W Quotes
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“When the shimmer of the past is melting into the presence, spreading a scent of attentiveness and inquiringness, our mind may ask for a new reading of the story of our life. An innocuous flicker from a hazy sequence in our memory lane can affect our current awareness, making us raise questions, throwing new light on our expectations; crafting an airy vision of the future. ("A change of vision" )”
“When the shine is wearing off and the underlying cracks of a garlanded lifestyle become painfully apparent, reality may inexorably take its toll and gruelingly reveal the presence of a blatant and hideous gap of irrelevance and vanity. ("Could the milk man be the devil?" )”
“When the shingles hissed
in the rain incendiary,
other values were revealed to us”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“When the ship approached the equator, I stopped going out on deck in the daytime. The sun burned like a flame. The days had shortened and night came swiftly. One moment it was light, the next it was dark. The sun did not set but fell into the water like a meteor. Late in the evening, when I went out briefly, a hot wind slapped my face. From the ocean came a roar of passions that seemed to have broken through all barriers:'We mus procreate and multiply! We must exhaust all the powers of lust!' The waves glowed like lava, and I imagined I could see multitudes of living beings - algae, whales, sea monsters - reveling in an orgy, from the surface to the bottom of the sea. Immortality was the law here. The whole planet raged with animation. At times, I heard my name in the clamor: the spirit of the abyss calling me to join them in their nocturnal dance. ("Hanka")”
Source: American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now
“When the ship docks, I'm getting off with you. This is crazy. I know it doesn't make any sense, that's why I trust it.”
“When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture.”
“When the ship is sinking and you're forced to choose sides, the new solution is to jump from island to island to island. You don't have to pick.”
“When the shit hit the fan, if everyone said "there, there" and made out it wasn't your fault, you just blamed yourself more. You needed to be an adult and step up, accept the responsibility and move on, or else you learned nothing and you got stuck in a spiral of self-doubt.”
“When the shock wears off, you always hope there's understanding underneath.”
“When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten. No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions: Then your affairs are under control. You are a free man.”
“When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten; when the belt fits, the belly is forgotten; when the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten. There is no change in what is inside, no following what is outside, when the adjustment to events is comfortable. One begins with what is comfortable and never experiences what is uncomfortable, when one knows the comfort of forgetting what is comfortable.”
“When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?”
“When the shore is won at last, Who will count the billow past?”
Source: The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble]. [Another]
“When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses had grown sombre. The space of sky above us was the colour of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns. The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed. Our shouts echoed in the silent street.”
Source: The Dead and Other Stories: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition
“When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.”
“When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.”
“When the show opens, fans can text to a number we flash up on the screen, and then we do a meet-and-greet with 60 to 80 people every night. It's something I love doing, and I would say that's probably more fans than most artists bring backstage after a show.”
“When the show's not around any more, it's going to be hard not to have her in my life.”
“When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
- Virginia Woolf”
Source: The Marble Orchard
“When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“When the signal is weak, the phone is working more, you drain the battery faster, so only use a phone when the signal is weak in a true emergency.”
“When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak aloud sometimes, if only for proof of life.”
Source: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“When the silence bores you, let the music play; when the music bores you, let the silence play!”
“When the silence of the night becomes the chanting of poetry, the departure of con-cavity”
“When the silence replaces a lie, it may not become the truth but when it replaces a truth, it becomes a lie.”
“When the silence visits you, make no noise because silence is the homeland of the great thoughts! If you don’t touch the silence, it will touch you with wisdom!”
“When the silent majority opens its mouth, it is usually to yawn.”
“When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.”
“When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.”
“When the sins of our fathers visit us
We do not have to play host.
We can banish them with forgiveness
As God, in His Largeness and Laws.”
Source: Fences - Screenplay
“When the sins of our fathers visit us We do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.”
Source: Three plays
“When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“When the situation is serious, don't be funny; and when the situation is funny, don't be serious!”
“When the situations seem impossible, the best thing you can do is to think the opposite!”
“When The Sixth Sense was the No. 1 movie in America, I had a Canadian boyfriend whose only assets at the time were a guitar and a van. I don't know what I was thinking.”
“When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.”
“When the skies and the oceans are clean again. Then we shall be free.”
“when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and the stooped millions lift their heads, it's hard to tell the air from the impurities in our human eyes, as if the sinking climbing paisley curlicues of grit were part of the element itself, rain, spores, tears, film, dirt. Perhaps, at such moments, the sky is no more then the sum of the dirt that lives in our human eyes.”
Source: Money
“When the sky is clear, when the sea is calm and the full moon is rising, whatever you are doing, leave it; go to the seaside; sit and watch it! You will then reach the land where there is no thinking; the land of pure wisdom!”
“When the sky is crying it starts raining. When human being cry then tears come from eyes.”
“When the sky is fully covered by the birds, you will feel the winds of pure freedom beneath this sky!”
“When the sky is totally covered by the dark clouds, be strong enough to see the bright stars beyond them!”
“When the sky melts into a festival of colors...my deepest longings melt and become poetry...”
“When the sky melts into a festival of colors...my deepest longings melt into a poetry...”
“When the sky’s falling, I take shelter under bullshit.”
Source: The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves
“When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people."”
“When the slaves finished, they had stripped the fields of their color. It was a magnificent operation, from seed to bale, but no one of them could be prideful of their labor. It had been stolen from them. Bled from them.”
Source: The Underground Railroad
“When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.”
“When the sleep appears like a ghost, all the reality disappears!”