W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random escape fantasy?”
“When I have a breakthrough in music and I hear the melody in my hands: that's when I get compelled - something in my gut just has to rise up and sing and put something to that.”
“When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.”
“When I have a chance to make some movies, I am 200 percent to concentrate about my works.”
“When I have a child, it will be probably become my whole life, so I don't want to have any regrets that I should have done more.”
“When I have a cocktail, I love a vodka and cranberry. But when I was a kid my mother was really against drinking, because it was so bad for your skin. She'd say, "Stephanie, it's much better to wash your face with vodka."”
“When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.”
“When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.”
“When I have a daughter I have a lot of good advice for her.”
“When I have a day off, I will have a day off.”
“When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.”
“When I have a difficult subject before me - when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools - I prefer to address myself to the one man, and to take no notice whatever of the condemnation of the multitude; I prefer to extricate that intelligent man from his embarrassment and show him the cause of his perplexity, so that he may attain perfection and be at peace.”
Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
“When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. And then, especially with the help of the computer, rewriting is so easy to do with the computer, much easier than it used to be with the typewriter. So the books go through numerous drafts.”
“When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. Then, especially with the help of the computer, rewriting is so easy to do with the computer, much easier than it used to be with the typewriter. So the books go through numerous drafts.”
“When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.”
“When I have a girlfriend, I feel caged in, I don't know why.”
“When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.”
Source: The Jane Austen Library: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Watsons, Sanditon
“When I have a kid, I want to buy one of those strollers for twins. Then put the kid in and run around, looking frantic. When he gets older, I'd tell him he used to have a brother, but he didn't obey.”
“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
“When I have a lot of work to do my life is very distracted, so for me to concentrate on music I need to create a structure where I can focus better.”
“When I have a low budget I always try to make it a lesson in economy.”
“When I have a match to play, I begin to relax as soon as I wake up. Everything I do, I do slow and easy. That goes for stroking the razor, getting dressed, and eating my breakfast. I'm practically in slow motion. By the time I'm ready to tee off, I'm so used to taking my time that it's impossible to hurry my swing.”
“When I have a mission, it gives me something to focus on.”
“When I have a model who is quiet and steady and with whom I am acquainted, then I draw repeatedly 'til there is one drawing that is different from the rest, which does not look like an ordinary study, but more typical and with more feeling.”
Source: Letters to an artist: from Vincent van Gogh to Anton ridder van Rappard, 1881-1885
“When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.”
Source: The Lincoln treasury
“When I have a problem I pray about it, and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this has been right so often that I know it is God's answer.”
“When I have a problem, I write it down and ask St Joseph to sleep on it”
“When I have a really hot date at a show, I definitely make it a point to use her name. The girls really love that.”
“When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.”
“When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other fields, I like to have them all in the same workshop, and not worry about genre. I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet. Or the comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing it up, cross-pollinating, not only in genres but in occupations.”
“When I have a wrong attitude, I look at life humanly. When I have a right attitude, I look at life divinely.”
Source: Great Days with the Great Lives: Daily Insight from Great Lives of the Bible
“When I have absolutely nothing to do, and I find myself in the middle of all of it going, "Wow!" When nothing's going on, that's when I get to stop and really appreciate the journey.”
“When I have all of Manhattan to choose from I tend to dither, to hold out for perfection—but as any poet can testify, limits encourage both inspiration and decisiveness.”
Source: Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“When I have an exhibition, I usually arrange it so that if people want to, they can spend two hours there. That way, people who like it don't feel cheated when they go. I want them to walk into the exhibition space and look low and at other levels and angles. The same with emotions. I want them to be emotionally manipulated, to come out feeling something. I want them to laugh, smile, feel sad. Even if they feel angry, that's okay.”
“When I have an idea, I share it with everyone. People say someone will steal my idea, but it's not like I invented something that will replace the toilet. I tell people to get their feedback. Will they buy it, help me improve it, or tell me it's already been done? If someone else is excited, he or she might buy into the business.”
“When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.”
“When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.”
“When I have bad days, I just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and dance to the Lion King soundtrack. It's really odd, but it's true.”
“When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.”
“When I have been compell’d to sit up all Night about some extraordinary Business, I needed to do no more than to take some of this Tea, when I perceiv’d my self beginning to sleep, and I could easily watch all Night without winking; and in the Morning I was as fresh as if I had slept my ordinary time; this I could do once a week without any trouble.
[Quoting Dr. William Chamberlayne (1619–89), English physician and poet, in his Treatise of Tea.]”
Source: The World of Caffeine
“When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.”
Source: The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton
“When I have brown hair I feel the most like myself, but I don't feel glamorous. It's a disgusting thing to admit.”
“When I have children that go home and mom and dad are not home because they're working, they're trying to get food on the table, and they come home to an empty house and they go to sleep in an empty house, there is no way that child can compete against a child from the west side of Los Angeles who both parents went to Stanford. Well, good for them, God love them. That's not an equal playing field.”
“When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.”
“When I have clarity, I can begin again every time”
Source: A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being
“When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to peace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find such a blessed sense of rest!”
Source: Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observations of David Copperfield the Younger
“When I have completed my work, anyone who cares to read and understand the Truth will be able to do so.”
Source: Not All Israel Is Israel
“When I have conversations with people, for some strange reason they think I'm gonna die and they're not. But you know what? Death means nothing to me.”
“When I have eaten mangoes, I have felt like Eve.”
Source: Personal Pleasures
“When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”