W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Well, by now you must know yourself, honey, whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.”
Source: The Collected Stories
“Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.”
“Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.”
“Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected.”
“Well, certainly at the Golden Globes, during every commercial break everyone gets up and schmoozes with each other.”
“Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.”
“Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do that. That would slow down economic growth. It's not necessarily helpful to the economy. Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged.”
“Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the 'limit text' of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult book.”
“Well, certainly, even separate from what our culture is going through, kids have different personalities and different natural bents and skill sets that they seem to come pre-programmed with. One of my two sons is very athletic. The other one is into social skills and humor.”
“Well, changes have been made. The question is whether we've done enough by way of change.”
“Well, check this out. Mine is bigger.”
Source: Magic Bleeds
“Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.”
“Well, Clive, it's all about the two Ms - movement and positioning.”
“Well, coffee is my drug of choice, generally, with a little bit of Pepsi here and there, if I need more sugar. But yeah, if I could do intravenous coffee, I would. But I guess that's pretty standard.”
“Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone.”
“Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.”
“Well, coming at a new work requires a certain amount of patience and energy, and there’s always the risk of disappointment. You can’t really blame people for preferring more of what they already know and like. The trade-off, of course, is that predictability is boring. Repetition is the death of magic.”
“Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.”
“Well, Congress gave us a billion dollars to dig the hole, this gigantic hole. Bigger, much bigger than the hole in Geneva, Switzerland. Then they canceled the machine and gave us a second billion dollars to fill up the hole. Two billion dollars to dig a hole and fill it up. That is the wisdom of the United States Congress and it really makes you wonder: Is there intelligent life on the Earth? Certainly not in the United States Congress.”
“Well, considering my entire life, now seems rules by odd coincidences, I figure it's right on track.”
“Well, cooking starts with shopping. If the ingredients are not good, you don't do it. Just change your mind and do something else.”
“Well, creationism, in essence, is believing that the world began as the Bible in Genesis says, that God created the Earth in six days, six 24-hour periods. And there is just as much, if not more, evidence supporting that.”
“Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept society sane. Nowadays, though, artists make intentionally ugly art that’s only supposed to reflect society rather than inspire it. So I guess we’re all loony together now, loony rats in the shithouse of commercialism.”
Source: Skinny Legs and All
“Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.”
“Well, dating has become a sport and not about finding the person you love.”
“Well, David Eckstein, like most of us, has 20 digits. Ten fingers. Ten toes.”
“well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you”
“Well, delusions are a wonderful thing, and they keep you company, too.”
“Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.”
“Well, developers do want to touch a lot of customers. We have to make our platform very popular in order for them to do that. If we make their jobs easier, then they'll be more likely to stay on the Windows platform.”
“Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- the proof -- and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt.”
“Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.”
“Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.”
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
“Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.”
Source: Chuck Jones: Conversations
“Well, dissent is the tradition in America, and I've been on the side of dissent a good bit of my career, particularly in the last many years of the Republican Congress.”
“Well, do a good day's work and act like somebody.”
“Well, do anything, if you do something right, we'll use it, and if you do something wrong, we'll fix it, but do something and do it now.”
“Well, do you do that consciously?" Daily Alice asked, only partly of Cloud. "Do what?" Cloud said. "Grow up? No. Well. In a sense. You see it's inevitable, or refuse to. You greet it or don't -- take it in trade, maybe, for all you're going to lose anyway. Or you can refuse, and have what you've got to lose snatched from you, and never take payment -- never see a trade is possible.”
Source: Little, Big
“Well, do you know what I hope for, once I allow myself to begin to hope? [...] That you find in your love for people something not only to work for, but to comfort and restore you when there is a need.”
Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
“Well, doctor, and do I now act like a 'pink powder puff' ?”
“Well, Doctor, I don't have the diagnosis on that. I'll be sure to do a physical checkup and get back to you.”
“Well, does he still have his fingernails? Making inquiries while negotiating the release of a US Army pilot from North Korea, in Time.”
“Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall.”
“Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.”
Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
“Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics.”
“Well, don't we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?”
“Well, Drew. Makes you feel any better. There's one thing that Kelly and this title have in common. They'll never be seen with you.”
“Well, duh. He was six feet, six inches tall and built like a brick shithouse.”
Source: Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“Well, duh. You're cuter than she is." He said it like he might say, Grass is green or, Gravity works. Something warm opened up inside my chest. It was a nice feeling.”
“Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.”