W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What better way to actually deal with L.A. than to get above it and engage with the horizontality and scale of the basin itself?”
“What better way to control your kid than by sending her to a compound on an island in the middle of the Caribbean, confiscating her money and passport, where she will be forced to comply with the program if she wants to leave?”
“What better way to die? It's fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!”
“What better way to discover the unknown than to follow your instincts instead of your plans.”
Source: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
“What better way to expand your imagination than to read!”
“What better way to get to know a culture than to go there and learn their sports?”
“What better way to get to know a culture than to go there and learn their sports? And I say to people who tell me they can't travel, 'How much did you spend at the mall this year? How many times did you eat out? Take that money and go.'”
“What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
“What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? I'm just noting the timing, here.”
“What better way to learn about life in the ocean--and how we are changing it--than through stories of blind zombie worms, immortal jellyfish, and unicorns of the sea? The Extreme Life of the Sea is an insightful book that inspires awe and wonder about our ocean, and brilliantly shows us the immense possibilities of life on Earth.”
“What better way to lose that hangover headache than get drunk again? Oh, the joys of being Canadian with socialized health care and legal drinking age of nineteen. After a year (officially) honing that skill, I imbibed at an Olympic level. The red wine on the modular coffee table gleamed in a shaft of sunlight like its position had been ordained by the gods. I snatched up the crystal decanter, sloshing the liquid into the glass conveniently placed next to it. Once in a while, a girl could actually catch a break. I fanned myself with one hand. The myriad of lit candles seemed a bit much for Ari’s romantic encounter, but wine drinking trumped curiosity so I chugged the booze back. My entire body cheered as the cloyingly-sweet alcohol hit my system, though I hoped it wasn’t Manischewitz because hangovers on that were a bitch. I’d slugged back half the contents when I saw my mom on the far side of the room clutch her throat, eyes wide with horror. Not her usual, “you need an intervention” horror. No, her expression indicated I’d reached a whole new level of fuck-up. “Nava Liron Katz,” she gasped in full name outrage.”
Source: The Unlikeable Demon Hunter
“What better way to read the landscape than by walking through it?”
Source: The Soul of Place: A Creative Writing Workbook: Ideas and Exercises for Conjuring the Genius Loci
“What better weapon than the human brain? The human brain was Mrs Twartski's and Wiezenslowski's domain. The children who were used were the castaways of the United States government, like dogs abandoned and a vet's office. Mrs. Twartski read the letter out loud, slowly and carefully enunciating every word in her thick Polish accent. The German scientists were looking for children who could learn quickly, were between ages four and twelve, and could withstand being famished without dying. Deutschland were paying dollar $50,000 per subject. Everyone in living room exactly Mrs. Twartski and all my aunts let out a huge "Ahhh". My sister's and my eyes grew wide because we had no idea what this meant or why the adults were so excited. Then my sister's eyes narrowed as if she knew something that I didn't yet, as if she had just figured something out.”
Source: The Enslaved Queen: A Memoir About Electricity and Mind Control
“What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition
“What big eyes you have. Eyes of an incomparable luminosity, the numinous phosphorescence of the eyes of lycanthropes. The gelid green of your eyes fixes my reflective face; It is a preservative, like a green liquid amber; it catches me. I am afraid I will be trapped in it for ever like the poor little ants and flies that stuck their feet in resin before the sea covered the Baltic. He winds me into the circle of his eye on a reel of birdsong. There is a black hole in the middle of both your eyes; it is their still centre, looking there makes me giddy, as if I might fall into it.”
Source: The Erl-King
“What binds a man to his land? What power within allows him to give his life to preserve his land and the lives of the families who work it? It can only be love.”
“What binds us to space-time is our rest mass, which prevents us from flying at the speed of light, when time stops and space loses meaning. In a world of light there are neither points nor moments of time; beings woven from light would live "nowhere" and "nowhen"; only poetry and mathematics are capable of speaking meaningfully about such things.”
“What binds us together is love, and only love. For love is a Person. Love is God.”
“What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of that sort. Christians come together because they have all been loved by Jesus himself. They are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus' sake.”
“What birds are these
wildgeese—flying from precincts where the earth
and oceans end—
with their enormous wings and speckled throats?”
“What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?”
Source: Travels on the Amazon
“What birds were they? (...) He listened to the cries: like the squeak of mice be- hind the wainscot : a shrill twofold note. But the notes were long and shrill and whirring, unlike the cry of vermin, falling a third or a fourth and trilled as the flying beaks clove the air. Their cry was shrill and clear and fine and falling like threads of silken light unwound from whirring spools.”
Source: James Joyce: The Poems in Verse and Prose
“What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of their own passions? Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens the hemlock on one day and statutes the next.”
Source: The Fœderalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Fœderal Convention, September 17, 1787. Reprinted from the Original Text. With an Historical Introduction and Notes
“What bizarre things does not one find in a great city when one knows how to walk about and how to look! Life swarms with innocent monsters. Oh Lord my God, Thou Creator, Thou Master, Thou who hast made law and liberty, Thou the Sovereign who dost allow, Thou the Judge who dost pardon, Thou who art full of Motives and of Causes, Thou who hast (it may be) placed within my soul the love of horror in order to turn my hear to Thee, like the cure which follows the knife; Oh Lord, have pity, have pity upon the mad men and women that we are! Oh Creator, is it possible that monsters should exist in the eyes of Him alone who knoweth why they exist, how they have made themselves, and how they would have made themselves, and could not?”
“What Black Consciousness seeks to do is to produce real black people who do not regard themselves as appendages to white society. We do not need to apologise for this because it is true that the white systems have produced through the world a number of people who are not aware that they too are people.”
“What black eyes you have…”
“All the better to devour you with.”
Source: Amour Amour
“What blame did Jesus have when He took the full blame for your sin?”
“What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should be put aside.... This is I think much of the problem of the modern dilemma: Direct experience has been discounted, and in its place all kinds of belief systems have been erected.... If you believe something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite; which means that a degree of your human freedom has been forfeited in the act of committing yourself to this belief.”
“What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.”
“What bliss was there to compare to a warm fire, fresh socks, and buttered toast on a cold day!”
Source: A Beautiful Blue Death
“What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell.”
“What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.”
Source: The Doctor, &c
“What blooms from beautiful seeds of thought becomes a symphony of colorful abundance.”
“What blooms inside you matters more than what grows around you.”
“What blows me away most is how sure people are of themselves.”
“What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.”
“What books can you read to learn about this part of your life? What people do you need to confide in to grow deeper? What things do you need to stop doing in order to grow? What things do you need to start doing?”
Source: Manlihood: The 12 Pillars of Masculinity
“What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?”
“What borders on the criminal is the poor teaching and neglect of those subjects that deal with the history of ideas and ideals, a knowledge of which is essential to all youth who would assume their place in society as thinking, feeling human beings.”
“What bores the listener bores the speaker too.”
“What bosom beast not in his country's cause?”
“What bosses don’t understand is that whistle-blowers don’t call reporters first. They call us last. Only when they are completely disillusioned by the knowledge that going through the system doesn’t work do they turn to us: the media.”
Source: Stalking Susan
“What both the left and the right overlook is our Founders' wisdom about the limits and dangers of government.”
“What both the state and the capitalist economy oppose is an understanding of what might be called "the true nature of things" (using the phrase without metaphysical pretensions), especially injustices and exploitative practices.”
“What bother me, not "bother me," exactly; that's not the right way to put it. But especially in the horror genre, once a movie like Paranormal Activity comes out and becomes popular - and that's a totally fine and valid movie - everyone starts copying it. Everything becomes a found-footage movie that looks like somebody shot it with their phone.”
“What bothered me most was their lack of style. I learned early that class is universally admired. Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved.”
“What bothered me the most was the hesitation in his voice when he said that— like he was running out of time.”
Source: By the Sea
“What bothered me was all of the time he wasted by drumming, and all the time I wasted by listening to him drum, by taking pleasure in it, for pleasure is almost always a waste of time.”
Source: A Line Made By Walking
“What bothered me was having no other choice but to work with people who were always drunk and hungry for meat. They'd give such looks ... I wouldn't call it animalistic because that in itself would still be natural ... This was something beneath that ... a bestiality fed by cruelty, hypocrisy, and deceit ...”
“What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.”