W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk out thinking they had a great time even though there was loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible.”
“When the audience isn't laughing, that doesn't mean that they're not fascinated.”
“When the audience leaves, I'd like them to feel positive when they go.”
“When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.”
“When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite.”
“When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do it better anyway. This is the same as if a dogmatic philosopher reproached a skeptic for not being able to devise a system.”
“When the author is not traveling, he works at an L-shaped desk, which affords a view north through a large sunny window. He writes everything on an electric typewriter because "it has to be a book from the first day," he explains. He has no daily routine because of all the traveling he does, but follows a very disciplined writing process. He writes each page six times, then places it in a three-ring binder with a DePauw University cover ("a talisman," he calls this memento from his alma mater). When he feels that he has gotten a page just right, he takes out another 20 words. "After a year, I've come to the end. Then I'll take this first chapter, and without rereading it, I'll throw it away and write the chapter that goes at the beginning. Because the first chapter is the last chapter in disguise." He always hands in a completed manuscript, and his editor is his first reader.”
“When the author walks on the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right...something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise...it will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.”
“When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over”
Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis
“When the automation test pack is being designed, the most important decision is to plan the Test Scheduling of those Automated Test Scripts. The objective of test automation is to reduce the amount of time spent in Regression Testing”
Source: Software Automation Testing Secrets Revealed: Revised Edition - Part 1
“When the autumn meets the tranquillity, there you can see the King of the Sceneries!”
“When the average American consumes 43 times as much as the average African, we've got to think that consumption is an issue. It's not just about population.”
“When the average American says, “I’m starving,” it is a prelude to a midnight raid on a well-stocked refrigerator or a sudden trip to the nearest fast food restaurant.”
Source: The Gospel of Ruth: Loving God Enough to Break the Rules
“When the average child is now spending nearly eight hours a day in front of some kind of screen, many of their opinions and preferences are being shaped by the marketing campaigns you all create. And that’s where the problem comes in.. ... And I’m here today with one simple request - and that is to do even more and move even faster to market responsibly to our kids.”
“When the average Social Security benefit is $1328 a month, and more than one-third of our senior citizens rely on Social Security for Virtually all of their income, our job is to expand benefits, not cut them.”
“When the awareness of what is achievable brushes your life, your journey has begun.”
Source: Make It Happen, A Healthy, Competitive Approach to Achieving Personal Success
“When the awful time of reckoning comes, and the Jehovah God appears to demand why his command has been disobeyed, Adam endeavors to shield himself behind the gentle being he has declared to be so dear. ‘The woman thou gavest to be with me, she gave me and I did eat,’ he whines—trying to shield himself at his wife's expense! Again we are amazed that upon such a story men have built up a theory of their superiority!”
Source: The Woman's Bible, Part I & II
“When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.”
Source: Possessing the Secret of Joy
“When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different, I was used to it now, but with every child, for the first four months, I would accomplish nothing.”
“When the baby cries, she could be hungry or thirsty or angry or cranky or sick or sleepy or paranoid or jealous or she had planned something but it went horribly awry. So you'll need to take care of that, when it happens.”
Source: Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
“When the baby is older take the diapers off, my girl is gonna do the Slop.”
“When the back-to-the-cities trend started taking root, albeit very unevenly, cities were so glad to finally land deals that they routinely overpaid, not having a solid grasp of the demographic and market forces they should have been channeling instead of subsidizing. It’s especially true for retail and entertainment projects, which generate very poor-quality jobs. I have yet to find a city that has figured out how to ‘take the foot off the pedal’ and stop over-subsidizing, even when gentrification becomes a problem.”
“When the bad bleeds, then is the tragedy good.”
Source: The Revenger's Tragedy
“When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended.”
“When the bad stuff was really intense in my life, it was really what you would call writer's block. Your facility is just not as good because you feel so bad. I've heard of people right on the verge of suicide coming up with some of their best work. I wish I could think of an example, other than Van Gogh, perhaps!”
“When the bad time begins, you may feel alone, because your mind never goes with you. Even your shadow leaves you, then what to say about friends? In this world it is very difficult to get true friend. Cause most of the time people come to you as friend with some great need inside them. They remain with you until their needs. When neediness is over they leave you, whatever your condition is or where ever you stuck in. They leave you when you need them. They leave you when you are in danger. They only remain with you for the happy hours. When the happy hour is over they fly away like a fly when milk is not in the bowl. These words everybody knows, “Friend in need, friends indeed.”.”
“When the balance is broken then everything includes itself in power, power into will, will into appetite. So appetite, aided by will and power, becomes a universal wolf, at last eating up itself.”
“When the balance is restored, people get hurt.”
“When the balance of power is right and the government is right sized, California still can be California. It can be, in my opinion, as crazy as it wants to be. And Texas, in other's opinion, can be as crazy as it wants to be. But we're still brothers in the union.”
“When the ball dropped in 1999, I was holding dough and champagne in my hands and holding my kids.”
“When the ball is on the one-yard line, never risk a fumble. Carry it over yourself.”
“When the ball is over the middle of the plate, the batter is hitting it with the sweet part of the bat. When it's inside, he's hitting it with the part of the bat from the handle to the trademark. When it's outside, he's hitting it with the end of the bat. You've got to keep the ball away from the sweet part of the bat. To do that, the pitcher has to move the hitter off the plate.”
“When the ball was last seen crossing the roof of the stand in deep right field at 315 feet, we wonder whether new baseballs conversing together in the original package ever remark: "Join Ruth and see the world."”
“When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.”
“When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.”
“When the bandwagon presents itself, you have to jump onto it.”
“When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.”
“When the banks create the money, they don't create the interest. They send you into the world to compete with everybody else to get the second $100,000 that never was created and bring it back to them. So if we're in a world with zero-growth population, goods, services, and money, the problem would be obvious.”
“When the banner of countless colours spreads on the wind, and the Riders of the Desert storm arise, then shall the Sleeper awake beneath his sand shroud and bring the Judgement to the world.”
Source: Svetioničar - Pritajeno zlo
“When the Bards and Minstrel spin their tales and sing songs of legends, mine will be the sordid tale of longing, lust and lascivious loving for I am a synergistic Sympath and in me lays the path to Heaven.”
“When the barriers were down at last, loneliness would vanish as personality faded.”
Source: Childhood’s End
“When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements tend to develop a desire to act in accordance with these principles and to do their part in institutions which exemplify them”
Source: A Theory of Justice
“When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.”
Source: Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth
“When the Basque whalers applied to cod the salting techniques they were using on whale, they discovered a particularly good marriage because the cod is virtually without fat, and so if salted and dried well, would rarely spoil. It would outlast whale, which is red meat, and it would outlast herring, a fatty fish that became a popular salted item of the northern countries in the Middle Ages.”
Source: Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
“When the bathroom is filled with light and life, it sets the stage for beautiful day”
Source: The Healing Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to Positive Vibes
“When the Battery of the Radio in the Psychiatry got empty, its green Light blinked harmonically in/with the Rhythm of the Music.”
“When the battle is long and hard the victory is even sweeter”
Source: A Life of Unlearning - a preacher's struggle with his homosexuality, church and faith
“When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.”
“When the BCS started, a decision was made collectively, as coaches, that the BCS champion would receive our championship and our trophy. It's as simple as that.”
“When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought of the music as old.”