W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio and dreaming of a party where she's the star. Ke$ha's greatness is that in her voice, you can hear both the loser girl and the star. All hail the Queen of Noi$e!”
“When Keir met Kingston at the back of the house, he was glad to discover the family dog, Ajax, was going to join them on the excursion. The boisterous black and tan retriever helped to ease the tension as they walked along the holloway, a narrow sunken lane that had once been an ancient cart path. Slender trees bracketed the high banks on either side, forming a delicate canopy overhead.
Casually Kingston said, "You mentioned you have a dog. What breed?"
"A drop-eared Skye terrier. A good rabbiter.”
Source: Devil in Disguise
“When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn't kill you on launch. He said we'll land a man on the moon in eight years and bring him back. That was an audacious goal to put forth in front of the American people.”
“When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, that is the heart of science.”
“When Kevin Brockmeier says, "Everything, given the possibility, would choose to be a song," I recognize the implicit truth of such a miracle. What can I say, I'm Irish, and we take naturally to that sort of thing.”
“When key figures in the development of AI announce to the world, that our technology will consume us in the next two to three decades, perhaps we should listen.”
Source: The Dumb Dumb's Handbook - To Artificial Intelligence: And It's Part in Your Downfall
“When key users told us something wasn't working, we fixed it - immediately.”
“When kids are really little, they all look the same. No speech, no social relatedness, cannot emphasize enough the importance of early educational intervention.”
“When kids are unhappy, we don’t have to prop them up with frantic praise. It’s more helpful to say, "Ugh, you are not happy with the way that bicycle came out. It doesn't look like what you see in your head. It's not easy to draw a bike. It's hard to put something from real life onto a flat piece of paper and get it to look right.”
Source: How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7
“When kids are young, before the age of ten, there is a critical window of opportunity when their habits and motivations can be influenced.”
“When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level.”
“When kids can't come to my show, I feel bad, because grown-up 21 and up people really probably don't need my help as much as an 11-year-old child.”
“When kids come on the dance floor it’s time for elders to go to the bed.”
“When kids come up to me and say. 'I want to be like you,' it fires me up. It's pretty cool.”
“When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school... But you won't see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.”
“When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.”
“When kids hit 1 year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.”
“When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.”
“When kids know that you refuse to let them fail ... they don't give up as easy. So sometimes they don't have it inside, [but] they're like,'You know, I don't want to do this, but I know my mother's going to be mad.'That matters to kids, and it helps get them through.”
“When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level”
“When kids made a decision for themselves they have a vested interest in showing they were right. Lee wanted to prove to me that he had made the right choice so he worked hard and did well. If we'd forced him to go to college somewhere else all the incentives would've been different. Then he would have had a motive to prove that we were wrong.”
Source: From This Day Forward: A Wise and Endearing Memoir on Marriage, Family, and Faith
“When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.”
“When killing children, preheat oven.”
“When killings of black by policeman happen, there's the victim, there's the family, there are the police, there are the politicians, and there is the community. Everybody is affected. Everybody has a point of view. We really wanted to dig into that and get to know all these different people that are changed by it.”
“When kindhearted people smile, demons shrink and turn away as if tormented by the gesture. But when those beautiful smiles are made to fade, every awful creature in the world stands surer. So do yourself and mankind a favor and smile BIG whether you feel like it or not.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.”
“When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason has left them.”
Source: My Mortal Enemy
“When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.”
“When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.”
“When kindness is your compass, you will find guidance to the right path in this life and the next.”
“When King John was angry, he threw himself down and rolled the floor, yelling and chewing the expensive oriental rugs that Crusaders had brought back from the East.”
Source: The Magna Charta
“When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No fanfare, no metaphor, no brilliant final words. The culmination of the most influential piece of dramatic literature is, 'He dies.' Now I am not asking you to be happy at my leaving but all I ask you to do is to turn the page and let the next story begin. -- Mr. Magorium”
“When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.”
“When kings the sword of justice first lay down,
They are no kings, though they possess the crown.
Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,
The good of subjects is the end of kings.”
Source: The True-Born Englishman: A Satyr
“When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyway. Kino sighed with satisfaction - and that was conversation.”
Source: The Pearl
“When Kirk dies it was very emotional and very strange, in the moment and all the way through the process. I'd read it in the script and I'd always be struck by what I'd just done and what we were doing, and that this was my childhood hero and I was writing his death.”
“When Kirsten carried out a portable defibrillator the size of a breadbox, I very nearly went into cardiac arrest. Which, let’s face it, would probably fall under the category of ‘most ironic thing ever’.”
Source: Old Haunts: A London City Novel
“When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“When knowledge and education reach you, you have a whole new world of opportunities to be free, happy and healthy.”
“When knowledge and education reach you, you have an whole new world of opportunities to be free, happy and healthy.”
“When knowledge becomes formulated into a science, then it does take on a life of it's own, often alien to the human spirit that conceived it.”
Source: Frankenstein Unbound
“When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.”
“when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.”
Source: The Red Lamp
“When knowledge is gained without wisdom and mental maturity, arrogance wears the mask of intellect.”
Source: The Silent Crisis
“When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.”
“When knowledge is missing all other attributes have no grooves in which to rest.”
“When knowledge is scant or conflicting, folklore takes over.”
“When knowledge is severed from wisdom, life
becomes a curse upon the earth, and the soul,
a prisoner of its own hell.”
“When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.”
“When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.”