A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
Billy Campbell
For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.
Bob Barr
A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.
Charles M. Schwab
Ricky Whittle is fabulous.
Craig Revel Horwood
I have like 250 letters that I have to whittle it down to 150. Only then do you have the whole overview of a book. When it was finally edited, at least my take was, everybody's lying. You know?
Don Novello
Gentlemen, I give you the Whittle engine.
Frank Whittle
Jupiter is so big and its gravitational pull so strong that man would find it difficult to move about on the surface. The answer is to whittle it down to proper size with terrajets and nuclear power, using the debris to increase the size of Jupiter's moons so they, too, can be colonized.
Fritz Zwicky
I've tried my hand at everything... trying to whittle down the right profession for myself. I tried my hand at clothes, I've modelled, but nothing really worked for me. I didn't really enjoy it, and maybe I was not really good enough.
Gauri Khan
Ricky Whittle's abs, they should be in a museum. They're crazy.
Jes Macallan
Baseball began early for me. When I was 5, my father took two Little League bats and put them on a lathe. He whittled them down and sanded the bats so they were the proper size for my brother and me. He began by throwing tennis balls to us. Eventually, we practiced hitting and fielding at a field near our house.
Keith Hernandez
Most moms and dads, they want to be good moms and dads. But it's an incredibly hard job when you are stressed out, when you are poor, when your life is in chaos. And giving them some of the tools to be better parents, to whittle away at that parenting gap, gives those kids a much better starting point in life.
Nicholas Kristof
I like a man who can build things. Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold.
Rachel Bilson
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
Raymond Hull
Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.
Russell Baker
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.
Sarah Dessen