Top 100 Were Done Quotes
#1. Socrates was a philosopher. He went around pointing out errors in the way things were done. They fed him hemlock.
Gil Amelio
#2. The chief consideration for a good painter is to think out the whole of his picture, to have it in his head as a whole ... so that he may then execute it with warmth and as if the entire thing were done at the same time.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
#3. We trust things more when they look like they were done for the love of it rather than the sheer commercial value of it.
Robert Scoble
#4. She knew why the Colonel had hated talking about the old days. Because the moment you looked back, and began to make your tally, you were done for.
Philipp Meyer
#5. Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time the '70s and '80s rolled up.
Kathryn Stockett
#6. Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties ... maybe 61 or 62.
Marc Davis
#7. For my most of my career I've been a falling-down drunk. Most of my interviews were done hungover, and for a while it was great.
Moby
#8. By the time they were done Peter realized that something significant had occurred, an acknowledgment that once made, could not be unmade. The body they had buried might have been a viral, but the person they had buried was a man.
Justin Cronin
#9. For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning and now we have this 'Celebration' village. Same thing for the Disney Institute. Walt talked about this idea in the very first.
John Hench
#10. What if you could be young again and were able to undo the things that were done that made you into the person you would later become. But then who would you be.
Robert B. Parker
#11. We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#12. I knew that meant we were done and that we'd smooth over the surface I'd just tossed a rock into, but even the waves that crash down on the beach start out as tiny ripples, far out at sea.
They just gain strength over time.
Jessi Kirby
#13. We raise them for us; that means we owe them some respect. nature is creul but we dont have to be. i wouldnt want to have my guts ripped out by a lion. i'd much rather die in a slaughter house if it were done right.
Temple Grandin
#14. I used to get my hair dyed at a place called Big Hair. It cost $15. They just used straight bleach, so my hair was the color of white lined paper, and my eyebrows looked like they were done with a thick black marker.
Amy Poehler
#15. I'm your nightmare. Did you think you were done with nightmares, now you've become one?
Poppy Z. Brite
#16. Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Louis D. Brandeis
#17. The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.
Robert Henri
#18. I had a friend who got pregnant at age 14 and wasn't quite sure who the father was.
Her paternity test went a little something like this: "If it comes out black, its Darwin's and if it comes out white its Ray's."
This is how things were done in the trailer park.
Kate Madison
#19. All through that winter and into the spring, when our Tuesday and Thursday-night dinner shifts were done, Matt and I would sit at the long table near the salad bar and plan his end-of-the-year party, our voices echoing importantly in the cavernous wood-panelled dining hall.
Tom Perrotta
#20. Marriage is a long conversation, someone once said, and maybe so is a rock band's life. A few minutes later, both were done.
Kim Gordon
#21. Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!
Alan Parsons
#22. It's funny, in some of the interviews I've seen that were done for the film, some people say things like, 'Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.'
Jim Woodring
#23. Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.
Orlando Bloom
#24. David Duchovny is a dream; a dreamboat and a dream. He was so kind ... He held my hand after we were done shooting and told me I did great. He's so good at what he does.
Jillian Bach
#25. It lasted but a year of two, till all the routes were done. The pace so fast that most forgot that climbing could be fun.
John Sherman
#26. Faults
They came to tell your faults to me, They named them over one by one; I laughed aloud when they were done, I knew them all so well before,
Oh, they were blind, too blind to see Your faults had made me love you more.
Sara Teasdale
#27. When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers, all the literature, and loaded everything into a big white truck and left.
Sherman Austin
#28. Note that everything that happens, happens justly, and if you observe carefully, you will find it to be so, not only with respect to the continuity of the series of things, but with respect to what is just, as if it were done by one who assigns to each thing its value.
Marcus Aurelius
#29. Then all my servile works were done A righteousness to raise; Now, freely chosen in the Son, I freely choose his ways.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#30. Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
Robert Henri
#31. Explorations into chemistry were done in our basement, sometimes with friends, and my parents must have had quite a bit of confidence in my abilities when they allowed me to experiment with explosive mixtures.
Wolfgang Ketterle
#32. Why do you even want to be here with me? You can barely stand to look at me for the most part, let alone be around me. I'm doing you a favor here, Nathan. I'm freeing you of me."
"Wait ... Stay."
"No."
"I'm not asking."
"I thought we were done."
"We'll never be done.
Samantha Towle
#34. In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.
Richard Brautigan
#35. T.V. is the place to do the kind of films that were done in the 40s and 50s: the little guy against the system. There are so many opportunities in T.V. to do more character pieces. Everything is so hard-edged in features.
Cheryl Ladd
#36. After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR.
Simon Van Der Meer
#37. By the time we were done I was exhausted. I don't know how movie stars do the same scene over and over like that. It takes a lot out of you.
Michael Thomas Ford
#38. So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the record.
Miles Davis
#39. When they were done, Dionne took her panties in one hand and her new Bible in the other and let the breeze when it came touch her where Trevor had before. She felt wiser somehow, an looking at the church lit up above, thought that maybe this kin of pleasure could be her religion.
Naomi Jackson
#40. When the war ends, it will be found that there was an equal amount of 'thuggery' practiced on both sides, that terrible things were done to force the final victory.
Rufus Jones
#41. If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.
William Shakespeare
#42. They understood that the innate emotions of humans were mutable. Anger didn't have to lead to violence, hate to cruelty, fear to oppression. There was a space for change between what words were said and what deeds were done.
Ronlyn Domingue
#43. So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all.
Jello Biafra
#44. I felt I could become a performer who stood out, who challenged the way things were done and make it more creative and also encourage men and women to not be afraid of their sexuality.
Sasha Grey
#45. All bad things were done in the dark.
C.S. Pacat
#46. ... there was a pattern to how things were done, rules we followed. Not following meant not knowing what might happen.
Gin Phillips
#47. I often wondered why Sister Veronica needed to understand it, when it was simply the way things were done.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#48. There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues.
Ruth Brown
#49. I would give something to know for precisely whom the deeds were really done, of which it is publicly stated they were done 'for the Fatherland'.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#50. Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.
Keith Richards
#51. In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.
Peter Ustinov
#52. My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it is ugly, sick and hypocritical.
George Grosz
#53. I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.
Jose Saramago
#54. For the next month, I worked from 4 am to 9 pm. At the end of the month, when the calculations were done, I had earned 2800 rupees. I couldn't believe my eyes. I had never seen so much money in my entire life and now this was my earning for just one month. My hard work had paid off.
Shobha Bondre
#55. Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
Samuel Butler
#56. I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all.
Albert Finney
#57. Once, I had to clip a jacket back to take a picture, and after they were done I forgot to remove the clip until someone noticed.
Shay Mitchell
#58. You said you were done with long-distance relationships," he reminded Adrian.
"That was before I went and fell in love with you.
Annabeth Albert
#59. Liking can get in the way of lusting a lot of the times. Some of my best orgasms have come from men I wanted to beat into unconsciousness. You know, after they were done fucking me." "It
Tiffany Reisz
#60. Christ never was in a hurry. There was no rushing forward, no anticipating, no fretting over what might be. Each day's duties were done as each day brought them, and the rest was left with God.
Mary Slessor
#61. He'd leave, for the moment. However, she was delusional if she thought they were done. Lulu had caught the eye of the tiger, and no way was he letting her escape. Step
Eve Langlais
#62. The ship was old, patched and ramshackle, as if repairs were done on the hop with whatever materials could be scavenged.
J. Frances Crane
#63. For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
Rudyard Kipling
#64. Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.
Gillian Flynn
#65. He likewise directed, that every senator in the great council of a nation, after he had delivered his opinion, and argued in the defence of it, should be obliged to give his vote directly contrary; because if that were done, the result would infallibly terminate in the good of the public.
Jonathan Swift
#66. Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely, with flair and feeling.
John Travolta
#67. Those vibrations that we created have indeed fall upon us. Only those acts that were done in the ignorant (Self unawareness) state, that has given us reactions.
Dada Bhagwan
#68. All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
Robert Henri
#69. He was in a slow-motion mood-one of my favorites, though it meant i'd be driven crazy before we were done.
Tammara Webber
#70. Some things were done a certain way and they had been done that same way for ages. Most of the time it was a good thing, a reliable thing, and we grew up being able to count on life being very predictable and very dependable.
Arlene Stafford-Wilson
#71. Love and hate are both means of emotional control to which we subject ourselves. Once you were done with me, you'd want to be free of the pain of betrayal. Absolutely free.
Ilona Andrews
#72. Most of the collaborations of technology were done by teams ... Collaboration is key to creativity
Walter Isaacson
#73. Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.
Roy Lichtenstein
#74. Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didn't do them myself.
Antony Tudor
#75. Don't ever believe that kings were done with when the fathers of the country made a revolution.
B. Traven
#76. When we were done, her purple lipstick was all smeared and I felt like giving her a right hook to the temple. I resisted.
Nate Flexer
#77. But when they were done, I wondered if there would be a next time. I felt good. I wasn't dead, yet something was dead. Perhaps I'd managed my peculiar objective of partial suicide. I was lighter, airier than I'd been in years.
Susanna Kaysen
#78. There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
John Donne
#79. She rose too, not as if to meet him or to flee from him, but quietly, as though the worst of the task were done and she had only to wait; so quietly that, as he came close, her outstretched hands acted not as a check but as a guide to him.
Edith Wharton
#80. I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.
Peter Zumthor
#81. The '70s and '80s were just the period during which the best soul music was created and the best records were done.
Don Cornelius
#82. The hare grows old as she plays in the sun
And gazes around her with eyes of brightness;
Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done
She limps along in an aged whiteness ...
William Butler Yeats
#83. I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'
Randy Moss
#84. I had no illusions that now, in some final and dramatic flash of revelation, we would understand one another. We were done. It was a fact of my life
intractable and sad
that our relationship had been a failure. Still, with her prognosis came one last chance to be her daughter. [p. 163]
Dani Shapiro
#85. The ban on assault weapons has decreased gun violence in Baltimore not one iota. That's because few, if any, of the shootings were done with assault weapons.
Gregory Kane
#86. It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#87. Till the rest of his days were done, Abner Marsh remembered that moment, that first look into the eyes of Joshua York.
George R R Martin
#88. I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#89. Dorsey was out of her league. When a woman like Kay Waverley took you on over a man, you were done for. It was the scandal of the season and all of Monte Carlo agreed; poor little Dorsey wasn't handling it well.
Kathleen Tessaro
#90. She had spoken it; but she trembled when it was done, conscious that her words were listened to, and daring not even to try to observe their effect.
Jane Austen
#91. I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I've done, there is a bit of a black streak through all of it. It's not deliberate: it's what makes me laugh, and there's a fine tradition of it, especially in Ireland.
Sharon Horgan
#92. As much as I enjoyed yoga courses, it was hard to make time for them. Generally speaking, my work arrangements were flexible, so it was mostly a psychological problem: it was hard to convince myself it was acceptable to go twist my body into knots for two hours when there was work to be done.
Josh Kaufman
#93. I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.
Manu Bennett
#94. Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me.
Judy Dater
#95. I wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me.
David Levithan
#96. If the veil of the world's machinery were lifted off, how much we would find is done in answer to the prayers of God's children.
Robert E. Murray
#97. My last sort of crisis was about overcoming the people who were more interested in what I had done than what I was doing in the present.
Keith Olbermann
#98. The British invasion was the most important event of my life. I was in New Jersey and the night I saw the Beatles changed everything. I had seen Elvis before and he had done nothing for me, but these guys were in a band.
Steven Van Zandt
#99. Those three chords were part of my life - G, F, Bb - yeh, it is, it is, and I can't help noticing it. But there have been other things nearly as close to it which people haven't noticed, other things we have done.
Ray Davies
#100. At that time we were very definitely told that under no circumstances should there be any secret chapters or any other secrecy in the life of the Party, but that everything should be done publicly.
Fritz Sauckel
