W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When I put my pen to a blank sheet, black isn’t added but rather the white sheet is deprived of light. [] Thus I also grasped that the empty spaces are the most important aspect of a typeface.”
“When I put off a task until the last minute, I'm not procrastinating—I'm exercising great patience. I learned that from my ducks, who do nothing all day, but still manage to accomplish everything they are supposed to do.”
Source: Ducks are the stars of the karaoke bird world
“When I put on makeup, I'm not doing it to pander to antiquated patriarchal ideals of feminine beauty. I'm doing it because it makes mr feel good.”
Source: #Girlboss
“When I put on makeup, I'm not doing it to pander to antiquated patriarchal ideas of feminine beauty. I'm doing it because it makes me feel good.”
Source: #Girlboss
“When I put on my uniform, I feel I am the proudest man on earth.”
“When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.”
“When I put out the records, when I make a distribution deal, those distributors tell me who they sell it to and how many copies. So I want nothing less.”
“When I put out to sea, I do not offer advice to the skipper about the management of the ship.”
Source: The Cobra Candlestick
“When I put some Tabasco on things, and there's really nothing in Tabasco, it's not bad for you in any way, so that's kind of become my substitute. Now you got to get used to a hot mouth, but that's okay.”
“When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die.”
“When I put something on, and I stand up much straighter, that's when I love to wear clothes.”
“When I put the camera back to my eye, I noticed a particular guardsman pointing at me. I said, "I'll get a picture of this," and his rifle went off. And almost simultaneously, as his rifle went off, a halo of dust came off a sculpture next to me, and the bullet lodged in a tree. I dropped my camera in the realization that it was live ammunition. I don't know what gave me the combination of innocence and stupidity... but I never took cover.”
“When I put the legally required OSHA signs up, I thought we were turning a corner into OSHA compliance at the dangerous Desoto Solar Farm. I had no idea that it was the start of my termination!”
“When I put the plate down, you don't hear a sound. When I pick up a glass, I want it to be just right. When someone says, "How come you're just a waitress?" I say, "Don't you think you deserve being served by me?"”
Source: The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century
“When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.”
“When I put together my early bands, usually some other singer who was short of one would take it away. It seemed like this happened every time one of my bands was fully formed. I couldn’t understand how this was possible seeing that these guys weren’t any better at singing or playing than I was. What they did have was an open door to gigs where there was real money. Anybody who had a band could play at park pavilions, talent shows, county fairgrounds, auctions and store openings, but those gigs didn’t pay except maybe for expenses and sometimes not even for that. These other crooners could perform at small conventions, private wedding parties, golden anniversaries in hotel ballrooms, things like that — and there was cash involved. It was always the promise of money that lured my band away. Truth was, that the guys who took my bands away had connections to someone up the ladder.
It went to the very root of things, gave unfair advantage to some and left others squeezed out. How could somebody ever reach the world this way? It seemed like it was the law of life. It got so that I almost always expected to lose my band and it didn’t even shock me anymore if it happened. It was beginning to dawn on me that I would have to learn how to play and sing by myself and not depend on a band until the time I could afford to pay and keep one.”
Source: Chronicles, Volume One
“When I putt, my emotions collide like tectonic plates. It's left my memory circuits full of scars that won't heal.”
“When I queried my girlfriend regarding if she was a lesbian, she denied it. It later emerged I should have asked her if she was a bisexual!”
“When I queried the unmarked hollow metal tubes I had found inside the fuse holders with the team at the Desoto Solar Farm, no one could produce an electrical data sheet for them.”
“When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.”
“When I quit, I learned that my anger never meant that there was something wrong with me. It meant that there was something wrong. Out there.”
“When I quit my university, people in my neighborhood quite literally began to gossip about me being insane, while others pitied me as a lost soul. But mark this my friend, it's the lost souls that lay the foundation for a better tomorrow, because those beings are not afraid to be lost, they are not afraid to fail, in the pursuit of something greater, something grander, than to just survive no different than the dogs do on the streets.”
Source: Time to Save Medicine
“When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts....But if success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your soul, it is not success at all.”
“When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes.”
“When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.”
Source: The Essays
“When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide.”
“When I race my mind is full of doubts - who will finish second, who will finish third?”
“When I race, I don't think about it; it just happens.”
“When I raced with Mercedes, I thought Id learn German. But my wife didnt want to live in Germany.”
“When I ran across America, for 75 days I ate 10,000 calories a day. I still lost about five pounds.”
“When I ran against George Bush Sr. in 1992, and we did very well in New Hampshire, and then we went on to California, it was four, five months later, I got 30 percent in the counties in Southern California, because Californians wanted us to do something about thousands of people walking into our country on weekends, and the president of the United States and the government of the United States, unlike General Eisenhower who dealt with it, did nothing. And that's what Trump is riding.”
“When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.”
“When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.”
“When I ran for governor, I told all the bikers, "You don't need to worry about me bringing in a helmet law. It's your option because you as a motorcycle rider that's your option. It doesn't come with the bike."”
“When I ran for governor, was I ambitious? Yes. Anyone, male or female, who goes through the trials of a campaign must be ambitious.”
“When I ran for mayor of New York City, the first time, some people voted eight and ten times. And second time I had firefighters and police officers outside checking on the buses so we take down the number of the bus, the bus had voted ten times, and wouldn't let the bus vote again.”
“When I ran for Presidency of the United States, I knew that this country faced serious challenges, but I could not realize - nor could any man realize who does not bear the burdens of this office - how heavy and constant would be those burdens”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961
“When I ran for the U.S. Senate the assumption was that anyone's name that was close to "Osama" doesn't stand a chance. So if somebody thought that tacking on "Hussein" in there would be a killer, then I think they underestimate the American people and the seriousness of the problems we face.”
“When I ran I was a first candidate to talk about how immigration was going be so damaging to the American people. When I first ran I talked about affirmative-action.”
“When I ran, I didn't have any money. Now, it requires raising hundreds of millions of dollars just to get the nomination, and I don't care to be involved in that process.”
“When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.”
“When I rap, it's just an extension of how I speak, and that's how I talk. If you don't like it, don't listen.”
“When I re-read the Odyssey, it felt like I was reading PD James or Minette Walters - you feel that you are sharing in something that hundreds of millions of people have read with love, and I think that this is worth holding onto. It is not a matter of canonical texts or elitism, which the universities are trying to make us wary about. It is about shared language and metaphor and experience and imagery and that is all good.”
“When I reach out, you take my hand.
When I smile, you mirror the expression.
When I triumph, you glory as if it were your own.
When I fail, you point to the light at the end.
When I need, you tenderly provide.
When I cry, you kiss away my tears.
When I suffer, you bleed.
And you wonder why I love you?”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“When I reach puberty I'm definitely going to grow a beard.”
“When I reach the end of one row, I continue straight on away from the barn and the farm and the road. I walk until I come to a pile of hay bales and plop myself down. The sun is bright and the air is sharp. In the distance I hear the lowing of cows. It's so peaceful here.
"Merry Christmas, " I whisper to myself. "Merry Christmas, Nate.”
Source: A Map of the Known World
“When I reach the shades at last it will no doubt astonish Satan to discover, on thumbing my dossier, that I was a member of the Y.M.C.A.”
“When I reach to pick up the glass pieces, my heart sinks as the distinctive blue-black wave and red maple leaf designs of my irezumi tattoo sleeve show through the transparent wet fabric of my shirt. Despite the deafening silence, the hint of the ink that marks my past wails like a siren, warning all in my vicinity.”
Source: Rise: The Liminal Chronicles
“When I reach to the edge of the universe, I do so knowing that along some paths of cosmic discovery, there are times when, at least for now, one must be content to love the questions themselves.”
“When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning.”
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder