W Quotes
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“When I am most successful as a guitar player is when I'm able to just sort of lose myself. You stop thinking about technique or anything like that and just trying to evoke the emotion of that song brings, which is a very strong emotion for me.”
“When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.”
“When I am near the end of a book, I have to sleep in the same room with it.”
“When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination.”
“When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important”
“When I am no more, my thoughts will take care of you.”
“When I am not desperate, I am worthless.”
“When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.”
Source: Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation
“When I am not moving toward my fate, it comes to me.”
Source: Who Fears Death
“When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.”
Source: Letters of Marcel Proust
“When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think.”
Source: Elia
“When I am not writing, I'm dying.”
“When I am nothing but shadow, you are the light that guides me back.”
Source: Evernight
“When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.”
“When I am old and addled I will make coronets like Cad, that have nothing to do with history, but represent the whimsy and cobwebs in my brain.”
“When I am old I shall wear midnight.”
“When I am old, I shall wear purple.”
“When I am on my board, I always have my ID, ChapStick and maybe a $20 bill, because you never know when you'll need to buy a water or something.”
“When I am on my deathbed, I don't think I will be thinking about a nice pair of shoes I had or my beautiful house. I am going to be thinking about an evening I spent with somebody when I was twenty where I felt that I was just absolutely connected to them.”
“When I am on set or rehearsing for the play, the only thing I can talk about is the work I'm doing. In that way, I home in on what I am doing at the time. So maybe I am a terrible multitasker.”
“When I am on the road and heading to my next venue, I think about my audience.”
“When I am onstage, singing all these songs... what's going through my mind is nothing. That's what's so amazing about meditation - achieving that state, getting to a place where you're clear and present. I'm not thinking about anything except connecting with an audience.”
“When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.”
“When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself. I become a thief, a vagrant, an animal who runs and hides. I startle old women and amaze children. I am a trick, an illusion of the highest order, so incredible that I am actually true.”
Source: The Time Traveler's Wife
“When I am outside at night by myself every person turns into a pedophile. So I tend to walk a little faster than usual and then I sprint.”
“When I am paid a compliment, I must compare myself with the little donkey that carried Christ on Palm Sunday. And I say to myself: If that little creature, hearing the applause of the crowd, had become proud and had begun -- jackass that he was -- to bow his thanks left and right like a prima donna, how much hilarity he would have aroused! Don't act the same!”
Source: Illustrissimi: Letters from Pope John Paul I
“When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.”
“When I am passing through hell, I have to remind myself of the last time I happened to be on that road. How quickly it was over, without any ingenuity on my part. After all, hell is a one-way street. The only direction forward is the way out.”
“When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.”
“When I am performing, I try to follow the advice I give to my students. This can be very hard - I was never a good student and I find I'm no better when I am the teacher.”
“When I am playing a role far away from me with an accent that is not mine I always employ a dialect coach. I am almost always playing someone that has an accent that is not mine.”
“When I am playing well I think I play such boring tennis.”
“When I am playing with my grandchildren, that brings glory to God. So I don't think glory to God is simply serious. I do think that there is glory of God in laughter.”
“When I am playing, I am in ecstasy; that is what I live for.”
“When I am praying the most eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life. But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with such power that I have to grab a pencil and a notebook and take notes on what God is saying to my heart.”
“When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherever it is.”
“When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that's a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that's the thrill in fashion.”
“When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author
“When I am really angry, I clam up, go cold.”
“When I am recording on my own, it's like an oil painting: I can put that on top of that and build up layers. But with the band, it turned out more watercolor: you're leaving white bits of paper exposed, so that nothing is too overworked.”
“When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.”
“when I am running on fumes
you fill me up.
igniting my engine to throttle a bit harder.
A bit faster.
you rev me up regardless of the number of bumps,
regardless of the amount of twists
and turns in the road ahead.
my heart belongs to you.
propelling me towards the sunset.
the reason I speed down the street in this passionate flight.
Not afraid to jump any unsuspecting hill.
most might think that I am crazy, the way that I drive.
if they knew the reason why, they'd press the pedal down as well.
when I am running on fumes, rev me up, rev me up.
Baby rev me up.
I am a well-oiled machine with a place to be.
whether towards the moon or the sun.
you're the gasoline that ignites the spark
that pushes me to go a little further.”
Source: Twelve Midnight
“When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on”
Source: Heart on the Left: Poems, 1953-1984
“When I am saying all of this, she is just looking at me and I am seeing water in her eye. So I am saying to her, if I am telling this to you it will be making you to think that I am some sort of beast or devil. Amy is never saying anything when I am saying this, but the water is just shining in her eye. And I am saying to her, fine. I am all of this thing. I am all of this thing, but I am also having mother once, and she is loving me.”
“When I am scared, all my intentions are focused on survival and not on living to the fullest. Certainly, not on benevolence, not on being my best, not on becoming a better version of myself, not on loving myself or others.
Fear whispers “survive.” Not “live.”
“When I am scared of something, I run towards it, instead of away from it.”
“When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.”
“When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.”
“When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.”
“When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.”
Source: The Spiritual Poems of Rumi