians. — William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

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

I'm a bit of a recluse, very fond of my own company. — Billie Whitelaw

Bookseller Praise for Die For Me: 'A blend of hard-edged police — Karen Rose

It is not optimism, Daniel Jackson, merely the refusal to fail. — Sonny Whitelaw

Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense. — Chilon Of Sparta

I said to my agent, 'I want short, sharp, well-paid jobs because I haven't got time for anything else.' — Billie Whitelaw

A girl sat neatly on a flat rock. Somehow he'd not seen her. She looked like she'd stepped through the screen of a 1950s movie. Her skin and blond hair were such pale shades they looked monochrome. Her long coat was tied at the waist by a fabric belt. She was probably a few years younger than him, in her early twenties, wearing a white hat with matching gloves. "Sorry," she said, "If I surprised you." Her irises were titanium gray, her most striking feature. Her lips were an afterthought and her cheekbones flat. But her eyes ... He realized he was staring into them and quickly looked away. — Ali Shaw