W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When i'm older, when no one cares about what I do, i'll find you.”
“When I'm on a backhoe, I'm shaping clay. I am a sculptor. I am a farm artist.”
Source: Powdered Saxophone Music
“When I'm on stage, my experience often goes something like this: Blankness . . . bliss . . . blankness . . . twinkle of awareness that rocking has been achieved . . . bliss . . . Voice of Observing Ego yelling over amplifiers, WOW! YOU ARE FUCKING KILLING IT DUUUUDE! . . . Clang! Wrong chord.”
Source: How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back
“When i’m out and it’s autumn, my thank you’s to the universe seem infinite.”
“When I’m overwhelmed I will take a deep breath and exhale to release tension. I have the power to clear all negativity and stress from my body. - Judith Orloff MD”
Source: The Empath's Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People
“When I’m ready to face reality, I look up into the empty space she had once filled with light.
“Tell him I wish he and I had kept riding that gravBike,” I say. “Tell him when this is over, we’ll ride from coast to coast. Just him and me.”
Source: Light Bringer
“When I’m reborn
I’ll be born, the next time, so I won’t suffer
only for myself like this.”
Source: Miyazawa Kenji: Selections (Poets for the Millennium)
“When I’m rich,” Jesper said behind him. “I’m going somewhere I never have to see snow again. What about you, Wylan?”
“I don’t know exactly.”
“I think you should buy a golden piano-”
“Flute.”
“And play concerts on a pleasure barge. You can park it in the canal right outside your father’s house.”
“Nina can sing,” Inej put in,
“We’ll duet,” Nina amended. “Your father will have to move.”
She did have a terrible singing voice. He hated that he knew that, but he couldn’t resist glancing over his shoulder. Nina’s hood had fallen back, and the thick waves of her hair had escaped her collar.
Why do I keep doing that? He thought in a rush of frustration. It had happened aboard the ship, too.
He’d tell himself to ignore her, and the next thing he knew his eyes would be seeking her out.”
Source: Six of Crows
“When I'm sad,
one of my favorite things
to do
is reach out to someone
and drop a tiny blessing
in her lap,
as if gently tipping a watering can
over her sprouting seed.
Today
it was a woman who has been growing
her passions into a business
and I just wrote,
Dear Sister,
I love watching
you bloom.”
Source: Your Nature is to Bloom
“When I’m stressed, it feels like my brain has turned to porridge and it’s coming out of my ears. The drugs for my bipolar never really stopped that. Cold water does.”
Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“When I'm stronger than you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.”
Source: Dune Messiah
“When I'm stumbling in the dark, I'm no longer afraid;
In the darkness, You're the light that'll never fade.”
Source: Fractures of Gold
“When I'm talking about disabled writing and the struggles to create spaces for disabled literature—in talks, to other crip writers, to whoever—I tell the story a lot about the fight I got into with an editor in the last weeks before Care Work was going to the printer, where I insisted that the BISAC codes (the codes on the back of the books that tell booksellers what section to place them in) on the back read Disability Studies / Disability Justice / Queer Studies when she wanted them to read Social Studies / Health / Queer Studies. The editor's response was dismissive: "Well, we do have to go with the official BISAC codes," (note: there is one for Disability Studies, and has been for decades), "and I've never seen a disabled section in a bookstore—have you?
Of course I had. Modern Times Books, where I was the events coordinator (and cashier) from 2009 to 2011 had one and was known for it. Third Place Books, Left Bank Books, and Elliot Bay Books—my three favorite bookstores in my current city of Seattle—all have robust disability sections and Queer Disability special displays. Anjula Gogia, who ran the Toronto Women's Bookstore for decades, confirmed that they'd had a disability section since the 1980s and it was always one of their best-selling sections.
I fought back, pulled the white crip guy (friend) card, and was like, ELI CLARE HAS DISABILITY STUDIES / ACTIVISM ON THE BACK OF BRILLIANT IMPERFECTION. IF HE CAN DO IT, SO CAN I. I DO NOT WANT MY BOOK NEXT TO THE GOUT CURES. We compromised on "disability studies / queer studies.
Four years later, Poets.org would ask me to curate a disability justice poets folio for their 2022 theme of "Poetry and Disability Justice." It was a wonderful task, and I ran into the reality that Poets.org, like most poetry databases, didn't have "disability" or "disabled poets" or "Deaf poets" as keywords. As with most poetry databases, the closest you get is "illness" or "the body." Something as simple as having "disability," "disabled poets," and "Deaf poets" as keywords or search terms allows us to find each other, to come together, for disabled and Deaf people searching for words to illuminate our experiences and create a community to find them.”
Source: The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
“When I'm triggered, I think, "This will last forever" or "What if this lasts forever?" I get thoughts about how I should give up, run away, hide, protect myself. These thoughts, I cannot change. What I can change is how I respond to them. Will I unconditionally believe these ideas, or will I accept them as side effects of the temporary experience of pain? Will I act on each thought that arises in the burning fire, or will I hold myself gently and say, "It'll be okay. I know it hurts. I love you"? My power lies in these choices.”
“When I'm walking in the darkness, I'm the scariest ghost story in this city.”
Source: My House of Horrors
“When I'm with him, I feel like the hero of a story. Of my story. It's when he's not there that things don't feel right.”
Source: The Wicked King
“When I’m with you, even my past seems like a bad dream,” he says. “I’ve sat on this hill a hundred times, and all I used to see were lights that represented places where I wasn’t wanted, where I never belonged. Now, when you aren’t with me, I look east and know one of those lights represents you, and I don’t feel alone anymore.”
Source: Crash into You
“When I'm with you,
I don't want to be anywhere else.
And I'm a person
that always wants to be somewhere else.”
“When I'm with you,
I feel exposed.
Naked.
When I'm naked with you,
I feel clothed.
Sheltered.”
“When I’m with you,
The gravity of our moments,
The weight of our smiles
Makes time nearly stop.”
Source: Burning the Bacon
“When I'm working I'm wishing I was doing nothing and when I'm doing nothing I'm wondering if I should be working. I hurry through what I've got to do and then, when I've got nothing to do, I keep glancing at the clock, wishing it was time to go out. Then, when I'm out, I'm wondering how long it will be before I'm back home.”
Source: Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence
“When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.”
“When I’m writing my own stuff, it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.”
Source: Fangirl
“When I'm writing, or settling in to write, I have a far-off look. I know this because my friend Wendy captured it in a photograph. In the picture, I'm sitting on a train somewhere in Montana, holding a pen, a notebook in my lap. I'm looking out the window, but there doesn't need to be a window. I'm not looking, I'm listening. I can see it in my face, how closely I'm listening for the voice of the mind. Of my mind.”
Source: Dear Writer: Pep Talks and Practical Advice for the Creative Life
“When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a film to team up my two favorite actors, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-Fat.”
“When I made 'Real Steel,' the director actually had the robots in the monitor, so he knew where everything was. So technically, there's been advancements. But at the end of the day, movies are about story and characters, so all the other stuff is great, but unless you have those two elements, then you've got nothing.”
“When I made 'Sleepwalk with Me,' many people asked me if was a novelty thing, a one-off. But this is the goal, I'm just hitting it 12 years after I thought I would.”
“When I made a big effort in '96 and it is not - I squeezed and I arrested a part of [terroristic groups].”
“When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, 'Who's that bloke with the funny name?' They advised me to change it, saying it would never be put up in lights outside theaters because they couldn't afford the electricity. But I would never contemplate changing it. It's who I am.”
“When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.”
“When I made coffee and Xeroxed and distributed newspapers at ABC News, I thought my life was over.”
“When I made Illmatic, I was trying to make the perfect album. It comes from the days of Wild Style. I was trying to make you experience my life. I wanted you to look at hip-hop differently. I wanted you to feel that hip-hop was changing and becoming something more real.”
“When I made it home that night, I pulled out my journal—a journal that hadn’t been much in use until Caspian Marks came into my life. I had stuff to write about now. Caspian Marks gave me a life I could write about.”
Source: Counting Stars
“When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.”
“When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.”
“When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.”
“When I made my first film, Basquiat, I think one of the criticisms was that the way I work is episodic. Later, as people started to look at the movies, they started to realize that maybe that's my style. If I could do it better or another way, I guess I would.”
“When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.”
“When I made my first film, I think the thing was probably helped me the most was that it was such an unusual thing to do in the early 50s for someone who actually go and make a film. People thought it was impossible. It really is terribly easy. All anybody needs is a camera, a tape recorder, and some imagination.”
“When I made my student film, a feature, nobody wanted to talk to me and I was, like, in the desert for 12 years.”
“When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.”
“When I made peace with my past, I fixed my brokeness. My reflection on the mirror changed.”
“When I made peace with my past, I fixed my brokenness. My reflection on the mirror changed.”
“When I made Spartacus during the McCarthy Era, we were losing our freedom. It was an awful, awful way. McCarthy saw Communists everywhere, in every level of government and they concentrated on Hollywood and especially on Hollywood writers.”
“When I made that statement that the person discovers the secret of their success by their daily agenda, all of a sudden it hit me that if I could teach people to make today count; if I could really teach them what they need to do today to have a good day, that tomorrow would really take care of itself.”
“When I made the decision - when my team-mates made that decision, when the whole peloton made that decision - it was a bad decision and an imperfect time. But it happened.”
“When I made the decision to transition, I honestly had no idea what it would be like for me to live as female. The only thing I knew for sure was that pretending to be male was slowly killing me.”
Source: Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
“When I made those wild-ass comments, on stage, about then-Senator Hillary Clinton and then-senator Barack Obama, I don't know if you can grasp the degree of adrenaline and intensity and sheer over-the-top animal spirit and attitude that I live on stage. I've got to take that deep breath.”
“When I made YouTube videos, I am the one who's uploading it, I'm the one who's editing it, so I'm very in control of what I'm sharing and not sharing. Whereas in music, it's a lot more of pouring my heart out and kind of just putting it out there for the best.”
“When I make a bad play, it frustrates the heck out of me, even in practice.”