“Whittle was an amazing chap. Tiny, stubborn, unstoppable - jet-propelled! It's amazing the impact his invention has had upon the world.”
Adam-Hart Davis
“As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.”
Buddha
“The privacy and dignity of our citizens [are] being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen -- a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a [person's] life.”
William Orville Douglas
“A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.”
Charles M. Schwab
“Yesterday we started with 5,000. We've been able to whittle it down.”
Adam Ereli
“Sixty-four teams start [NCAA tournament] and they're whittled down to just one. Kind of reminds me of what we've done with our allies.”
Bill Richardson
“While a late-winter cold snap or cool spring could whittle down some of the storage surplus, it is probably too late to prevent stocks from ending the heating season at record-high levels.”
Michael Fitzpatrick
