W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you have your chance to make a film, don't focus on pleasing everyone. I think the goal is to live in that sweet spot where you focus on making a good film and you have fun with your collaborators, but you don't waste your energy chasing approval every which way. When you have a vision and a good story and you've managed to raise funding, it is your approval as a director that everyone should be seeking. It's very simple.”
“When you have your first virgin orgasm it's like seeing a mirror reflecting all the good things life has in store.”
Source: The Secret Life of Girls
“When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.”
Source: Dry: A Memoir
“When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.”
“When you have your heart broken wide, you are also open to things of beauty as well as things of sadness. Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains, we still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is love after someone dies.”
“When you have your own bus, then you have dignity. When you have your own school, you have dignity. When you have your own country, you have dignity.When you have something of your own, you have dignity. But whenever you are begging for a chance to participate in that which belongs to someone else, or use that which belongs to someone else, on an equal basis with the owner, that's not dignity. That's ignorance.”
“When you have your passion, you never even think about other things. It's tunnel vision. You go until you get it.”
“When you have your staff taking the Fifth Amendment, taking the Fifth so they're not prosecuted, when you have the man that set up the illegal server taking the Fifth, I think it's disgraceful. And believe me, this country thinks it's - really thinks it's disgraceful, also.”
“When you haven't figured out who you are and what you offer the world, it's awfully easy to get hoodwinked into thinking you're not as good as everyone else. It's even easier to start taking on the arts and pretensions of someone you're not. Don't bother. There's nothing fabulous about a generic. We always pay more for the original.”
Source: The Essentials Of Fabulous
“When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.”
“When you haven't found inner meaning, you will always substitute outer performance. It's the only way to fill that void, that sense of significance - that I am significant. So almost the degree of outer performance can, in many cases, mirror the lack of inner alignment.”
“When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve.”
“When you heal the root of lack in your life it allows for transformation to occur so that you can move from a place of holding on to people, situations, and relationships that are out of alignment with your highest vision of your life, to a place of letting go and growth.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“When you healed my arm...You didn't need to bargain with me. You could have demanded every single week of the year." My brows knit together as he turned, already half-consumed by the dark. "Every single week, and I would have said yes." It wasn't entirely a question, but I needed the answer.
A half smile appeared on his sensuous lips. "I know," he said, and vanished.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“When you hear "Seinfield," no one says, "the Jewish comic." You talk about Cedric the Entertainer, you don't say, "African American comedian Cedric the Entertainer." Even Margaret Cho - who's like one of three Korean performers out there - no one refers to her like that. They say, "It's Margaret Cho."”
“When you hear a famous voice, sometimes that takes me out of the movie.”
“When you hear a good traditional gospel song it makes you wanna go buy a three piece suit”
“When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so.”
Source: Life's Little Treasure Book on Friendship
“When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record.”
“When you hear a lobby called Partnership for a Drug-Free America, just remember - they do not want a drug free America. They want an America free of drugs that are their competitors.”
“When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.”
Source: The Ender Quintet
“When you hear a word from God it resonates in the pillars of your soul.”
“When you hear a word, think about it, no matter how dull it sounds! Because on the second thought, it may sound very clever!”
“When you hear about people in the '50s getting married at 20, you're like, What were they thinking? My grandparents were together for over 50 years.”
“When you hear all these things about homosexual marriage, this has nothing to do with homosexual rights. The whole objective is the destruction of the traditional family. It has nothing to do with homosexuals.”
“When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong.”
“When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music.”
“When you hear bacon cooking....that sizzling sound isn't the fat cooking....that's applause.”
“When you hear bad things about yourself, just put your energies into something else; it's no good crying about it. Just put it into your music - it'll make you stronger.”
“When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there.”
“When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.”
“When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.”
“When you hear Donald Trump say he wants to make America great again, when we do that I truly do believe the American people are going to be standing taller, they're going to see that real change can happen after decades of just talking about it. And when that happens the American people are going to stand tall, stand together and we'll have the kind of unity that's been missing for way too long.”
“When you hear fear knocking on the door, most of the time when you answer it there’s nothing there. It’s just you holding yourself back.”
“When you hear from other players and they're telling you you're the best pitcher in baseball, that makes you feel really good.”
“When you hear her say,
'What else can an old woman do
on hills as wretched as these?'
You look right at the sky,
Clear through the bullet holes
she has for eyes.
And you look on
the cracks that begin around her eyes
spread beyond her skin
And the hills crack.
And the temples crack.
And the sky falls
with a plateglass clatter
around the shatter proof crone
who stands alone.
And you are reduced
to so much small change
in her hand.”
Source: Jejuri
“When you hear his music, mine will all of a sudden make sense.”
“When you hear hoof beats, think horses, not zebras.”
Source: The Immortalists
“When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.”
“When you hear kids singing your songs it just validates them, they sound like real songs when you hear them back, it's quite refreshing. Like songs that could have been around for a hundred years.”
“When you hear love calling you, don’t pretend to be deaf.”
“When you hear me say "by any means necessary," I mean exactly that. I believe in anything that is necessary to correct unjust conditions-political, economic, social, physical, anything that is necessary.”
“When you hear me, you know it's me, regardless of the song.”
“When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't quite know how they managed to make this law in their favour, or who exactly it was who gave them a greater license to sin than is allowed to us; and if the fault is common to both sexes (as they can hardly deny), why should the blame not be as well? What makes them think they can boast of the same thing that in women brings only shame?”
Source: The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
“When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.”
“When you hear my mother at twenty-two saying she feels ‘useless’ and ‘fearful’ and ‘ashamed,’ recall what she went on to become in life by God’s grace and power. Think what our Father is capable of doing, encouraging you to press into Him, as she did, for His glory.”
Source: Devotedly: The Personal Letters and Love Story of Jim and Elisabeth Elliot
“When you hear my music and you feel the emotion, it's real. When you see me in a film and you see a tear, it's real.”
“When you hear my records today hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what I heard.”
“When you hear “Neuroscience” you would probably be thinking about the study of the nervous system. And that’s exactly how the field began its journey into scientific investigation. But I wanted to do something with it, which no other scientist or philosopher had done before. I began moulding the soft clay of Neuroscience with the ingredients of my own philosophy to prepare the actual science of self-realization.”
“When you hear of a notorious sinner, instead of thinking you do well to be angry, beg of Jesus Christ to convert, and make him a monument of his free grace.”
Source: Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith