W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When somebody say "Writer", I think about a person or people which have rank "Writer", when somebody ask me about president. I think about rank "president" - but in the end we understand thall people with this ranks are normal are like the people around the world poor or rich it doesn't matter!”
“When somebody says I need, it means that the thing they will tell you is a terror, and must not really be heard at all.”
Source: Gingerbread
“When somebody says I wouldn't change a thing they're thinking of something they would change.”
“When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.”
“When somebody says something about me I hate them for the rest of my life. It's probably wrong.”
“When somebody says something bad about you, they feel bad about themselves in some way.”
“When somebody says something I don't agree with, I say I'd rather not. It comes to the point where that is the strongest form of resistance. As a Mexican, it took me a long while to learn one word in English, "no". And that is the one word we have in common.”
“When somebody says the best thing you can do is be tough, the best thing you can do is use your brute force, then we're selling ourselves short.”
“When somebody says to me-which they do like every 5 years- "How does it feel to be over the hill?" my response is, "I'm just heading up the mountain."”
“When somebody says to you the real USC is in L.A., tell them we were a school before they were a state.”
“When somebody says, "The last thing I want to do is hurt you," it means they've got other things to do first.”
“When somebody says, "You can't," I say, "Why not?"”
“When somebody says, Action, I act. When they say, Cut, thats my job. Ive done it.”
“When somebody shares, everybody wins.”
“When somebody shows up and they believe in you, it makes all the difference.”
“When somebody shows up at your job and jeopardizes your job, yelling and screaming, that's financial abuse. It threatens your ability to take care of yourself.”
“When somebody speaks a language that we don't know, we often imagine that some important things are being said!”
“When somebody summarizes an argument thoughtfully before offering a counterargument, the resulting debate tends to be more meaningful and productive. Much of what passes for argument in our society consists of people badly misrepresenting each other's arguments and responding to points that another person is not making. This inevitably leads to frustration and anger and a feeling of being rhetorically manipulated instead of honestly challenged. Correctly paraphrasing somebody's position makes it much harder to misrepresent that position while trying to argue against it.”
Source: We Must Not Be Enemies: Restoring America's Civic Tradition
“When somebody talks about home, you have to listen carefully so you know exactly which one the person is referring to.”
“When somebody talks about your career, most people are gonna talk about wins and losses, a World Series or pennants. But if somebody asked me how I would sum up my career I would say I had a unbelievable, fabulous career.”
“When somebody tells me I cannot do something, that's when I do it.”
“When somebody tells us something that would be disturbing or inconvenient for us to believe, we reflexively scrutinize that person for some excuse to discredit him. Their disdain for emotion and dogged, blindered focus on Evidence and the Facts makes it tempting to speculate that people like Ken, rather than simply being more objective than the rest of us - which might threaten to make us feel stupid - just have more deeply buried agendas and are driven by unconscious forces about which they're in even better-defended denial. It's unusually not hard to find such ulterior motives in anyone, especially not in the sorts of people who are most likely to bring us such news.”
Source: We Learn Nothing
“When somebody tells you he or she is leading something, a fair question is, "What is your vision?"”
“When somebody tells you there's something wrong with your book they're almost always right, when they tell you how to fix it they're almost always wrong.”
“When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite.”
“When somebody touches you...and you really don’t wanna be touched, that’s not really being touched. You still got you inside of you. And nobody has touched you. Not really. You still got you inside of you. You believe that.”
Source: The Hotel New Hampshire
“When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.”
“When somebody types on their smartphone and sends a message over the internet that someone is 'unnatural', it is worth remembering that the internet and smartphones are also 'unnatural'.”
Source: Person-Centred Counselling for Trans and Gender Diverse People: A Practical Guide
“When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.”
“When somebody uses nuclear weapon to cause destruction, it's the fault of the individual. But, when an individual uses scripture as justification for their atrocities, it's the fault of an entire community. How come!
I am not condoning religious violence, any more than I am condoning “scientific violence”, such as, nuclear proliferation, big pharma exploitation, big tech recklessness, and so on. All I am asking is that, sensible people see sense, putting aside their prejudicial inclinations for a second.
We all know about the atrocities committed by organized religion. But if we are not cautious, we will end up doing the same with science, deluded by our grandeur of intellect, and pomposity of technology.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“When somebody walks into a room they give off a certain kind of vibe or whatever and at that point that's how you're going to cast them.”
“When somebody walks out, it leaves a hole in you. Some people fill it up, the good and the bad, and get on that way. Some people leave it open, maybe long enough to heal, maybe too long, picking at it now and then so it doesn't heal all the way.”
Source: Chasing Fire
“When somebody wants to work and believes in something, it doesn't matter if you're well known or rich or whatever it is.”
“When somebody who is different shows himself to be different in a good way, that's how development happens.”
“When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film - a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it.”
“When somebody would come in with a sketch that was not so good, you figured out in a room how to make that sketch work.”
“When somebody you love dies, a phase of life’s innocence dies with that person, and a part of you dies as well.”
“When somebody you love dies, you want the world to just stop, but it doesn't…everything keeps going, and so it's up to you to catch the moment…to savor that time…years ago when you ran hand in hand down the hill with your sister.”
“When somebody you've known for 20 years, and with whom you have a full context, winks at you or whatever, it can be huge. I think in a sense what you're trying to re-create in fiction is that.”
“When somebody's ego is in service of really brilliant, innovative work, it's hard to, cause I'm such an asshole, it's hard to criticize their failures as a human sometimes.”
“When somebody's really good, they're not just thinking about their job.”
“When somebody's talking to us, they're not putting pauses - carefully putting pauses between words. It all flows together. The problem with that though, it's very hard to read.”
“When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.”
“When someone accuses you of being 'childish', I think you should take it as a compliment.”
“When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.”
“When someone anonymous tells me I'm fat, that's not a person to me. If they're not going to acknowledge me as a person, I'm certainly not going to acknowledge them as a person.”
“When someone apologizes to you, be sure you know whether they’re sorry, or just scared.”
“When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."”
“When someone asked Roen what he did, he'd explain that he typed incoherent commands that performed virtual tasks to create intangible objects.”
Source: The Lives of Tao
“When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.”