Whether Quotes

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.

It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.

People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before.

Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil.

Whether you're a quarterback and you just threw a pick, or you're a corner and you just got beat for a touchdown, you've got to have a short-term memory, shake it off and play the next play.

Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression.

Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

Something goes wrong, I yell at them -"Fix it"- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.

Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.

It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man.

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.

They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.

A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.

I'm really critical of my posture, it makes a big difference. And I try to suck my belly in. Everyone should do that whether you're on a red carpet or not. Even if you're just going out to dinner with your boyfriend you should try and suck it in.

I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really the only thing it's based on is whether it's good or not. No book editor, in my experience, is getting a manuscript and try to rewrite it.

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.

One of the difficulties of not knowing for so long whether we were doing a fifth season or not was that we weren't really allowed to go out shopping for work.

Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.

Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.

The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.