W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.”
“When I began writing The Night Bookmobile, it was a story about a woman's secret life as a reader. As I worked it also became a story about the claims that books place on their readers, the imbalance between our inner and outer lives, a cautionary tale of the seductions of the written word. It became a vision of the afterlife as a library, of heaven as a funky old camper filled with everything you've ever read. What is this heaven? What is it we desire from the hours, weeks, lifetimes we devote to books? What would you sacrifice to sit in that comfy chair with perfect light for an afternoon in eternity, reading the perfect book, forever?”
Source: The Night Bookmobile
“When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish we had, the ways in which we depend on our children to depend on us, the ways in which we encourage them to remain children, the ways in which they remain more unknown to us than they do to their more casual acquaintances; the ways in which we remain equally opaque to them.”
“When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.”
“When I began writing, it was a cosmic thing: Inspiration! Wham! Short spurts of time when I felt out of touch with reality, temporarily insane and the result: a song!”
“When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want to be a writer, whats stopping you?”
“When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.”
“When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance”
“When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.”
“When I begin a story at my desk, the window to my back, the path is not there. As I start to walk, I make the path.”
“When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.”
“When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing”
“When I begin to work on myself, sometimes things get worse before they get better. It is okay if this happens, because I know that it's the beginning of the process. It's untangling old threads. I just flow with it. It takes time and effort to learn what I need to learn. I don't demand instant change.”
Source: Inner Wisdom: Meditations for the Heart and Soul
“When I beheld you, suddenly - for perhaps a second - I had the strength to reject everything that wasn't you and to laugh at the illusion. But my shoulders are very frail. I was unable to bear the weight of the world's condemnation. And I began to hate you when everything about you would have kindled my love and when love would have made men's contempt unbearable, and their contempt would have made my love unbearable. The fact is, I hate you.”
Source: The Blacks: A Clown Show
“When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him.”
Source: A Selection [- Second Selection] from the Paper of Addison: In the Spectator and Guardian, for the Use of Young Persons
“When I behold the heavens as in their prime,
And then the earth (though old) still clad in green,
The stones and trees, insensible of time,
Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen”
Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet
“When I behold the passion for ornamentation, and the corresponding power, I feel as if women had so far shown what they are bad for, rather than what they are good for.”
“When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance.”
“When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through faith alone. His righteous life is imputed to me. What Christ achieved is counted as mine.”
“When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.”
Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“When I believe in myself my life is vibrationally amazing!”
“When I believe in nothing, I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing.”
“When I believe in something, I fight like hell for it.”
“When I believe in something, I support it fully. On that note, I totally don't support Velcro shoes.”
“When I believe in something, I'm like a dog with a bone.”
“When I believe in something, I'm very passionate. I don't take 'no' for an answer.”
“When I believe, this is the right path; I fearlessly walk on the pathway.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“When I believe, I am crazy. When I don’t believe,
I suffer psychotic depression.”
Source: The Exegesis of Philip K Dick
“When I believed my thoughts I suffered.”
Source: Who Would You Be Without Your Story? (Large Print 16pt)
“When I belonged to Jobbik, I didn't wear a kippa and I didn't light Hannukah candles.”
“When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.”
Source: Henry V
“When I bet on horses, I never lose. Why? I bet on all the horses.”
“When I bite you, it'll be because I want to make your toes curl and your hair stand on end. And you won't need stitches afterward. You'll need crutches.”
“When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.”
“When I Bless Your Life And Living, I Am Lord VISHNU And When I Curse Your Life And Living, I Am Lord SHIVA, MURUGA PERUMAL”
“When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying.”
“When I bought my first house in London with my husband-to-be, our surveyor said: "Nicki, you're paying top dollar, but it's not an investment," and I said: "But we're buying a home, not an investment."”
“When I bought my house in L.A., that was the best business decision I ever made, until the housing market crashed, and it became the worst business decision I ever made.”
“When I bought out my first autobiography I received the biggest tax bill of my life.”
“When I bought the [WNBA] team, I saw that no one really cared about them. Like the locker facilities that these young women have to work in-they weren't right. I want to give them the best locker room facilities and show them they're valued-because if you show them value, they're going to perform better. And this goes for all women, not just basketball players.”
“When I bought the Rolls Royce they thought it was leased, then I bought that new Ferrari hater rest in peace.”
“When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.”
“When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the time to reach her hand through the mesh and say my name before the spear enters her body.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“When I break My Silence, the impact of My Love will be universal and all life in creation will know, feel and receive of it. It will help every individual to break himself free from his own bondage in his own way. I am the Divine Beloved who loves you more than you can ever love yourself. The breaking of My Silence will help you to help yourself in knowing your real Self.”
Source: 84 Questions & Answers on Avatar Meher Baba
“When I breathe down my nose to say how do you do to a horse, it can hear that breath at anything up to twenty yards, for horses have the most acute sense of hearing.”
“When I breathe,
This sound in my chest
Lonelier than the winter wind”
Source: Romaji Diary and Sad Toys
“When I broke in, in 1957, it was wide open. Now you're up against strong competition.”
“When I broke into music journalism it wasn't easy but there was more of an established path. I wanted and was able to have a grown-up person's job with a real salary writing for a fairly sizable audience about stuff I cared about. When you're starting out, you try to get as much experience as you can so people will see your work, and maybe start giving you the assignments you want, and paying you (hopefully both). And if you're lucky you land someplace where you can stay for a while. But today that's a trickier trajectory to envision.”
“When I broke into professional hockey at 17 I was told that I was too small and too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL. Now it's kind of flip-flopped and the sense is I can't be a good coach because I was a great athlete.”
“When I broke my arm, I knew there was something a lot bigger than baseball (about to happen) ... I had a sense that God had something for me, something bigger than baseball.”