W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Where do you think all these attacks on conservative media are coming from? They're not coming from the Democrats exclusively.”
“Where do you think Britney Spears would be now if her mum hadn’t pushed her to keep singing at a young age?!”
“Probably a lot calmer, happier and more stable.”
Source: Dating Disasters of Emma Nash
“Where do you think my new novel is? In the waste basket. I can see myself that it's no good on earth, and when a loving author realizes this, what would be the judgment of a critical public?”
Source: Daddy-Long-Legs
“Where do you think the money went?” he repeated.
“Guns?” asked Jesper.
“Ships?” queried Inej.
“Bombs?” suggested Wylan.
“Political bribes?” offered Nina. They all looked at Matthias. “This is where you tell us how awful we are,” she whispered.
He shrugged. “They all seem like practical choices.”
Source: Crooked Kingdom
“Where do you think the notes were before Chopin wrote his nocturnes?”
With a nod of confusion I asked, “Where?”
She leaned back, exhaling a stream of smoke, as if unraveling a hidden truth. “I believe those notes were always present, suspended in the air, waiting for an artist's embrace. It's as if there's an intangible essence, an elusive sense, that artists possess. They have the ability to pluck those ethereal notes from the unseen and mold them into tangible forms, giving voice to our deepest emotions and translating them into melodies that resonate within us.”
Source: Serenade of Solitude
“Where do you think you're going?" he tuts.
"Just wanted to say good morning to the soldier saluting me downstairs."
Desire washes across his face but he grips my elbow and refuses to let me sink down on the bed. "He appreciates that. But it's not about him right now.”
Source: Midnight Sanctuary
“Where do you think you would be now if Jesus would not have saved you when He did.”
“Where do you think your family’s misery comes from, Zetian? Don’t you think they’d become different people if you could get them out of this place and give them all the food and security they’ve lacked in their lives?- Xiuying”
Source: Iron Widow
“Where do you think you’re going?” Dr. Nokes demanded…. “What do you have for directions?” And Dad… said, “I have the substance of things hoped for. I have the anticipation of things unseen”
“Where do you wanna belong?" I half whispered. His expression changed with quicksilver speed, amusement dancing in his eyes. "Anywhere they don't want me." -Hardy Cateses & Liberty Jones”
“Where do you want it?”
“Where do you want to be ten years from now? It’s is a good question, but it’s so far off it doesn’t help as much as shortening the time period. Where do you want to be two years from now? That’s a better question because it’s long enough to dream and short enough to make it happen. Figure that out and then ask: HOW CAN I DO THAT IN SIX MONTHS?”
“Where do you want to go? I couldn't answer that. There was nowhere to go. There was nowhere but this. There would never be anything but this.”
Source: To Be Taught, If Fortunate
“Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.”
“Where do your words come out from?
Your mind or your mouth?
Does silence increase your vibrancy?
Sit in it to know... to sow...
Silence initialised... Radiance #Mickeymized!”
“Where does a black soul go to rest?”
“Where does a character come from? Because a character, at the end of the day, a character will be the combination of the writing of the character, the voicing of the character, the personality of the character, and what the character looks like.”
“Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.”
“Where does a man go when there are no more corners to turn, when he's running out of hope, out of luck, out of time?”
Source: In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
“Where does a mistake begin?” his wife asks at the start of the book. “Did my mistake begin with the boat? Or my marriage itself?”
Source: Sea Wife
“Where does a story end? It's a lie. The last page of a book, because it masquerades as a conclusion...But life isn't like that, so books are dishonest. Maybe that's why humans like them.”
Source: Cassandra in Reverse
“Where does a story truly begin? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started. Yet there are moments when fate intersects with our daily lives, setting in motion a sequence of events whose outcome we could never have foreseen.”
Source: A Bend in the Road
“Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?”
“Where does a werewolf sleep? Anywhere he wants to.”
Source: Silver Borne
“Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.”
“Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.”
“Where does all that leave the cinema? First, we must acknowledge that a film is a photograph of a drama, and that skilful use of the camera can never excuse the paltriness, sentimentality or weakness of the action. What I have said about modernism and its search for an art that will perpetuate the ethical vision, applies as much to the cinema as it does to the other arts. There are directors who have presented dramas that can be compared with the great modern works for the stage – Bergman, for instance, in Wild Strawberries, where an original situation, conveyed through masterly dialogue, is enhanced by dream sequences and flashbacks of a kind that can be managed successfully only through the skilful cutting that is the essential ingredient in cinematic art.
Secondly, however, we must remember the distinction between fantasy and imagination, and the inherent tendency of the camera to realise what it shows – to present not a world of imagination, but a substitute reality. This is never more obvious than in the case of sex and violence, and is the root cause of the fact that these now dominate the cine screen, and would dominate television too, were it not for the censor. With the aid of the camera you can realise violence or the sexual act completely, and so minister to the fantasy which has sex or violence as its focus. If fantasy breaks through the tissue of imagination, then the dramatic thought is scattered, and the imaginative emotions along with it: drama then sinks into the background, and all that we have is obscenity – human flesh without the soul.
Hence many people are quickly satiated by cinematic representations, and at the same time deeply disturbed and absorbed by features (violence in particular) which, from the dramatic point of view, have little intrinsic meaning. Imagination withers when realisation blooms, and the ethical view of our condition withers along with it. It is a significant fact that most cinema-goers are disposed to see their favourite films only a few times, and that even people whose interest is not in the drama but in the blood, screams, and orgasms have no great interest in revisiting the last occasion of excitement, and will proceed joylessly to the next one without raising the question of the value of what they watch. This contrasts with every other kind of dramatic art – theatre, novel, opera, dramatic poem – in which the perception of beauty brings with it a desire constantly to return to the source, to re-enact in our emotions a drama which never loses its point for us, since it touches the question why we are here.”
Source: An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture
“Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)
“Where does anyone come from? We're all just individuals trying to get through our days.”
Source: The Best Kind of Magic
“Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins.”
Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings
“Where does contagion end and art begin?”
Source: The Humanity of Monsters
“where does creativity come from?
Creativity comes from the Universe itself.
“There is music and poetry in the Universe itself — surely we hear it on planet earth.” And Creativity comes from our joys and sorrows, our deep-hearted experiences. It also comes “from and in the heart of God. All our spiritual traditions the world over agree that creativity follows through the human heart and that it flows from the Divine Heart.”
Creativity is seen as a spiritual, inwardly-driven activity, directly influenced by a Higher Power, or God. That is the ultimate in inspiration for me: to know I have “permission” to be creative and to be a creator too.”
Source: Creativity
“Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.”
“Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.”
Source: Sweet Thursday
“Where does Donald Trump come from - and it's not just Donald Trump. It's a whole movement of right-wing extremism, not just in this country but also in Europe, which is a response to globalization, to the financialization of our economy, you know, to the trade agreements that throw working people under the bus.”
“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”
Source: Just Kids
“where does it derive its strength?
is it the blood soaked soil?
or the fear stained heart?”
Source: The Abattoir of Silence
“Where does it hurt the most, Tajiri? In your lungs or the heart?”
Source: In the midst of the womb
“Where does it lead, this rockrose path?”
Source: The Silver Tattoo
“Where does it say that we must allow anyone who wants to come to America to come in and become a citizen. I mean, this is a very, very tough thing to discuss.”
“Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?”
“Where does jealousy come from, if not an insecurity that I'll lose you because of him? But that's not how it works, no matter how many people believe it so. You're not something to be kept or taken, and love isn't some scarce resource to battle over. Love can be infinite , as much as your heart can open. I mean, when you think about it, love is fueled mostly by compatibility. Whether two people make each other happy by being close. So it'd be pointless of me to resent Shimin. However compatible you are with him, it doesn't have anything to do with how compatible you are with me.”
Source: Iron Widow
“Where does love begin? In our own homes. When does it begin? When we pray together. The family that prays together stays together.”
Source: In my own words
“Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?”
“Where does my next thought come from?
Hold your next thought as long as you can,
Try it.
It’s like holding water in your hands.
Like holding fog.
Allusory.
A new one springs up
From the nowhere
And dissipates as quickly.”
Source: Legacy
“Where does one draw the line between optimism and self delusion?”
Source: Bullet to the Brain
“Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.”
Source: The Family Reunion
“Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.”
Source: Sorcerer's Apprentice paperback
“Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!”
“Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand.”
Source: Philosophical Investigations