W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent.”
“When it's easy, it's great. But when something bad happens is when you really learn. It causes self-examination, it causes you to take a look at yourself. You naturally start analyzing. It's not that you're wrong; it's that sometimes you just need to make adjustments.”
“When it's finals week and you've been studying for five hours straight, you need three things to get you through the nigh.The biggest Slurpee you can find,half cherry half Coke.Pajama pants, the kind that have been washed so many times they are tissue-paper thin. And finally,dace breaks.Lots of dance breaks.”
“When it's first and a mile, I won't give it to him.”
“When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside.”
“When it's game situation, when it's game day, game time, when it's World Cup, when it's these tournaments that happen once every so often, I live for that, I live for that challenge.”
“When it's going well [writing] goes terribly fast. It isn't at all surprising to write a chapter in a day, which for me is about twenty-two pages. When it's going badly, it isn't really going badly; it's just the beginning.”
“When it's going well, stand-up is the best thing in the world, but when it's not, it feels like all your toes are being pulled off one by one.”
“When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.”
“When it's hard and you are doubtful, give more.”
Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply
“When it's hardest to pray are usually the times I need to pray the hardest. Not sure if that's irony or common sense.”
Source: Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)
“When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.”
“When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.”
“When it's in the slot, give it the lot!”
“When it's just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.”
“When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.”
“When it's me in my living room, it's pretty pure, and then what gets recorded involves more people, and it keeps escalating from there.”
“When it's mutual, a man and a woman know, instinctively, wordlessly. They may do nothing about it, but the knowledge of that shared desire is out there in the world - as obvious as neon, saying: I want you, I want you, I want you.”
Source: Any human heart
“When it's new and important, you have to rest in between times. And anyway, even when I like a person there is a weariness that comes. I can be with someone and everything is fine and then all of a sudden it can wash over me like a sickness, that I need the quiet of my own self. I need to unload my head and look at what I've got in there so far. See it. Think what it means. I always need to come back to being alone for a while.”
“When it's not always raining there'll be days like this. When there's no one complaining there'll be days like this. When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch. Well my mama told me there'll be days like this.”
“When it's not training time, I just do my own thing. I go home and hang out with my family, kick back and [don't] think about the fight too much. I just look at it as another opportunity in my life to move up.”
“When it's one animal, you really do have a tougher time because you've gotta commit to story structures that maybe are difficult to find the range in the animal to tell those stories. There are only so many things they do, if they're living in the natural world, that we can appreciate. There are plenty of things that they do that we don't appreciate.”
“When it's only clothes, that is not satisfying enough for me. I don't think I could do this for 10, 20 years if that was all. It also has to be about a psychology or a mentality or a concept.”
“When it's open and honest, that's when the real nature of who you are as a vocalist or as a performer, all of that stuff can finally start to become what it's supposed to be. Like a settling into yourself. It's not even a musical thing, it's a whole mindset, a whole acceptance of who you were supposed to be. Life sounds good”
“When it's over and you look in the mirror, did you do the best you were capable of? If yes, you will probably be ok with the outcome”
“When it's over for a woman, it's over. You're not getting an appeal.”
“When it's over I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real.”
“When it's over I just want to be able to look in the mirror and say, 'Well, you were a half-decent player.'”
“When it's over it should be over. When a man is no longer at risk, he loses touch. I think these fellows who think they have some long-term right to dignity and salary and expense accounts and company planes are all wrong. On December 21, 1963 I walked out of there and said that's it: no office, no secretaries. Nothing.”
“When it's over it's over. No questions, no tears, no farewell kisses.”
“When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days.”
“When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.”
Source: New and selected poems
“When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it is over, I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”
“When it's over, it's over is part of football's greatest appeal to me. When a game ends, win or lose, it's time to prepare for the next one.”
“When it's over, we may feel wooed, adored, appreciated, or abused, but it will have been an affair to remember.”
Source: Understanding Novels: A Lively Exploration of Literary Form and Technique
“When it's personal and painful, humble yourself.”
“When it's played the way is supposed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams.”
“When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble.”
“When it's raining pudding, hold up your bowl.”
Source: Prayers for Sale
“When it's raining you can't find enough things to catch it in. When it's not you can stand out in the middle of the street in a dress and a funny hat and nothing's gonna make it rain. I go through periods - or spells - when I'm more receptive.”
“When it's real world rules, it will not matter how big you are? When a bullet hits you in the head, you die. It all becomes about how much heart you have when you go into a world that is so scary, that assesses you and finds you either as an asset or full of crap.”
“When it's right you can't say Who is kissing whom.”
Source: Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved
“When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people.”
“When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time.”
“When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.”
“When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.”
“When it's time for the flowers to bloom, they'll bloom.When it's time for spring to come, it'll come.”
“When it's time for the revolution, I'm a click, click, click.”
“When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.”