W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When I open my mouth and sing, the truth comes out. When I write, the truth comes out. I can't lie. That, I think, is one of the strongest elements of my music. When people talk about my writing as though I'm doing it from an accountant's perspective, it really pisses me off.”
“When I open my mouth, the room rings.”
“When I open that ancient sticker book and scratch yellowing stickers curling at the edges, what I smell most is not a pizza, or chocolate, but my childhood. I give scratch and sniff stickers 3 1/2 stars.”
Source: The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“When I open the case and give the pendulum a gentle push, it swings three times and then stops, as if it has forgotten how to keep going.”
Source: The Clock Forgets Me
“When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“When I opened my case in the hotel, he gestured excitedly at my snakeskin sandals, turquoise suede wedges and silver-speckled jellies. “But you’ve loads of shoes,” he bellowed joyfully. I shook my head sadly. Men just don’t get it, do they? They’re definitely missing the shoe chromosome.”
Source: Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities – Funny and Personal Observations on Modern Life
“When I opened my eyes, I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with outstretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver. But I did not fall. From nape to heel I discovered myself bound to earth. I felt a sort of appeasement in surrendering to it my weight. Gravitation had become as sovereign as love. The earth, I felt, was supporting my back, sustaining me, lifting me up, transporting me through the immense void of night.”
Source: Wind, Sand and Stars
“When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.”
“When I opened my mouth to sing as a kid, I kind of randomly had a really good singing voice. And so that put me on the actor track and the musicals track.”
“When I opened the box, I had to remove myself from whose handwriting it was that I was reading and whose story I was hearing. I had to, or I never would have made it past the first letter. If I stopped to think about my Grandpa writing to my Grandma, knowing how much he loved her and how many years he spent without her after her death, I knew I wouldn’t be able to make it through just one letter without an onslaught of tears. And it was Grandpa, a voice I knew so well. One that I miss terribly.”
Source: My Very Dearest Anna
“When I opened the door, Andrew was standing there like a remedy for heart palpitations. Or maybe he made them worse. It was hard to tell.”
Source: Spencer Cohen, Book One
“When I opened the door, there was the Ouran Koukou Host Club.”
Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 1
“When I opened up in "Gaslight," for instance, playing that narky maid, that all came about from my experience and my training up to that point, and so nothing was wasted.”
“When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia.”
“When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!”
“When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school!”
“When I originally sold X-Men it was because I knew there was 40 years of stories. That was the point! Not only to do the movie and establish the characters, you know, you love the one you're doing. It was because there are all these great stories, what a wealth of drama.”
“When I originally wrote "Jealousy," it was more like an exercise to try to write a girl-group kind of pop song. It was really contrary to most of the material I'd ever written. I didn't pay much attention to the song after I'd recorded it. I didn't really perform it at all the last 20 years. When it came time to make the new record, I decided to make peace with the song and have fun with it.”
“When I own less, fewer things go wrong and need to be fixed. I have more space: openings in my calendar, room in my home, and calm in my heart.”
Source: Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify.
“When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.”
“When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.”
“When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.”
“When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are... It then becomes more than just physiognomy, but the feel of the person.”
“When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.”
“When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get across how I feel.”
“When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer to the Informel than to any kind of 'realism'. The photograph has an abstraction of its own, which is not easy to see through.”
“When I paint, I abandon myself to the intuitive process and enter a space of uncensored discovery.”
Source: Have You Ever Had a Hunch?: The Importance of Imagination, Fantasy & Creative Thinking
“When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.”
“When I paint I do a different thing than when I design. But both involve aesthetics, both involve thought, both involve planning.”
“When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.”
“When I paint to please other people I tend to lose the free spirit creative edge.”
“When I paint, I liberate monsters They are the manifestations of all the doubts, searches and groping for meaning and expression which all artists experience One does not choose the content, one submits to it.”
“When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.”
“When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.”
Source: Art & lifestyle
“When I paint, mysterious things happen. What starts with a void ends with a dialogue.”
“When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath”
“When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.”
“When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.”
“When I pass-away (as each of us must) release a balloon into the sky with ashes attached, to celebrate my graduation... My graduation from this life to the next.”
“When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.”
“When I pass the bar, you'll be barred from bars but put behind them.”
Source: Better to be able to love than to be loveable
“When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.”
“When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.”
Source: The Complete Poetry
“When I passed my hand over my face my palm came away glistening; I hadn't even been aware that I was crying.”
Source: Human Acts
“When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.”
“When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad taste in criticizing the man of the hour in Germany.”
“When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.”
“When I pay my taxes, I expect an excellent functioning police department to be the outcome.”
“When I perform I'm very extroverted and I wear my heart on my sleeve and some people don't like that. They're embarrassed for me.”
“When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences - which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.”