W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.”
“When you got a nail to drive, use the fucking hammer.”
Source: Babylon’s Ashes
“When you got back to his apartment, the flamenco dancers were still stomping around in the restaurant upstairs. Moriarity pushed a bottle of cheap Sauterne and sliced salami across the kitchen table. A large cockroach fell from the top of the refrigerator and landed with a click on the scarred linoleum floor. You lifted both your feet and curled your toes.”
Source: Her Perilous Journey
“When you got born again your past was not erased, it became non-existent.”
“When you got it going, you got it going. I just keep my focus down the stretch. Thats when I want the ball. Im just not afraid to fail.”
“When you got no future, Billy, you got no past - no dreaming to guide you into the future. Gotta have your dreaming of you get lost...”
Source: Four Small Stones
“When you got nothin' / You got nothin' to lose.”
Source: Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan
“When you got nothing, you got nothin' to lose You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.”
“When you got people behind you, you can do whatever.”
“When you got right down to it, my dick was the one organ that hadn’t presented itself to my consciousness through pain, only pleasure. Modest but robust, it had always served me faithfully. Or, you could argue, I had served it – if so, its yoke had been easy. It never gave me orders. It sometimes encouraged me to get out more, but it encouraged me humbly, without bitterness or anger. This past evening, I knew, it had interceded on Myriam’s behalf. It had always enjoyed good relations with Myriam, Myriam had always treated it with affection and respect, and this had given me an enormous amount of pleasure. And sources of pleasure were hard to come by. In the end, my dick was all I had.”
Source: Soumission
“When you got source material, whether it's a play or a book - a great writer often appreciates being adapted and developed. It's like when you go see a production of a great play and they are always different. There is always room for interpretation.”
“When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.”
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“when you got to visit the dead, sometimes you don't want to meet the living.”
Source: Soul Lanterns
“When you got to where your fear lives, your freedom starts to display itself.”
“When you got your hand in the lion's mouth, don't do nothin' til you get it out.”
“When you gotta go out and make a movie to pay for the kid's private school and for the three ex-wives, don't talk to me about your artistry. It's their job. It's not my job. It's my calling.”
“When you gotta go through something tough, I've always been a guy that just wants to get it out of the way.”
“When you govern a country, and especially a country so vast and complex as India, you never arrive at anything.”
“When you graciously accept something from someone else, you are giving to them in return. By accepting their gift, you're allowing them to act upon what is in their heart.”
Source: The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
“When you gradually add in nutrient-dense, fiber-rich foods, you simply stop feeling cravings. You run out of space in your belly for the old junk. Instead of craving, you feel full, fulfilled, and content.”
Source: The Lean: A Revolutionary (and Simple!) 30-Day Plan for Healthy, Lasting Weight Loss
“When you graduate from "Being In Love" to "Loving Someone" you understand - Love is not about owning, Love is about wanting the best for them, It's about seeing or Helping them achieve great heights, with or without you. Love is not what you say, it's what you do.”
“When you graduate from college, they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first?”
“When you graduate is when you start to find yourself looking at the information in the audition breakdown and it says tall black African - or African-American built such and such. And you start seeing these character descriptions and seeing that, oh, you're only going in for the ones that are described as your look.”
“When you grew up in a small town... obscurity was a luxury that didn't exist.”
Source: The Art of Losing Yourself
“When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.”
“When you grieve, that's all you tend to see. You must move through this time of suffering, strengthening your faith and being willing to grow. As you grow you'll find that your blind faith will continue to open your eyes.”
Source: JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master
“When you grind & work hard, you don't ever have to tell anyone what you're up to, the results will speak much louder than anything else.”
“When you grow a business, it belongs to a lot of other people besides you. As much as you want to control it, the minute you go public, it becomes a business . . .”
“When you grow and rise above the masses, you will always become a target. Just as the flower grows above the grass, it becomes a target for the nourishment of the rays of sunshine, it also becomes a target to be cut down.”
“When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“When you grow talent, you know the pain of wasting it.”
Source: Nothing About Business
“When you grow up and something touches you emotionally, it lives on forever.”
“When you grow up and you start having all these problems and your little sister gets pregnant, you're dealing with all these money problems and bills and the company, you ain't going to want to talk about that. Or maybe you will, but me personally, I just can't do that.”
“When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.”
“When you grow up around racing, you just want to race for a living. It doesn't matter what it is.”
“When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you behave, as if your actions reflect directly on all womanhood.”
Source: Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
“When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty.”
“When you grow up as the daughters of George and Laura Bush, you develop a special appreciation for how blessed we are to live in this great country.”
“When you grow up believing you are what you do, when you're done, you aren't.”
“When you grow up in a city like Boston, where I grew up, a lot of kids became criminals or cops. I never really had a bad take on cops other than I hate when there's one behind me on the highway.”
“When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.”
“When you grow up in a home where dysfunction renders you invisible and silent, it can foster deep rage to come to school where this dysfunction is perpetuated by adult after adult who demands that you sit down, be quiet, and listen to what we have to say.”
“When you grow up in a place (whether as a child or an adult) you squeeze everything out of it. You need so much when you're young.”
“When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking.”
“When you grow up in America things like Christianity waters down your feeling... When you're taught to love everybody, taught to love you're enemies, what value does that put on love?”
“When you grow up in Bel Air and shop only in expensive boutiques on Rodeo and Robertson, you develop a kind of allergy to anything unpretty -clothes, cars... even people... you start thinking that if you hang around unattractive people, their homeliness can be contagious.”
“When you grow up in one town and your life revolves around it, you are very aware of any darkness on the edge of town. That's because it's scary and it's inviting.”
“When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.”
“When you grow up in that (multi-ethnic) environment, you see the world differently. Being a mixed-race child, I didn't always see colour in people, I really didn't. It was other people that made me see the colour all the time.”
“When you grow up in that environment of drugs and guns and people gettin' hurt, it start to reflect your background. And I think, at that time when I was doin' it, that's all I knew. But as I got older in the business, I stopped bein' involved with that, and I started to look at the world. And I said, 'Yo, I wanna start talkin' about everything that goes on in the world. I don't wanna just limit myself to one style'.”