W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What was I thinking? Of all the assistants I could have wound up with, why did I have to choose the one with the scary mother and troublemaking in his bloodlines? I am doomed.”
“What was I to do, after sailing the seven seas now that we moved to 33 Van Wart Avenue, on the Scarsdale line of White Plains, NY. Like they say, money doesn’t grow on trees, so it was up to me to find a job. The economy wasn’t all that great and the best I could do was to find a commission job selling home fire detection units. One of the senior salesmen took me under his wing and showed me the ropes. The most important part of the pitch was to emphasize the importance of the fire detection unit and how, after declining our product a family had a fire in their home. The hapless husband was found stretched across the bed where he obviously died attempting to reach the telephone, while his family succumbed to the super-heated poisonous gasses and raging flames. It all could have been prevented if only they would have bought the fire detection unit when it was offered.
I hated cold calling and selling something to people that they couldn’t afford was not in my nature. I wasn’t like my brother who could lure a hungry dog off the back of a meat wagon! It wasn’t that I didn’t try, because the more often I told the story the worse it got! I could just tell that the people I talked to knew that I was full of shXt and all I wanted to do was get out of there, although one of the sales rules was that you stayed until the people invited you to leave at least three times.
For every rebuttal I had an answer and for every financial problem I had a solution, to put them even further into debt. In the end I would come home with my tail between my legs and with Ursula, watched the midnight horror show with John Zacherle. Dick Clark, a friend, gave Zacherle his nickname, "The Cool Ghoul," and for us it was television at it’s very best in the 1960’s.”
“What was I up to, you may ask? I certainly didn't want to meet Monsieur Evil again or creepy old Lord Salamander.”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“What was I waiting for? For signs and miracles, stars on the firmament..?”
Source: All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey
“What was I was dying for? The sins of the past? The wrongs of the present? Did it even matter?”
Source: Spiritus
“What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.”
“What was important was to trust - to be led through the dark by Angelina Jolie and then being touched by Zana Marjanovic, and doing the same for them. I'm so happy, and I'm so glad - this is the quality that makes The Land of Blood and Honey what it is - that in all these difficult scenes where I'm naked, not just physically but emotionally, we were able to achieve, without rehearsals, by just exploring the space.”
“What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together”
“What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time.”
“What was in it for me? I wasn't asking for any sort of reciprocation, after all. Why didn't she want her erogenous zones stimulated? I have no idea. All I know is that you could, if you wanted to, find the answers to all sorts of difficult questions buried in that terrible war-torn interregnum between the first pubic hair and the first soiled Trojan.”
Source: High Fidelity
“What was in our stars
That destined us for sorrow?”
“What was in store for him was, at the core, far more than Legion: As he ran toward Jesus, his former lord tore to pieces; because in order to reach Him, he was forced forth by meekness. It's like he was poorer than poor (before meeting the Teacher - who managed to fit a camel through the eye of a needle). For this rich man'll shed his riches in time for the Kingdom, and dismantle all that'll cease him, keep him from Christ's freedom (or, in a manner of speaking, to be crowned in right season) - now his counsel is, for good reason, like treason to demons - in this example: How the One who wore thorns mines His people.”
“What was in that candle’s light
that opened and consumed me so quickly?
Come back, my friend! The form of our love
is not a created form.
Nothing can help me but that beauty.
There was a dawn I remember
when my soul heard something
from your soul. I drank water
from your spring and felt
the current take me.”
Source: The Essential Rumi
“What was inside him would never go away. What had happened would never not have happened.”
Source: The Coming Storm
“What was intended to harm, God intended it all for good. And no matter what intends to harm you, God's arms have you. You can never be undone.”
“What was interesting to me was how they actually went to 9/11 and they chose that as part of his back story that we can unravel because it's something that people have shied away from for very obvious reasons. The opportunity to deal with some of that aftermath and the sensitivity, we can use that, and it will be a really neat thing.”
“What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.”
“What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.”
Source: Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy
“What was it about being so close to danger that filled us with adrenaline?”
Source: The Suicide House
“What was it about high school that made people think with their insecurities instead of their brains?”
Source: Where There's A Wolf, There's A Way
“What was it about mothers and daughters that made it so damned complicated?”
Source: Motion of Intervals
“What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?”
“What was it about people that made a stranger someone you could love, and a person you had known for all your life someone you didn’t know at all?”
Source: Mother Land
“What was it about relationships that made you feel so vulnerable? Oh, right. A relationship. In any relationship, you put yourself out there. You exposed all of your sensitive nerve endings and your heart and you just had to hope that you trusted the right person.”
Source: Every Last Kiss
“What was it about that short creature with her wild hair and spurious air of purity and why would anyone much less two men love her and to such disastrous ends.”
“What was it about the fig tree that was unsatisfactory to Jesus? Well if we use our context clues, we can deduce that the only thing that made this fig tree different than all of the other fig trees that Jesus must have encountered is that it was unfruitful - it was unproductive relative to its potential. To be a fig tree that does not produce figs is an insult to the creator, and arguably a waste of space - a bad investment.”
Source: 4 Business Lessons From Jesus: A businessmans interpretation of Jesus' teachings, applied in a business context.
“What was it about the I'll kill the bitch guy that cracked our audience up so much? Simple, everyone in the theatre had seen that guy before. I had seen that guy. And when we stepped outside the theatre into the Scottsdale shopping center where the Carson Twin Cinema was located, we might see that guy again. But what really cracked us up was we had never seen that guy in a Hollywood movie.”
Source: Cinema Speculation
“What was it about the military that made us believe it was our duty to not only accept violence against our bodies but find pride in enduring it?”
Source: Alive Day: A Memoir
“What was it about this man and his presence?
When Thomas touched her, the dance took on a new quality it had not had with William.
While she had been nervous at the closeness between their bodies when his brother led the waltz, Thomas provoked other sensations entirely. William exuded a sense of safety. His presence was unfamiliar, but stolid. Even comforting.
But Thomas… Everything about Thomas screamed danger to Claire. Yet she was mesmerized.”
Source: Mistakes Not to Make When Avoiding a Rake
“What was it about this woman that inspired such an overwhelming response in him? Maybe he'd never know. Maybe this was what happened when you met your other half.”
Source: Fever
“What was it about this woman? This plain, unassuming woman whom he had never before noticed? 'There is nothing about her that is plain or unassuming now.'
And he hated himself for describing her as such.
No... Lady Calpurnia Hartwell was coming into her own in a spectacular way- entirely new and thoroughly different from every woman he had known before her. And it was her heady combination of innocent curiosity and feminine will that had lured him into behaving the way he did.
He wanted her. Viscerally. In a way he'd never wanted any woman before her.”
Source: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake
“What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?”
Source: Cease and Desist
“What was it called, that symbol of the serpent eating its own tail? It probably signified infinity, endlessness, timelessness. But for me it would mean the effort to love well going on and on, round and round, always imperfect and always forgivable. The best we could ever do for each other.”
Source: Circle of Three
“What was it Catelyn Stark had called them, that night at Bitterbridge? The knights of summer. And now it was autumn and they were falling like leaves.”
Source: A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four
“What was it I gave you?'
'A Choice, Big Brother.”
“What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?”
“What was it like for the sirens on their lonely rock, watching everyone who tried to love them drown?”
Source: Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
“What was it like for them to leave home and cross the Pacific, with only the haziest plans for return? In the absence of available connections, they held onto an imaginary Taiwan, more an abstraction—a beacon, a phantom limb—than an actual island. The available technology delivered them there only on special occasions. So, they searched for traces of home in the faces of their classmates; they heard it wafting above the din when they shopped for groceries.”
Source: Stay True
“What was it like for you before the gay movement?' the young gay student asked.
'You might not believe this.' Foucault replied, 'but I actually liked the scene before the gay liberation, when everything was more covert. It was like an underground fraternity, exciting and a bit dangerous. Friendship meant a lot, it meant a lot of trust, we protected each other, we related to each other by secret codes.”
Source: Foucault in California [A True Story—Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death]
“What was it like? Hell if I know. But next time someone asks.... I'll answer crooked, and I'll answer long. And when they get confused or angry, I'll smile. Finally, I'll think. Someone who understands.”
Source: Youngblood
“What was it like?" I ask. "Being a serpent."
He hesitates. "It was like being trapped in the dark," he says. "I was alone, and my instinct was to lash out. I was perhaps not entirely an animal, but neither was I myself. I could not reason. There was only feelings--hatred and terror and the desire to destroy."
I start to speak, but he stops me with a gesture. "And you." He looks at me, his lips curving in something that's not quite a smile; it's more and less than that. "I knew little else, but I always knew you."
And when he kisses me, I feel as though I can finally breathe again.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“What was it like, she asked...being in the army? What was it truly like?
Truly?...Freezing cold when it wasn't boiling hot or pouring rain. Loud when it wasn't unbearably silent. Usually uncomfortable. Always filthy. Long stretches of boredom broken by by moments of sheer terror.”
Source: An Inconvenient Duke
“What was it like to be so confident even in your failings that you weren't the least bit bothered when other people pointed them out? I was almost envious.”
Source: Once and for All
“What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?”
Source: The Ministry of Time
“What was it like to live amidst such machines, to be familiar with them, to have them shape one's earliest intuitions about machinery: how it works, what it does, how it compares to living creatures?”
Source: The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick
“What was it like to lose him?" Asked Sorrow.
There was a long pause before I responded:
It was like hearing every goodbye ever said to
me—said all at once.”
Source: Love & Misadventure
“What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.”
“What was it Like?"
"What was what like?" he said, although he knew.
"Quick, I imagine. But you must have perceived something. A split second of vanishing awareness. A grasping at a shrinking light."
"It was like being fucked in the brain.”
Source: Lexicon
“What was it like working with John Carmack on Quake? Like being strapped onto a rocket during takeoff – in the middle of a hurricane.”
“What was it like...to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?”