While Quotes

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.

If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.

While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.

If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

Yeah, I went to ACT for a while. It was great.

I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I'm playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations.

I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

Five years of Republicans' failed energy policies have resulted in Americans paying twice as much at the pump as they did in 2001, while big oil companies make triple the profits.

But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters.

You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.

At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.

I was single for six years and during those six years I went back to college and got my degree in Social Work and then... while I was single... Barney came here to Portsmouth on vacation.

I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs.

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.

I can't see why we can't toss in a Junior Walker or Wilson Pickett number in every once in a while.

Think nothing done while aught remains to do.

I think it's always challenging to look at a script and make it your own while maintaining the sense of what the style of the show is.