W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Woolrich had a genius for creating types of story perfectly consonant with his world: the noir cop story, the clock race story, the waking nightmare, the oscillation thriller, the headlong through the night story, the annihilation story, the last hours story. These situations, and variations on them, and others like them, are paradigms of our position in the world as Woolrich sees it. His mastery of suspense, his genius (like that of his spiritual brother Alfred Hitchcock) for keeping us on the edge of our seats and gasping with fright, stems not only from the nightmarish situations he conjured up but from his prose, which is compulsively readable, cinematically vivid, high-strung almost to the point of hysteria, forcing us into the skins of the hunted and doomed where we live their agonies and die with them a thousand small deaths.”
Source: Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich
“Woolsey bites on occasion”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“Wooo!’ he said, slamming his shot glass down and coughing a bit. ‘That’s good stuff.’ I agreed heartily. ‘Shall we do another one?’ I asked. ‘Oh no,’ Jesus said quietly, his eyes growing round. ‘This is one of those situations where I have to stop and ask myself, what would I do?”
Source: The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted
“Wooof." The reply was soft and there was a sad whimper.
"When he's all sad like that, it's kinda cute," Yuriel voiced.
"Before he skydives at you,”
Source: SSS: Year Three
“Wooof, woof
Start doing stuff
Make it simple
If you want a girlfriend, go out and meet people.
If you want friends, go out.
If you want to learn social skills
Start with learning principles in communication , and after that, start applying social circle games. It's a great concept.”
Source: Talk and More
“Woord is but wynd; leff woord and tak the dede.”
“Woorden kunnen haar alleen maar minder maken.”
Source: Een allerliefste moordenaar
“Woorden lijken onschuldig, maar leg ze op de verkeerde plaats, op een verkeerd tijdstip en het worden landmijnen.”
Source: Het moois dat we delen
“Woran sie leiden, ist einfach das zutiefst gestörte Gleichgewicht zwischen Arbeit und Verzehr, zwischen Tätigsein und Ruhe, und dies Leiden verschärft sich dadurch, daß gerade das Animal laborans auf dem besteht, was es "Glück" nennt und was in Wahrheit der Segen ist, der im Leben selbst liegt, in dem natürlichen Wechsel von Erschöpfung und Ruhe, von Mühsal und Erholung, in der man das Abklingen der Mühsal genießen kann, kurz in dem sich immer erneuernden Gleichgewicht von Unlust und Lust, das nur dem Kreislauf der Natur eigen ist.”
Source: Vita activa oder Vom tätigen Leben
“Word - that invisible dagger.”
“Word after word, page after page, she was pulled deeper into a place she had never experienced and walked in the footsteps of a person she's never been.”
Source: The Last Bookshop in London
“Word and worship belong indissolubly to each other. All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name. Therefore, acceptable worship is impossible without preaching. For preaching is making known the name of the Lord, and worship is praising the name of the Lord made known.”
“Word-banning seems to be a trend of late. It's become fashionable to try to ban words we're uncomfortable with, which you really can't do in the first place. You can no more ban a word than you can ban the air. In fact, language is a lot like air – ban it all you want, it's still there.”
“Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language, without which it would fall apart, such as 'and' and 'what,' or words that provide structure to our conversation, such as 'hello.”
“Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.”
Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
“Word can travel fast when it wants to, but the truth? The truth is rarely so reliable.”
Source: Conan, Vol. 14: The Death
“Word choice does matter when you convey your message to a particular reader. The average reader will most likely read your written text if it is clear, meaningful and establishes a purpose.”
“Word 'Classy' is not for commons. Try to be classy!”
“Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?”
“Word got out about a mutiny, just stuff overheard in one of our bars, so we took safety measures.” Dante really saved my ass. “Sorry I didn’t tell you, but it wasn’t a sure thing. I didn’t want to rock the boat unnecessarily. Hey, why’re you crying? Why’s she crying?!”
“She does that.” Adrian pulled me into a big protective hug. “Thanks, man. But don’t be offended if your guys are watched. I don’t want any sabotage. Are we clear?”
Source: A Sinful Silence
“Word had spread that the foreigner was arriving.”
Source: Shantaram
“Word hard, work smart but no matter you do, work in silence. Great battles were won with stealth.”
“Word has it, they think I'm an old man, and they're not gonna double me. My message is that I'm the baddest for my age bracketest. What I mean by age bracketest is that I came in at 20, I was the baddest 20, and I'm the baddest at 35.”
“Word has traveled quickly that just because you're on island doesn't mean you have to be stranded---as long as you have cash.”
Source: Outside In
“Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.”
Source: Selected poems
“Word is a shadow of a deed.”
“Word is adventure”
“word is like a sword; you should be wise when to use it or it'll kill and ruin everything you did in your past, you're doing at this time, and you're gonna do in the future”
“Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as absent, as dead, although it is still present - but above all in the sense of its radical dissection: the word 'quarters' the thing, it tears it out of the embedment in its concrete context, it treats its component parts as entities with an autonomous existence: we speak about color, form, shape, etc., as if they possessed self-sufficient being.”
Source: Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out
“Word is sort of spreading by itself, largely among young people. And if word gets out that young people can actually come out to the polls and, in fact, take over this election in order to liberate themselves from life-long debts, we could actually win.”
“Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding about a boundary line or a hamper of fish or some other squalid matter, see patriotism rise, and hear him split the universe with is war-whoop. The spirit of patriotism being in its nature jealous and selfish, is just in man's line, it comes natural to him - he can live up to all its requirements to the letter; but the spirit of Christianity is not in its entirety possible to him.”
Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…
“Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole of French, Latin, and English grammars to memory.”
Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings
“Word like that, others' opinions of you, shouldn't have that kind of power, Saint." But they did and therein lay the problem. I was always guilty of letting other people's words and actions hurt me and dictate how I felt about myself, and it was costing me more than I ever thought.”
Source: Nash
“Word-magic comes at a cost, you see, as power always does. Words draw their vitality from their writers, and thus the strength of a word is limited by the strength of its human vessel.”
Source: The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use.”
Source: The Language Web: The Power and Problem of Words - The 1996 BBC Reith Lectures
“Word of advice for any young man that might want to take out Malia or Sasha Obama - Their father can order an assassination, don't piss him off.”
Source: Write like no one is reading
“Word of advice, sister mine. If you want to keep your papers private, don't write 'Private' on the cover. It set the mater right off. It was all I could do to stop her sniffing around like some great sniffing thing.”
Source: The Mischief of the Mistletoe
“Word of advice: when you get away, it's best to keep going. Otherwise, you risk getting caught.”
Source: The Fall of Ahilon
“Word of advice, kid. This may be the Wild West down here, but you ain't a cowboy. You're not even a boy in a cowboy suit.”
Source: The Iron Thorn The Iron Codex Book One
“Word of advice. These have a kick, so don’t suck too hard—” Holy hypoxia, Batman.”
Source: Lover Reborn: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“Word of mouth is the best medium of all.”
“Word of mouth is the most effective means of communication.”
“Word of mouth is the primary factor behind 20 percent to 50 percent of all purchasing decisions.”
“Word of mouth is very powerful.”
“Word-of-mouth marketing is great. It can help you enter the market, but it cannot help you stay in the market or achieve rapid long-term growth.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.”
“Word of the somnolent masses is noise. Word of the reformer is rule, divine rule.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Word porn is the best porn when the imagination is well endowed.”
Source: Sugar Whipped
“Word-Power'
Being stuck in my room,
I've become a world traveler.
If you wonder how...
just guess how I've reached you right now”
“Word Power
I could have tried to have another son,
Mother said, but then I'd have to divide
my love in two, so I sacrificed,
& just had you. But sometimes I think
you could have used the competition
that a baby brother would have brought.
All the relatives would put him in their arms,
& hold him high over their heads. And that just might
stir you to action. Because right now
you're even too lazy to look up a word
in the dictionary, & your vocabulary is limited.
And one day your wife is going to ask you
if you really love her. And you should
tell her yes, & that you also idolize her.
But since you don't know what that word means,
you won't be able to use it. And even if
she buys you Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
for a birthday present, you still might not get the hint.”