Quotes starting with W Page 2004

“When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world.”

World Young Theatre Brilliant Mum Puppets

“When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment.”

Made Whole Young Parent Acting Watches Entertainment Jimmy Mystique Old Music

Author:James Wolk

“When I was young, no one wanted to be one; now even the President of the United States would call himself an outsider. So now I'm for insiders.”

States Wanted Young President United United States Outsiders Insiders

Author:John Waters

“When I was young, people lived paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment.”

People Seems Today Young Credit Cards Payment Credit Card Paychecks

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.”

People Young Used Waiting Havens Fifty

Author:Erik Satie

Source: The Writings of Erik Satie

“When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.”

People Kind Young Categories

Author:Sade Adu

“When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.”

Knows Young Names Common Poverty

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

“When I was young, some women told me they loved me for my long eyelashes. I accepted. Later it was for my wit. Then for my power and money. Then for my talent. Then for my mind-deep. OK, I can handle all of it. The only woman who scares me is the one who loves me for myself alone. I have plans for her. I have poisons and daggers and dark graves in caves to hide her head. She can't be allowed to live. Especially if she's sexually faithful and never lies and always puts me ahead of everything and everyone.”

Ifs Mind Long I Can Young Lying Dark Plans Talent Accepted Wit Graves Handle Faithful Poison Scare Caves Sexually Daggers Eyelashes Never Lie

Author:Mario Puzo

“When I was young, Stephen Hawking wasn't the world's most famous physicist. The fame didn't arrive until the publication of "A Brief History of Time," by which time I was in my late teens. When I was a child, he was well known among physicists, but they are a fairly select, serious bunch, not much given to celebrity idolizing.”

World Wells Children Young Given Known Serious Fame Late Bunch Teens Well Known Physicist Select Publication

Author:Stephen Hawking

“When I was young, the concept of being a dreamer was a very negative one. If you were a dreamer, you were useless. You didn't contribute anything to society. But Star Trek made dreaming legitimate, and I think that was a huge, huge contribution.”

Ifs Thinking Made Dream Young Stars Huge Concepts Negative Useless Contribution Dreamer

Author:Martin Cooper

“When I was young, the early death of my father cast a shadow over me - and I was afraid to die before all my literary plans came true. But between 30 and 40 years of age my attitude to death became quite calm and balanced. I feel it is a natural, but no means the final, milestone of one's existence.”

Feels Years Mean Age Young Dies Father Natural Existence Attitude Plans Shadow Finals Calm Casts Balanced My Attitude Milestone Early Death

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow, and now that I'm old the young regard me as an outrageous old fellow.”

Young Regard Fellows Outrageous

Author:Fred Hoyle

“When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.”

“When I was young, there was never any space for me to get attention of my own that wasn't negative. Art, and the practice of making art, was the only space that was mine alone, where I could be anyone and do anything, where just by using my head and my hands I could cry, or laugh, or get pissed off.”

Art Hands Young My Own Space Attention Practice Laughing Cry Mines Negative Pissed Off

Author:Kim Gordon

“When I was young, times were hard. When I got older it was worse.”

Hard Young

Author:Warren Zevon

“When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched.”

Bigs Young Dark Worst Skins Lips Noses Wretched Big Nose Dark Skin

Author:Nate Parker

“When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I was really disappointed because it was not at the level I saw in movies. It was not the level of the image I'd imagined.”

Historical Disappointed Sublime

Author:Olivier Theyskens

“When I was young, we always had mornings like this.”

Young Morning

Author:A. A. Milne

“When I was young, we couldn't afford much. But, my library card was my key to the world.”

World Kids Young Keys Library Cards Library Cards

Author:John Goodman

“When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas. He knew them only 'in Braille' - the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial - after a life like that?”

Young Names Rooms Lord Boys Imagine Mets Fairs East Trials Thrown Oscars Plato Curtains Oxford Wilde Ender Noblemen Braille

Author:Quentin Crisp

“When I was young, we were quite strongly discouraged from listening to pop music. It was an uncomfortable thing, pop music; I think my parents felt threatened by it. They were always happy when they were listening to Mozart, so if your parents are happy, then you're happy.”

Ifs Thinking Young Felt Parent Listening Pops Uncomfortable Threatened Discouraged Pop Music Always Happy

Author:William Orbit

“When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taght not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.”

Different Young Team Taught Basketball Standing Out

Author:Yao Ming

“When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.”

Writing Kind Young Literature Weapons Convinced

Author:Mario Vargas Llosa

“When I was young, you know, the first foreign editions that would come in of anything of mine, I'd sit there and look at them as these strange and wonderful artifacts.”

Knows Firsts Looks Young Wonderful Mines Strange Artifacts

Author:Neil Gaiman

“When I was younger - in elementary school - my parents are both teachers, so we moved around a lot. For the most part we always lived, before we settled south of Dallas, we always lived in the outskirts of city suburbs, kind of in these weird, desolate neighborhoods. Very brown and flat settings. I love Texas, I love the openness.”

Kind School Parent Teacher Moved Neighborhood Openness Elementary School

Author:Sarah Jaffe

“When I was younger and bands were formed that way, out of friendships rather than anything else. It wasn't like we put up want ads.”

Way Want Band Ads

Author:David Pajo

“When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.”

Two Sometimes Week Take Me Gigs Two Weeks

Author:Adam Sandler

“When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform.”

Firsts Band My Favorite Singers Mtv Favorite Singer

Author:Victoria Justice

“When I was younger and in primary school, I'd do maybe a film a year, and I had to adapt to being away from everyone for a couple of months.”

Years School Film Months Couple Primaries Primary School

Author:Saoirse Ronan

“When I was younger and inexperienced, I was a very animated pitcher. I pitched with a lot of adrenaline. I was my own worst enemy when things weren't gong well.”

Wells My Own Enemy Worst Animated Pitcher Adrenaline Worst Enemy Gongs My Own Worst Enemy

Author:Randy Johnson

“When I was younger and more tortured, I wanted to suffer in my roles.”

Wanted Suffering Roles

Author:Julia Duffy

“When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up.”

Ifs Hands Running Used Parent Noses Shut Up Slap

Author:Prince William

“When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.”

World Doe Stills Acting Study Saws Drama Sitcom Hairstyles

Author:Matt LeBlanc

“When I was younger and was working as a Dia guard I would go to see everything. I went to every opening. I was really interested in seeing and learning as much as I could.”

Seeing Opening

Author:Wade Guyton

“When I was younger I always had a dark navy, black tie and everybody would look at me like it was odd, but now it is de rigueur. I'm sure it's my input.”

Black Dark Odd Look At Me Navy

Author:Charles Finch

“When I was younger I always thought, 'If I were ever a comedian I'd make it like a rock concert.' I wanted to generate that type of enthusiasm and excitement.”

Ifs Wanted Rocks Type Enthusiasm Comedian Excitement Concerts Rock Concerts

Author:Carrot Top

“When I was younger I always wanted to dress like Kim [Kardashian], but her style doesn't necessarily fit my body type.”

Body Wanted Style Type Fit Dresses Kim Body Types

Author:Kim Kardashian

“When I was younger I always wanted to impress, to be good for my country, to make them feel good, and sometimes that meant I didn't focus on myself enough. I learned I had to put myself first. And it's fine because I want for me the same thing that they want for me, which is to win.”

Want Feels Firsts Country Sometimes Enough Wanted Winning Focus Fine Be Good Feel Good Impress

Author:Usain Bolt

“When I was younger I could never get up in the morning, I always found it so difficult. If I had an appointment, I had no problem, but just getting up early for the sake of it was so hard, I just loved my bed (and still do!).”

Ifs Stills Hard Problem Found Difficult Morning Bed Sake Get Up No Problem Appointments Up Early

Author:Benjamin Stone

“When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.”

“When I was younger I dated women. I even got engaged. I thought I had to live a certain way. I thought I needed to marry a woman and raise kids with her. I kept telling myself the sky was red, but I always knew it was blue.”

Way Kids Certain Sky Needed Red Raises Blue Engaged

Author:Jason Collins

“When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York.”

New York Decided Train Hops

Author:David Selby

“When I was younger I did karate and martial arts, and I think it's really cool for girls to have those kinds of abilities.”

Thinking Kind Art Girl Ability Martial Arts Really Cool Karate

Author:Rebel Wilson

“When I was younger I did not doubt you, and I thought I never would. But now I do, and my fears are crystal sharp in my mind. Breaking me. I am broken. And in my brokenness, I break things. ... And yet you tell me to rejoice.”

Joy Rejoice Brokenness

Author:Maya Joelle

Source: Cathedral: a collection

“When I was younger, I didn’t want to listen to logic because I keep telling myself I know everything. Turns out I knew nothing. You will learn you know nothing from only experience. To understand that I don’t know as much as I think I know is something only time would tell… time tells your everything … in due time.”

Jamaican Author

Author:Crystal Evans

Source: Legal Choppings : 100 Business Ideas for Jamaicans

“When I was younger I didn't have much financially, like we couldn't afford a lot of stuff and I remember seeing little girls' rooms on TV and they'd all be pink. I didn't have my own room, I shared with my brother, so I would have this daydream and imagine that one day I could have my own room and it would all be pink, like Cinderella's.”

Littles Remember Girl Stuff My Own Rooms Imagine Seeing Brother Tvs One Day My Brother Imagine That Daydreaming

Author:Nicki Minaj

“When I was younger I didn't want to listen to anybody, but now more than ever where I am in my life I understand how important it is to listen, observe, absorb, and let that all come out through your music.”

Want Important

Author:Asher Roth

“When I was younger I feared the dark, wondering what evil was watching me. Now it's different, for now it's a game of sneaking the light back on and laughing at how quickly the evil fleas.”

Different Light Evil Games Dark Wonder Laughing Deep Thought Fleas

Author:Stefanie Schneider

“When I was younger I felt lonely... In terms of my thought processes. I had the constant feeling that I thought differently to everyone around me. So, I suppose I felt lonely for a home. I didn't know where I wanted to be, but I knew I wasn't there yet.”

Knows Feelings Home Wanted Felt Process Term Lonely Constant My Thoughts Thought Process

Author:Lana Del Rey

“When I was younger I felt very disempowered, very disappeared. I felt worthless, like I had no right to exist. I think a good part of my life was spent recovering from that. Pulling myself out of that.”

Thinking Felt Pulling Worthless Recovering

Author:Eve Ensler

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