W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?”
“When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?”
“When did it become necessary to explain what's so cool about Japan? Everyone was quite obsessed with it 15 years ago. I suppose it's the only Asian country that developed an imaginary entree to me. That's why I go back.”
“When did it become something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?”
“When did it become the law of the land that the Supreme Court has the final say on anything? They cannot have the final say on anything. The American people have the final say on anything.”
“When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted?”
“When did life start being something you had to work at and not something that just is?”
Source: Pure Sunshine
“When did my life go from a Hallmark movie to a Lifetime movie?”
“When did Noah build the boat? - Before the rain.”
“When did one man ever civilize a people?”
Source: The Rise of the Dutch Republic: In three volumes
“When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?”
“When did swearing become so easy? You still would never swear in front of your parents or most adults, but when you're with your friends it's like every fifth word. Why couldn't learning Spanish be that easy?”
Source: You
“When did the body first set out on its own adventures, after having ditched its old travelling companions, the mind and the soul?”
Source: Oryx And Crake
“When did the business community in America become so sensitive? ... that we have to treat like some type of rare exotic animal - don't startle them or they'll fly away!...we need to soothe them so they can nest here and lay their magic eggs full of jobs! - WHICH NEVER HATCH BY THE WAY!!!”
“When did the cell phone become a license to be rude? And why must I be subjected to your personal conversations?”
Source: Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?
“When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?”
Source: Invisible Monsters
“When did the girl get to the Blackwell house and what did she see? Can she identify me? I may have to get rid of her, too. Who cares if one more camel jockey meets her Maker? After all, they’re blowing themselves up to go to paradise, anyway.”
Source: Betrayal of Justice
“When did the government become our psycho ex-girlfriend”
“When did the lemons learn the same creed as the sun?”
Source: Pablo Neruda: Five Decades, a Selection (poems, 1925-1970)
“When did the passionate pursuit of... well, anything... become something to be mocked?”
Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings.”
Source: Modes and Morals
“When did they start coming after you?” “Was it—was it after the oil- slick Hummer crash?” the Gasman asked Iggy tentatively. My eyes widened. Oil-slick Hummer crash? Iggy rubbed his chin, thinking. “Or maybe it was more---after the bomb,” the Gasman said in a low voice, looking down. “I think it was the bomb,” Iggy agreed. “That definitely seemed to tick them off.” “Bomb?” I asked incredulously.”
“When did this journey begin...
When did this fire begin in my heart...”
“When did we all agree that giving a damn was a character flaw?”
Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“When did we all become fluent in this language that none of us wanted to learn?”
Source: Asking For It
“When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?”
“When did we fall apart? or did you lie from the start?”
“When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.”
“When did we start believing God wants to send us to safe places to do easy things?”
“When did we stop being people, being human?”
Source: Knife Edge
“When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?”
“When did wrinkles become shameful and when did we start buying into all this bullshit?”
Source: Not Done Yet!: How Women Over 50 Regain Their Confidence and Claim Workplace Power
“When did you become a woman?"-Hatori How dare you ask that after you have seen me naked so many times..."-Yuki GASP! No it cant be! Yuki-kun, does that mean..." fan club girls NO! He's my doctor..."Yuki”
“When did you ever hear of a child not in need? 'Oh that's enough jam tart for me, I'll just go now and clean the toilets.'”
“When did you feel most fulfilled? When did you impress yourself, or otherwise feel most proud of yourself?”
“When did you first fall in love?"
"I think, I first fell in love
when I was in fifth grade
with this boy who kept his glass ruler in the sunlight
and made rainbows on my desk with it.”
Source: Stardust and Sheets
“When did you first feel like a grown woman and not a girl?” We wrote down our answers and shared them, first in pairs, then in larger groups. The group of women was racially and economically diverse, but the answers had a very similar theme. Almost everyone first realized they were becoming a grown woman when some dude did something nasty to them. “I was walking home from ballet and a guy in a car yelled, ‘Lick me!’” “I was babysitting my younger cousins when a guy drove by and yelled, ‘Nice ass.’” There were pretty much zero examples like “I first knew I was a woman when my mother and father took me out to dinner to celebrate my success on the debate team.” It was mostly men yelling shit from cars. Are they a patrol sent out to let girls know they’ve crossed into puberty? If so, it’s working.”
“When did you first recoil
from your mouth? Do you feel safe wrecking language?”
Source: Dear Diaspora
“When did you get all insightful?" he asked. "I have no idea," Josh admitted. "I don't like it." "Me, either. Makes me feel like a girl. Don't tell anyone." (Ethan and Josh)”
“When did you get so clever?"
"When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.”
Source: The Infernals
“When did you get so smart?" He tapped his forehead. "Brain transplant. They put in a whale's. I'm passing all my classes with my eyes closed now, but I just can't get over this craving for krill." He shrugged. "And I feel sorry for the whale that got my brain. Probably swimming around Florida now trying to catch glimpses of girls in bikinis.”
“When did you get that?"
"The shirt? At Macy's. Winter sale.”
Source: City of Ashes
“When did you start here?” I ask her.
“Three days ago. Sir. Aspirant. Um—” She wrings her hands.
“Veturius is fine.”
She walks carefully, gingerly—the Commandant must have whipped her recently. And yet she doesn't hunch or shuffle like the others slaves. The straight-backed grace with which she moves tells her story better than words. She'd been a freewoman before this—I'd bet my scims on it. And she has no idea how pretty she is—or what kind of problems her beauty will cause for her at a place like Blackcliff. The wind pulls at her hair again, and I catch her scent—like fruit and sugar.
“Can I give you some advice?”
Her head flies up like a scared animal's. At least she's wary. “Right now you...” Will grab the attention of every male in a square mile. “Stand out,” I finish. “It's hot, but you should wear a hood or a cloak—something to help you blend in.”
She nods, but her eyes are suspicious. She wraps her arms around herself and drops back a little. I don't speak to her again.”
Source: An Ember in the Ashes
“When did you stop caring? he asked.
When did you start noticing? she replied.”
“When did you suddenly become Mister Maturity?”
Source: Once Upon a Crime
“When did you throw yourselves away?”
“When did you trust someone to hold a truth as carefully as you did?”
“When did your name
change from a proper noun
to a charm?
Its three vowels
like jewels
on the thread of my breath.
Its consonants
brushing my mouth
like a kiss.
I love your name.
I say it again and again
in this summer rain.
I see it,
discreet in the alphabet,
like a wish.
I pray it
into the night
till its letters are light.
I hear your name
rhyming, rhyming,
rhyming with everything.
"Name”
Source: Rapture
“When did Youth ever thank Age for its wisdom?”
“When different generations of cars are combined into one train, it messes with the loudspeaker system.”