Quotes starting with W Page 1992

“When I was playing junior football when I was a kid, we were the Geneva Giants, so it was kind of embedded in me to be a Giants fan.”

Kind Kids Fans Football Giants Juniors Embedded Geneva

Author:Travie McCoy

“When I was playing soccer at the age of 14, the first thing we'd do before going out onto the field would be to climb up on one another's thighs and massage the legs; it was a regular thing. None of us had a thought of being gay, absolutely not, and it's the same with most bodybuilders.”

Firsts Would Be Age Fields Gay Legs Soccer Climbs Going Out Thighs Massage Being Gay Bodybuilder Playing Soccer

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“When I was playing the game we never had the benefit of TV or video to analyse our techniques or look at faults, we depended on other cricketers to watch us and then tell us what they thought we were doing wrong.”

Looks Games Watches Tvs Benefits Faults Athlete Technique Video Cricketers

Author:Geoffrey Boycott

“When I was playing with Bob Dylan in, like, 1966, I was, like, 20 years old.”

Years Bob Dylan

Author:Robbie Robertson

“When I was playing with synth players, I was still within a conceptual framework of playing music. When I started playing solo, I became much more aware of the acoustic phenomena that the instruments were producing.”

Stills Player Instruments Solo Framework Playing Music Acoustics Conceptual Framework

Author:Z'EV

“When I was playing, I didn't realize how much of an impact I would make on people, Muslim or non-Muslim. We played a lot of games during Ramadan. On national TV, the announcers were commenting about Ramadan, and this raised the awareness to the general public and we made all the Muslims very, very proud.”

People Realizing Awareness Proud

Author:Hakeem Olajuwon

“When I was playing, it would be whatever role I wanted. Now it's whatever they ask me to do, which I kind of like better.”

Kind Would Be Wanted Asks Roles Ask Me

Author:Barry Bonds

“When I was playing, my wife and kids would go on the road with me, and we would go to different lunch spots that we saw on "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives."”

Different Kids Saws Wife Goes On My Wife Spots Lunch Diners My Wife And Kids

Author:Prince Fielder

“When I was playing, we didn't have to compete against everybody in the world. Now it's a truly global sport, so the competition's much greater, just like it is for our children in every other area, whether it be in science or technology or whatever you talk about.”

World Children Sports Technology Greater Areas Our Children Competition

Author:Billie Jean King

“When I was poor and complained about inequality they said I was bitter; now that I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm beginning to think they just don't want to talk about inequality.”

Humor Political

Author:Russell Brand

“When I was poor and I complained about inequality they said I was bitter. Now I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm starting to think they just don't want to talk about inequality.”

Thinking Want Said Poor Rich Starting Complaining Bitter Inequality They Said Hypocrite

Author:Russell Brand

Source: Revolution

“When I was poor I was happy I at least had many things to dream of. Now that I am rich the dreams lie shattered.”

Dissatisfaction Illusions Shattered Dreams Reality Bites Uncertainty Quotes

Author:Amit Abraham

“When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born.”

Born Poor Draws Vegetarian Vegan Desks Mice Garage Kansas Mickey

Author:Walt Disney

“When I was praying there was a Presence - I saw nothing and yet Our Lord Crucified seemed present for a few instants.”

Lord Saws Praying Instant Our Lord

Author:Mary Potter

“When I was pregnant, a few of my friends told me that their babies slept in bed with them. I remember thinking how crazy that was. Then I started reading up on it and decided it was something I actually wanted to try.”

Thinking Trying Wanted Remember Reading Crazy Baby Bed My Friends Decided Pregnant Were Pregnant

Author:Kourtney Kardashian

“When I was pregnant, everyone told me you're going to be one of those women with a little football in front. And then this...thing, this Scooby-Doo monster belly arrived. I gained 65 pounds. Every single part of my body was thicker - even my scalp! But that's the advantage of being young - it went right back.”

Football Pregnant

Author:Kate Beckinsale

“When I was pregnant, I couldn't wear fragrance. I couldn't smell anything. I couldn't smell flowers, I was very sensitive to everything. I could smell orange juice from across the room and I remember thinking, 'I will throw up.'”

Thinking Remember Rooms Flower Smell Sensitive Pregnant Orange Fragrance Juice Were Pregnant Orange Juice

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“When I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well. I felt much more useful than I'd ever felt before.”

Wells Felt Filled Pregnancy Pregnant Really Happy Were Pregnant

Author:Suzanne Vega

“When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.”

Writing Ideas Courses Reading Born Sleep Novel Baby Daughter Magazines My Daughter Pregnant Earnest Moses Baskets Were Pregnant

Author:Kate Beckinsale

“When I was pregnant, I was so huge and people on the bus would get up for me. That made me feel so precious and valued and valuable. I try to treat everyone like they're pregnant.”

People Feels Trying Made Huge Treats Valuable Get Up Bus Pregnant Were Pregnant

Author:Mariska Hargitay

“When I was pregnant. I exercised and was healthy, but it was also the first time since I was 14 that I wasn't on a diet.”

Firsts Healthy First Time Diets Pregnancy Pregnant Were Pregnant

Author:Liv Tyler

“When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games I knew the winning method.”

School Games Winning Term My Own Position Kings Method Chess Preparing Tricky Pawns

Author:Garry Kasparov

“When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.”

Said I Can President Can Do Responsibility Company Worry Pieces Okay Cake Ceo I Can Do This

Author:Indra Nooyi

“When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don't think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.”

People Thinking Needs Stills I Can President Results Changed Ought Involved Errors Series Horrible Abortion Ruling Wade Roe V Wade

Author:Jimmy Carter

“When I was president, I knew exactly what I wanted to do every day to bring America together and create a greater sense of opportunity and a larger sense of responsibility and a stronger sense of community.”

Wanted Together America Opportunity President Community Responsibility Greater Stronger Sense Of Responsibility

Author:William J. Clinton

“When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.”

Mother Acting Class Singing Dancing Singing And Dancing

Author:Beau Mirchoff

“When I was probably about 10 or 11, and I found it was simply something I could do. When you're at school and you do something and you get praised for it, you think, "Oh, right, well I'll do that." From then on, I always thought I'd be a writer. I thought novels at first, and then I sort of naturally drifted into TV.”

Thinking Firsts Wells School Found Novel Tvs

Author:Steven Knight

“When I was probably in middle school I saw the mini series Angels in America for the first time and I think Mary Louise Parker's performance in that first of all sparked a deep obsession with Mary Louise Parker, but I also really love Amy Adams because she gets to do comedy and drama so consistently.”

Thinking Firsts School America Saws Comedy Middle Drama Angel First Time Performances Series Obsession Mary Consistently Amy Middle School Angels In America

Author:Grace Phipps

“When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.”

Ifs Trying Order My Own Hell Planets Industry Prove Entertainment Bent Entertainment Industry

Author:Alanis Morissette

“When I was producing the first solo album, i just wanted to convey some messages through it. The message was 'no blood will come out even if I am pinned' However, after trying out different kinds of music activities, I started to change and wanted to convey my real emotion that I have in my everyday life. I want to express the feelings that everyone has felt at least once, in music so I think people will feel/understand my songs.”

“When I was pushed to the brink of loneliness and gender agony as a third grader, when I didn’t know how to communicate with the adults in my life about what was going on, I channeled my anger at my own body, my own existence. When the world made who I was feel impossible, I began to see my own body as an impossibility. For years of my life, I told myself this was normal. That kids just thought about killing themselves sometimes. That every third grader had experienced that. In order to move on with my life, I had to normalize it.”

Suicide Suicidal Thoughts Gender Identity Gender Dysphoria Gender Norms

Author:Jacob Tobia

Source: Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story

“When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there.”

Looks Sports Situation Team Possibility Good Things Hey Teamwork

Author:Latrell Sprewell

“When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.”

Christian Boys Week Atheism Six Fables

Author:George Meredith

“When I was quite young I came across a collection of [Franz] Kafka stories and read "The Judgment." I was just floored by that story. I couldn't understand it. I still don't. I'm talking about something I read more than 50 years ago. That story left a little scar on me.”

Years Littles Stills Stories Young Left Talking Judgment Years Ago Collections Scar

Author:Stephen Greenblatt

“When I was quite young I fondly imagined that all foreign languages were codes for English. I thought that "hat," say, was the real and actual name of the thing, but that people in other countries, who obstinately persisted in speaking the code of their forefathers, might use the word "ibu," say, to designate not merely the concept hat, but the English word "hat." I knew only one foreign word, "oui," and since it had three letters as did the word for which it was a code, it seemed, touchingly enough, to confirm my theory.”

People Real Country Enough Use Might Young Three Names Language Childhood Theory Concepts Letters Code Hats Other Countries Forefathers Foreign Language Might Use English Words

Author:Annie Dillard

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

“When I was quite young my parents never said books were off limits.”

Said Book Young Parent Limits

Author:J. K. Rowling

“When I was quite young, I put my trust in God--not government; and I never get the two confused.”

Two Government Young Trust Confused Trust In God

Author:Bob Dole

“When I was racing, we were more used to seeing some horrific accidents. For example, Michael Schumacher is a great world champion, but I haven't seen a weekend where he doesn't go off the circuit. At every race he always has a spin or runs through the gravel trap. He usually doesn't hit anything, but nevertheless it is an error that could not have been made in the days I raced.”

World Has Beens Made Running Used Race Seeing Havens Example Errors Accidents Champion Racing Weekend Nevertheless Traps Circuits Horrific World Champions Gravel Schumacher

Author:Jackie Stewart

“When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the world worked and about how safe I was.”

World Certain Lost Safe Assumption Virginity Discarded

Author:Alice Sebold

Source: Lucky

“When I was reaching out to those young men through Strachan’s Corner, nobody told me what to do, I was doing it from my heart. I did what I thought was best rather than giving those youngsters a police record, I tried to prevent it by letting them know if you commit crime you are going to get yourself in trouble. Then you will be confined to the Bahamas for the rest of your life, and will not see that great big world out there. Supt. Allerdyce Strachan, the first female officer to rise to the rank of superintendent on the Royal Bahamas Police Force.”

Law Enforcement Rebellion Raiders Gang Intervention At Risk Youth Crime Prevention Youth Outreach Community Policing From The Heart Police Outreach Police Intervention The Bahamas Caring Police Officers Police Programs Committing Crime Criminal Record Police Record

Author:Drexel Deal

Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

“When I was ready to see you, you were there, because you were everywhere.”

Love You See You

Author:Daniel Ruczko

Source: Pieces of a Broken Mind

“When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.”

Real Play Wanted Young Fields Baseball Grades Ninth Grade Center Field

Author:Ryan Sypek

“When I was really little I would sit in the back of my dad's car when he'd be playing old-school music. He'd turn down the music and turn around and I'd be singing and know all of the words but I didn't even know how to talk. From then on I've always wanted to be a singer.”

Knows Littles Wanted School Turns Know How Car Dad Singing My Dad Singers Old School

Author:Leona Lewis

“When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.”

Littles Crystals Roger Nelson Barbara Kenny

Author:Laura Bell Bundy

“When I was really little, I was skinny and people laughed at me for being skinny, so, we all pay our dues for the bodies we're in one way or another. But thank god I haven't needed to alter it to feel good about myself.”

People Way Feels Littles Body Pay Havens Needed Dues Feel Good One Way Laughed Thank God Skinny

Author:Sandra Bernhard

“When I was really sad, I would be like a little kid wiggling a loose tooth or touching a sore spot - there were things that I did to make myself sadder. It was almost as if I were luxuriant in my own melancholy. Looking at the diaries and thinking about my old self, thinking about my lost youth - that was part of that project of making myself totally miserable.”

Thinking Kids Youth Miserable Melancholy Touching Little Kid Really Sad Old Self

Author:Claire Dederer

“When I was really sick, no one in the medical profession understood Magee’s Disease.”

Disease Understood Profession Medical Sickness Altitude Hypoxia Hypersensitivity Hypoxic Magee S

Author:Steven Magee

Source: Magee’s Disease

“When I was really small I thought I’d do anything to change whatever was wrong with me. Now I didn’t want to change, I just wanted people to stop being mad at me all the time.”

Gender Lesbian Butch Gender Non Conforming Stone Butch Blues

Author:Leslie Feinberg

Source: Stone Butch Blues

“When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.”

Knows Stories Young Screenwriters

Author:John Sayles

“When I was really young I used to collect frog spawn. I made a pond out of an old sink and I loved to spend hours watching the frogs grow.”

Made Young Used Grows Hours Frogs Ponds Spawn

Author:Beth Orton

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