W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you waste time on things that add no value, it is only a matter of time before you lose your inner power.”
Source: The Precious Gift of Time: Inspirational Quotes and Sayings
“When you waste your time, your life becomes a complete waste. If you know that, do what is right and be smart in how you use your time.”
Source: The Precious Gift of Time: Inspirational Quotes and Sayings
“When you watch a tea ceremony, every single movement, every single gesture is very calculated. It's very precise, and it's all protocol. It's all a part of the system. And it's almost like they've sacrificed every single thing to make that perfect. It's like their craft.”
“When you watch a TV show or a movie, what you see looks like what it physically represents. A man looks like a man, a man with a large bicep looks like a man with a large bicep, and a man with a large bicep bearing the tattoo "Mama" looks like a man with a large bicep bearing the tattoo "Mama."
But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create. It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books, just as an egg becomes one of potentially a million different people when it's approached by a hard-swimming and frisky school of sperm.”
Source: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
“When you watch an audience watching my movies, you realize that nobody laughs at the same time. Some people enjoy a beat, and then another group of people are laughing at a sight gag, and then someone laughs where nobody laughs before. They're not timed like a comedy. You're not supposed to laugh at every joke. You decide.”
“When you watch Canadian kids [Box Lacrosse Players] score, when you see their skill level around the cage, you wonder to yourself, 'Jeez, are we teaching kids [in the U.S.] the wrong things?”
“When you watch CNN and they're giving you news based on tweets that people are sending out, you realize that society is really changing. The collective public have a really big voice that they didn't previously have, and they're influencing the trajectory of how we are socially with one another.”
“When you watch Monsters you understand that the effects he did on his laptop were in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, I was astounded.More than a few people said to me, "That's kind of a crazy thing to go from that level of film and then hand over Godzilla".”
“When you watch mountains, ocean or think of the infinite space, you feel small in a positive way. You feel close to the sacred nothingness.
The path of devotion is based on the same phenomenon: You devote yourself to towering figures who can make you feel so small (in a positive way) that you feel closer to nothingness, closer to God.”
“When you watch my films, you're feeling my heart.”
“When you watch Olympic athletes in competition, does your self-esteem plummet? Of course not. On the contrary, you feel wonder and admiration; you're inspired that such exceptional individuals exist. So why can't we feels the same way about beauty?”
Source: Stories of Your Life and Others
“When you watch Robin Williams, you can see a lot of Jonathan Winters. Robin is the first one to admit that; he worshiped Jonathan Winters.”
“When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.”
“When you watch the game, be a student of the game.”
“When you watch the view, the view also watches you because you are also a view! If you can realise this, then you can also realise that there is no view, but only the viewer or there is no viewer, but only the view!”
“When you watch the way some of the commentators talk about this, it makes it seem as if people are crossing the border every second. How much money have we spent on the border? Why? And who's really exploiting whom?" And then he gets quiet. But I think just airing these out and having a face-to-face conversation about it helps both of us internalize what the conversation is really about. I don't think we have that in the public sphere.”
“When you watch these reality shows, the person that is hated on the most is usually the one that gets the most shine.”
“When you watch Tiger Woods, you're in awe of what he can do with a seven-iron. Watching Matthew Stafford from up here, he's head and shoulders above most college quarterbacks.”
“When you watch your mum and dad sing and they're happy and it brings them joy, it is then a natural choice to go where the joy is. Music was always that place in our family.”
“When you water down your challenges, it makes you weak. When you water down the truth, it becomes lies, and when it becomes lies you will fall for anything.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you.”
“When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you. Your posture is a little more erect; your shoulders are a little further back; your style is a little more dynamic. It's about the reestablishment of the gentleman.”
“When you wear a fresh pair of shoes, you feel like you can never die. You feel like you're gonna live forever.”
“When you wear a mask, you are not real.”
“When you wear a mask, it changes your outward appearance, but also has an influence on you, inside.”
“When you wear so many hats in society, you never know who you are. That's the beauty of it. Because once you find out who you are, you're screwed.”
“When you wear the mask, the mask becomes you.”
Source: Death of a Red Heroine
“When you weigh 135 pounds and you're telling people who are 6'4" and 250 pounds to get out of your way, how do you do that? Well, a lot of that is in the eyes.”
“When you welcome your emotions as teachers,
every emotion brings good news,
even the ones that are painful.”
“When you went away you took the only piece of my heart that was left, so I had to make a brand new one.”
Source: Hey Humanity
“When you went into a Boston Chicken and ordered quarter-chicken, white, with mash and corn, when that was rung up, that would signal all the way along the supply chain the need for more potatoes to be put on a truck a thousand miles away.”
“When you went to your favorite concert and heard your favorite musician singing the body electric, that was it; when you met your love and gazed at each other with shining eyes, that was it; when you kissed your five-year-old good night and she turned to you solemnly and said, "Thank you for loving me so much," that was it: all of them facets of the same jewel.”
Source: Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
“When you wept it was just over yourself and not because of the marvelous impossibility of reaching her through the difference that separates you.”
Source: The Malady of Death
“When you were a child, I didn't tell you about the evil in the world, all that lay in wait.”
Source: Unconditional
“When you were a child you had dreams of becoming somebody as an adult. Have you lived up to your dreams?”
“When you were a child, you tell me, you
lived under a tin roof, and whenever it rained, beneath its
slanting body, you’d sit and listen to the millions of pouring
droplets. In them you found tiny signs of the world, a place
where you could make sense of things through a divine sound
that poured over you.
This sound, you say, cloaked
your entire childhood, and underneath this sound were the
memories of your unfledged years.
She seems to have
cut ties with time; a minute to her would be a meaningless
sound, an hour a gentle breeze. She seems to glide through
time, as opposed to everyone else who scurries behind it;
perhaps her relationship with time has resulted in mutual
indifference, for they have lived with one another for so long
that they’ve gone their separate ways; but they respect each
other, her and time, from a metaphysical distance.”
Source: Birds on a Carousel
“When you were a child, you used to run to me for protection. Now, in moments of weakness, I want to hide my head on your knees; I want you to be strong and wise; I want you to protect and defend me. I'm not always strong in spirit, Vitya – I can be weak too. I often think about suicide, but something holds me back – some weakness, or strength, or irrational hope.”
Source: Life and Fate
“When you were a child, where boredom could actually get to be painful. Sociopaths experience that kind of pain in boredom. And so to be alone, to have nobody to play the game with, can be painful. It's not exactly fear, it's a kind of pain.”
“When you were a kid and the circus came to town it was awesome to see these little creatures, but these things go out of fashion, like polyester blazers with rolled up sleeves. We don't have to suffer them anymore so why are there all these little people running around?”
“When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time”
“When you were a kid, if you went to the Montreal Forum or a hockey game at Maple Leaf Gardens, which I did, there was a great feeling. The new stadiums don't have it. Why don't they have it? Building codes.”
“When you were a kid, it [work in IBM] seemed like an awesome job. I'd get to go to work and have a briefcase. I loved how Dad wore a tie and got a car. I didn't know if all those things came together. I'd see my dad go off to work and we'd wait for him to come home, and we'd all be excited to see him.”
“When you were a little girl, Madam.....was this the woman you dreamed of becoming?”
“When you were a tadpole and I was a fish In the Paleozoic time.”
Source: Poems of Evolution
“When you were a tadpole and I was a fish, in the Palæozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide, we sprawled in the ooze and slime.”
“When you were a teenager, where did you go to make out?"
"Seriously?" She laughed nervously.
"Aren't we a little old for that?"
"I certainly hope not.”
Source: Lucky Shot
“When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.”
“When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our eagerness dreams were born. And dreams were time limitless, and dreams were space without measure.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“When you were adopted, there was no such thing as legal or illegal adoption. There was adoption, and that was it.”
Source: The Baby in the Picture: A Novel
“When you were alone in the rising ocean, you grabbed whatever raft passed by.”
Source: The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series