W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We wouldn't pay to rent and watch the same painful movie two hundred fifty times, but somehow we let our mind replay a bad memory over and over, each time experiencing the same distress and shame.”
Source: How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness
“We wouldn't survive if people didn't trust us.”
“We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century', and yet that's what we're demanding in food production.”
“We wouldn't want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We'd be rich!”
“We wouldnt ever eat anybody, would we? No. Of course not. Even if we were starving? We're starving now. You said we werent. I said we werent dying. I didnt say we werent starving. But we wouldnt. No. We wouldnt. No matter what. No. No matter what. Because we're the good guys. Yes. And we're carrying the fire. And we're carrying the fire. Yes. Okay.”
Source: The Road film tie-in
“We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.”
Source: As you like it. All's well that ends well
“We wound up taking my enterprise inside marketing, branding, management, finances. We went in there [Sisterhood of Hip Hop show] and taught them a little bit about everything in hopes of them being able to have some takeaways that they'd be able to use in the future for their own careers. And I think we were pretty successful.”
“We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age Are they withered in the sod?”
“We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.”
Source: M Is for Magic
“We wrestle with our own opponents on a daily basis. These challengers can come in numerous forms whether it be a physical challenge, emotional, or even relational issues that can overtake us. No matter what opponent we are wrestling against we can be UNSTOPPABLE.”
“We write a story for our lives, and we follow the story for a while, and then there is the life that we end up living.”
Source: Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation
“We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.”
Source: Justice for Hedgehogs
“We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.”
“We write about what we don't know about what we know.”
“We write about what we know, what we love, and we then build a dream scenario about those facts. When I lived in northern Arizona I was living a dream existence, except it wasn't perfect. So I retold the story, but made it more exciting, and much closer to perfect.”
Source: Blue Moon Bench
“We write an awful lot of stories about Donald Trump.”
“We write and speak against corruption or any such things after getting the bribe. When it is the level of honesty, how to expect positive results?”
“we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.”
Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong
“We write because something inside says we must and we can no longer ignore that voice.”
“We write because the blank piece of paper and the pen are there. We write because this is our addiction and we are proud of it. Our habit, our drug, our crutch. Whatever you wish to call it. We write because since an early age we felt it deep in our souls and in our bones. The poem must be written, the story must be told and the new myths and Gods are waiting for you to bring them forth from out of the darkness and to bring them into the light of being. You are a creator, so create. You are the writer. So write.”
Source: The Bones of Our Existence, A Journal 2046
“We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.”
Source: Sacred cows-- and other edibles
“We write by the light of every story we have ever read.”
“We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.”
Source: Pump Six and Other Stories
“We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of symbols including those supplied by nature and religion, which touch upon the mystical and spiritual aspects of life. Symbols inspire enduring hope by formulating idealist expectations.”
“We write for actors and even down to the smallest character in the film, they all have their moment. You take that and you put it in a story that's in your face and there's tons of hardcore R action, nudity and you name it, but at the same time there really is a story there. It's got heart and at the end of the movie people will feel it. So I hope they'll their friends and want to see more.”
“We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.”
“We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans — because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone- because we have the impulse to explain who we are. Not just how tall we are, or thin… but who we are internally… perhaps even spiritually. There’s something, which impels us to show our inner-souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.”
“We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.”
Source: Mark Twain on the damned human race
“We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.”
Source: The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.”
“We write history with our feet and with our presence and our collective voice and vision. And yet, of course, everything in the mainstream media suggests that popular resistance is ridiculous, pointless, or criminal, unless it is far away, was long ago, or, ideally, both. These are the forces that prefer the giant remain asleep.”
Source: Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
“We write "I love you" on the mouth by the kisses that touch it. (On écrit "je t'aime" sur bouche - Par les bisous qui la touchent.)”
“We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more than others. Writers are explorers”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves.”
Source: Take Joy: The Writers Guide To Loving The Craft
“We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.”
“We write or we are written upon. The whole of our lives is the clumsy attempt to wield the pen with grace.”
“We write our deepest thoughts.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author”
Source: Under the surface
“We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.”
“We write our own destiny ...we become what we do.”
“We write out of our humanity by writing through our direct experience. That which is most personal is most general, which becomes both our insight and protection as a writers. This is our authority as women, as human beings.”
“We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.”
“We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.”
“We write so many songs, it is difficult to narrow them down.”
“We write the history of our time.”
“We write to discover what we think.”
“We write to embrace the sacred thoughts.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's behind it, to see the bleak unspeakable stuff, and to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words but if we can, into rhythm and blues. You can't do this without discovering your own true voice, and you can't find your true voice and peer behind the door and report honestly and clearly to us if your parents are reading over your shoulder.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“We write to find out what we didn’t know we knew. We write to know deeper and truer. We write to connect the dots: a whole new constellation.”