Whittell Quotes & Sayings

I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, 'Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts.' — Mako

The Lord is forgiving, but sometimes life is not forgiving. — Gordon B. Hinckley

The innate longing within every soul is to awaken from the spirit's slumber and then to journey home. — Patsie Smith

A lost trail always extends beyond the evidence, and even the trails we find are only fragments of the trails that lie beyond our comprehension. — Tom Brown Jr.

The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws. — William Howard Taft

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers. — Steve Martin

Yet this was not in fact the strategy that Powers chose. A simpler soul in his position might have seen only a binary decision to make - to talk or not to talk. But the "deluded jerk from Virginia" assumed from the start that if he was to have any chance of saving his life, his honor, and the U-2's most precious secrets, he would have to use his wits. He — Giles Whittell

My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it. — Sam Claflin

Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale. — Umberto Eco

The man who came into the room did not look as though his name was, or could have ever been, Robinson. It might have been Demetrius, or Isaacstein, or Perenna - though not one or the other in particular. He was not definitely Jewish, nor definitely Greek nor Portugese nor Spanish, nor South American. What did seem highly unlikely was that he was an Englishman called Robinson. — Agatha Christie