W Quotes
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“When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling... But it happens very rarely; usually it's agony... I go to great pains to mask the agony. But the struggle is there. It's the invisible enemy.”
“When I am happy and when I really focus, I can! Whatever I dream of with my thoughts becomes a part of my world, my plan.”
Deetkatu, Meet the Little People…An Enchanting Adventure”
Source: See the Little People...An Enchanting Adventure
“When I am happy and when I really focus, I can! Whatever I dream of with my thoughts becomes a part of my world, my plan.”
Deetkatu, See the Little People…An Enchanting Adventure”
Source: See the Little People...An Enchanting Adventure
“When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work.”
“When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.”
“When I am here,
I wish to be home.
And when I am home,
I wish to be away.”
Source: We Will Never Be Here Again
“When I am high I couldn't worry about money of I tried. So I don't. The money will come from from somewhere; I am entitled; God will provide. Credit cards are disastrous, personal checks worse. Unfortunately, for manics anyway, mania is a natural extension of the economy.”
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“When I am holding a water balloon, so many things look so unnecessarily dry.”
“When I am home alone I like to scatter my tackle across the floor and play with it. I may pretend I am working on it, performing preventative maintenance, but really it is playing.”
Source: Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis
“When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.”
“When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.”
“When I am ill or upset he jumps up on to the bed to curl up close beside me. But if I am in bed with a hangover he will have nothing to do with me.”
“When I am in a hotel, and I turn off the lights and the TV, I just freak out. I turn the TV back on and don't get any sleep.”
“When I am in a painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc, because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.”
Source: Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990
“When I am in a relationship, I don’t wear lipstick at all. I hate the smearing, the retouching, the constant throb of phoniness as you surreptitiously check the damage in your compact between kisses. I wear lots of mascara to compensate, different colors so I don’t get bored. When I am about to break up with a guy, he has full warning because I start wearing lipstick again.”
Source: Cherries In The Snow
“When I am in a situation where I feel uncomfortable about speaking but it is necessary for me to speak, or if I feel 'put on the spot' my voice sounds strained, really weird, and it feels as if I have no control over how I sound in these situations. Sometimes then my voice is barely audible and I am frequently asked to repeat myself. Attempts at speaking are often embarrassing, shaming experiences for me. I sound quite different when speaking with someone I am more relaxed with, but I don't like the way my voice sounds at the best of times; I was horrified when I heard a recording of myself. Because of this inhibition about speaking, I have never learned to project my voice or to use it effectively. I often feel that I could no more use my vocal cords to break a silence, to get somebody's attention or to initiate an interaction than I could run through fire or do something dangerous in my life.”
Source: Selective Mutism In Our Own Words: Experiences in Childhood and Adulthood
“When I am in balance with the vibration of my life, I am able to manifest what is needed, both for me and for others.”
“When I am in balance with the vibration of the sun, the moon, the stars and the planets I am ultimately connected to the Universe.”
“When I am in charge of a vessel, I always command; nobody commands but me. I take all the responsibility, all the risks, all the hardships that my office would call upon me to take. I do not steer by any man's compass but my own.”
“When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)
“When I am in Egypt, I am phoned because I am listed in the medical directory under "Mental Health and Psychiatry." And of course, I see very few people, because I give much more time to writing. So I cannot say that I really stopped medicine, but I practice medicine - or psychiatry - in a very different way. In an artistic way!”
“When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.”
“When I am in London, I think my favourite city is London, but when I am in New York, I feel it is New York. It is very hard to choose between the two.”
“When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.”
Source: Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.
“When I am in New York, I want to be in Europe, and when I am in Europe, I want to be in New York.”
“When I am in pain, I must know that beauty always has been and always will be. This is as close to eternity as I need to be.”
“When I am in the battlefield, I love it more than my wedding night with the most beautiful of women”
“When I am in the city I have the impression that I am in a living room with crystal chandeliers, rugs of velvet, and satin cushions. And when I'm in the favela I have the impression that I'm a useless object, destined to be forever in a garbage dump.”
Source: Beyond All Pity
“When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.”
“When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“When I am in the darkness, I want to think of it in the light, with you," he said, and straightened, and turned to walk toward the door. The parchment robes of the Silent Brothers moved around him as he moved, and Tessa watched him, paralyzed, every pulse of her heart beating out the words she could not say: Good-bye. Good-bye. Good-bye.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“When I am in the darkness, I want to think of it in the light, with you. - James Carstairs”
“When I am in the heavenly light of my vibration, my life is in balance & harmony.”
“When I am in the presence of the police, I assume I am in the presence of liars until proven otherwise.”
“When I am in the process of conceiving a story, I make sure it can be told with words and pictures. The story has to be creative, original and interesting in both areas. Many stories get rejected because they feel derivative.”
“When I am in the vibration of prosperity and abundance I am cosmically connected to my world and the Universe.”
“When I am in Tibet, I am very happy. The Tibetans radiate. They literally send out light. The Dalai Lama's holiness generates love and compassion to every human being. He has committed himself to that. I haven't made that leap yet. I haven't given up self-aspiration. I still love making movies.”
“When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.”
Source: Annotated The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People with English Grammar Exercises: by Oscar Wilde (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
“When I am introduced as someone from New Orleans, people sometimes say: "I'm so sorry." New Orleans. I'm so sorry. That's not the way it was before,not the way it's supposed to be. When people find out you're from New Orleans, they're supposed to tell you about how they got drunk there once, or fell in love there, or first heard the music there that changed their lives. At worst people would say: "I've always wanted to go there." But now, it's just: "I'm sorry." Man, that kills me. That just kills me.”
Source: 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
“When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with a character or a logline like, "What if the electricity turned off?"”
“When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”
Source: The Prince and the Pauper
“When I am king, I will revise the sexual bases system so that getting to first base will include oral sex and sodomy!”
“When I am liberated by silence, when I am no longer involved in the measurement of life, but in the living of it, I can discover a form of prayer in which there is effectively no distraction. My whole life becomes a prayer. My whole silence is full of prayer. The world of silence in which I am immersed contributes to my prayer.”
Source: Thoughts In Solitude
“When I am living with an eternal Kingdom perspective, then growing in relationship with my Creator will rise to the top of my priorities.”
Source: GROW: A COACH APPROACH TO CHRISTIAN GROWTH
“When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways, I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the part of them I would like to possess. Don’t move, I think. Stay like that, let me have that.”
“When I am lonely for boys what I miss is their bodies. The smell of their skin, its saltiness. The rough whisper of stubble against my cheek. The strong firm hands, the way they rest on the curve of my back.”
Source: Hungry For You
“When I am lost and fearful, there is an atm in the sky.”
Source: brooklynwind
“When I am making a film, I know what to do in front of a camera. What frightens me are the scenes with dialogue. Sometime they really want me to speak perfectly and I don't like that.”
“When I am making music, I am growing at the same time, ain't I?”
“When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.”