All Quotes

W a gang member, and especially in a Latino gang, gets jumped in, and then he's given a name, and he has that name forever, but it's not so much the name as being called by name.
‐‐ Greg Boyle

W. E. B Dubois used the NAACP platform for two decades to discredit the character, reputation, and fund-raising efforts of capitalist and Tuskegee University founder, Booker T. Washington.
‐‐ Burgess Owens

'W.' is not necessarily a political film, but it was sort of a contrasting reality for me to get into George W. Bush as a character because of how I felt about his administration before I started making the film.
‐‐ Josh Brolin

W. P. Kinsella, who was born on a farm near Edmunton, Alberta, has earned wide recognition for his wild imagination and rash humor as a writer.
‐‐ Gerald Vizenor

W2K will be a bigger disaster than Y2K.
‐‐ Scott McNealy

Waco was supposed to be a way for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and the Clinton administration to prove the need for a ban on so-called assault weapons.
‐‐ Steve Stockman

Wage concessions are difficult to quantify, since their magnitude depends on many operating variables.
‐‐ Carol Loomis

Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers.
‐‐ James P. Hoffa

Wages, investments, and home values are the three legs of the economic stool for most Americans.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.
‐‐ Scott McClellan

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.
‐‐ Fredrik Bajer

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
‐‐ Gioachino Rossini

Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.
‐‐ Gioachino Rossini

Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

Wagner's philosophy had absolutely nothing to do with Bruckner. Bruckner hadn't written a single word against Jews. Wagner's book on the Jews was one of the most infamous books of the 19th century.
‐‐ Zubin Mehta

Wai Lin is the first Bond Girl who is on a par with Bond, someone who can match up with him mentally and physically. From the moment our characters see each other, there is a wariness and a recognition that this person is not who she or he seems to be.
‐‐ Michelle Yeoh

Wait a minute, guys, I have always been on your side. I have always spoken for you, always tried to put on a good face for the state of Indiana. All of a sudden, some of you people think I'm a bad guy?
‐‐ John Mellencamp

Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
‐‐ Adam Lambert

Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.
‐‐ Thomas a Kempis

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
‐‐ Barbara Walters

Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
‐‐ Randy Pausch

Wait until the baby is born before you start criticising it, I say!
‐‐ Roger Moore

Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
‐‐ T. S. Eliot

Waiter trainers claim that an investment in education pays off very quickly for restaurants.
‐‐ David Sax

Waiters are like actors waiting in the wings, bantering whenever we passed each other on the restaurant floor, shouting at each other backstage in the kitchen and winking and corpsing above the heads of our audience, the unsuspecting customers.
‐‐ Richard Eyre

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.
‐‐ Gian Carlo Menotti

'Waiting for Godot,' when it first came out in 1950, was a very different sort of play to the plays that were in the West End at that time in London, because most of those plays were what we call drawing-room comedies.
‐‐ Roger Rees

Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
‐‐ Ada Yonath

Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
‐‐ Matthew Arnold

Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.
‐‐ Andre Leon Talley

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.
‐‐ Henri Nouwen

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
‐‐ Paulo Coelho

Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.
‐‐ Mary Gordon

Waiting makes me restless. When I'm ready, I'm ready.
‐‐ Reba McEntire

Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything.
‐‐ David Chang

Waiting to be hired, as an actor, especially, is soul-destroying... There is always something you can do... Create something, a play reading... Anything. But don't rely on other people to come to you. Put yourself out there.
‐‐ Deirdre O'Kane

Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.
‐‐ Camryn Manheim

Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course, it paid dividends. Ill-tempered guards at the most notorious border crossings waved him through with cheery smiles. Haughty maitre d's fawned over him.
‐‐ Scott Anderson

Waitressing - by far the worst job ever created.
‐‐ Jennifer Esposito

Waka Flocka Flame, some of his lyrics are, like, common sentences. But just the way he is, and the way he delivers it, makes it this crazy metal hip-hop.
‐‐ Kreayshawn

Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize.
‐‐ John Stuart Blackie

Wake up, America. With a porous southern border, we have no idea who's in our country.
‐‐ Jeff Duncan

Wake up, Carolee, the plane is waiting for us, we have to get to the game.
‐‐ Al Davis

Waking from any fever dream, one retains, above all, impressions seared into memory.
‐‐ Joshua Oppenheimer

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow - that's vulnerability.
‐‐ Brene Brown

Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.
‐‐ Rodney King

Waking up with a bad head in the morning is difficult sometimes.
‐‐ Caroline Corr

Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
‐‐ Paris Hilton

Wal-Mart does not do big mergers, though it will buy much smaller competitors in so-called 'tuck-in acquisitions.'
‐‐ Alex Berenson