W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don't mean escaping into dreams or into the irrational. I mean that I have to change my approach, look at the world from a different perspective, with a different logic and with fresh methods of cognition and verification.”
“Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there: weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war, stadium sporting events, a night on the town, prayer, a romantic dinner, mothers rocking their infants to sleep ... music is a part of the fabric of everyday life.”
Source: This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession
“Whenever humans failed us, it was nature who could help save us.”
Source: The Mountains Sing
“Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child [a child of God] becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused”
“Whenever I am asked to tell my story, I hesitate. How can you sum up a life that is in constant motion?”
“Whenever I am dancing, Lord Nataraja is always there to support me at each and every step.”
“Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing.”
“Whenever I am embraced by land and seascape I draw ideas for new sculptures; new forms to touch and walk around, new people to embrace, with an exactitude of form that those without sight can hold and realize... ...It is essentially practical and passionate.”
“Whenever I am faced with a challenge,
I think about how winning feels,
Victory is as sweet as honey,
A taste which can lasts a lifetime”
“Whenever I am going through good phase, i don't give a damn about what my horoscope says.”
“Whenever I am in a difficult situation where there seems to be no way out, I think about all the times I have been in such situations and say to myself, "I did it before, so I can do it again.”
Source: Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
“Whenever I am in my videos, it's rare. A lot of it is, they feel more live and hyper-realist, rather than fantasy. People would just be like, "Oh, Skrillex is acting in this video," and it wouldn't work as well.”
“whenever i am in pain,
i just think of watching your eye's in rain!”
“Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.”
“Whenever I am on camera or doing anything on mic, I don't have any process at all. I just do it and, when I'm finished, it goes away. There is no process. I wish there were some techniques to it. I just turn it on and off, and then I go home.”
“Whenever I am on the plane, I look out delightedly for Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch” — a beautiful banner that belongs to the skies.”
“Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.”
“Whenever I am tempted to dismiss the poor or uneducated for their vulgar tastes, I see the face of old Auntie Braxton, as she stands stock still in front of our picket fence, lips parted to reveal her almost toothless gums, drinking in a polonaise as though it were heavenly nourishment.”
Source: Jacob Have I Loved
“Whenever I am this unsettled, there is one tried-and-true cure: the forest.”
Source: A Dark and Secret Magic
“Whenever I am tired of making photographs of drawings, I make drawings of photographs.”
“Whenever I am with energetic young people, I feel like a recharged battery.”
“Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day.”
“Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be.”
“Whenever I asked her to tell me what happened up there, Naomi would say no one who has been to space could ever describe it to someone who hasn’t.”
Source: Goldilocks
“Whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, which flows uniformly, and is participated by all beings, I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties.”
Source: Berkeley: Philosophical Writings
“Whenever I audition for something, if I get excited about the project I'm totally committed to it from that point on. But it can also be a long process, so when I eventually get given the part it's then that I realise that I've actually got to do it and here comes the work!”
“Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are on our side! I mean those poets and painters, singers and musicians, novelists and playwrights who speak to the world in a way that is impervious to assault because they wage the battle for justice in a sphere which is unreachable by the dullness of ordinary political discourse.”
Source: The Historic Unfulfilled Promise
“Whenever I begin reading a new book, I am embarking on a new, uncharted journey with an unmarked destination. I never know where a particular book will take me, toward what other books I will be led.”
Source: Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
“Whenever I buy a painting, someone invariably says, "Oh, what a great investment." And I hate that reaction. To me, it's a matter of love and not an exchange of equity.”
“Whenever I call a company and get put on hold, I never really feel like I'm being held.”
“Whenever I can afford to do something, I do it.”
“Whenever I can, I make eager attempts to have a word with this wilderness – to decipher its speechless expressions, to make at least some meaning of the holy silence it never breaks.”
Source: A Word With Wilderness: Poems Inspired by American Nature
“Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first.”
“Whenever I can’t sleep, I like to lie in the darkness and pretend I’ve been assassinated. I’ve found this is the best way to get comfortable. I imagine I’m in the coffin at my funeral, and people from my past are walking by my corpse and making comments about my demise.”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
“Whenever I catch a chunk of an Adam Sandler comedy on cable, it looks as badly shot and goofily tossed off as a Jerry Lewis gag reel once he hit the late downslide with 'Hardly Working' and 'Cracking Up.'”
“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.”
“Whenever I climb I have to also entertain.”
“Whenever I come back to London, which is home, I get that cosy, comfortable feeling of being home, as well as the sophistication of this city.”
“Whenever I criticise someone it is only to illuminate the minds of those individuals who are following things blindly without questioning them.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“Whenever I’d get howlin’ over something, he’d grab my ass up from wherever I was and head straight for the john. Momma said my head would get banged up along the way, but she said it
was probably bein’ dunked under water that made me stupid.”
Source: The Spy's Little Zonbi
“Whenever I deal with children or the military, that becomes special to me.”
“Whenever I decided to release a guy, I always had his room searched first for a gun. You couldn't take any chances with some of them birds.”
“Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.”
“Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because you were too much indulged."”
Source: England and Its Aesthetes: Biography and Taste
“Whenever I didn't know what to write next, I put a swift river in front of his horse and sent the two of them across!”
Source: So Brave, Young and Handsome
“Whenever I do a comedy show I still just read poems, some of which are intentionally funny and some of which are just bizarre. The mix seems to work well.”
“Whenever I do a deal I always have the right of approval.”
“Whenever I do a movie I always like to base my character off of a couple different characters.”
“Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.”
“Whenever I do a performance I always hope it is the best day of my life. Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't.”