W Quotes
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“What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.”
Source: Observations by Mr. Dooley
“What's weird about the cinema business is that you have to have a thick skin while remaining vulnerable as an artist. It comes with time. You get dumped, your heart gets broken.”
“What's weird is when you meet a girl who is 23 and you are talking to her, even her voice is high-pitched, she's young. You ask her how old she is, she says, 'Twenty-three, how old are you?' and when I tell her I'm 41 it's like I've just told her I have cancer. It's, 'Oh my God, how long have you had that?'”
“What's well begun is half done.”
“What's when you rap and don't appreciate the art?
What's when you sell out just to get a start?
What's when you make bullshit just for the charts?
What's when you rap, but it's not from the heart?
What's when you're hardcore, then you turn pop?
When you steal ideas to get props?
When you sell out to be on top?
What's when you front like you're hard, but you're not?
That's a gimmick.”
“What's with all the running, anyway? I mean, I realize the importance of stamina and all that, but shouldn't I be moving on to something with a little hitting? They're still killing me in group practice.” "Maybe you should hit harder.”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“What's with the cute shoelace on your head?" "What this?" He flicked the end of the cord with his finger. "Yeah. Rambo called, he wants his bandana back.”
Source: Magic Burns
“What's with the disco lights?" Michael said, rolling down the window between the driver's compartment and the back. Eve turned around, and her face brightened. "You like it? I thought it looked really cool. I saw it in a movie, you know, in a limo." "It's cool," Michael said, and smiled at her. She smiled back. "Can't wait to lie here and watch it with you." Claire said, "You don't have to wait; it's working now. Look--Oh. Never mind." She blushed, feeling stupid that she hadn't gotten that one in the first second. Eve winked at her.”
Source: Ghost Town
“What's with the poverty Tourette's? Why do these two think we need a hobo for president?”
“What's with this weird hotel custom of leaving a piece of chocolate on the pillow? I awoke thinking my brain had hemorrhaged some sort of fecal matter.”
“What's with what you're wearing?" Griggs asks while we stand outside waiting for the others. "It's pretty hideous, isn't it?" I say. "Don't force me to look at it," he says. "It's see-through." That kills conversation for a couple of seconds.”
“What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?”
“What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on.”
“What's wonderful about Into The Woods is that you have a combination of all the most famous fairytales in this one story.”
“What's wonderful about Tolkien and Shakespeare is that they show up your own individual microscope. They're so infinitely vast. You can reinterpret them in so many ways. Each age will have its own resonance with Lord of the Rings.”
“What's wonderful is to read the different translations - some done in 1600 and some in 1900 - of the same passage. It's fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.”
“What's worked for me is not quitting and being passionate about what I do and not giving up - and when I don't believe in myself, turning to others who believe in me.”
“What's working for me is like when I go into the studio, I'm trying to get goosebumps.”
“What's worse ...? The devil you don't know ... or the devil you do?”
“What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.”
“What's worse: a president who is very faithful to an ideology that you find extreme, or a president who is very cynical and appears to have no ideology at all? Neither one of those things is great.”
“What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?”
Source: Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent
“What's worse? Being strung out or being fat?”
“What's worth doing even if you fail?”
“What's worth doing is worth doing for money.”
“What's wrong vs Right with you It's not a question of what's wrong with you, it's a question of what's right with you.”
“What's wrong with "the new elite?" Forget cultural insularity or smugness. The main problem with the "new elite" is that they're not an elite at all. That is, they aren't particularly smart, or competent.”
“What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press.”
“What's wrong with assholes, baby?”
Source: Charles Bukowski Fiction Collection
“What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?”
“What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?”
“What's wrong with being number 2?”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“What's wrong with being number two?”
“What's wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods--even extended ones--of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence?”
“What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.”
“What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into account the rest of your life.”
“What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It went so far off about making money that now everyone can do it.”
“What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.”
“What's wrong with it is, it lowers, to say the least, the credibility of the magazine. And if I were writing for [The New Republic ], I would feel diminished because the owner had done such a thing [fire a journalist].”
“What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot... that did so much to raise living standards and improve conditions for workers worldwide. We were a leader in extending to women the right to vote. We were barely a nation when we set the bar for bravery and sacrifice by common soldiers in foreign wars. We grew up out of racism and misogyny and homophobia to become a mostly tolerant, successful multicultural society. We did these great things because we know we are in it together. It is our core value as Australians.”
“What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.”
“What's wrong with lust? You fancy your neighbor's husband so what are you supposed to do? Poke your eyes out so that you can't see him anymore? Acting on it is maybe a sin ... but my God, just lusting after someone? Is that so bad?”
“What's wrong with men?" Tenar inquired cautiously. As cautiously, lowering her voice, Moss replied, "I don't know, my dearie. I've thought on it. Often I've thought on it. The best I can say it is like this. A man's in his skin, see, like a nut in its shell." She held up her long, bent, wet fingers as if holding a walnut. "It's hard and strong, that shell, and it's all full of him. Full of grand man-meat, man-self. And that's all. That's all there is. It's all him and nothing else, inside.”
“What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater.”
“What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.”
Source: Five complete Hercule Poirot novels
“What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America.”
“What's wrong with people?" she says, almost too quiet for me to hear. "Were they born with parts missing or did it fall out somewhere along the way?”
Source: Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition
“What's wrong with selfishness and egotism? We live to die smiling, don't we?”
“What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.”
“What's wrong with shoes? I collected them because it was like a symbol of thanksgiving and love?”