W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“With my personality, I generally don't like change a lot. I reflect back on things quicker than I should at times. So it seems like it's gone by really quick. The older you get, the faster it seems to go by.”
“With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.”
“With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.”
Source: Braided Lives: A Novel
“With my popped ears, I could only hear the muffled humming of the MI-17’s powerful blades, so I focused my attention on what I could see. As the chopper followed
its regular flight path towards Tezpur, I saw snow-capped mountain peaks nestling azure water bodies between them. And since the water was just a few metres below us, there
was no mistaking it for something else. Water for the gods– some might’ve said – and while the peaks were covered in snow, the small lakes had dazzling blue water. That sight, the
kind which often appears in heavily photoshopped pictures on Instagram these days, was indescribable. Breathtaking
would be an absolute understatement.
I had never witnessed anything like that before or after, and from that summer on, I learnt to accept the mystifying miracles of nature and its inherent fury, in equal parts. And
by the time the summer ended, I finally understood what a paradox truly meant.”
Source: Invictus
“With my portable recording system, I didn't feel like I was listening as a distant observer; rather, I had been sucked into a new space - becoming an integral part of the experience itself.”
Source: The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places
“With my quick success, I didn't have time to learn the ropes of the music business. Because my first record was such a hit, I was terribly spoiled and I thought I couldn't do anything wrong. I was also desperate to make tons of money because of my responsibility to my daughter. And there was no longer any joy in making music.”
“With my records, it's just a matter of trying to create something fresh for myself in a very finite context, which is the pop song. I don't know anything about the people who buy my records, and what, if anything, they get out of them.”
“With my recovery programme, I have to do a daily inventory of how my day has been. I am terribly dyslexic and have attention deficit disorder, so I have to carry a tape recorder everywhere I go.”
“With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.”
“With my Rune
In the blossom grove
And my heart almost burst”
Source: A Thousand Boy Kisses
“With my runners now, they get two month-long breaks during the year.”
“With my schedule being so crazy, I can't call every day or hang out with my friends like I used to and that's definitely sad.”
“With my schedule, I don't have much time to get to yoga classes, but I do keep a mat in my trailer and practice for a few minutes most days. It keeps me centered.”
“With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.”
Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale
“With my sins I am worse than a noisome cur but I began to beseech God for forgiveness, and He granted me not only forgiveness but also the Holy Spirit, and in the Holy Spirit I knew God.”
Source: A Year in the Holy Spirit with Saint Silouan the Athonite: - A Calendar of Daily Quotes
“With my sister perched on my arm, I walked to the elevator. A business man with a rolling suitcase was waiting by the doors. His eyes widened as he saw me. I must’ve looked pretty strange—a tall black kid in dirty, ragged Egyptian clothes, with a weird box tucked under one arm and a bird of prey perched on the other. “How’s it going?” I said. “I’ll take the stairs.” He hurried off.”
“With my size and speed, my ability to make moves and great vision, I'm sometimes feel like it's an unfair advantage over the defense.”
“With my solo music, I really try to step out of the box and do stuff I don't get to do with the boys. I wanted it to be fun, rock-infused and try some new things while going back to my roots. "All American" the song is one of my favorites from the album, which is why I chose to title the album after it. To me, it's the perfect song to represent the feel of the album.”
“With my solo music, often it's just about looking for interesting sounds that may or may not resonate emotionally.”
“With my sometimes blunt indecent vocabulary & very vivid imagination, I wonder if I should be writing "other" kinds of content.”
“With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.”
Source: Selected Writings: Sex
“With my son, I work very hard to keep him away from the press and media and I want an opportunity for him to lead as normal a life as possible.”
“With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.”
“With my soreness, riding was just about a constant reminder of her hand in me. This hurt linked up with replays in my head. Memories of fuckings, which I wouldn't see at first as longings.”
“With my sort of book there's no resolution, because there's no solution. The problems aren't answered in the end because there is no answer. They're problems that are handed on to the reader, not solved for him so that he can go away thinking he lives in a beautiful world. It's not a beautiful world.”
Source: Eating people is wrong
“With my sport, I am outside and in the water, which can be really drying and damaging to the skin, so I try to be vigilant about taking good care of it.”
“With my stomach growling, I took my place at the head of the dining table and switched the fork and knife around. Two and a half years, and the girls still forgot to place the cutlery for a left-handed person.”
Source: Valkyrie's Chaos
“With my students I give them lots and lots of guided writing. Part of it is as simple as writing a lot but not toward anything. The mind floats. Then I help them see where the language has heat. If we do this a lot in class, students eventually relax into this writing practice and enjoy it. Even just that - writing pleasure without the anxiety of "audience" or "grade" or "success" - is a kind of impetus toward the unfamiliar.”
“With my students, I don't offer any simple tips like that, maybe because my own process is pretty messy, but when we workshop we talk a lot about the deeper subject, which is what the story or novel is about. I think defining a narrative's themes can lay bare a narrative's tensions.”
“With my stuff, I think I've tried. I've been courted. I don't want to sound like an asshole, but I've been courted to be someone who could sell a lot of books.”
“With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
-Jack Nicholson”
“With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.”
“With my support, the House of Representatives recently voted to permanently repeal the death tax so that family farms and businesses can be passed down to children and grandchildren.”
“With my sword and with my life, I vow to keep you safe. From this moment until the last moment, I am yours.”
“With my sword and with my life, I vow to keep you safe Penellaphe. From this moment until the last moment, I am yours.”
Source: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.”
“With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.”
“With my teethI have seized lifeUpon the knife of my youth.With my lips today,With my lips alone...”
“With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didnt use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.”
“With my tongue in one cheek only, I'd suggest that were our palaeolithic ancestors to discover the peer-review dredger, we would be still sitting in caves.”
“With my two brothers, Jean-Marie and Joel, I wrote a two-page story and wanted to make some kind of movie. We met a French production company, called Why Not?, and the first name we put on the list was Ken Loach. It was a dream for all of us. So, we tried and we met Ken and Paul Laverty, his writer, and they read the two pages and were inspired by that to do something. Paul had the freedom to do his own story - and he wrote his own story, which is better than the one we'd written.”
“With my union project in my hand, from town to town, from one end of France to the other, to talk to the workers who do not know how to read and to those who do not have the time to read....I will go find them in their workshops; in their garrets and even, if needed, in their taverns, and there, face to face with their poverty, I will compel them, in spite of themselves, to escape from this frightful poverty which is degrading and killing them.”
“With my veil I put my faith on display—rather than my beauty. My value as a human is defined by my relationship with God, not by my looks. I cover the irrelevant. And when you look at me, you don’t see a body. You view me only for what I am: a servant of my Creator.
You see, as a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King.”
Source: Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
“With my voice and my band, I can do anything.”
“With my website, I'm really interactive. I've written a lot of things about me.”
“With my white friends, I’m always half Mexican. They never say I’m half Irish. Never say I’m half white. Like I’m tainted halfway from the standard. It’s like when I was a kid and I thought vanilla ice cream meant no flavor, like it was the base of all of the flavors. But vanilla is a bean. Like chocolate is a bean. Like cinnamon is a root. All roots and beans. All flavors. There is no base. No ice cream without a flavor.”
Source: The Music of What Happens
“With my wife Camille's help, I took to social networking. I'm working with the computers.”
“With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.”
Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs
“With my wife I get no respect. I fell asleep with a cigarette in my hand. She lit it.”
Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs
“With my wife it was sex, sex, sex...Yes, three times in 35 years.”