W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What happens now will not matter in the future.”
“What happens often - although I'm not particularly a victim of this sort of thing - is that somebody will make a quote, or invent a remark and it gets printed, ends up on the 'net and it becomes currency. And some of them are so bizarre!”
“What happens often is the script is written and once the director comes on board you have lots of conversations and it mutates again.”
“What happens on that corner happens on every corner.”
“What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.”
“What happens on the other side of the truth, not in what would be false, but in what is more true than the true, more real than the real? Bizarre effects, certainly, and sacrileges, much more destructive of the order of truth than its pure negation. Singular and murderous power of the potentialization of the truth, of the potentialization of the real.”
Source: Simulacra and Simulation
“What happens on “Mad Men” in terms of the acting and the writing and the directing, it’s superior. And yes, it has tremendous cache and buzz because it’s become iconic, but it also deserves all the kudos and the awards as well, because it’s a beautiful show to look at.”
“What happens online is you are constantly dealing with invisible audiences.”
“What happens out there is public—or at least fairly public," he qualified. "And what happens when somebody speaks or writes words—that's also public. But the things that go on inside these little circles are private. Private." He laid a hand on his chest. "Private." He rubbed his forehead. "Private." He touched his eyelids and the tip of his nose with a brown forefinger. "Now let's make a simple experiment. Say the word 'pinch.' "
"Pinch," said the class in ragged unison. "Pinch . . ."
"P-I-N-C-H—pinch. That's public, that's something you can look up in the dictionary. But now pinch yourselves. Hard! Harder!"
To an accompaniment of giggles, of aies and ows, the children did as
they were told.
"Can anybody feel what the person sitting next to him is feeling?"
There was a chorus of noes.
"So it looks," said the young man, "as though there were-— let's see,
how many are we?" He ran his eyes over the desks before him. "It looks as though there were twenty-three distinct and separate pains. Twenty-three in this one room. Nearly three thousand million of them in the whole world. Plus the pains of all the animals. And each of these pains is strictly private. There's no way of passing the experience from one center of pain to
another center of pain.”
Source: Island
“What happens outwardly in your life is not as important as what happens inside you. Your circumstances are temporary, but your character will last forever.”
“What happens slowly carries in each part the possibility of returning to what came before. In an accident everything is simultaneous, sudden, irreversible. It means this: no going back.”
Source: The Flamethrowers
“What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.”
“What happens someday if more people own my record than the bible? That will make me god because a lot more people believe in me than him? Because it's just about popularity. There are plenty of people in the world how have never heard of Jesus, while America takes him for granted.”
“What happens style wise behind closed doors, in your home, shouldn't be incidental. Home isn't just where you stow your things or sack out for the night. It should be your private escape.”
“What happens then is like what happens when we separate a jigsaw puzzle into its fuve hundred pieces: The over-all picture disappears. This is the state of modern medicine: It has lost the sense of the unity of man. Such is the price it has paid for its scientific progress. It has sacrificed art to science.”
Source: The Healing of Persons
“What happens this weekend stays between us. We set the rules.”
Source: Summer Escape
“What happens to a dream deferred?”
“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?”
“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?”
“What happens to a highbrow literary culture when its fault lines-along caste, class and gender-are brutally exposed? What happens to the young iconoclasts who dare to speak and write about these issues openly? Is there such a thing as a happy ending for revolutionaries? Or are they doomed to be forever relegated to the footnotes of history?
This is the never-before-told true story of the Hungry Generation (or 'the Hungryalists')-a group of barnstorming, anti-establishment poets, writers and artists in Bengal in the 1960s. Braving social boycott, ridicule and arrests, the Hungryalists changed the literary landscape of Bengal (and many South Asian countries) forever. Along the way, they also influenced iconic poets, such as Allen Ginsberg, who struck up a lifelong friendship with the Hungryalists.”
Source: The Hungryalists
“What happens to a lot of artists in the music industry right now is the following: The music industry is plummeting real fast. So as the industry plummets, what happens is that there is no deals being made.”
“What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.”
“What happens to a wanderer?” Moses asked Neph. “Does he ever come home?” And Neph answered ruefully that wanderers were those who sought their home – not those who left it. The cryptic intent was not lost on Moses, and when Neph asked him how he felt, he replied, “I am a stranger here.”
Source: Moses The Epic Story of His Rebellion in the Court of Egypt
“What happens to Black Folks today, happens to White Folks tomorrow.”
“What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's not truly shared. A human being must learn at a very young age how to connect to other human beings. Our technologies are driving us apart, only connecting us in terms of information, not in terms of emotions.”
Source: Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser
“What happens to conservatives when they get near the White House? How come they only seem to be talking the good talk at, say, the Senate level, when they don't have to run the show?”
“What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves that they are honored to serve. It's not giving up your family.”
“What happens to free will... when the voice shaping your thoughts has no will of its own?”
Source: The Moment When a Human and a Machine Looked at Each Other: A Raw Philosophical Dialogue with AI on Consciousness, Free Will, and the Edge of Human Identity
“What happens to job performance if we don’t practice humility in the form of self-awareness? We risk overestimating our abilities, which can result in insufficient effort, missed deadlines, and lower quality of work—all of which can add up to decreased performance.”
Source: Win With Decency: How to Use Your Better Angels for Better Business
“What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.”
“What happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images.”
“What happens to one directly happens to all indirectly.”
“What happens to one of us happens to all of us.”
Source: Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy
“What happens to other species also happens to us.”
Source: Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation
“What happens to our island affects all of us, including my boys.” Isa looked Marco in the eyes, like a boa constrictor eyeing its prey. “That gives me every right to an opinion.”
Source: A Delicate Marriage
“What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are so monstrous, we keep on hoping that maybe the corporate government administration and media are on the level with us this time. Americans remind me of survivors of domestic abuse. This is always the hope that this is the very, very, very last time one's ribs get re-broken again.”
“What happens to sanity when you chain it to a wall?”
Source: Strip Jack
“What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.”
“What happens to the drop of wine
That you pour into the sea?
Does it remain itself, unchanged?
It is as if it never existed.
So it is with the soul: Love drinks it in,
It is united with Truth,
Its old nature fades away,
It is no longer master of itself.
The soul wills and yet does not will:
Its will belongs to Another.
It has eyes only for this beauty;
It no longer seeks to possess, as was its wont--
It lacks the strength to possess such sweetness.
The base of this highest of peaks
Is founded on nichil,
Shaped nothingness, made one with the Lord.”
Source: The God-Madness
“What happens to the faith healer and the shaman when any poor citizen can see the full effect of drugs or surgeries, administered without ceremonies or mystifications? Roughly the same thing as happens to the rainmaker when the climatologist turns up, or to the diviner from the heavens when schoolteachers get hold of elementary telescopes.”
Source: God is Not Great
“What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?”
Source: Mother Courage and Her Children: A Chronicle of the Thirty Years' War
“What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.”
“What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person and what kind of a society will we have twenty years hence if life can be taken so casually? It is that question, the question of our attitude, our value system, and our mind-set with regard to the nature and worth of life itself that is the central question confronting mankind. Failure to answer that question affirmatively may leave us with a hell right here on earth.”
“What happens to the rest of something when you smash its heart?”
Source: Missing Angel Juan
“What happens to the souls of all the babies whom are never born? Are they lost in some parallel universe? Do they go to heaven? Are they on the other side waiting to get their vengeance?”
Source: Broken
“What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?”
Source: Four Past Midnight
“What happens to those who live dangerously by being true to who they are?”
Source: Voice of Reason
“What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs.”
“What happens to us are tiny matters compare to our hopeful and positive mental attitude to survive the situation.”
“What happens to us are tiny matters compare to our motivation to live through every tribulations.”