Quotes starting with W Page 1986

“When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still in prison. That's what America means: prison.”

Mean Stills America Powerful Prison Articles Shocked

Author:Malcolm X

“When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.”

People Book Stuff Sports Prison Crap

Author:Mike Tyson

“When I was in retreat I just did my meditation sessions and, in-between, reading and things I had to do.”

Reading Meditation Retreat Session

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“When I was in Russia I found that I thought I was going to give these people that I was interviewing a whole bunch of choice in terms of what they could drink while we were chatting.”

People Giving Whole Choices Found Term Drink Russia Bunch Chatting

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.”

Problem School Answers Math Subjective

Author:Lisa Randall

“When I was in school I used to prank my teachers all the time. But I was really, really nice. I love to make people laugh. And even in those pranks, the teachers would laugh most of the time.”

People School Used Laughing Teacher Nice Making People Laugh Really Nice Pranks

Author:Chrisette Michele

“When I was in school I would try and take all my classes early in the morning or at night so that I would have most of the day to go out on auditions.”

Trying School Night Class Morning Auditions

Author:Pawel Szajda

“When I was in school in the Art Institute, we had several problems during the course of the time we were taking ceramic classes where we had to do a sculptural piece. And when I say a sculptural piece, it's nothing like what we conceive of now as a sculptural piece.”

Art Problem School Courses Class Pieces Institute Ceramics

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing.”

Humor School Funny Perfect Practice Teacher Nobody's Perfect Practice Makes Perfect

Author:Steven Wright

“When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.”

Book School American History History Books Canadian History

Author:Dave Foley

“When I was in school, I dreamed about becoming a psychiatrist or a ballerina. Like most girls I would dream about being a movie star too. But those dreams are the impossible kind, the kind you don't really set your heart on.”

Heart Kind Dream School Girl Stars Impossible Becoming Movie Star Psychiatrist Ballerina

Author:Sharon Tate

“When I was in school, I got there on the first day and everyone had long, blonde, straight hair, and I had short, dark, curly hair. I immediately felt I didn't fit in and started growing my hair. But I've learned that I'm only happy when I am truly me and feel comfortable and confident in myself.”

Feels Firsts Long School Felt Dark Growing Hair Fit Comfortable I've Learned Blonde Curly Hair Straight Hair

Author:Emmy Rossum

“When I was in school, I used to look out the window and see the big red double-deck buses driving by. It just looked so free.”

Looks Bigs School Used Red Window Driving Bus Deck

Author:Brian Johnson

“When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.”

Writing Character Shows School Used Guy Fun Stage Tvs Scripts Get Up Opera Imaginary Tv Shows Dressings Soap That Guy Dressing Up Soap Operas Writing Scripts

Author:Chris Lilley

“When I was in school, I was beaten every 30 minutes. It never did me any harm except for some psychological mal-adjustments and blurred vision.”

School Vision Minutes Harm Psychological Beaten Adjustment

Author:John Cleese

“When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line.”

School Lines Involved High School Active Juniors Cheerleader Junior High Cheerleading

Author:Faith Ford

“When I was in school, I was very much into just sports, mostly basketball, and didn't really see myself as much of a student. But once I got into college, I figured I wasn't going to be play beyond college. I started to think what was I going to do, since I wouldn't be able to make a living with basketball. There were a couple of things I liked to do. I wrote poetry, spoken word mostly.”

Thinking Play Able School Sports Students College Couple Basketball Spoken Word

Author:Matt de la Pena

“When I was in school, if you wanted a computer, you had to build one. But today, computers are everywhere. We're all obsessed with technology and having the latest gadgets. Nerd culture is ubiquitous.”

Ifs Today Wanted School Culture Technology Computer Obsessed Nerd Gadgets

Author:Chris Hardwick

“When I was in school, in eighth grade, someone recognized something in me. She was an English teacher, and we read a play out loud in class, and she asked me to read one of the roles. I'd never done anything like that before, but something just lit up.”

Done Play School Class Roles Teacher Loud Grades Lit English Teacher Eighth Grade

Author:David Morse

“When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it and understood it quickly. I just enjoyed breaking the codes and solving problems.”

Problem Age School Subjects Understood My Favorite Math Enjoyed Code Problem Solving Algebra Calculus Favorite Subject

Author:Chris Bosh

“When I was in school, my former roommate went through hazing. I heard the stories, but I don't think I've seen a movie that captures the stuff that goes on.”

Thinking Stories School Stuff Heard Goes On Former Capture Roommate Hazing

Author:Nick Jonas

“When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.”

School Mother Missing College Masters University Glad Stressed Yale Yale University

Author:Angela Bassett

“When I was in school, one of my teachers was crazy about me. I once heard her tell another teacher, "I wish he was my kid for one day!"”

Kids School Wish Education Teacher Heard Crazy Teaching One Day

Author:Milton Berle

“When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls athletics.”

School Girl Athletics

Author:Karen DeCrow

“When I was in school, working as a team was called cheating.”

School Team Cheating Team Work

Author:Peter Norvig

“When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.”

Two Mother Environment Wife Moved Western Conservative Miles Grades Evangelical Down The Road Carolina Miami North Carolina Ruth

Author:Patricia Cornwell

“When I was in seventh grade my mom caught me smoking cigarettes and punished me by making me smoke the entire carton. All it did was piss me off because I was out of cigarettes.”

Mom Caught My Mom Smoke Smoking Grades Cigarette Smoking Cigarettes Seventh Grade

Author:Pink

“When I was in seventh grade, I totally had a crush on a guy who was older than me, and he listened to alternative music. So he was into Days of the New and stuff like that, and more poppy stuff, too, like Matchbox Twenty.”

Guy Stuff Twenties Alternatives Crush Grades Poppies Seventh Grade Alternative Music Matchboxes

Author:Carrie Underwood

“When I was in seventh grade, I was caught stealing money from the visiting team's locker room during a basketball game. So I was sent to The Brothers. That's what they called this parochial school up in Goshen, New York. I was supposed to get closer supervision there and more "masculine influence," whatever that means. But I was thrown out for telling a couple of really lame kids on the playground that I had heroin.”

“When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist.' I played the dentist, and I had my friend play a patient. It was sort of what can go wrong at the dentist, and I just remember I had lots of fake blood and everything.”

Firsts Play Shows Remember Blood Talent My Friends Patient Fake Grades Dentist Sixth Grade Talent Show

Author:Trey Parker

“When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.”

Wanted Grades Priests Sixth Grade

Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.”

People Used Mother South Rap Tongue Village Sudan Mother Tongue

Author:Emmanuel Jal

“When I was in Sri Lanka with the [Tamil] Tigers, there were editorials in the paper saying that soldiers really had to stop raping Tamil women at checkpoints because they were just creating more operatives. The [Tigers] were cognizant of this and exploited it: "Don't be a victim, join the movement.”

Movement Paper Creating Victim Soldier Tigers Editorials Sri Lanka Cognizant Checkpoints

Author:Mia Bloom

“When I was in that danger...I felt like I was shaken awake...after everything she made me feel...I made a decision and went to sleep. Do you know what that's like - trying to go to sleep, and lose yourself in the hopes of burying the worst fears in your life?...I wasn't in love with the past. I was terrified of my own future.”

Knows Feels Trying Made Past Felt Fear Loses My Own Sleep Decision Worst Danger Awake Do You Know Terrified Going To Sleep Losing Yourself Burying Worst Fear

Author:Brad Meltzer

“When I was in the 9th grade, on Halloween night, when you're supposed to go and out and burn your city, my mom made me go to 'Cirque du Soleil.' I was kicking and screaming. This girl came out onstage, and I was instantly mesmerized. I dropped out of school and became obsessed with her. I saw the show, like, 70 times.”

Made Shows School Night Girl Cities Saws Mom My Mom Obsessed Grades Halloween Kicking This Girl Mesmerized Halloween Night Cirque Du Soleil

Author:Troy Garity

“When I was in the Army, I was trained to survive, not to wait to die. Make no mistake. I am leaving this city one way or another.”

Death Survival Army Escape Jason Medina The Manhattanville Incident An Undead Novel

Author:Jason Medina

Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.”

Way Persons Said Book Law Felt Army Noble Saving

Author:William Sanderson

“When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.”

People Knows Know How Army Rate Categories Units Volunteer Attrition

Author:Michael Arad

“When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.”

Felt Sports Leadership Sorry Boxes Pitcher

Author:Rogers Hornsby

“When I was in the business as a young performer, it was a recognised fact that when you got to 60 you were out, because there'd be a new crop of comics coming up all the time, every 10 years or so.”

Years Facts Young Performers Crops

Author:Bruce Forsyth

“When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it.”

Way Wanted Grows Attention Essence California Farmers Regulation 80s Hippie Legislature Labeling

Author:Sam Farr

“When I was in the Cult of Hollywood, I'd put myself down and say In had useless talents. [...] but it wasn't my official job, so to my mind it was a useless talent. [...] but I never pursued it as an additional career because it was what others did professionally, not me. No one told me I could do whatever I wanted to.”

Pursue Your Dreams Stay True To Yourself Pursue Your Passion Useless Talents

Author:Rose McGowan

Source: Brave

“When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote this huge long paper about how I had no idea what I was gonna do with my life, but that I wanted to make a difference and touch even if it was like one person's life... inspire them.”

Ifs Persons Long Ideas Wanted Differences Inspire Huge Paper No Idea Making A Difference Grades Eighth Grade

Author:Shantel VanSanten

“When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.”

Firsts Reading Teacher Overcoming Difficulty Patience Circles Miserable Grades

Author:Beverly Cleary

“When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.”

Wells Keys Grades Fourth Geography Fourth Grade

Author:Clyde Tombaugh

“When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps.”

Writing Sometimes Used Wall Paper Stones Destroyed Scrap Stone Walls Gulags

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“When I was in the hospital after I was shot they gave me drugs, but it was so great to get off those.”

Drug Shots Hospitals

Author:Andy Warhol

Source: Andy Warhol: the late work

“When I was in the hospital getting my sex change, I was just wishing I could be a pretty girl working in a mall. If I could have a crystal ball and see what I look like now - you know, modeling, David LaChapelle, hanging out with Daphne Guinness, singing with Lil' Kim, and traveling all over the world, I'd be like, "Wow, I can't believe this."”

World Believe Girl Wish Singing Hanging Out Modeling Pretty Girl Crystal Ball

Author:Amanda Lepore

“When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn't like it. I had to get even. One morning, I poured the apple juice into the specimen tube. The nurse held it up and said, 'It's a little cloudy.' I took the tube from her and said, 'Let me run it through again,' and drank it. The nurse fainted.”

Littles Said Running Morning Let Me Apples Hospitals Nurse Every Morning Juice Drank Tubes Cloudy

Author:Alan King

“When I was in the House for 16 years, I caucused with the Democrats.”

Years House Democrat

Author:Bernie Sanders

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