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For something to be useful to the spirit is not very valuable to get your covered wagon across the desert. We have adopted that attitude so thoroughly that any American father whose son tells him he wants to write poetry will be embarrassed.
Miller Williams
Attitude
Son
Father
Valuable
Will
Thoroughly
Embarrassed
Tells
Spirit
Something
Adopted
Poetry
Write
He
Him
Wagon
Covered
Very
Get
American
Any
Wants
Across
Your
Useful
Desert
Whose
People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.
Minnie Maddern Fiske
Music
Art
Good
People
Understanding
Painting
Bad
Part
Beyond
Most
Question
Taste
Literature
Theater
Ignorant
Whose
Once 9/11 happened, people who looked like me and whose children looked like us and whose husbands looked of a community, really were made to feel quite the other, and I thought that was impossible in a city like New York but I myself was witness to that.
Mira Nair
Myself
Me
People
Witness
Impossible
Thought
Made
Community
Other
Once
City
Husbands
Feel
New
Like
Looked
Were
York
Quite
New York
Children
Happened
Us
Really
Who
Whose
It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves.
Miriam Makeba
Work
Together
Women
Passion
President
Our
Ourselves
Up
Very
Get
Trying
Africa
African
Theme
Work Together
Us
Much
Whose
Things
There are very few people whose names come to symbolize their achievement, even if it's a negative achievement.
Mitchell Zuckoff
Achievement
People
Negative
Few
Come
Names
Very
Few People
Even
Whose
Symbolize
My roles have given me a lot of satisfaction. I became many individuals who were so different from me and whose experiences were so different from mine. I could experience all their emotions, their pains, their worries, their happiness.
Mohanlal
Happiness
Me
Experience
Emotions
Worries
Mine
Given
Could
Individuals
Became
Were
Lot
Roles
Different
Experiences
Pains
Who
Many
Satisfaction
Whose
The greatest moral leader of my lifetime was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose private life does not bear close examination.
Molly Ivins
Life
King
Leader
Moral
Examination
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr
Bear
Lifetime
Greatest
Does
Private
Private Life
Close
Whose
Dr
Luther
The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.
Mona Simpson
Me
Man
Mother
First
Besides
Boss
Never
He
Knew
Name
First-Person
Person
Manager
Shop
Ice
Ice Cream
Cream
Who
Whose
Believed
Last
Persecutions are inevitable as a Christian. We are not greater than our Master, Jesus Christ, in whose Holy Spirit we gain strength to endure.
Monica Johnson
Strength
Christ
Master
Inevitable
Christian
Our
Spirit
Greater
Than
Endure
Gain
Holy
Holy Spirit
Whose
Jesus
Jesus Christ
If there were a being in the world whose eyes could look into other people's hearts, very few men or women would be able to face up to it.
Munshi Premchand
Eyes
Women
People
World
Men
Face
Few
Other
Would
Would-Be
Able
Could
Look
Were
Up
Very
Hearts
Few Men
Being
Whose
The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
Nadine Gordimer
Mind
Eye
Out
Followed
Indifferent
Only
Fade
Between
Faint
Sahara
Trails
Committed
Sand
Gap
Whose
My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17.
Najib Razak
Heart
Lost
Those
Out
Were
Loved
Loved Ones
Whose
I'm married to Kevin, a photographer whose career has put him on the campaign trail with presidential candidates and sent him on assignment to far-flung places for long periods of time. It was sometimes rough when our children were small, and I was beginning to write in earnest.
Nancy Horan
Time
Sometimes
Long
Beginning
Earnest
Our
Presidential
Married
Photographer
Small
Write
Long Periods
Put
Periods
Him
Were
Campaign
Trail
Candidates
Children
Places
Sent
Rough
Whose
Assignment
Career
Kevin
I really looked up to Tina Fey as a writer, and because I did have a background in writing, she is someone whose career I really did admire.
Nasim Pedrad
Writing
Background
Admire
Someone
Writer
Looked
She
Because
Up
Did
Tina
Tina Fey
Fey
Really
Whose
Career
I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
Natalie Wood
Guilt
Parents
Wish
Every
Saw
Penalty
Must
Would
Obeyed
Anguish
Gods
Suffer
Whose
I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.
Nate Ruess
Three
Reading
Thinking
Bass
Bass Player
Our
Spent
Hunger
Hunger Games
Through
Picked
Written
Name
Hours
Also
Halfway
Up
Ended
Loved
Them
Games
Even
Novels
Whose
Level
Player
I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.
Neil Gaiman
Work
Library
Parents
Drop
Local
Way
Kid
Kind
Would
Area
Through
Town
Him
Go
Off
Children
Whose
If we are going to have a bicameral parliament, I think there should always be a reserved place for people whose background and experience are critical to the welfare of the nation.
Neil Kinnock
Experience
People
Welfare
Nation
Think
Background
Critical
Parliament
Always
Going
Place
Should
Reserved
Whose
Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of life in many areas, the main weapon in the struggle against the forces of evil.
Neil MacGregor
Life
Struggle
Evil
Negotiate
Running
Religions
Weapon
Area
Main
Unseen
Powers
Forces
Traditional
Transactions
African
Central
Against
Many
Europeans
Whose
Hardest
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
Nelson Algren
Mom
Man
Woman
Own
Worse
Eat
Troubles
Never
Than
Place
Your
Whose
Play
Cards
Sleep
We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.
Neville Chamberlain
Future
Peace
Fight
People
Destruction
Political
Ruin
Distant
Earth
Possibility
Security
Would
City
Rather
Principles
Whose
While abolishing judgeships and lower federal courts is a blunt tool and one whose use is warranted only in the most extreme of circumstances... it is one of many possibilities to check and balance the judiciary.
Newt Gingrich
Balance
Judiciary
Tool
Extreme
Circumstances
Possibilities
Abolish
Only
Federal
Check
Most
Courts
Blunt
While
Lower
Use
Many
Whose
Henry Blodget does occasionally have a new idea. If you're making a point about aggregation or the emptiness of modern journalism, he's far from the best target. Try Huffpo - or Gawker writers whose souls have been corroded by irony.
Nick Denton
Best
You
Try
About
Point
Writers
He
Idea
Journalism
New
Occasionally
Emptiness
Does
Souls
Making
New Idea
Been
Target
Irony
Modern
Far
Whose
Henry
When I was about eight, I realised the person whose name was on the book got money for it, and it seemed almost too good to be true that you could get paid for making things up.
Nick Earls
Good
You
Book
Money
Be True
Too
About
Seemed
Could
True
Almost
Name
Got
Making
Up
Person
Get
Eight
Realised
Paid
Whose
Things
When you see the poet laureate saying that every child should have read 'Ulysses' and that you're just giving up on children if you think it's elitist - does that include children with special needs or whose first language isn't English?
Nick Hornby
Saying
Needs
You
Language
Poet
Giving
Giving Up
First
Every
Think
Laureate
See
Poet Laureate
Read
Does
Ulysses
Up
Child
Just
Children
Should
Special
English
Special Needs
Include
Whose
Elitist
I ask everyone in Russia to pray for me, beginning with the bishops, whose whole life is a single prayer. I ask prayers also of those who humbly do not believe in the efficacy of their prayers, as well as of those who do not believe in prayer at all and even consider it useless.
Nikolai Gogol
Life
Me
Prayer
Life Is A
Single
Beginning
Believe
Consider
Everyone
Bishops
Those
Russia
Also
Well
Pray
Pray For
Prayers
Efficacy
Ask
Useless
Who
Whole
Even
Whose
Humbly
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