W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all.”
“What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell.”
“What do I need a movie for? The stage is on a higher level in every way, and a more satisfying medium. Movies, by comparison, are like calendar art next to great paintings. You can't really do very much in movies or in television, but the stage is such an anarchistic medium.”
“What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.”
“What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow; what do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!”
“What do I tell my heart
that always wants to be with you?”
“What do I tell the Moon, who asks me
Why are we not together?”
“What do I tell the pilots to do?”
“What do I think about my neighbors? These people. These people who have sprayed the word nigger on my door. These people who finally threatened my children. My children did you hear me? Have you ever held a child in your arms while she shook her insides out? She was so scared I cried her to sleep. How do you ever tell a child again that she's safe? Huh?
What do I think of these people? Huh? What should anyone think? What should you reporters think? What should the city think? What should the mayor think? What should the country think?”
Source: Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
“What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.”
“What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.”
“What do I think happens when we die? I think we enter into another stage of existence or another state of consciousness that is so extraordinarily different from the reality we have here in the physical world that the language we have is not yet adequate to describe this other state of existence or consciousness. Based on what I have heard from thousands of people, we enter into a realm of joy, light, peace, and love in which we discover that the process of knowledge does not stop when we die. Instead, the process of learning and development goes on for eternity.”
“What do I think of L.A.? It's boring, with some amazing nuggets. Like there are some parts of it that are great, but by and large I think it's quite boring.”
“What do I think of myself? I know my worth. I know my value. I know I have to lead by example. I can't just be all over the place. I put the energy out that I want given back to me. And again, I'm true to me.”
“What do I think of Pussy Riot actions? The act can be extremely positive if it is an act to call attention to the fact that things in their country are really bad for women, otherwise it is purely a media event that only obfuscates women's struggle.”
“What do I think of the newly discovered Van Gogh?" It was a load of crap, but Viv couldn't say that without Professor Phillips asking questions she couldn't answer.”
Source: The Starling
“What do I think of the reverse sweep? It's like Manchester United getting a penalty and Bryan Robson taking it with his head”
“What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.”
“What do I want?" His arms caged her on either side, his body pressing hot and hard against hers. "You, Aiwattsi. Only you.”
Source: Saddle Up
“What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge.”
Source: Steinbeck: A Life in Letters
“What do I want now? I want to be treated with the respect I deserve in the current VA system and not be retraumatized. I want the men who did this to me to be punished and if that isn't possible, I want reassurance what happened to me will never ever happen to another woman in the Armed services. I want some restitution of the damage I have.”
Source: Conduct Unbecoming: Rape, Torture, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from Military Commanders
“What do I want to do with my life?”
“What do I want to do? Acting wise? Well, there's a western that I want to do. There's a lot of producing that I want to do, projects that I have stacked up that are in my office that I'd like to get done.”
“What do I want to express? The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or all of these fills the bill. There is something additional, a breath that draws your breath into its breathing, a heartbeat that pounds on yours, a recognition of the oneness of all things.”
Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr
“What do I want to let go of and what do I want to give myself to?”
“What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when you shut down the mental machinery that keeps life on track and let life simply wander. The days when you stop planning, analyzing, thinking and just are. Summer is my period of grace.”
“What do I want? I want to accelerate my personal evolution. I want Spirit to assist me in a greater capacity. I want my body to regenerate itself. I want to emanate health. I am willing to give up difficulty so that I can be a living example of what humanity can be.”
Source: Bringers of the Dawn: Teachings from the Pleiadians
“What do I want? The answer to that question does not exist.”
Source: Wintergirls
“What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.”
Source: Marilyn Monroe in her own words
“What do intellectuals and opinion makers get from big government? An increasing number of cushy jobs in the bureaucracy, or in the government-subsidized sector, staffing the welfare regulatory state, and apologizing for its policies, as well as propagandizing for them among the public. To put it bluntly, intellectuals, theorists, pundits, media elites, etc. get to live a life which they could not attain on the free market, but which they can gain at taxpayer expense.”
“What do Jake 'The Snake' Roberts and a beer bottle have in common? They're both empty from the neck up!”
“What do Japanese Jews love to eat? Hebrew National Tsunami.”
“What do Judy Garland and Lady Gaga have in common?”
“What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.”
“What do little birdies see when they get knocked unconscious?”
“What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.”
“What do markets do? They consolidate, they breakout, they extend, they overextend, they back and fill, they consolidate, and repeat the process. That's all you need to know about the markets.”
“What do marriage vows show? They show that you may want to separate sometime in the future. If there is love between two people, the thought of taking vows never arises. This is only an indication of the absence of love. People do not marry out of love; they marry out of fear. If there is love on this earth, marriage will become redundant. When love is not, marriage is a must. We make arrangements for that which we cannot do. We make rules for that which we are not sure of.”
“What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.”
“What do men want? Men want a mattress that cooks.”
“What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn't get so mad at them.”
Source: A Man Without a Country
“What do monkeys know of peace and love, when guns are their emblem of patriotism!”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.”
“What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told.”
Source: Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
“What do narcissists look for in the end? Only a person at their own level to whom they can feel superior.”
“What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?”
“What do Obama and God have in common? Neither has a birth certificate. How do they differ? God does not think he's Obama.”
“What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.”
“What do others think they see?”
“What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching of the eye almost always.”
Source: Guesses at Truth: Second Series