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 ROI of your Mom?”
“What's the ROI of your mum? You can't put a value on a relationship.”
“What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ...No, another social outcast!”
Source: The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition
“What's the secret to such a long and happy relationship? I don't know. Maybe because I work a lot.”
“What's the sense in having an eclipse if you can't look at it? Somebody in production sure slipped up this time!”
Source: Peanuts treasury
“What's the sense of sending $2 million missiles to hit a $10 tent that's empty?”
“What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms of people even understanding in common usage, some of the words we use to describe these movies, I don't know how long that's going to last.”
“What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?”
“What's the single most important thing to learn from an economics course today? What I tried to leave my students with is the view that the invisible hand is more powerful than the hidden hand. Things will happen in well-organized efforts without direction, controls, plans. That's the consensus among economists. That's the Hayek legacy.”
“What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.”
“What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?”
Source: Firefall
“What's the third largest nation in the world after China and India? It's the Facebook nation - 430 million people on Facebook.”
“What's the third metric beyond money and power? I think it's a combination of wellbeing and wisdom. Because the problem also with defining success just in terms of money and power means that people feel that they have to work around the clock, burn out, and the result is people making terrible decisions.”
“What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes.”
“What's the trick to writing a great female character? Make her human.”
“What's the trick? There are three of them: A sense of real purpose, a sense of humor, and a sense of constant curiosity. Keep using those to the grave because learning really never ends.”
“What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar.”
Source: Island
“What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin.”
“What's the ultimate price I'll pay if I don't stop this indulgence now? By asking questions like this, they'll associate pain to overeating, and their behavior will change immediately.”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“What's the use coming home to get the blues over what can't be helped.”
Source: Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night
“What's the use in being different when it's being different that's the same.”
“What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?”
Source: My Man Jeeves
“What's the use of a high school education if you can't recall it when needed later on?”
Source: Heavy Planet: The Classic Mesklin Stories
“What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?”
“What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?”
“What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart?”
“What's the use of being Irish if you can't be thick?”
“What's the use of being legible, when nothing inspires you to take notice of it?”
“What's the use of dying in a ward surrounded by a lot of groaning and croaking incurables? Wouldn't it be much better to throw a party with that twenty-seven thousand and take poison and depart for the other world to the sound of violins, surrounded by lovely drunken girls and happy friends?”
Source: The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov
“What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?”
“What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You Gonna Get Drunk Again)”
“What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?”
“What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?”
“What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.”
Source: Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)
“What's the use of money if you have to earn it.”
“What's the use of running when you are on the wrong road?”
“What's the use of saying we're better at baseball than this country? We all play together. I'm playing with Venezuelans and Dominicans right now. We all play together, so what's up with saying our country is better than your country? It's stupid. I don't like it.”
“What's the use of stories that aren't even true?”
Source: Haroun Aur Sagar Kisson Ka: (Hindi Edition)
“What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!”
Source: Ten Plays
“What's the use of watching? A watched pot never boils.”
Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)
“What's the use of worrying?
It never was worth while,
So pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile.”
“What's the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile.”
“What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?”
“What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas.”
Source: 1919: Volume Two of the U.S.A. Trilogy
“What's the use? The people are too stupid. They do not understand.”
“What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you're so ugly on the inside?”
“What's the woman doing there?" he asked. "Covering a scratch on the hood. She was cheaper than a new paint job." He flipped through a few more pages of barely dressed women and classic cars. "Nick used to have magazines like this when we were kids. But without the cars." He rotated a photo sideways. "Or the bathing suits.”
Source: Werewolves: Book One: Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings
“What's the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?”
Source: Clockwork Prince
“What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?”
“What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition