Top 100 Was What Quotes
#1. That was what I wanted: someone who knew me better than I knew myself, someone who knew all the worst parts of me, yet still loved me.
L.A. Fiore
#2. How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along?
Jodi Picoult
#3. I do remember seeing Audio Adrenaline and The Newsboys, basically Christian rock, because that was what I was allowed to see by my parents.
Matty Mullins
#4. I hold him close, and don't even question the love I feel for him. I can't. It's heavy and palpable. It's everything I have been missing and makes up for all the time I had been avoiding what was in me. What I was. What I am.
E.K. Blair
#5. When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
Maeve Binchy
#6. I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.
Keanu Reeves
#7. Her feet hurt. Her head hurt. And a man was bleeding in the passenger seat. This was what she got for dating.
Lisa Medley
#8. That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future.
Lawrence Hill
#9. The invariable question, asked only half-mockingly of reporters by editors at the Post (and then up the hierarchical line of editors) was 'What have you done for me today?' Yesterday was for the history books, not newspapers.
Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward
Carl Bernstein
#10. Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.
Felix Baumgartner
#11. What she had come to understand ... was that mourning was no crime. it wasn't her feeling all boo-hoo sorry for herself, or being disgustingly self - engrossed, it was what you had to do to go on.
Julia Gregson
#12. My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer.
Danny Aiello
#13. That was what he wanted, to be baked dry and hard, to feel the vaporous worries evaporating one by one, to know finally that all the damp little doubts and hesitations that covered the floor of his being were curling up and expiring in the great furnace-blast of the sun.
Paul Bowles
#14. Blood continued to color the air as the crew sliced through monster necks.
And they roared their glee.
They were Shiv Crew.
And that, right there--the fighting,the killing--that was what they fucking did.
Laken Cane
#15. They could not seem to grasp that what mattered was what you did. Not what you said or thought about.
Philipp Meyer
#16. Listening to them, I realized how much of who I was, what I was, had been defined by Baba and the marks he had left on people's lives. My whole life, I had been "Baba's son." Now he was gone. Baba couldn't show me the way anymore; I'd have to find it on my own. The thought of it terrified me.
Khaled Hosseini
#17. Esmerelda's blue and green eyes could have made Stevie remember being hired by Mister Snuffleupagus, if that was what she wanted.
Jim Butcher
#18. That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
Lynn Abbey
#19. Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.
Stephen King
#20. Reality was what went on inside people's heads. And in front of him were hundreds of people really believing what they were seeing ...
Terry Pratchett
#21. I knew what I had left behind. The question was: What was I going to find ahead?
Abigail Gibbs
#22. I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.
Don Johnson
#23. I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that while I was writing plays, which was what I wanted to do. My hope was to become a playwright.
Jason Katims
#24. The bigger the show, the better I'd play. It was what I was waiting for, and I'd never get nervous.
Johnny Ramone
#25. Simple questions
and simple answers
were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.
Alexander McCall Smith
#26. And it was funny, that they call it falling, because that was what it was. The ground giving up underneath you. The surge of air. He did not stand a chance.
Bill Cheng
#27. The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the new Lucy hadn't yet shown up.
Pam Houston
#28. But red
Was what you wrapped around you.
Blood red.
Ted Hughes
#29. This was what most people wanted: to be close to but not part of. They didn't want the fearful unknown of a 'pristine wilderness.' They didn't want a soulless artificial life, either.
Jeff VanderMeer
#30. Women helped each other in ways small and large every day, without thinking, and that was what kept them going even when the world came up with new and exciting ways to crush them.
Alyssa Cole
#31. Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.
Charles De Lint
#32. She was what we used to call a suicide blonde
dyed by her own hand.
Saul Bellow
#33. This was what men fought for, what men died for: a chance at life, and to fight on other days - the battle of your choice, of the body, or the heart, or the soul.
Janet Morris
#34. I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it.
Lucy Hale
#35. The glances musicians exchange, when music is effortless, that was what he wanted from Milly, that intimacy.
David Mitchell
#36. I shaved a lot off of a lot that I saw in that I like to be less is more and make everything count and not give anyone anything extra. I was what you see is what you got. It was organic. I came up with the persona. The persona is me, coupled together with a lot of my interests.
Bill Goldberg
#37. You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.
David Markson
#38. The notion that I might have been able to court friends, win attention, conjure it, would have spoiled it for me. Unbidden love was what I wanted.
Edmund White
#39. The way he looked all of her and saw all of her. Not the fairest. Not the princess. Just the girl she was. He knew her like no one else did, and she'd thought she'd knew everything about him, too. Who he was. What he'd do.
Sarah Cross
#40. That was what we call in the trade an Unscheduled Reality Excursion, usually abbreviated to 'Oh fuck.'
Charles Stross
#41. This was what she needed ... the quiet turning to the other in the middle of the night, the wordless meeting of lips, skin, breath. The trust, unfurling one pale petal at a time, that he would be there.
Eileen Wilks
#42. I had no right to move out of my books and music, which was what I did when I met you
E. M. Forster
#43. That hatred of the railroad was Winder's only original notion, and when he got mad that always came in some way. Everything else was what he'd heard somebody, or most everybody, say, only he always got angry enough to make it sound like a conviction.
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
#44. All my life I'd told myself studying and reading and writing and working like mad was what I wanted to do, and it actually seemed to be true, I did everything well enough and got all A's, and by the time I made it to college nobody could stop me.
Sylvia Plath
#45. What mattered at fifty-eight was what had mattered at eighteen: breeding and good bone structure.
P.D. James
#46. I've become good friends with Lena Dunham, and the thing I had in common with Lena when I was 24 is I was as ambitious as she was. What we don't have in common is that I was not as talented. My voice was not as clearly defined.
Mike Birbiglia
#47. That was what magic was: greed. Magic wielders didn't wield magic; it wielded them
Justine Larbalestier
#48. It was what she'd been doing in every aspect of her life lately, wanting to hole up in the backseat and not be asked to drive. Just hand over the keys to someone else.
Cara McKenna
#49. Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.
Meg Rosoff
#50. Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.
Paul Muldoon
#51. I thought that coming out was going to be the end of my religious life but actually it was the beginning. Because it only afterwards that I could be honest about who I was, what I wanted, how I understood spirituality.
Jay Michaelson
#52. So this was what having friends involved. Maybe I should just get a pet rock or something. A plant, maybe. Anything incapable of answering back. Once
Kylie Scott
#53. Hard. That was what he looked like. That was what you first noticed about him: a hard, chiselled face, like that that of some ancient Greek statue.
Robert Thier
#54. The black dress of the average witch was usually only theoretically black. In reality, it was often rather dusty, and quite possibly patched in the vicinity of the knees and somewhat ragged at the hem and, of course, very nearly worn through by frequent washings. It was what it was: working clothes.
Terry Pratchett
#55. The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.
Orson Scott Card
#57. Rhoda, my mother, was what the neighbors euphemistically termed "a difficult woman." Her misery was like Texas oil: You could drill anywhere and find some.
Karla Jay
#58. The only way you can handle big kinds of questions is to simply state briefly what the truth was. What am I going to tell you about the Holocaust? Would you like three pages about it? I don't think you would ... I don't think anything different than you think - it was horrible.
Alan Furst
#59. Somehow, that "faith" was what God valued, and it soon became clear that faith was the best way for humans to express a love for God.
Philip Yancey
#60. The rear door was black, the driver's side door was red, and the hood was sunshine-yellow. If Henry Ford and Picasso had gone out on a bender, that car was what the hangover would have looked like.
Kathleen O'Reilly
#61. The worst thing was what I had started wanting from her by the end, what I still wanted from her with inappropriate intensity: her tears and misery, her trembling surrender, and my selfish perversity unhinging her soul.
Annabel Joseph
#62. He had thought that home was something one possessed, but the things one had possessed were cursed with change; it was what one didn't possess that remained the same and welcomed him.
Graham Greene
#63. She had known deep down for as long as she could remember that something was wrong. What she didn't know, was what happened next.
Alice Darwin
#64. I guess this was what it felt like to love someone and feel like you had lost them. Even when you were still holding them in your arms.
Margaret Stohl
#65. I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish it back, splendid as it was. What I believe in is the old Homeric aristocracy, when the grandeur was inside a man, and he lived in a simple wooden house.
D.H. Lawrence
#66. Corny, yes, but there you go. Purity. That was what hit you when you get lost looking at your own child - a purity that could be derived only from true, unconditional love. He loved Ryan so damned much.
Harlan Coben
#67. You came into my life. You pulled me away from my pain. You molded me into a better person, but I think that was what I needed then ... not now.
K.A. Linde
#68. Buffalo rib-eye steaks, on the grill, is my favorite meal, seriously. It has less fat, more vitamins and more protein than beef. It is wonderful. Look, it was what the Indians ate, and they were very healthy. It's very good meat.
Terry Crews
#69. Amara would never let them go, even if there weren't a bond. That was what she vowed to herself right then. She'd fight for this, fight for them. They were worth it. And with the way they looked at her, she was just starting to figure out that she was worth it, as well.
Carrie Ann Ryan
#70. I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.
Jeff Bridges
#71. Mari was what was known as an underachiever, which even an underachiever knew was sociology code for "overfailer." She was famous in the Lore for the simple fact that one day she might be worth being famous. All hype-no substance. That was Mari.
Kresley Cole
#72. The aim, therefore, of patriots, was to set limits to the power which the ruler should be suffered to exercise over the community; and this limitation was what they meant by liberty.
John Stuart Mill
#73. I interrupted to make Uncle Jack let me know when he would pull it out, but he held up a bloody splinter in a pair of tweezers and said he yanked it while I was laughing, that was what was known as relativity.
Harper Lee
#74. Later he would ponder the relation between our extreme desire for something and our ability to realize it- was what we wanted inevitably brought about if we wanted it enough?
Alaa Al Aswany
#75. When I started out in independent films in the early '70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought.
Sissy Spacek
#76. For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness.
Jenny Offill
#77. The intense desire to talk with someone, sharp as any pain; this was what people meant when they talked about love. Or rather; this was what Sax would acknowledge to be love. Just the super-heightened desire to share thoughts. That alone.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#78. I started in Martial Arts with my father when I was 4 yrs old. I guess I started because my two older brothers and mom trained so it was what our whole family did for fun.
Duke Roufus
#79. She was who she was, no more, no less, and that was what made her so special.
Kate Danley
#80. I knew that I liked what I was doing, that it was what I wanted to do for a living, and that the profession didn't really exist so much. So I had to create it.?
Ronda Rousey
#81. We need to be adopted by God through Jesus - that was what happened to me, and that's what changed my life so that now, I can see that my career can be part of a calling.
Cliff Richard
#82. I think the best way I can put it," Tom summarized, "was what I was once told that a Confederate prisoner said to his Union captor. The Yank said: 'Why do you fight us so hard, Reb?', and his prisoner replied: 'Because you are here, Yank'.
C.G. Faulkner
#83. What you are, I once was. What I am, you will become.
Isaac Marion
#84. Tea. Of course. This was what the English always offered you. It
Chris Ewan
#85. Rookies always knew everything, which was what got them in trouble.
Evan Currie
#86. Charlotte Yates didn't especially care for music. All that abstract mooning about. Words, that was what moved people. A good play was worth a thousand symphonies.
Magnus Flyte
#87. Life is divided into three parts: what was, what is and what shall be. Of these three periods, the present is short, the future is doubtful and the past alone is certain.
Seneca.
#88. That was what collaboration meant for Steve Woz: the ability to share a donut and a brainwave with his laid-back, nonjudgmental, poorly dressed colleagues - who minded not a whit when he disappeared into his cubicle to get the real work done.
Susan Cain
#89. You were looking for somebody, and there was somebody,and you would convince yourself that this random person was what you were really looking for in the first place.
Alexander McCall Smith
#90. And that was what the Christians had been doing in their church, consecrating their wizards by making boys into black-clothed priests who would spread their filth further, and my son, my eldest son, was now a damned Christian priest and I hit him again.
Bernard Cornwell
#91. Beauty, extreme yet ambiguously available; this very roughly, was what Nicola's entrance to the Black Cross had said to Keith. But he didn't know the nature
he didn't know the brand
of the availability.
Martin Amis
#92. I'd trapped myself in a script ... But to be scripted at all is to be prepackaged, programmed, pinned to a page. Only the unwritten can truly live a life. So who I was, what I was, had to be unwritten.
David James Duncan
#93. It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.
Hugh Jackman
#94. This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.
Alice Hoffman
#95. like Poe, she was what was referred to as a "victory kid," one of the hundreds of millions - if not billions - of sentients who had been conceived in response to the Empire's fall.
Greg Rucka
#96. For me, that was love. Tangible. Love was what was in front of me, not a distant fantasy.
Laura Bickle
#97. There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
Henry James
#98. I was convinced before the game that we had a very good chance but today was what you would call in Germany a blackout.
Felix Magath
#99. When I was kid, yeah, my family, my parents wanted me to marry a Jewish girl because that was what they taught their children, and thought it would be an easier life for me to raise a Jewish kid. And I have a Jewish wife, I have a Jewish kid. They seem pretty happy about it.
Adam Sandler
#100. What attracted us to each other was what we saw in each other in our faith.
Missy Robertson
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