W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What does it feel like, having a missing sister? I can tell you. You know how if you lose something valuable, a wallet or a piece of jewelry, you can’t concentrate on anything else? Well, it feels like that all the time, every day”
Source: A Long Way Down
“What does it feel like to be infected?" "I-- I can't describe it." I force the words out. Can't breathe, can't breathe, can't breathe. His skin smells like smoke from a wood fire, like soap, like heaven. I imagine tasting his skin; I imagine biting his lips. "I want to know." His words are a whisper, barely audible. "I want to know with you.”
“What does it feel like to be lonely? It feels like being hungry: like being hungry when everyone around you is readying for a feast.”
Source: The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
“What does it feel like? To be
you?”
“It feels like I’ve stolen,” I say. “Like this body isn’t really mine.”
Source: I Fell in Love With Hope
“What does it feel like to get shot?" "I don't recommend it," said Nellie in a controlled voice. "Chocolate is definitely better.”
Source: The Medusa Plot
“What does it feel like to represent a newspaper that used to support Adolf Hitler? And supports the banker Kabbalists that are ruining the world? Did you vote Tory?”
“What does it feel like?” he asked. “What does what feel like?” Peter thought for a moment. “Being at the top.” Josie reached across him for another packet of material and fed it into the stapler. She did three of these, and Peter was certain that she was going to ignore him, but then she spoke. “Like if you take one wrong step,” she said, “you’re going to fall.”
Source: Nineteen Minutes: A novel
“What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we’ve read? What matters is how we feel, how we see, what we do after reading; whether the street and the clouds and the existence of others mean anything to us; whether reading makes us, physically, more alive.”
Source: So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
“What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?”
“What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?”
“What does it matter how much we do if what we're doing isn't what matters most?”
Source: First Things First
“What does it matter how we look in Germany compared to how we look in heaven?”
“What does it matter if a few barking dogs snap at the heels of the weary travelers? ... The caravan moves on”
“what does it matter if a man is lonely? one does not die of it.”
Source: I Heard the Owl Call My Name
“what does it matter if my mouth carries two worlds”
Source: The Sun and Her Flowers
“What does it matter if the world is bright and sunny, when it's dark and silent right where it matters most?”
Source: The Color of Water
“What does it matter if we lie? When has anything good ever happened in the world just because someone told the truth?”
Source: The Dream Peddler
“What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?”
“What does it matter?” Jason barked. “Maybe I like the wrath! I can be feared.”
Source: Damaged Goods: The Shadows of Wrath
“What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal?”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“What does it matter what's real or imagined as long as it makes life worth living?”
“What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.”
Source: Alice in Wonderland
“What does it matter where we go? Wherever we go, won't we be serving God there? And wherever we go, won't we have Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament with us? Isn't that enough to make us happy?”
“What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.”
“What does it matter, all is grace.”
“What does it matter, if we tell the same old stories? ...Stories tell us who we are. What we’re capable of. When we go out looking for stories we are, I think, in many ways going in search of ourselves, trying to find understanding of our lives, and the people around us. Stories, and language tell us what’s important.”
“What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“What does it mean?” Flynn turns to gaze at me, eyes finally meeting mine.
I find myself smiling because I know exactly what it means. “It means the clouds are clearing on Avon.”
Source: This Shattered World
“What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilisation is a few hundred years old ... an advanced civilisation millions of years old is as much beyond us as we are beyond a bushbaby or a macaque”
Source: Cosmos
“What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself.”
Source: Picasso; the artist and his model: and other recent works
“What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it.”
“What does it mean for something to be natural? When we say that something is “natural”, what we often actually mean is that it is widely accepted or practiced, whereas something that is “unnatural” is foreign or strange to us.”
Source: RAW FOOD FOR CHILDREN: Protect Your Child from Cancer, Hyperactivity, Autism, Diabetes, Allergies, Behavioral Problems, Obesity, ADHD & More
“What does it mean?”
“It means something terrifying will happen to your heart,” Abiyaya said in a calm voice. “It means that there is a darkness that will try to consume you. I see so much pain that it almost kills you.”
“What does it mean, said Rose, our stubborn Rose, to say that the world would be better off without men? Women are less violent, but what about all the other wicked traits, like racism and greed and malignant narcissism? There'd still be plenty of that.
Oh, I don't know, said Camellia. Just to have less violence--less warmongering, less bloodshed, less crime--wouldn't that be grand?”
Source: The Vulnerables
“What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the terrace of the earth, but actually empty and awake throughout the emptiness and awakedness of everything? It means that I'm empty and awake, that I know I'm empty and awake, and that there's no difference between me and anything else.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“What does it mean that someone who wants to get wet in the rain still uses an umbrella? People have desires and fears; unless desire is greater than fear, fear always wins!”
“What does it mean that those trees and mountains out there are not magic but real?' I'd yell, pointing outdoors.
'What?' they'd say.
'It means that those trees and mountains out there are not magic but real.'
'Yeah?'
Then I'd say, 'What does it mean that those trees and mountains aren't real at all, just magic?'
'Oh come on.'
'It means that those trees and mountains aren't real at all, just magic.'
'Well which is it, goddammit!'
'What does it mean that you ask, well which is it goddammit?' I yelled.
'Well what?'
'It means that you ask well which is it goddammit.'
'Oh go bury your head in your sleeping bag, bring me a cup of that hot coffee.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“What does it mean then to live with one another? It can be unhappy, it can be wretched, it can be ambivalent, it can even be full of antagonism, but all of that can play out in the political sphere without recourse to expulsion or genocide. And that is our obligation, to stay in the sphere with whatever murderous rage we have, without acting on it.”
“What does it mean to a successful woman today? Does it mean you have to be a mother? If you are a mother, does it mean you have to be a mother with a husband? If you don't have a husband, what is the role that the man plays? I think there are a lot of confusing things that we're all really still sorting out.”
“What does it mean to be a candle? It means challenging the darkness even though you know you will die!”
“What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I've done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It's up to me to make it right.”
“What does it mean to be a proletarian, really? [...] It means you are a cog in a process of production that relies on what you do and think, while excluding you from being anything but its product. It means the end of sovereignty, the conversion of all experiential value to exchange value, the final defeat of autonomy.”
Source: Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present
“What does it mean to be a Saint? In the Lord's Church, the members are Latter-day Saints, and they attempt to emulate the Savior, follow His teachings, and receive saving ordinances in order to live in the celestial kingdom with God the Father and our Savior Jesus Christ.”
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.”
Source: The Denial of Death
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consiousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet to die. It seems like a hoax, which is why one type of cultural man rebels openly against the idea of God. What kind of deity would crate such a complex and fancy worm food?”
Source: The Denial of Death
“What does it mean to be a snowboarder? It's about having fun, with your friends or by yourself. It's about pushing yourself to try new things and do the unexpected. Finally, and most importantly, it's about being creative.”
“What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these messy words and then tears them apart. Sometimes with the words of others. And sometimes with poems made from scratch. They aren't all bad, these words. But they aren't all good either. And that is where Mother was a Tragic Girl gets its power. You will at moments be laughing but then you will also at moments just as much be crying. If Antigone was alive and decided to write some poems about the nuclear family, she would write them like Sandra Simonds. These are tough.”
“What does it mean to be an American today? The question of that is always pointing at now. It allows someone to say what lens that will be through. A lot of my work has been about identity in different ways. Part of that for me falls into the question of gender identity certainly but also about what it means to be an American theater artist.”
“What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.”
“What does it mean to be an 'open source' society? What does one mean when one says one has an 'open mind'? Open source means that its a society everybody can work on improving. It has a synergy that allows the best minds to float on top, since there is no entropical hierarchy of mediocrity - once everything stays fluid there is the odd chance for genius elements to actually lead. Such is the case now in Turkey. The protesters are a fluid synergy that have no entropical leadership, and thus the most brilliant PR moves are made by the resistance, who are opposed by the worst sort of mediocrity that is totally at odds with reality. An 'open mind' follows a similar process, but in this case the entropy hides in the hierarchy of ideas that is implanted in the brain: once a person follows mediocre ideas - such as the 'idea' that 'marriage is the meaning of life' or 'having a job is the purpose of existence' etc - then the phenomenon of the 'open mind' becomes already impossible, for there is an internal hierarchy of entropy present that will prevent any sort of original impulse to have the meaning it truly has. Hence, the only way to escape the mediocrity of ones own mind is to allow anything to build and revise it.”