I like a man who can build things. Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold. Votes: 3
Whittle was an amazing chap. Tiny, stubborn, unstoppable - jet-propelled! It's amazing the impact his invention has had upon the world. Votes: 3
A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away. Votes: 0
Basically when you whittle everything away, I'm a grown man who puts on makeup. Votes: 0
I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard. Votes: 0
I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want to do. You don't always whittle down, sometimes you whittle up. Votes: 0
I think that the older you get, the more you become your true, essential self. You find the things that make you happy. You whittle away the parts of yourself that mean less to you. Votes: 0
Some actors count their lines as soon as they receive a script. I'm the opposite. I try to see how many lines I can whittle down. You can say just as much in 4 as you can in 14.
The novelist's--any writer's--object is to whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, isfatal is when he does not know what he does mean: he has no point to sharpen.
No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.