W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When working out, play your favorite music loudly for an extra boost of energy.”
“When working outside I am governed by Gods time clock not mine and cannot do anything about the weather”
“When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.”
“When working with data, I discover what I really want to say.”
“When working with the Universal Laws you are working with the laws of manifestation, not instant gratification.”
“When working with your teenager to address his sensory issues, make it a partnership.”
Source: Raising a Sensory Smart Child: The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Integration Issues
“When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators; to which are added An essay on the chronological order of his plays; an essay relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a dissertation on the three parts of King Henry vi; an historical account of the English stage; and notes. By E. Malone. 10 vols. [in 11 pt.].
“When world cries blood
(The Sonnet)
When world cries blood,
your blood ought to boil.
If you feel nothing at all,
you're a stain upon the soil.
Fire in blood you can't inherit,
Wake up to duty and ignite yourself.
Second hand souls boast bloodline,
Humans weave nobility with actions.
When the world cries blood,
backbone oughta spark thunder.
If you feel nothing at all,
file for a bankrupt character.”
Source: Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations
“When world cries blood,
your blood ought to boil.
If you feel nothing at all,
you're a stain upon the soil.”
Source: Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations
“When world cries blood,
your blood ought to boil.
If you feel nothing at all,
you're a stain upon the soil.
When the world cries blood,
backbone oughta spark thunder.
If you feel nothing at all,
file for a bankrupt character.”
Source: Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations
“When World of Dance came around, what I really liked about it was it's from dancers for dancers. For me growing up as a dancer and becoming an actress, Jennifer Lopez really was this icon in that world to me.”
“When World War II came along, which was when I was a teenager, we all expected we would have anthrax bombs and this kind of stuff. We thought it would be a biological war. Fortunately it wasn't and, but it's because the danger is still there and by some miracle we escaped all that, so you never can tell what it going to happen, but biology certainly could be even worse than physics and chemistry.”
“When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions.”
Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
“When worldly people come into a set discipine (niyam), they are known as yamdhari (one who upholds self restraint). From the moment one holds onto any set discipline, he is considered to have come into self restraint (yam). The tyaagis (ones who have renounced worldly life) are considered to be niyami (one who follows a set discipline) whereas the Gnanis are considered saiyami (One who has no anger-pride-deceit-greed, attachment and abhorrence).”
Source: Whatever Has Happened is Justice
“When worry feels as big as the moon,' the stars chanted in rhyme, 'know that every journey starts
with one small step at a time.”
Source: Luna Heartstrong & the Spectacular Supernova
“When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer,
But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb,
We trample fear beneath our feet, and live
Without a fear of evil yet to come.”
“When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them?”
Source: Maya Banks KGI
“When would he realize that it wasn't his infidelity I couldn't bear, but his cowardice?”
“When would I stop being second choice? Would I ever be number one to the person I cared most about in the world?”
“When would marrying be great? If only one out of thousands is able to get married. But everyone gets married, so what is a big deal?”
Source: Harmony in Marriage
“When wounded or cornered or caught, expect narcissists to lash out and become pure evil. The person you thought you knew was just an act.”
“When wounds are healed by love,
The scars are beautiful.”
Source: Shattering and Bricolage
“When writers and psychologists believe they've illuminated reality, they are referring to something else: they transform the dark reality into a bright reality and then it's no longer reality with its real color, quality, and condition--instead they set forth a reality of their own heads that has nothing to do with the events spontaneously occurring in the spirit.”
Source: Lands of Memory
“When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were writing encyclopedia entries instead of stories. Their hesitancy about physical and psychological intimacy can be a barrier to vital fiction. Conversely, a narration that makes readers hear the characters' heavy breathing and smell their emotional anguish diminishes distance. Readers feel so close to the characters that, for those magical moments, they become those characters.”
“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."
[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]”
“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.”
“When writers don't know what to do with a character, they build up the supporting cast and universe to kind of hide that fact. After a while, you can no longer see the character for the underbrush. When that happens, you need to bring out the weed-whacker to clear some of that away so you can focus on the main character.”
“When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.”
Source: Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction
“When writing a book, don't think about who is going to see it. Write about how you feel in the moment. Don't let a good idea get away.”
“When writing a comprehensive self-investigatory scroll, the writer attempts to weave a network of strands capable of enmeshing all sizes of ideas including those with no obvious interconnection. The writer must also trace all lingering thoughts to their original source in personal experiences, and revaluate each exquisite nuance notched into a person’s conscious mind including acts of depravity, violence, and the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. If a writer can make people live there may be no great characters in his book, but it is possible that his book will remain as a whole; as an entity; as a novel. If the people the writer is making talk of old masters; of music; of modern painting; of letters; or of science then they should talk of those subjects in the novel. If they do not talk of these subjects and the writer makes them talk of them he is a faker, and if he talks about them himself to show how much he knows then he is showing off. No matter how good a phrase or a simile he may have if he puts it in where it is not absolutely necessary and irreplaceable he is spoiling his work for egotism. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. For a writer to put his own intellectual musings, which he might sell for a low price as essays, into the mouths of artificially constructed characters which are more remunerative when issued as people in a novel is good economics, perhaps, but does not make literature. People in a novel, not skillfully constructed characters, must be projected from the writer’s assimilated experience, from his knowledge, from his head, from his heart and from all there is of him. If he ever has luck as well as seriousness and gets them out entire they will have more than one dimension and they will last a long time. A good writer should know as near everything as possible. Naturally he will not. A great enough writer seems to be born with knowledge. But he really is not; he has only been born with the ability to learn in a quicker ratio to the passage of time than other men and without conscious application, and with an intelligence to accept or reject what is already presented as knowledge. There are some things which cannot be learned quickly and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man’s life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave. Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the disposal of the next writer who comes, but the next writer must pay, always, a certain nominal percentage in experience to be able to understand and assimilate what is available as his birthright and what he must, in turn, take his departure from. If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing. A writer who appreciates the seriousness of writing so little that he is anxious to make people see he is formally educated, cultured or well-bred is merely a popinjay. And this too remember; a serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.”
Source: Death in the Afternoon
“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
Source: Death in the Afternoon
“When writing a novel, I'm not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don't know what it is.”
“When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”
“When writing a personal story of what it means to be alive, a person is simply replicating on paper the universal story that all human beings share.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.”
Source: Boy: Tales of Childhood
“When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear.”
“When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have less and less to write about.”
“When writing comedy, you have to have the confidence to believe that there is only one type of relationship in the world, and we are all having it, that all men behave in the same way and so do all women.”
“When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.”
“When writing feels like jumping a cliff, grab the nearest pen!”
“When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.”
“When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible - and never throw away information unless the recipient forces you to!”
Source: The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
“When writing goes painfully, when it’s hideously difficult, and one feels real despair (ah, the despair, silly as it is, is real!)–then naturally one ought to continue with the work; it would be cowardly to retreat. But when writing goes smoothly–why then one certainly should keep on working, since it would be stupid to stop. Consequently one is always writing or should be writing.”
“When writing I just go with the song. I go with the song and try to tell the story. So the story may be "Wonderful Baby", which is a little song. Or it might be a gentle song, "Empty Chairs". Or it might be a rock and roll song like "Prime Time" or "Run, Diana, Run", or "American Pie". I don't know where it's gonna go. I don't have any idea what I'm doing. I just do it. I just keep doing it. I keep taking adva”
“When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don't know where the story's going, petting the KAT keeps it purring.”
“When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good.”
Source: A Bill of Rites, a Bill of Wrongs, a Bill of Goods
“When writing is music, it interweaves perfumes with rhythms, magic with life, play with love.”
Source: Springtime's Odyssey: L'Odyssée du Printemps