W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Whenever I play something, everybody just thinks that's who I am.”
“Whenever I play with him , I usually try to make it a foursome - the President, myself, a paramedic and a faith healer.”
“Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.”
“Whenever I pray, I feel thy peace O Lord.”
“Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.”
“Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.”
“Whenever I publish a book, I feel like a trapper caught by the Iroquois. They're all lined up with Tomahawks, and the idea is to run through with your head down, and everybody gets to take a swing. They hit you in the head, the back, the ass, and the balls.”
Source: Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King
“whenever I put the headset on now," he'd continued, "I really do understand what I find there. When those kids sing about 'she loves you,' yeah well, you know, she does, she's any number of people, all over the world, back through time, different colors, sizes, ages, shapes, distances from death, but she loves. And the 'you' is everybody. And herself. Oedipa, the human voice, you know, it's a flipping miracle." His eyes brimming, reflecting the color of beer.”
Source: The Crying of Lot 49
“Whenever I ravel I seek the benefits of this great profession of chiropractic”
“Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind?”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Whenever I read a book about a marriage, I always feel I'm being lied to.”
“whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like.”
“Whenever I read a poem that moves me, I know I'm not alone in the world. I feel a connection to the person who wrote it, knowing that he or she has gone through something similar to what I've experienced, or felt something like what I have felt. And their poem gives me hope and courage, because I know that they survived, that their life force was strong enough to turn experience into words and shape it into meaning and then bring it toward me to share.”
“Whenever I read history, and try to understand a character of Vampire that survives in its Gloomy House after sucking the blood of a virgin. Indeed, it defines an illusion. If I compare that with the White House, where ever, it exists; transparently, it demonstrates the same description; however, it falls not under an illusion; it verifies a reality of survival. The solution everyone knows, need only the courage for the peace of entire humanity on the blue planet.”
“Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars, and 0.046 TVs.”
“Whenever I read stories of people doing huge pranks on set, all I think is, 'These people have too much time on their hands.' Besides, I don't want to make some poor assistant clean up someone's trailer after I've filled it with, say, Cadbury eggs. See? I can't even think of a good prank.”
“Whenever I read the newspaper, I say to myself, 'At least my wife loves me.'”
“Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.”
“Whenever I read the term 'belief system', somewhere between my eyes and my brain, it becomes 'coping mechanism.”
“Whenever I realize I'm being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect it has on the audience. No one wants to see someone talk who takes themselves too seriously.”
“Whenever I really want a part, I'm not sure what to do. How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie?”
“Whenever I receive death announcements, I consistently notice that a kind of emotion grips me and I feel astonished disbelief. It is as though the departed had passed a difficult examination and achieved something I had not believed him capable of.”
Source: A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945
“Whenever I record something, I always believe that it's worthy of inclusion in the pantheon, and I would certainly like pianists to pay more attention to it. I think it's ridiculous now, because the range of repertoire - or what's considered 'safe' - is so narrow, even though there are pianists who are really trying to push the envelope. There is still a lack of attention, and there's no reason for it. The piano repertoire is so rich, with so many wonderful things that still are not given their due.”
“Whenever I reference something, it usually comes back at some point. I don't know why.”
“Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.”
Source: Aleph
“Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year 'round for other people. So, finally, when I come out with my own album, it should be me with the creative help of other musicians.”
“Whenever I remember the long way whence I come, my heart is drenched in tears”
“Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.”
“Whenever I sat down to write something it was never anything I took lightly. It was something that I'd want you, somebody in Japan, and somebody [over there to hear it].”
“Whenever I saw a sunset, I would quietly make my secret wish right before the sun tucked under the western horizon and disappeared. It would seem as if the sun had taken my wish with it. I'd make it right before the last speck of light vanished.”
Source: Moonwalk
“Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker.”
“Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.”
Source: Ready Player One
“Whenever I say goodbye its never for long because I believe in the power of love.”
“Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parked in there or something. But really there's old luggage, a couple of bikes. It's big enough to put one minivan in. That's it. No dartboard. I'm so not macho.”
“Whenever I see 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', a total comedy classic, I get the urge to feel the breeze of the south of France in the summer!”
“Whenever I see a cut of a film and something is gone, I don't notice it unless it obviously should have been kept.”
“Whenever I see a dog, I see god.”
“Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!”
“Whenever I see a homeless guy, I always run back and give him money, because I think, 'Oh my God, what if that was Jesus?'”
“Whenever I see a homeless person on the street, I think ‘That could be me in a few years time’.”
“Whenever I see a homeless person on the street, I think ‘That could me me in a few years time’.”
“Whenever I see a news story, I ask the question “True or fake?”.”
“Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Whenever I see a taboo, I just think that's something we need to drag screaming out into the light and discuss. Because taboos are where our fears live, and taboos are the things that keep us tiny. Particularly for women.”
“Whenever I see an ambulance, I like to think there is a baby being born, rather than a death.”
“Whenever I see an autobiography for sale in the book store i just flip to the about the author section. I'm like, "Done, next!"”
“Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“Whenever I see an opportunity and a chance to change something, I go at it and I lay out all the facts to everybody. And when I come to this space, I'm going to come with talent, I'm going to come with focus. And I'm going to do the job as competitively as the next guy.”
“Whenever I see an unmarried woman carrying a child, my first response is one of respect. I know she could have taken the quick fix without anyone knowing, but she chose instead to let an innocent child live.”
Source: Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments
“Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.”