W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.”
“When I say tourism is sin and traveling on foot is virtue, it's condensed into a dictum. It's much more complex than that, but let's face it, for me, my experience, the world reveals itself to those that travel on foot. You understand the world in a much deeper level. And it does good to anyone who makes film.”
“When I say war, I'm not talking about mental war; I'm talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.”
“When I say we, I'm referring to society: copywriters, companies, and overall general opinion; I am in no way taking personal responsibility. We/they market to women like they are giant toddlers. This endless, pejorative, female-targeted infantilization of the English language when it's directed toward women: "Mama Bear needs her beauty rest!" "Rockstar gal gets her glam on!" "Work it, she-entrepreneur!" "Be a diva-licious ass-kicker in stilettos! The biggest, badass, boss-babe in herstory! The fiercest, she-matologist working in the blood lab!"
This pervasive rhetoric is basically watered down, digestible empowerment designed to get a woman's money. It's the advertising equivalent of a "Live Laugh Love" sign.”
Source: All Things Aside: Absolutely Correct Opinions
“When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can imagine can wear pretty thin if it's all a couple has built on. We've had that and a whole lot more.”
Source: The times of my life
“When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.”
“When I say women are the agents of change, I really should say women and girls.”
“When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.”
“When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.”
“When I Say Yes To Someone, It Is Not Permanent But When I Say No To Someone, It Is Permanent.”
“When I say you don't have to be a believer, you just have to say - you have to ask the question to say am I concerned about the tough questions in life, being introspective enough to say, who am I, why am I, what am I?”
“When I say “when you’re always almost lonely, you forget to take it slowly,” I mean that you don’t always take care of yourself.”
“When I say, "Be my lover", I don't mean, "Let's have an affair." I don't mean "Sleep with me." I don't mean, "Be my secret." I want us to go back down to that root. I want you to be the one who loves me. I want to be the one who loves you.”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel
“When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.”
“When I say, 'I can't stay long, I'm in-between meals,' that plays differently on the radio than it does in person. So I have to pick material that works because the words are funny, not just because of the images.”
“When I say, 'I don't care what white people think,' I mean that.”
“When I say, 'I love Christ and love the teachings of Christ,' I mean that in the most simple and naive way. I'm not saying I'm right.”
“When I say, 'We're a team,' the reason why I point that out is because at 'All My Children,' that's the mindset. They're a team. And I've said this to other people: They're like a united front.”
“When I say: "I'm looking at you, I can see you", that means: "I can see you because I can't see what is behind you: I see you through the frame I am drawing. I can't see inside you". If I could see you from beneath or from behind, I would be God. I can see you because my back and my sides are blind. One can't even imagine what it would be like to see inside people.”
“When I scanned the room, I saw five or six swaddled newborns and one miniature 1920s actress. Bibi had round eyes the size of saucers, chalky white skin, and dainty fingers that seemed already capable of needlepoint.”
Source: Monsieur Mediocre: One American Learns the High Art of Being Everyday French
“When I score I don't celebrate, its my job, does a postman celebrate when he delivers post?”
“When I sealed the deal on Douglass, I thought I had everything I wanted. But I was wrong. You’re everything thing I want. Everything I need.”
Source: Revenge Best Served Hot
“When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.”
“When I see 'Sunshine,' I see a film that part of me is kind of very proud of and another part of me is very sad about, so it's a really complicated film for me. And I've never been really able to resolve all that in myself.”
“When I see 16 year-olds waiting for me, I just want to spank them and give them guitars and tell them to start bands. It's a bummer that girls have to respond to rock artists sexually instead of, like, 'wow, me too!'.”
“When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh shut up' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining.”
“When I see a barrier, I cry and I curse, and then I get a ladder and climb over it.”
“When I see a beautiful piece of art, it inspires me to be creative.”
“When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.”
Source: Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi
“When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.”
“When I see a cheerful young man shrieking about how full of life he is, banging on a drum, and blowing on a tin trumpet, and speaking of his good spirits, it depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can't be real. It ought to be but it isn't. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn't say it.”
Source: Love at Second Sight
“When I see a child who is hungry, I see a person who is humiliated.”
“When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world.”
Source: Collected Works
“When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.”
“When I see a face, I see a face in general and I see you are curious, I see the curiosity but I don't not look after a dermatological report of your cheeks, and that's what you see when you're too high-resolution. And now desperately in post-production, in color grading, they are trying to wipe out the precision of the dermatological report.”
“When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.”
“When I see a good film, it's like a whiplash. I run away, in order not to be influenced. Thus, the films I liked most are those I think least about.”
“When I see a good singer, I get teary-eyed. Part of it is jealousy because all comedians are frustrated rock stars. That's a fact.”
“When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.”
“When I see a kid in a movie theater texting, I think it's a failure of the movie. It's not a triumph of the Apple iPhone. It's a failure of Warner Bros. and Sony, and all that, because they haven't kept their attention and challenged them. They're smart little kids that are bored, and I wanted to challenge them.”
“When I see a large group of people, I wonder how many of them will eventually require autopsies.”
“When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because you're old enough now to identify them very strongly as being young - whereas before, of course they were young, because you were young. Now it's not like that.”
“When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.”
“When I see a man
pacing.
punching.
screaming.
Doing anything
to keep from crying.
I wonder what terrible things
his mind
is saying to his heart.”
“When I see a movie, the music often gets in the way for me. It's something that, say, for myself and Claire, we never, ever speak about. We never speak about describing emotion. I think it's about color and movement. And I think it's important to let the images be the melody, as well, a lot of the time - to create a kind of a backing for that, to let it sing.”
“When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.”
“When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am on my guard.”
Source: The fall
“When I see a news story on a site, about a movie that I'm interested in, it's like the mouse going for the pleasure button and I click it. But then, when I see the movie, it's like, "Oh, I would have enjoyed the movie that much more, if I hadn't known that."”
“When I see a non-yogi [benefit], that's when it really affects my life.”
“When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track.”