Whittum Quotes & Sayings

I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night. — Tracy Morgan

For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time is to be reminded that we had forgotten well-nigh everything that the writer told us. Parting from the narrator and his narrative, we retain only a fading impression; and he, as it were, takes the book away from us and tucks it under his arm. — Siegfried Sassoon

The great thing about a culture is that once you really get it going, it evolves on its own. It's self-organizing. It's dynamic. It just feeds on itself. — John Mackey

Earthly Angels do not allow other souls to dim their light; they just keep shining bright as the sun, for this helps other souls to reconnect with their own light and shine brightly too! — Molly Friedenfeld

Ethan didn't miss those things. Didn't wish that his son was growing up in a world where people stared at screens all day. Where communication had devolved into the tapping of tiny letters and humanity lived by and large for the endorphin kick from the ping of a received text or a new e-mail. — Blake Crouch

That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out. — Tom Kelley

He gives me a slight smile. I simultaneously want to, like, build shrines to it and punch it off his face. It's complicated. — Hannah Johnson

He didn't immediately answer. His focus, however, remained glued to her cleavage. Ground control, we have contact. — Jodi Redford

Pride eradicates all vices but itself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

All she'd ever wanted was to be good, so it was ironic that in order to do good, she'd had to become bad. She'd had to make everyone she cared about hate her. She'd had to lose everything, from her self-respect to her wings to her dreams of having friends and a family with Yenrieth, the only person she'd ever loved. — Larissa Ione

Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. — George Washington

My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years. — Samuel L. Jackson

Love is like infinity: You can't have more or less infinity, and you can't compare two things to see if they're "equally infinite." Infinity just is, and that's the way I think love is, too. — Fred Rogers

Heist movies tend to be a bit superficial, glamorous, and fun. They don't tend to be emotionally engaging. — Christopher Nolan

The time you waste may not be your own. — Christopher Whittum

When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are transformed into performance fantasies. I have no active interests. I never go anywhere or do anything that transports me outside the boundaries of my mind. — George Carlin