Quotes starting with W Page 1870

“When I go to the garage to pick up my clubs, I clean the spider webs off.”

Picks Clean Clubs Spiders Garage Spider Web

“When I go to the Gate, I'll play a duet with Gabriel. Yeah, we'll play 'Sleepy Time Down South' and 'Hello, Dolly!.' Then he can blow a couple that he's been playing up there all the time.”

Play Music Couple Yeah South Blow Gates Hello Sleepy Gabriel Duets Playing Up

Author:Louis Armstrong

“When I go to the line I'm thinking 'All net.' When I don't think that, I'm likely to miss.”

Thinking Lines Missing Basketball Famous Basketball

Author:Larry Bird

“When I go to the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World, they have wonderful topiary in the shapes of characters. I apply the principle to my life. "Prune away that which is not a Disney princess!" I think Michelangelo said that.”

Thinking World Character Wonderful Magic Princess Walt

Author:Sara Benincasa

“When I go to the mountains, I intuitively know my place in the world much better through these experiences. The more intense they are, the better I know myself, and the more I am able to challenge myself.”

Knows World Able Challenges Mountain Intense Climbing Places In The World

Author:Galen Rowell

“When I go to the movies, and I have to sit through ten previews of films that look [alike] and tell the whole story, you know that we've reached an age of consensus. And consensus is the worst thing for us. We all agree to agree. That's where we lose it as a culture. We have to move away from that.”

Knows Looks Whole Stories Age Film Moving Culture Loses Worst Ten Agree Worst Things Consensus Preview

Author:Oliver Stone

“When I go to the movies, I do like to see things that surprise me, a little bit, in ways that seem truthful to the world that we live in.”

World Way Littles Seems Bits Little Bit Surprise Truthful Surprise Me

Author:Todd Solondz

“When I go to the movies, I like romance, comedy, and thrillers. I hate gore.”

Romance Hate Comedy I Hate Gore Thrillers

Author:Peter Weller

“When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before.”

People Want Littles Two Stories Desire Dies Lost Hours Heard Hollywood Something New Strongest Formulas New Experiences New Places Meeting New People

Author:Roger Ebert

Source: Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007

“When I go to the old folks' home, I'm gonna be sitting in a rocking chair, telling everybody how I worked with Jack [Lemmon] and Walter [Matthau].”

Home Sitting Folks Chairs Rocking Chairs Folks Home

Author:Brent Spiner

“When I go to the plate, I think about putting the ball in play. It's important to get on base and get some walks, but I don't go to the plate thinking of walking.”

Thinking Important Play Walks Walking Balls Plates

Author:Pedro Martinez

“When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started...”

“When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself.”

Kind Summer Lazy Shore Ripe Lush

Author:Tom Robbins

“When I go to throw a punch, actually, my intention is to hit somebody. That's just second nature to me. So you have to just rewire yourself. It's not something where you have to sit and subconsciously think about it, but you kind of have to just put yourself in that mode and go with it. Learning the fight scenes, I've never had to learn choreography before, so learning the fight scenes was like learning a dance or something like that. I had a little bit of influence in the fight scenes and I tried to put as much influence there as I could, but I had fun doing it.”

Thinking Kind Fighting Fun Influence Scene Intention Choreography Had Fun I Had Fun

Author:Rich Franklin

“When I go to vote for anything, I always pencil in the proposition to return California and Texas to Mexico. I'm the one person that's voting for that one.”

Persons Return Vote California Voting Texas Mexico Propositions Pencils

Author:Devendra Banhart

“When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.”

May Film Taken Succeed Excellent Anxious Back To Work

Author:Dabney Coleman

“When I go to work and when I'm in the public eye, I take much better care of myself. Because when I'm not working, I do indulge more.”

Eye Care Indulge Public Eye

Author:Michelle Pfeiffer

“When I go train hopping and I look up into the sky, there are always so many more stars than I remember there were.”

Looks Remember Stars Sky Train Look Up Hopping

Author:William T. Vollmann

“When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, “Where are your wounds?” and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, “Was there nothing to fight for?” I couldn’t face that question.”

Beautiful

Author:Alan Paton

“When I go up there, I see coal lobbyists, oil lobbyists, natural gas lobbyists, nuclear power lobbyists, somehow they think that's where the action is in Congress.”

Thinking Action Natural Congress Oil Nuclear Gas Coal Nuclear Power Lobbyists Natural Gas

Author:Ralph Nader

“When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)”

Ifs Bigs Beautiful Faces Fighting Land Havens Judging Intention Wounds

Author:Alan Paton

“When I go up, especially if I'm paying for a small helicopter and pilot, I'm on. I've got an hour and a half and the clock is ticking and it's costly and I enter into a super-heightened state of mind.”

Ifs Mind States Hours Half Clock State Of Mind Pilots Helicopters Clock Is Ticking

Author:Michael Light

“When I go visit my brother monks in Japan and sit down with other Zen Masters, they look at my crazy clothes and my strange expression, but they feel the power that emanates from my dedication to the practice. So they are comfortable with me, yet they're very uncomfortable.”

Feels Looks Practice Crazy Strange Brother Expression Masters Buddhism Comfortable Clothes Uncomfortable My Brother Japan Dedication Monk Emanate Zen Master

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.”

Giving Giving Up Soccer Chairs Favourite

Author:Brian Clough

“When I go, I'll take New Year's Eve with me.”

Years Modern New Year Modern Life New Years Eve

Author:Guy Lombardo

“When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up. And she never takes no for an answer.”

Ifs Giving Answers Giving Up Tombstone Headstone

Author:Doris Roberts

“When I golf, I use just enough strokes to create a masterpiece, like I'm a painter. The score I post up would look great on a museum wall.”

Art Painting Golf Paint Painter Masterpiece Golfing Museum Golfer

Author:Jarod Kintz

Source: To be good at golf you must go full koala bear

“When I got 'Family Ties', I wasn't even thinking about being an actress. I thought I might become a window dresser.”

Thinking Might Window Actresses Ties Dressers Family Ties Justine

Author:Justine Bateman

“When I got 'Lost,' I was about to not be able to live, so it was a fall-to-the-knees, burst-into-tears, 'I'm saved by this great role' moment.”

Moments Able Fall Lost Roles Tears Saved Knees

Author:Rebecca Mader

“When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.”

Book Reading Reader Library Cards Literacy Book Reading Library Books Libraries And Librarians Libraries Books And Reading Libraries And Reading Library Cards

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.”

Shows Opportunity Tonight Los Angeles Inconvenience

Author:Lorna Luft

“When I got a chance to rap, I just busted my ass. When I got a chance to act, I busted my ass. Anytime I get a chance. I'm not wasting time. I won't do it if I'm not doing it 110 percent. You've got to work hard if you want to play hard. I like to play, but I know I gotta bust my ass.”

Ifs Knows Want Hard Play Chance Hard Work Percent Rap Ass Wasting Time Play Hard Busted Not Wasting Time

Author:Ice T

“When I got a lap dance, because I was 17, they had to put a massive pillow between me and the girl when she was grinding me. It was weird, yet pleasurable.”

Girl Massive Lap Pillow Lap Dances

Author:Emile Hirsch

“When I got a little bit older I wanted to play piano - that's all I wanted to do. I remember learning how to play a blues progression on the xylophone in music class and thinking "This is the greatest thing I've ever learned."”

Thinking Littles Play Wanted Remember Bits Class Little Bit Piano Progression

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“When I got a little older I was obsessed Lil Wayne. But then it was just as many British rappers - Dizzee Rascal I would always listen to.”

Littles British Obsessed Rapper Wayne Rascals

Author:Tinie Tempah

“When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, The Maroon Wave, and that's when I fell in love with journalism.”

Writing Littles School High School Wave Newspapers Journalism Maroon

Author:Jeannette Walls

“When I got a record deal I said, 'I'm only wearing jeans. I'm not wearing frilly dresses.' Dancing around in sequins is just not who I am. I wanted to be heard, not seen.”

Said Wanted Deals Records Heard Dresses Dancing Who I Am Jeans Sequins

Author:Miranda Lambert

“When I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it. I still feel it.”

Feels Stills Bits Loses Tiny

Author:Ben Schwartz

“When I got across, I looked back and saw Tyson giving Grover a piggyback ride (or was it a goatyback ride?).”

Giving Saws Tyson Grover Grover Underwood

Author:Rick Riordan

“When I got back from the war in 1946 people didn't want the Mr. Smith kind of movie any more, and I refused to make war pictures.”

People Want Kind War

Author:LeBron James

“When I got back into show business in 1961, I felt - for obvious reasons - that nothing in my life went right, and I realized that millions of people felt the same way. So when I first came back my catch phrase was "nothing goes right." Early on, that was my setup for a lot of jokes.”

People Way Firsts Reason Shows Felt Millions Jokes Obvious I Realized Phrases Show Business Setups

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs

“When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.”

Film College Productions Assistants Ukulele

Author:Mike Lookinland

“When I got back to my billet I found my farmer at table with his wife and niece. “Tell me,” I said to him; “how many instruments do you think a pilot has to look after?” “How should I know? Not my trade,” he answered. “Must be some missing, though, to my way of thinking. The ones you win a war with. Have some supper?”

Life Inspirational War Existence Gun Purpose Of Life Supper Instrument

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Source: Flight to Arras

“When I got back to my cell, I said, 'God, I asked you to set me free, not kill me.' God spoke to me and said, 'Andrew, I have set you free from the inside out, I have given you life!' From that moment on I haven't stopped worshipping Him. I had never sung before, never led worship, until Jesus set me free.”

Said Moments Jesus Given Havens Worship Cells Spokes That Moment Kill Me Andrew

Author:Andrew Chan

“When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.”

Stills Running Wanted Faces Mother Father Felt Arms Sitting Legs Swollen Sitting Up

Author:Black Elk

Source: Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

“When I got back to NY had the opportunity to work with the beginning years of the poetry project which was founded with money from the OEO under Lyndon Johnson to work with alienated youth on the lower East side. This was extraordinary, to be able to help then to create a culture that would capture the energy that I felt at Berkley.”

Years Helping Able Culture Opportunity Energy Felt Sides Youth Projects Extraordinary East Capture Johnson East Side

Author:Anne Waldman

“When I got back to Toledo, my house had become overrun by hippies, squatters, religious nuts, the curious, masochists, anarchists, pacifists, and the ghost of a suicide victim.”

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Author:Jonathan Dunne

Source: Finding Jesus

“When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.”

Film Cameras Casts Boxing Rocky Iv

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“When I got cut from the varsity team as a sophomore in high school, I learned something. I knew I never wanted to feel that bad again. I never wanted to have that taste in my mouth, that hole in my stomach. So I set a goal of becoming a starter on the varsity.”

Feels Wanted School Sports Goal Cutting Team Becoming Taste Mouths High School Holes Motivational Sports Stomach Starters Sophomore

Author:Michael Jordan

“When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.”

Author:Jackie Chan

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