Top 100 And Then What Quotes
#1. People are hypocrites. If you ask them what they want to see on TV, they'll tell you they want better quality programming. And then what do they watch? 'Gilligan's Island.'
Johnny Carson
#2. Whether you're a cameraman or a director, you should ask yourself every now and then, 'What am I trying to do?' Be honest and keep things very simple.
James Wong Howe
#3. How many Christians live for appearances? Their life seems like a soap bubble. The soap bubble is beautiful, with all its colours! But it lasts only a second, and then what?
Pope Francis
#4. You and I both worry about what it means to put our personal libraries onto one gadget and then what would happen if we dropped it in the bathtub ...
Jason Merkoski
#5. Satan turned Eve's eye to the apple, Achan's eye to the wedge of gold, Ahab's eye to Naboth's vineyard, and then what work did he make with them!
Joseph Alleine
#6. The third thing that men do to get over a break-up. Drinking, not talking about your feelings, and then what?" I said, growing suspicious. "It's fighting, isn't it? You set this up.
Molly Harper
#7. Them till the very last moment, and then what did I do but protect the family from
Philippa Gregory
#8. In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'
Warren Buffett
#9. So now what? Kick down the door . . . and then what? Find an old lady in a weird white dress and demand she explain her whack-a-doodle rants? Maybe she had gone upstairs. Maybe Bat Lady was now getting ready for her loony day, changing out of her white dress, heading to the shower . . . Ugh.
Harlan Coben
#10. Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.
Arlen Specter
#11. Be careful how you talk about God. He's the only God we have. If you let him go he won't come back. He won't even look back over his shoulder. And then what will you do?
Harold Pinter
#12. It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.
Marcus Allen
#13. Each tim I think I am falling for Mister Right, and then what happens? BAM! The guy turns out to be a fraud, a swindling scoundrel, or a dishonest, disparaging jerk!
Kym Petrie
#14. One of my first thoughts I had when I started considering the mastectomy was, 'What am I going to look like?' And then, 'What will my husband think?'
Giuliana Rancic
#15. Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do
Linus Torvalds
#16. What would be the description of happines? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it, can be told.
Andre Gide
#17. And then what?" said her daemon sleepily. "Build what?"
"The Republic of Heaven," said Lyra.
Philip Pullman
#18. What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
Andre Gide
#19. And then what? Said, 'Oh, I'm so sorry, Ms. Lane, I didn't mean to wrinkle your lovely blouse. May I press that for you?' Or perhaps you gouged it with one of your pretty pink nails?
I was really beginning to wonder what his hang-up with pink was, but I didn't resent the sarcasm in his voice.
Karen Marie Moning
#20. You get the most 3D effect when it starts about three to four seconds, that's when it starts feeling 3D. And then what you do, quick shots are always flat.
Michael Bay
#21. I've watched you now a full half-hour; Self-poised upon that yellow flower And, little Butterfly! Indeed I know not if you sleep or feed. How motionless! - not frozen seas More motionless! and then What joy awaits you, when the breeze Hath found you out among the trees, And calls you forth again!
William Wordsworth
#22. You often feel like you are on a high wire with no net productions because you have to rely on spontaneity and come up with ideas on the spur of the moment - and then what happens is that there is electricity to it that gets caught.
Nicolas Cage
#23. No one can say he is himself, until first he knows that he is, and then what himself is. In fact, nobody is himself, and himself is nobody.
George MacDonald
#24. I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold.
Diane Arbus
#25. I've certainly had periods when I felt like life was winning and I was losing, so I think everybody can relate to that quandary - the temptation to give in, to give up, and then what It takes to keep going.
Malcolm Gets
#26. I caught the eye-candy of my life and then what?Unable to break the spell I'm all enchanted now!
Myself
#27. If I stopped dyeing my hair everyone would know that my golden hair is actually gray, and my long American youth would be over - and then what?
Marie Howe
#28. First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.
Marina Abramovic
#29. On Twitter, if you want to quote someone else, you say, 'RT, re-tweet, that person's name, and then what they said before.' And it's a way of essentially saying, 'I'm not saying this, but my friend said this and I thought this was interesting.'
Ethan Zuckerman
#30. Diligence, word-lust, empathy equal growing objectivity and then what? Story. Story. Dammit, story!
Stephen King
#31. I don't want a new man."
"I'll be dead someday," my mother said. "And then what? You'll wish you had someone."
"I have a hamster.
Janet Evanovich
#32. I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say 'Holden Caulfield' on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say 'Fuck you.' I'm positive, in fact.
J.D. Salinger
#33. It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be seen as parts of a single social process.
Raymond Williams
#34. You almost died tonight, he wanted to say. You dumb son of a bitch, you nearly died ... and then what would we have done?
And not "we" as in the Brotherhood.
Not even "we" as in he and John.
More like ... "me".
J.R. Ward
#35. My intent was to go to law school ... And then what I realised quickly is what I wanted was to be on L.A. Law.
Kevin Rahm
#36. I read somewhere that every life is the story of a single mistake, and then what happens after.
Andrew Gross
#37. I can see that you're down in the dumps, Unc. Shall we stop working and call Toni?"
"And then what?"
"I don't know. But if it so happens that I'm more of your type ... Would you like me to give you a blow job? That really does the trick when you're feeling depressed.
Juan Marse
#38. And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.
Bruce Nauman
#39. Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.
John Bunyan
#40. See, a marriage needs love. And God. And a little money. That's all. The rest you can deal with. It's not about black or white. It's about God and don't let anyone tell you different. All this Jungle fever! Shoot! The Jungle fever goes away, honey, and then what are you gonna do?
James McBride
#41. To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence, it would be to doubt everything; and then what is life for?
Jose Rizal
#42. I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world's energy problems, energy distribution problems. I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.
Bill Nye
#43. No buts, Bertie. If you don't keep your promise then you'll get into serious trouble. Big time. You could go to prison, and then what? And there's God too. God watches these things and if he sees you breaking promises he can really get you. He does it all the time.
Alexander McCall Smith
#44. The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple.
Charles Taze Russell
#45. And then what?" she says, pulling her hand from Grom's grasp. "Then Grom will mate with Mom and live happily ever after twenty thousand leagues under the sea?
Anna Banks
#46. Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#47. And then what's the whole point if you're harsh to those who love you and soft to those who don't care ...
Sanhita Baruah
#48. -and then what happened?- I asked him, but I had no desire to know. Whatever it was, it has to be ugly.
Michael F. Moore
#49. So," said Zia, "you're gonna eat your way through the whole universe, top to bottom. And then what?
Adam Christopher
#50. In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?"
Bill McKibben
#51. And then what?"
"I'll burn that bridge when I cross it.
Ilona Andrews
#52. Knowing what you want to do and then what you have to do to make it happen is one big difference between adult creativity and child's play.
Rob Bevan
#53. When it's me in my living room, it's pretty pure, and then what gets recorded involves more people, and it keeps escalating from there.
Liz Phair
#54. It taught that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries onto the paper, and then what it ultimately becomes.
Lauren DeStefano
#55. We shouldn't force ourselves to do something that really is just painful to us. If there is a discrepancy between what we are doing or putting our bodies through and then what our minds are telling us, you really have to look at yourself, and the most essential part of it is the pleasure aspect.
David Belle
#56. I was thinking about how fleeting and precious life is. Life is also arbitrary. For example, the choices that you make, the luck of being born into the right bed, to parents who support and help you and who love you. That doesn't always happen - and then, what happens when it doesn't?
Mary Ellen Mark
#57. I hate it when, by page 30, I know what the lead's going to do and then what the bad guy's gonna do. Mostly it's just scripts by the numbers where nothing's surprising, nothing's interesting.
Don Cheadle
#58. Sometimes I'll be channel surfing or something, and I'll see a glimpse of something, and I'll quickly turn the sound down, and then what I look at, that's an interesting movie. But it's not me who made it. It's whoever that guy I was 10 years ago who made it.
Andrew Niccol
#59. Action shouldn't just be seeing all those crashes. You can blow up a cathedral; next time you blow up the Great Wall of China, and then what? But when you're in love with your characters, the smallest action becomes an important action.
Michelle Yeoh
#60. You can go raise the money outside of the industry, and then what you're doing is fighting with your money to get back into the industry, or for them to use your money instead of their own. So, you got to figure out how to do it within the flow of the industry.
Ice Cube
#61. My fear was that I'd oversleep, and when Ranger broke into my apartment to wake me up, I'd drag him into bed with me. And then what would I tell Joe?
Janet Evanovich
#62. And then what do I do? Joyce asked, her voice suddenly pinched.
Anita Diamant
#63. Anybody can be a victim, and anybody can flog themselves. Big fucking deal. But you put one foot on a ladder and climb to the next rung. Then you've done something. Then you've made a difference. And then what happens matters. Otherwise, it's just old news, and nobody wants to hear about it.
Tami Hoag
#64. And then, what is grace? Grace is love. But grace is not love simply, and purely, and alone. Grace and love are, in their innermost essence, one and the same thing.
Alexander Whyte
#65. I think that I have done work where I feel like I've challenged myself, and then what's even more confusing is I've done work where I think I've challenged myself and no one's responded to it, and no one's interested in it.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#66. And then what did you do, Lord Oliver? Karl's eight-year-old daughter gazed up at him in awe, as though this were the best story she had ever heard.
Jessica Day George
#68. What are you going to do if you have all the money in the world and all the things that you wanted to achieve in your business and you have no one to share it with? You come home alone at the end of the day. And then what?
Heidi Klum
#69. There's no excuse to hit a woman ... Ever. Not even in a movie role, because you might really like it. And then what?
Terrence Howard
#70. And then - what? - you graduate from Alice to Frodo to Darth?
Douglas Richards
#71. 'Doctor Who' would be overnight fame that would last for three years, and then what? I'm in this for the long term.
Russell Tovey
#72. My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed by the books. I must have been what any author would consider an ideal reader. I felt every pain and pleasure suffered or enjoyed by all the characters. Oh, but I identified!
Eudora Welty
#73. There's nothing inherently or patently wrong with anybody who does well, works hard, earns a living, betters themselves. I'm not against any of these things. It's about how you make that money, and then what you do with it.
Michael Moore
#74. And then what would she say? I just told your brother that I love him, and I'm afraid that he hates me? I can't be alone with Turner because I'm afraid he might ravish me? I can't be alone with Turner because I'm afraid I might ravish him.
Julia Quinn
#76. You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.
Lupita Nyong'o
#77. In the area of field apps, Collector for ArcGIS is great, but where do you go? There's a navigator app. And then what do you do when you get there? There's a workforce app. So all of these apps work hand-in-hand to support field workers.
Jack Dangermond
#78. Acting is broad enough a church that you can pick your races, decide which way you want to go at different times.I think that the story and circumstance tends to dictate the most and then what you do with your own approach after that.
Ben Mendelsohn
#79. The movie industry places such importance on first-week numbers-which means what to people, I don't know. It's very strange. They hope to sell tons of records the first week, and then what?
Brendan Benson
#80. Saddam is neither friend nor brother to us, and he will never pay off debts to us. It's the question of precedent: today the United States doesn't like Iraq, tomorrow Syria, then Iran, North Korea and then what: everyone else?
Robin Cook
#81. (I)f you did not read when you were young, you might never catch the disease and then what would be the use of living?
James A. Michener
#82. The choice not to have sex, not to be hurt. The choice not to risk pregnancy. And then ... what if she had become pregnant? The choice not to abort? The choice not to have a child?
China Mieville
#83. Each of us is born into our own mysteries ... but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging!
Alexander McCall Smith
#84. Two eyes meet
two palms touch
caress each other
are taken and made his
sunk into one another
pleasurable love
Good love
like twins
as twins of love and pleasure
pleasure
pleasure
and then what?
Ivonne Yanez Saba
#85. What kind of judgment does one apply, then, to a work of art? I believe that there are four basic standards: (1) technical excellence, (2) validity, (3) intellectual content, the world view which comes through and (4) the integration of content and vehicle.
Francis A. Schaeffer
#86. I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles
champions every one.
Kurt Vonnegut
#87. I had Micah Richards as a player at 16 and he was a man then. What is he now? A bigger man, probably
Kevin Keegan
#88. That's what they do, psychopaths. They figure out your language, your currency, your needs, your dreams and fears. Then they figure out how to use those things to get what they want from you. Most
Lisa Unger
#89. It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.
C.E.M. Joad
#90. I'm not sure what kind of love you mean, baby, but if you mean do I want you to be with me forever, that I can't bear the thought of being without you as my lover, my best friend, my whole world....one day my wife, and my baby mama, then yes, I Love you, Love you!
S.E. Hall
#91. All things want to open. You must feel
that need, and use it ...
And then, suddenly, she understands, and,
somewhere in her heart, she lets it be what it wants to be ... and it opens.
Neil Gaiman
#92. Anything that is within someone else's reach is also within yours. Set your goals no matter how impossible they may seem. Then focus on what is between you and that goal. And then, simply take out the obstacles as they come.
Liz Murray
#93. The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist, Rocky, and then you have Rambo, the ultimate pessimist. You're going to always be remembered for them, no matter what you do.
Sylvester Stallone
#94. People joke, in our field, about Pythagoras and his religious cult based on perfect geometry and other abstract mathematical forms, but if we are going to have religion at all then a religion of mathematics seems ideal, because if God exists then what is He but a mathematician?
Matt Haig
#95. If 'why' was the first and last question, then 'because I was curious to see what would happen' was the first and last answer. A version of it had been spoken to God Himself in the Garden of Eden, and it was destined to be the reason for the end of things at the hands of man.
John Connolly
#96. If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it.
Janet Reno
#97. If I come across an issue, or something I feel strongly about, and I happen to think of a song that would go in that direction, then I do it. But that's not what I start out, necessarily, to do. Sometimes I may have an idea for a song - Well, I'm going to write about a thing.
Charlie Daniels
#98. All the above is, of course, a gross simplification. There are deeper reasons to travel - itches and tickles on the underbelly of the unconscious mind. We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we're doing there.
Jeff Greenwald
#99. What music I listen to day to day changes very, very much. I can go from bluegrass to heavy metal, to blues, to classical and big band and then go to pop and rap.
Casey James
#100. I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.
Simone Weil
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