W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.”
“Watching a ball game is one of the sweetest pleasures in the world.”
“Watching a best friend become a parent is a magical thing. It can open up a part of their personality that you've never seen before and it can also open a new chapter of your friendship.”
Source: Dear Dolly
“Watching a child first learn to crawl on a carpet somehow has more significance to you as you get a little older. Perhaps it is that you have suffered more.”
“Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.”
“Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out".”
Source: Heart of Darkness
“Watching a company develop is like watching a puppy grow. When you can watch something grow that you created - it's really an amazing feeling.”
“Watching a delicate tide of pink rise in her face, he said in a low voice, "Put the book aside."
Poppy's toes curled beneath the bed linens. "But I've reached a very interesting part," she said demurely, teasing him.
"Not half so interesting as what's about to happen to you." Drawing the covers back with a deliberate sweep that left her gasping, Harry lowered his body over hers... and the book dropped to the floor, forgotten.”
Source: Married by Morning
“Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine.”
Source: Making Money: (Discworld Novel 36)
“Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.”
“Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high?”
“Watching a make-out while wrapped in a blanket with a guy she wanted to make out with made her feel exposed. Obvious. Transparent. Like her thoughts were flashing before his eyes. Finally Brett managed to pull away without consent of Bekka's lips. The confusion created a sloppy bite-a-juicy-peach sound. Everyone cringed.”
“Watching a movie a couple of weeks ago. An American movie. I can't remember the name, but it wasn't even a sad movie. It caught me off guard. I was on an airplane.”
“Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story”
“Watching a movie should be like hunting. Out of context, every image of the cinema is yours for a split second. Take them before they bury it.”
Source: John Waters: change of life
“Watching a movie with an audience is so exciting. For me, coming from TV, you finish an episode and then it airs, and I'm at home. There's no gratification and there's no audience interaction with it.”
“Watching a parent die is a terrible task. My father, faced with something he could not talk down or browbeat into submission, spent his days with the bottle, as if he determined to drink himself to death, as if his alcohol could hold back the disease that swept through his brain.”
Source: Numbercaste
“Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.”
“Watching a really good movie excites me, because it makes we want to get up off the couch and go shoot something and act in a scene.”
“Watching a really good movie excites me, because it makes we want to get up off the couch and go shoot something and act in a scene. And music excites me because it puts me in a mind state, whatever that may be.”
“Watching a scene from a film in slow motion is possible, but there’s an unreal air to it; reading a passage from a book slowly does nothing to rob the words of their power. A film presents images; a book creates images inside the reader, with the reader’s active participation. Books are good for your brain.”
“Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring.”
“Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.”
“Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.”
“Watching Al Jazeera news is like reading the encyclopaedia. You get to know about all that matters.”
“Watching all you Rose brothers panting after your wives is making me itchy”
“Watching and listening up close, I saw nothing to suggest that if his brains were made of TNT they would generate enough explosive power to disarrange his hair.”
Source: The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
“Watching and waiting for the right moment is an essential component of a long-term strategy. … And sometimes a warning shot, a decisive show of strength, can circumvent the need for a battle at all.”
Source: An Anonymous Girl
“Watching Annie walk was better than a bowl of your favorite ice cream on a scorching-hot summer day.
"Are you staring at my ass, Wilder?"
"Yup."
She chuckled. "Okay, but I get my turn on the way back.”
Source: Truly Sweet
“Watching as the water moves along I am once again reminded of the endless passing of time, the cruelty of it, how curial and amazing is it that no moment can last forever, and thus we have to learn to live with our mortality,”
Source: Peruvian Nights
“Watching Benedick and Tristen trade glances made her feel even more like a child, and that was not okay.”
Source: Dust
“Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.”
“Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.”
“Watching Bo Jackson, seeing his size, his speed, a lot of his abilities, really drove me.”
“Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today. One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages.”
“Watching Carrie Fisher on what seems to be her last work, the British sitcom " Catastrophe" playing a crazy old mom makes me wonder how many talents are taken for granted just because they have aged. Just to quote her again, as if "they are disobedient kids" treated with so little respect and honor. In a culture that venerates the youth and degenerates everything that is somewhat "out of date" we can only wonder how the future will be. If the same ones that diminishes the old will themselves be older too. If they are lucky enough to reach a certain age and age well.”
Source: The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
“Watching children grow up, you learn a lot about life and about being a better person - you learn a lot about what's really important in the world and what isn't.”
“Watching Clay Guida fight is like watching a Tasmanian devil.”
“Watching corrupt corporate controlled governments willfully damaging the next generation makes me ashamed to be human.”
“Watching corrupt corporate governments destroy the global environment makes me ashamed to be human.”
“Watching dance isn't about picking up moves. It's about noting the relationships between motion and space and rhythm to absorb a greater concept”
Source: The Art of Falling
“Watching Dawson's creek 'til I fall asleep. It's harder than it seems.”
“Watching DBSK and Super Junior brought me up to be a singer.”
“Watching endless horizons is a refuge for bored souls. Just like a small piece of salt that has fallen into a large glass melts and becomes a part of the water, bored souls too melt in the endless horizons and transfer their sorrow to the eternity!”
“Watching every tick up and every tick down is just wasting your valuable time. Do yourself a favor, and pick up a book or two about investing each month.”
“Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.”
“Watching fish, like listening to music, can distract you in a good way.”
“Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it.”
Source: The answer is baseball: a book of questions that illuminate the great game
“Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.”
“Watching Fox, that's like watching the Cartoon Network. Fox is nuts.”