W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her.”
“When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.”
“When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.”
Source: Paperweight
“When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them.”
“When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.”
“When you've seen prejudice, you understand that we aren't finished, that we're still perfecting this American experiment.”
“When you've set goals and dreams, you don't feel old.”
“When you've something to fight for, you get the best out of yourself.”
“When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.”
“When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”
Source: Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition
“When you've tasted excess, everything else tastes bland.”
“When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.”
“When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag”
“When you've tried all the salves in the world and they don't work, you start thinking about fire”
Source: The Wounded Land
“When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.”
“When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity...you do not slam it shut behind you...you reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.”
“When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary.”
“When you've written a script, if an actor has a question you're the writer as well as the director, so you have the answer. And if you don't, then you just be honest and say 'I don't know' and then you discuss it. So, working with the actors is fine.”
“When you've written a song, sometimes it's really hard to wrap your brain around what somebody else is doing, or maybe the way that they see the song.”
“When you, awareness, are mastered by the deepest that you know the truth of, then you are no longer awareness. You are oneness aware mastering your self and your life.”
“When you`re onstage you have a certain faith that somebody's gonna yell somethin' back. Some nights it's louder than other nights and some nights they do, and on some songs they don't. But that's the idea. I think when you begin to expect a reaction from an audience, it's a mistake.”
“When young black men reach a certain age - whether or not there is incarceration in their families - they themselves are the target of police stops, interrogations, frisks, often for no reason other than their race. And, of course, this level of harassment sends a message to them, often at an early age: No matter who you are or what you do, you're going to find yourself behind bars one way or the other. This reinforces the sense that prison is part of their destiny, rather than a choice one makes.”
“When young comedians ask me for advice that's the one thing I always say is if they're improvisers I'm like do improv, don't make that your sole thing. And at the end of the day when you do your best work you also just kinda, by definition flush it down the toilet and never do it again.”
“When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting his pulse, that the duration of the oscillations was independent of the arc through which it moved, who could know that this discovery would eventually put it in our power, by means of the pendulum, to attain an accuracy in the measurement of time till then deemed impossible, and would enable the storm-tossed seaman in the most distant oceans to determine in what degree of longitude he was sailing?”
Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays
“When young girls are encouraged to explore what they find interesting, they grow up to be interesting women.”
“When young groups put out albums, they're always forced to go through this cycle of touring and talking and flaunting and posturing and peacocking. Nobody makes me do that anymore.”
“When young I'd visit my aunt in small town Tennessee. Her place was carved into the side of a steep ridge. All red mud and gravel. The driveway was too steep for most. You just parked at the bottom and struggled up to the front door. You really had to want to visit. The closest anything was a truck stop off I-75. Near where fog caused a 99 car crash. We went there to eat biscuits and gravy. Wash it down with whole milk. Prostitutes advertised by CB. They found a dead trucker in a restroom once. No one seemed surprised. There was a rigged Coin Pusher machine. Elvira Pinball. I set the high score. Then returned to Florida. Where teachers asked me to write about my summer.”
Source: Some Books Are Not For Sale
“When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge. Though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light, and teach faith where no faith was.”
Source: Stories and Poems
“When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition.”
Source: Framley Parsonage: A Novel
“When young men prepare, bless, and pass the sacrament in worthiness and reverence, they literally follow the example of the Savior at the Last Supper and become like Him.”
“When young people are insecure, they find ways to manufacture love tests – personal metrics to reassure themselves.”
Source: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
“When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise of which they have been beguiled; but when they are shown it properly, and in due time, they see it such as it really is, equally shared by pain and pleasure, hope and disappointment.”
Source: Evelina: Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World
“When young people grow up....they shine so much that old people want to avert their gaze.”
“When young people say I want to be a novelist, I'd say, think very carefully about it. There will be very few rewards, you probably won't make any money, you probably won't become famous, and you will spend your whole life locked up in a room by yourself worrying about how to survive.”
“When young some of those I dated thought that I was "sweeter" when drinking. They would ply me with bottom shelf vodka. Like it was a $7 love potion. Burt Reynolds once apologized to all that "met him in the 70s." I could do the same for the 90s. When my emotional vulnerability came out of a bottle.”
Source: Some Books Are Not For Sale
“When young, the humans are all Imagination because Memory is so much smaller a part of their experience, so little of them is grounded in it. As they grow older, however, Memory overtakes their Imagination, outweighs it. But when they pray with ever increasing confidence, they see with an ever-increasing and youthful Imagination and such burgeoning of possibility causes even their Memory to be lightened and redeemed. The scales fall from their eyes and they wait on their Father with the same childlike wonder that watches a sunrise to see what might happen this time.”
“When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.”
“When young we have a vivid sense of basic values like trust and warm-heartedness, which we tend to neglect in today's competitive world as we grow up, yet from birth we all have a need for affection. The emotions we experience today have not changed much over the last few thousand years, but the interest increasing numbers of people are showing in their inner world and how their emotions work is a sign of maturity.”
“When young women say no to feminism, feminists don’t accept that no means no.”
“When young, beware of fighting; when strong, beware of sex; and when old, beware of possession.”
“When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.”
“When young, one learns his craftsmanship, may become a young master, and it is youth that is most auspicious for developing certain skills.”
“When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“When young, you're shocked by the number of people who turn out to have feet of clay. Older, you're surprised by the number of people who don't.”
“When younger, he had been fun-loving to the point of tedium.”
Source: Pot Luck
“When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.”
“When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being "Homo sapiens" was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.”
Source: Racism 101
“When younger, I was thin as a rail. As I've grown older, I've put on weight. I have continued to love myself in all those roles. Part of my spirituality, I always tell people, is to accept yourself for who you are.”
“When your "there" has become a "here," you will simply obtain a "there" that will look better to you than your present "here."”
Source: If Life Is a Game...These Are The Stories: Trur Stories by Real People Around the World About Being Human
“When your 114 chakras breathe in coherence, health becomes natural, and your leadership becomes effortless”
Source: The Secrets of 114 Chakras