W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When I entered the drum, why did it make my heart start pounding? In the small, cramped space, secretly, I was incredibly smitten by her.
While playing, we both decided to try and crawl into the drum. It was dark and smelled faintly of metal. Beyond the mouth of the round drum, we could see the sunlight.
If I turned around, our bodies fit into the drum exactly, and she was right there. Her breathing was echoing. The air around us was very humid.
Somehow the burning feeling in my heart came boiling over, and I put my face close to hers, and gave her a little kiss. Of course it was on the lips.
It was a gentle sensation, and it was the first time I'd ever felt such a strange emotion. She responded with the same feeling. So I kept on kissing her. They were light kisses, but my heart was beating wildly.It was an amazing first time.”
“When I entered the sport of boxing I wanted to be one of the best and be undefeated. And I was able to attain that, not just one championship title, but four.”
“When I entertain at home, I take time and pleasure in the small details that make all the difference. Entertaining is about giving to people and sharing with them.”
“When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?”
“When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie.
[Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn ich luge, nicht.]”
“When I evaluate a candidate, one of the most important criteria is what I call “the first derivative.” Is this person learning? Is this candidate moving forward, or have they stagnated.”
Source: Eric Sink on the Business of Software
“When I eventually got around to asking Amber to describe Zampanò, she just called him 'imperceivable and alone, though not I think so lonely.”
Source: House of Leaves
“When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.”
“When I eventually moved to a smaller home, it felt cozy, like having a pair of jeans that fit me just right—no wasted living space and no baggy fabric.”
Source: Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify.
“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.”
“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. (Reading this makes me wonder how much sooner man could have walked on the moon... had we listened to a child's fantasies. It is truly a pity that so many lose their gift of imagination to the steady hum of the status quo.)”
“When I exercise, I feel better, emotionally and physically.”
“When I exercise, I like to take lots of different classes because I want to really apply myself and feel like I'm learning a new skill. Not that I ever want to have to demonstrate any of those skills!”
“When I exhale, I just turn right into Louie Anderson.”
“When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me.”
“When I experience presence, I live in the space between my thoughts”
Source: A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being
“When I experience something or feel something, that's kind of transferred to the audience. There's a lot of great breakthrough moments that come out of that.”
“When I experience something, I believe it. I almost choked to death when I was a four year old and had a near death experience. I was very upset that I didn't die because it was a lot more interesting out of your body than in it.”
“When I experienced altered states of consciousness, my whole philosophical structure crumbled, and that terrified me. And what scared me the most was the realisation that death was not the end!”
“When I experienced pleasurable emotions, I was at peace; when I lacked them, I felt anxiety. When I experienced positive emotions, I felt my life was meaningful. When I lacked them, it felt void of purpose and meaning.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“When I explain our company values and the foundation to prospective employees, they realize that they have an opportunity to do much more than change the way businesses manage and share information. When you take a workforce of smart, creative, dedicated people and say "take this company time to serve your community, and bring along your coworkers, customers, and partners" great things happen.”
“When I explored my deeper mind, I could understand that my life is only an illusion, an apparent reality”
“When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.”
Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“When I express what I do, think, or feel in my solitude, I feel like I betray something sacred. I feel like I betray my feelings by exposing them, by putting them into words. Because solitude is being alone, after all; it's not suitable for any kind of external audience, or it turns into a commercial corruption.”
“When I face myself, I go, "You have a fear of really being on your own. So you know what? That's what we're gonna do right now.”
“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.”
Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America
“When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game.”
“When I fail or make a mistake, I ask myself what lesson I was supposed to learn or how I can show up differently next time.”
“When I fall in love I take my time There's no need to hurry when I'm making up my mind You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine and I'll tell you why.”
“When I fall in love I'm obsessed.”
“When I fall in love, it will be for always. Nothing will change that. No one will walk out. We will stay together forever, and when death finally separates us we will have the memories that we shared. He will be that kind of person. I will know him instantly when I finally meet him. And he will love me forever.”
Source: P. S. I Love You
“When I fall in love, I don't know why I fall in love, I just know that I am in love.”
“When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence, a mien which seems to say, "You are looking at somebody now." For this inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.”
“When I fall in love, it will be forever.”
“When I fart my ass makes a trumpet sound that heralds the arrival of the smell.”
“When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.”
“When I feel blue
I cope with red
And the sad part is
you completely get
what I just said”
“When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'”
“When I feel connected, mind-body and spirit, I feel centered.”
“When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious has solved it.”
“When I feel distress so deep,
I pray for God my strength to keep,
And if my struggles still persist,
The Lord’s mercy will always assist”
“When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. When you look up, you go up.”
“When I feel good, the crowd is behind me, have a great spirit, I think I can be very tough to beat.”
“When I feel hurt, I fully experience my emotions (and don't make them anyone else's problem!). Then I question my thoughts, examining my belief system and meeting the reality of life.”
“When I feel I lost the fight long ago in my mind, a shadow stands before me, shielding me from my enemy. A shadow made of anger and revolt, a shadow that is the amalgamation of all traits I lack and desperately seek.”
Source: FT Legacy 1: Who is Frank Twine?
“When I feel I'm going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.”
Source: Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations
“When I feel it my duty to speak an unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, though it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader’s immediate pleasure as well as my own.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.”
“When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.”
“When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.”