Quotes starting with W Page 1967

“When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house - I can't believe I remember this - he said to them, 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny.”

Believe Littles Said I Can Play Character Kids Funny Remember Guy House Witch Little Kid This Guy Mortgage Mummy Haunted Houses

Author:Mindy Kaling

“When I was a little kid, if somebody said they were thirty-five, I'd say "Oooh, they're going to die soon". But as I get older it doesn't mean a thing. You mustn't ever give in. Never give in to thinking you're old, because you're never old. Your mind, and I tell you this and listen to me carefully, your mind is never, ever old, it's eternally young.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Mind Mean Littles Said Kids Young Dies Five Thirty Little Kid Listen To Me Never Give In

Author:Mel Brooks

“When I was a little kid, my mother and I used to watch the Golden Globes and I would dress up and she would get sparkling apple cider and we would make a tray of hors doeuvres and watch it together. And I would get up and make a pretend speech.”

Littles Kids Together Used Mother Watches Speech Dresses Golden Get Up Apples Globes Little Kid Sparkling Trays Cider Apple Cider

Author:Lea Michele

“When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers films and westerns and stuff like that. Thats where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.”

Littles Shows Kids Film Desire Actors Stuff Parent Understanding Acting Brother Show Me Little Kid Marx Brothers

Author:Alden Ehrenreich

“When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing to do but catch bugs all day.”

Littles Kids Courses Summer Bird Brown Little Kid Bugs Short Summer

Author:Roy Blount, Jr.

“When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we've downgraded Pluto but have discovered that other solar systems and stars are common. So life is probably quite prevalent.”

Littles Kids Life Is Stars Common Planets Nine Little Kid Solar System Pluto

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“When I was a little older, about twelve, I went to work at a nearby house. It was owned by old Mrs. Cromby and oh, I was so homesick! I cried myself to sleep for a fortnight it seemed, until it was my day off and I could go home to see Mam." He frowned at this, not liking to think of his infant housekeeper in tears. "Why did they send you then if you were so upset?" She gave him a look. "Because I needed to learn a trade, naturally. And it was a good position. Mrs. Cromby was very strict but I learned so much from her and her housekeeper, Mrs. Little. How to keep records and how to make wood polish and brass polish and silver polish. When to turn linen and how to store cheese. What cuts of beef are the cheapest and how to bargain down the butcher. How to judge when a fish is fresh and when to buy shellfish and when not to. How to keep moths from woolen and mice from the pantry. How to get wine stains out of white linen and how to dye faded cloth black again. All that and so much more." She drew breath and he looked at her, deeply appalled. "That all sounds frightfully boring." "And yet without that knowledge you'd live in dirty, messy, vermin-infested chaos," she said sweetly. "Mm.”

Lessons Learned Bridget And Val Bridget Crumb Housekeeping Services

Author:Elizabeth Hoyt

Source: Duke of Sin

“When I was a little younger, I really did love musical theatre in the same hopeless dorky way that she does. I was obsessed with Jesus Christ Superstar and I used to reenact it in my room when no one was home.”

Way Littles Doe Home Used Jesus Christ Rooms Jesus Christ Musical Theatre Obsessed Hopeless Superstar Musical Theatre Dorky Jesus Christ Superstar

Author:Sarah Steele

“When I was a little-leaguer, I was sort of famous for stealing bases - and it started only because my mom wanted to be sure where I was in the afternoons. Mom always used to say, "If you don't come home dirty, you didn't play a baseball game." So I always tried to get in a situation where I had to slide so that I could go home dirty.”

Ifs Littles Play Home Wanted Used Games Situation Mom Baseball Bases My Mom Stealing Dirty Coming Home Afternoon Slides Baseball Games

Author:Rickey Henderson

“When I was a lot younger, my parents raised me watching classic movies.”

Parent Raised Classic Classic Movie

Author:Sara Paxton

“When I was a missionary in London fifty years ago, my companion and I would shake hands in the morning and say to one another, 'Life is good'. Life in the service of the Lord is good. It is beautiful. It is rewarding.”

Years Hands Beautiful Life Is Lord Morning Years Ago London Fifty Shakes Companion Good Life Missionary Another Life Life Is Good

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“When I was a model, actually, for a little while, my friend that I worked with a lot, she had horrible self-esteem too. We decided that the exact moment when we actually thought we were attractive, we wouldn't be anymore. We would just, like, miss it.”

Littles Self Moments Missing Self Esteem Models My Friends Decided Horrible Esteem Attractive

Author:Geena Davis

“When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that. But life is crazy!”

Thinking Life Is Used Crazy Mom Balanced Life Is Crazy New Mom

Author:Brooke Burke

“When I was a newly single mom with a toddler and a newborn, I’d cringe when meeting new people, especially other young parents, none of whom seemed to be anything but blissfully orbiting in their nuclear family unit. I’d dance around any pressures (perceived or real) to reveal my marital status, until I’d burst, and a flood of unprompted details would pour out: “I’m-separated-yes-your-math-is-right-my-ex-moved-out-while-Iwas-pregnant-but-he-had-a-brain-injury-and-destabalized-so-it-is-an-unusual-situation-a-medical-crisis-he’sactually-a-very-good-person-I’m-not-angry-about-that-we-are-all-fine!”

Kids Relationships Family Friends Divorce Motherhood Single Mom Single Mother

Author:emma johnson

Source: The Kickass Single Mom

“When I was a nurse I never had much money, and I was still happy then.”

Stills Nurse

Author:Jo Brand

“When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexic ward. I sometimes ate as many as seventeen dinners”

Sometimes Dinner Nurse Favourite Assignments Seventeen Anorexics

Author:Jo Brand

“When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that women would soon stand equal with men in science. But progress has proved slower than many of us imagined.”

Men Progress Students Equal Late Majors Female Fellows Physics

Author:Margaret Wertheim

“When I was a player and hit into a double play, I felt as if I was letting everyone down.”

Ifs Play Felt Player

Author:Joe Torre

“When I was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.”

Way Hard Play Player Hard Work Losing Get Better Teammate

Author:Larry Bird

“When I was a player, I'd have a pre-match meal of the biggest lump of fillet steak you could find, followed by rice pudding. Other times I'd have a steak and kidney pie. I'd finish the meal at 12.30 and be playing two-and-a-half hours later.”

Two Hours Half Player Meals Pie Rice Steak Lumps Half Hours Kidneys Pudding Rice Pudding

Author:Fabio Capello

“When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.”

Three Five Cards Catalogues

Author:Randy Schekman

“When I was a practicing alcoholic, I was unbelievable. One side effect was immense suspicion: I'd come off tour like Inspector Clouseau on acid. 'Where's this cornflake come from? It wasn't here before.”

Sides Effects Immense Suspicion Unbelievable Alcoholics Acid Side Effects Inspectors

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.”

Trying Cases Advice Defense San Francisco Attorney Defenders Prosecutor Defense Attorneys

Author:Christine Pelosi

“When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.”

Action Responsibility Publishers Cnn

Author:Ted Turner

“When I was a rapper, the groupies didn't have to try too hard with me. Just show up at the hotel.”

Trying Hard Shows Hotel Rapper Hospitality Groupie

Author:Mark Wahlberg

“When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden.”

Children Young Felt Garden Convinced Fairy Grandmother My Grandmother Young Children

Author:Noel Fielding

“When I was a Republican governor, he was obviously a Democratic president, but on issue after issue after issue, President Obama was very helpful to us in education, in the environment, with the handling of the BP oil spill.”

President Issues Environment Republican Democratic Oil Helpful President Obama Governors Spills Oil Spill

Author:Charlie Crist

“When I was a rookie, Cy Young used to hit me flies to sharpen my abilities to judge in advance the direction and distance of an outfield-hit ball.”

Young Used Ability Judging Balls Distance Rookies

Author:Tris Speaker

“When I was a runner and competing in triathlons I was having pains in my hip and just treating it as an injury. I would ice it and take anti-inflammatories, but it just wouldn't go away. I finally went into my doctor and we did x-rays and had an MRI and diagnosed it as osteoarthritis. At that point I stopped doing anything that was impactful to my hip joints.”

Pain Doctors Ice Hips Injury Going Away Rays Runners Competing Joints Mri Triathlon

Author:Kristin Armstrong

“When I was a school kid I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing, I would make my own comics about my teddy bear whose name happened to be Ted.”

Kids School Used Names My Own Happened Bears Drawing Teddy Teddy Bear

Author:Marcel Dzama

“When I was a school kid in Coventry, I used to put up anti-apartheid stickers.”

Kids School Sticker

Author:Jerry Dammers

“When I was a schoolboy in England, the old bound volumes of Kipling in the library had gilt swastikas embossed on their covers. The symbol's 'hooks' were left-handed, as opposed to the right-handed ones of the Nazi hakenkreuz, but for a boy growing up after 1945 the shock of encountering the emblem at all was a memorable one. I later learned that in the mid-1930s Kipling had caused this 'signature' to be removed from all his future editions. Having initially sympathized with some of the early European fascist movements, he wanted to express his repudiation of Hitlerism (or 'the Hun,' as he would perhaps have preferred to say), and wanted no part in tainting the ancient Indian rune by association. In its origin it is a Hindu and Jainas symbol for light, and well worth rescuing.”

School Europe England Symbols Hinduism Fascism World War Ii 1930s Nazis Adolf Hitler 1945 Rudyard Kipling Swastikas Fascism In Europe

Author:Christopher Hitchens

Source: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

“When I was a schoolkid, I went to Castleton quite a few times. We'd be there studying rocks, going down these big hills. It was a great place!”

Bigs Study Rocks Hills

Author:Jamie Oliver

“When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.”

Reason Screenwriters Mercenary

Author:James Frey

“When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle’s wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance… and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.”

Wells Girl Mets Intellectual Uncles Brilliance Her Beauty

Author:Pope Francis

“When I was a Senator from New York, I represented and worked with so many talented principled people who made their living in finance. But even thought I represented them and did all I could to make sure they continued to prosper, I called for closing the carried interest loophole and addressing skyrocketing CEO pay. I also was calling in '06, '07 for doing something about the mortgage crisis, because I saw every day from Wall Street literally to main streets across New York how a well-functioning financial system is essential.”

“When I was a senior in high school, I was playing in this local band in our town, and I really wanted to be a musician for a living, and it didn’t look like that was going to happen with my band. So, I enrolled in college and stuff. My senior year had ended, and I was going through the anxiety of like, ‘I guess I’m an adult now kind of’ and I was really yearning for a direction. And, I remember like sitting in my back one day, and I was praying alone, and I remember God said, just give up. Just let go of this worry and this need for direction and I will give you direction.”

Inspirational Jesus Christianity Letting Go Patrick Flyleaf

Author:Pat Seals

“When I was a senior, I ran for class president. And I lost. One of my opponents even told me I was "really stupid" if I thought a girl could be elected president.”

Ifs Girl Lost President Class Stupid Ran Opponents Senior Really Stupid Lost Ones Class President

Author:Hillary Clinton

“When I was a small boy I often went to the woods to lie on the grass in the shade. Somehow I had come to believe the earth could give me wisdom, but it did not. Yet I learned a little about animals and learned it is not always brave to make a stand. It is often foolish. There is a time for courage and a time for flight.”

Giving Believe Littles Earth Lying Animal Boys Give Me Bravery Brave Woods Foolish Flight Grass Shade

Author:Louis L'Amour

Source: Ride the Dark Trail

“When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.”

“When I was a small boy, if we had a problem, we would fight about it with our fists. We wouldn't shoot somebody, killing them or wounding them. That's not hard to do. I would like people to put down the guns. If you have a problem, talk about it or fight about it.”

People Ifs Hard Problem Fighting Boys Gun Killing Fists

Author:Snoop Dogg

“When I was a small boy, my father told me never to recommend a church or a woman to anyone. And I have found it wise never to recommend a restaurant either. Something always goes wrong with the cheese souffle.”

Found Father Church Boys Wise Restaurants Cheese Souffle

Author:Edmund G. Love

“When I was a small boy, old people used to squat down to my eye level and ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, to which my answer was invariably, "a pirate." Their stunned silence was always very reassuring.”

People Eye Wanted Used Asks Answers Levels Silence Boys Grew Grew Up Ask Me Old People Pirate Stunned Reassuring Squat

Author:Adam Young

“When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.”

Kids Grew Grew Up Newspapers

Author:Bill James

“When I was a sophomore, a friend asked me to go to a local acting seminar with him. Two guys were very interested in me and wanted me to come out to L.A. I wanted to finish high school before doing anything like that. I figured they’d just forget about me, but they kept after me for two years.”

Years Two Wanted School Guy Forget Acting High School Locals Two Years Seminars Sophomore Two Guys Forget About Me

Author:Jensen Ackles

“When I was a squire young as you, I had a friend who was strong and quick and agile, a champion in the yard. We all knew that one day he would be a splendid knight. Then war came to the Stepstones. I saw my friend drive his foeman to his knees and knock the axe from his hand, but when he might have finished he held back for half a heartbeat. In battle half a heartbeat is a lifetime. The man slipped out his dirk and found a chink in my friend’s armor. His strength, his speed, his valor, all his hard-won skill … it was worth less than a mummer’s fart, because he flinched from killing.”

Strength Resolve Flinching

Author:George R.R. Martin

Source: A Feast for Crows

“When I was a struggling actress in New York in my 20s I worked in a burger joint called Diane's Uptown. I actually loved waiting tables. I still keep who I was in my mind and never take anything for granted.”

Mind Stills Waiting Struggle New York Tables Actresses Granted Joints Burgers Uptown Waiting Tables Never Take Anything For Granted

Author:Sandra Bullock

“When I was a student almost nobody thought there was any life beyond Earth. Today it's fashionable to say that there is life all over the place, that the universe is teeming with it, but the scientific facts on the ground haven't really changed.”

Facts Today Earth Universe Havens Changed Students Fashionable Scientific Facts

Author:Paul Davies

“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. "This is often considered to be man's first attempt at a calendar" she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. 'My question to you is this - what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman's first attempt at a calendar. It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women's contributions?”

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