W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Windows of homes and office complexes left streaks of yellow in her peripheral vision as she sped past. Headlights glared and flickered from the opposite lane of the road, drivers warning her to stay on her side, to stop veering the pick-up, to stay awake, to stop at red lights.
She ignored them.
They did not understand that there were no signs on the freeway to help her as they helped them, no Ramp Exit sign navigating her with the words EXIT 3A: ANSWERS, 1/2 MILE. They did not understand that she talked to herself while she drove in order to set things straight just as much as to stay awake. They did not understand that the traffic lights were red with rage and not with warning. Brakes don't work along the road to Hell.”
“Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or confused users.”
“Windows will burst into breaths of ember, while two hands reach out, the horizon shortening between their fingers.”
Source: Burnings
“Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.”
Source: The Lords and The New Creatures
“Winds and waters keepA hush more dead than any sleep.”
Source: Poems
“Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone.”
Source: The Mountains of California (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs and Wilderness Study from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Picturesque California & Steep Trails
“Winds are changing,” Wit whispered.
Dalinar glanced at him.
Wit’s eyes narrowed, and he scanned the night sky. “It’s been happening for months now. A whirlwind. Shifting and churning, blowing us round and around. Like a world spinning, but we can’t see it because we’re too much a part of it.”
“World spinning. What foolishness is this?”
“The foolishness of men who care, Dalinar,” Wit said. “And the brilliance of those who do not. The second depend on the first—but also exploit the first—while the first misunderstand the second, hoping that the second are more like the first. And all of their games steal our time. Second by second.”
Source: The Way of Kings (4 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]
“winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence density, between two regions of earth.”
“Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and be a road from north to south. We will make a stone wall against the upper river to the west and hold back steamy clouds and rain of Wu peaks. Over tall chasms will be a calm lake, and if the goddess of these mountains is not dead she will marvel at the changed world.”
Source: The Poems of Mao Zedong
“Winds of May, that dance on the sea,
Dancing a ring-around in glee
From furrow to furrow, while overhead
The foam flies up to be garlanded,
In silvery arches spanning the air,
Saw you my true love anywhere?
Welladay! Welladay!
For the winds of May!
Love is unhappy when love is away!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)
“Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Windsurfing, the sound of the word contains all the mystery of a solitary buoy in the fog, echoing across the water at the end of the day.”
Source: Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing
“Windy or not, a day this beautiful has to be lived. The day is bright and clear, the sky blue, and the dry air feels light. A northerly wind stirs a primal urge to move. The geese feel it, and so do I. Perhaps it is a last internal vestige from a time, long ago, when we migrated with the seasons across open plains, following the animals we pursued for food. Perhaps that is why the sight of migrating geese arrests our attention, why we feel the pull. We want to go, to travel in fresh or moody weather, taking in each newly revealed vista.”
“Wine ... changing even as we taste it, delivers a message with meaning only in our response. If we are in the right key when we receive it, our eyes will shine and we shall radiate pleasure.”
“Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.”
Source: Death in the Afternoon
“Wine ...moderately drunken it doth quicken a man's wits, It doth comfort the heart.”
Source: The wisdom of Andrew Boorde
“Wine adds a smile to friendship and a spark to love.”
“Wine ages gracefully in a cellar, but gets no wiser.”
“Wine always inspires sociability.”
Source: Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business
“Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.”
“Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.”
“Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.”
Source: Romola
“Wine and women bring misery.”
“Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God's law and do wrong."
However, the fault is not in the wine, and often not in the woman. The fault is in the one who misuses the wine or the woman or other of God's crations. Even if you get drunk on the wine and through this greed you lapse into lechery, the wine is not to blame but you are, in being unable or unwilling to discipline yourself. And even if you look at a woman and become caught up in her beauty and assent to sin [= adultery; extramarital sex], the woman is not to blame nor is the beauty given her by God to be disparaged: rather, you are to blame for not keeping your heart more clear of wicked thoughts. ... If you feel yourself tempted by the sight of a woman, control your gaze better ... You are free to leave her. Nothing constrains you to commit lechery but your own lecherous heart.”
Source: Dives and Pauper
“WINE. Because...KIDS!”
“WINE! Because these problems aren’t going to forget THEMSELVES!”
“Wine brightens the life and thinking of anyone”
“Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.”
“Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.”
“Wine buffs write and talk as though the food and wine will be in your mouth at the same time, that one is there to be poured over the other. This is bullshit. Gustatory enjoyment comes from food and wine and cigars of your liking. So far no one has said that a Monte Cristo is the only cigar to smoke after Armagnac, Romeo and Juliet after Calvados ... but the time may yet come.”
“Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books”
“Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile”
Source: The Odyssey: The Story of Odysseus
“Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.”
Source: Later Poems
“Wine could become a place rather than a beverage.”
“Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.”
Source: Works, including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition: withletters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works
“Wine does but draw forth a man's natural qualities.”
“Wine drinking goes back at least six thousand years. Wine writing probably began a year or two later.”
“Wine enhances your beauty by making others look at you differently. Well, so long as they are the ones drinking it. If you come visit my duck farm, I have some old grapes I could serve you.”
Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
“Wine enlivens the human soul.”
“Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.”
“Wine ever paies for his loding.”
“Wine fills the heart with courage.”
“Wine, food, bath and book. That is my future tonight.”
Source: Fighting Love
“Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health”
Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 9: 1 September 1815 to 30 April 1816
“Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.”
Source: The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more
“Wine give strenght to weary men. and
And wine can of their wits the wise beguile.
Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. and
Let those who drink not, but austerely dine,
Dry up in law; the muses smell of wine. and
No poem was ever written by a drinker of water. and
Bacchus opens the gate of the heart. and
Might to inspire new hopes and powerful
To drown the bitterness of cares.”
“Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson
“Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.”
“Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.”
“Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and
A man should cultivate his mind so as to have that confidence and readiness without wine, which wine gives.”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson