W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What' s the matter with me? Why can't I be cool?”
Source: Woody Allen's Play it again, Sam
“What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.' 'But it's so hot,' insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, 'And everything's so confused. Let's all go to town!”
Source: (The Great Gatsby)
“What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?”
“What'll you do if you can't find a way to cure him?" Seth asked. Dale paused. "I'll never know that day has come, because I'll never stop trying.”
Source: Rise of the Evening Star
“What're quantum mechanics?" "I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose.”
Source: Eric: Discworld: The Unseen University Collection
“What're you still doing up? You know all good little ninjas should be in bed, visions of homicidal sugarplums dancing in their heads.”
Source: Nightlife
“What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.”
“What's [the Beatles'] I Am the Walrus all about?”
“What's a bar bill but a surtax on reality?”
“What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.”
“What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.”
Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes
“What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?”
“What's a celebrity anyway? Paris Hilton's a celebrity. I'm just a working actor.”
“What's a codependent? The answer's easy. They're some of the most loving, caring people I know.”
Source: Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers
“What's a country? It's just an administrative unit, a glorified municipality. Why do we imbue it with esoteric meaning and protect it with nuclear bombs? I can't bow down to a municipality... it's just not intelligent. The bastards will do what they have to do, and we'll do what we have to do. Even if they annihilate us, we'll go down on the other side.”
“What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.”
“What's a depression? The dictionary says a depression is a dent. And what's a dent? Everybody knows a dent is a hole. And what's a hole? You tell me what's a hole! And I'll tell you that a hole is nothin'!”
“What's a domestic partnership? Domestic partnership is not even a marriage, and there's a contract that involves, potentially, sexual and financial commitments to each other. In this case, however, the guy is also charging one dollar, and that is his undoing.”
“What's a farmer's market without some guy singing Here Comes The Sun in a way that makes you wish the sun would stop coming up.”
“What's a friend for if not to face almost certain death with, eh?”
“What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.”
“What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.”
“What's a hero if not for its journey.”
“What's a hero, if not for its journey. I think you're going to recontextualize what saving the world means, and I think that you will be satisfied with the stakes. That's all I can say about that.”
“What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.”
Source: The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays
“What's a major concern that people, major grievance Americans lodge? It's, we don't make anything in America anymore.”
“What's a man got to do to get in the top fifty?”
“What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.”
Source: An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry
“What's a mediator you ask? Oh, a person who acts as a liason between the living and the dead. Hey, wait a minute...what're you doing with that strait jacket?-Suze Simon's imagination”
“What's a philosopher?' said Brutha. Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.”
“What's a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy”
“What's a premonition? It's when you feel something before it actually happens. Do I believe in it? Yes. Have I had one? Nothing worth noting. I believe in all of that kind of stuff.”
“What's a problem with India, in particular, is female feticide - aborting a female fetus. It is unacceptable and illegal, but it happens on a large scale. Then there's also the killing of baby girls. Female feticide is pretty much middle-class, Indian experts say. This is not happening among the poor; they just have to keep bearing children and hope they live. This casts into doubt the spurious argument that we just have to wait until everyone's middle class and then all of this will sort itself out. Better-off women will have fewer children - but at what cost?”
“What's a punk band? Hey, who's got a beer?”
“What's a soup kitchen?”
“What's a Sun-Dial in the shade?”
Source: Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin
“What's a victory when its hollow?”
“What's a word, a talisman, to hold against the world?”
Source: Collected Poems: 1974-2004
“What's a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.”
“What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.”
Source: The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings
“What's absolutely impossible to prove is the idea of innate and everlasting equality.”
“What's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There's no excuse for it. No justification. No explanation. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we'll pay a very nasty price.”
“What's actually amazing is that, after a couple of years of living with characters and writing characters and talking about characters, as we sit in the writers room and break episodes, it strikes you, every once in awhile, that you're talking about a character that's played by the same actor, who you've been talking about forever. We talk about a character dying, so you get emotional, and then you realize, "Oh, but wait, that actor is still on the show."”
“What's against legalization in a practical sense? A couple of college kids figured out how to take a hemp plant and turn it into newspaper and it was actually a better quality of paper. It was cheaper and if you plant hemp in a field it revitalizes the soil. You can grow food in a dirt lot if you do enough harvest of hemp. I don't pretend to know the specifics of the economics of it to say how much we'll be getting, but there is money to be made there that is not being made because it's illegal.”
“What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice doesn't care about who you find. It just keeps pestering you, tormenting you--if you happen to be me--with homecoming queens first, then girls next door, and finally anybody who might be pleased to see you now and then at the dinner table and in bed on occasion. You look up from reading the newspaper and realize that no one loves you, and no one burns for you.”
Source: The feast of love
“What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice doesn't care about who you find. It just keeps pestering you, tormenting you.”
Source: The feast of love
“What's all this about yanking poor Magnus and Alec back from their vacation?" Isabelle demanded. "They have opera tickets!”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?”
“What's all this talk about me being teamed with Ginger Rogers? I will not have it Leland--I did not go into pictures to be teamed with her or anyone else, and if that is the program in mind for me I will not stand for it. I don't mind making another picture with her but as for this teams idea, it's out.”
“What's all this whining about the environment? They're always talking about 'stop the clearcuts.' I mean do the math people. If we were out of trees then we wouldn't have any clearcuts to be complaining about now would we?”