W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.”
“When I make someone my friend in order to make that someone your enemy I have betrayed three people all at once.”
“When I make the effort to pay attention to the sights, sounds and sensations around me, I’m encouraging myself to live in the present moment.”
“When I make the music that I make, when it comes to reggae music, I engulf the whole spirit of it all. It's just like when I do rap music or whatever style of music I do, I have to engulf the character I do and bring that to life.”
“When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up.”
Source: Anne of Green Gables
“When I Make YOUR PEACE, You Shall See My REAL COLOR, My VISWAROOPAM, LORD MURUGA”
“When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.”
“When I manage to keep my center, it's usually because I've taken prayer seriously.”
“When I managed the world’s largest telescopes atop Mauna Kea, I never knew that I would end up campaigning for their closure.”
“When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.”
Source: No Religion Is an Island: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Interreligious Dialogue
“When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“When I married Prince Rainier, I married the man and not what he represented or what he was. I fell in love with him without giving a thought to anything else.”
“When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses.”
“When I marry my name will not change.”
“When I marry, it will be to a faithful returned missionary in the Temple.”
“When I masturbate I fantasize about having my own apartment. I used to think about Cindy Crawford now I think about leaving a dish in the sink overnight.”
“When I meditate in the morning, it really changes my day and my relationship with my day.”
“When I meditate, I clearly see that God is already seated inside my heart.”
“When I meditate, I feel I am vast, very vast.”
“When I meditate, people see manifestations of light when I go into samadhi and through the samadhis. Sometimes the energy of enlightenment is so clear that people don't realize that their attention has been elevated.”
“When I meet a beautiful girl, the first thing I say is 'will you marry me?'. The second thing I say is, 'how do you do?'”
“When I meet a couple, I'm always interested to know if they have been together for a long time, or how loyal they are, because I know that will impact on how much I'm prepared to trust them.”
“When I meet a fan, I always try to learn something about that fan.”
“When I meet a girl, I just sort of do really over-exaggerated terrible dance moves... a lot of hip movements. I get them laughing, and get them to feel pity for me, and then they like me!”
“When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself in the presence of a bad historian, and there are times when I incline to judge all historians by their opinion of Winston Churchill -- whether they can see that, no matter how much better the details, often damaging, of man and career become known, he still remains quite simply, a great man.”
“When I meet a man, I am not concerned about his opinions. I am concerned about the man.”
“When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.”
Source: A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions
“When I meet a new person, I don’t see race or religion. I look deeper. We must learn to satisfy our conflicts peacefully and to respect one another.”
“When I meet a new person, something has to be a little off for me to consider them beautiful. It could be crooked teeth, or veins in their skin that are a little too visible, or a really dramatic lazy eye. The first guy I ever kissed had a water head.”
“When I meet a person that tells me they stopped hooping for no reason, I thank them for opening my door and making it easier.”
“When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.”
Source: The Susanna Kearsley Collection
“When I meet a woman who attracts me, I prefer women,' she said. 'And when I meet a man who attracts me, I prefer men.' 'You mean you haven't made up your mind yet.' 'I mean exactly what I said. I told you you wouldn't like it. Most people who ask want me definitely on one side or the other.”
“When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.”
“When I meet a woman, I don't think, 'Gee, I wonder if she's read the latest thesis by Stephen Hawking? I think, 'Great tits.'”
“When I meet celebrities, I have to know what they are like and only then can I design. The clothes have to fit their personality.”
“When I meet certain filmmakers, sometimes you sit down and you do have some kind of shorthand. It can be fun to see them as someone who has been through similar experiences, but also as someone who just loves film. You can talk with them about films in a way that feels really free.”
“When I meet gay fans out and about, they're so great to talk to - and I'm big on hugging, because I'm from the Midwest. They're just so energetic and loving. I'm proud to have those fans, and their support means a lot to me. I don't want just girls coming to my movies; I want guys to come, too!”
“When I meet gay men anywhere in the world, there is a spontaneity and a spirit of fun and mischief that lesbians seem incapable of.”
Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
“When I meet girls, I pray that they don't know who I am. But I know that's limiting myself quite a lot.”
“When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.”
“When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.”
“When I meet my fans, it's not like meeting a stranger. It's like saying hello to someone that I already know.”
“When I meet other men in business, I want to know what their relationship with their children is like. I think a mans role as a father says something about who he is as a businessman and the quality of leader he is.”
“When I meet other parents and they're more 'mumsy' than I am - you know, I don't want to be 'mumsy,' but I'm like, 'Were you always like that or... what happened?”
“When I meet people for the first time, I always put on my glasses because I feel like that's a little something extra between me and them. It's like the Laurence Dunbar poem "We Wear the Mask."”
“When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.”
“When I meet people I try to make a joke out of my occupation, explaining that what I do all day is sit alone in a darkened room, flicking through some pages, jumping on a treadmill now and then. I keep my serious work as a writer private, but that doesn't mean it's not serious work - quite the opposite.”
“When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips.”
“When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.”
“When I meet people, I no longer say "Hi, I'm Derek Landy, pleased to meet you." Now I say "Hi, I'm number one bestselling author Derek Landy. Worship me.”