Top 100 What Do Quotes
#2. What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.
Ryan Stiles
#3. So what do you think you're Elvis or something, whatever that don't impress me.
Shania Twain
#4. Motherhood was the beginning of my own journey asking the question, 'Why am I here?' I had to stop and think: What am I doing to teach my daughter? What do I believe in?
Madonna Ciccone
#5. If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it.
Henry Rollins
#6. What do you do when the thing you want most suddenly feels like it's beyond your
fingertips?
J.M. Darhower
#9. 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
#10. What do you do when you lose a loved one too quickly? When you have no time to prepare before, suddenly, that soul is gone?
Mitch Albom
#11. What do I do?"
There was nothing but love in him as he told me, "You suffer for me.
Alexis Hall
#12. Never forget, God is more interested in our holiness than He is in our happiness. The next time you feel the sting of God's correction, ask yourself the question, "Of what do I need to repent?" When you do, God will forgive. That is the way He is.
Todd Friel
#13. What do you do when the dead return? It is the thing people most fear- yet, in some cases, most desire
Mitch Albom
#14. What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
Samuel Beckett
#15. What do you want to know?
Usual stuff. Serious relationships, age, whether you eat babies. :-D
I'm 30. I think babies are tasty, but empty calories, and I've had one long-term serious relationship ...
Arden Aoide
#16. I call it a threat." He checked to ensure the door was locked before making himself comfortable on the chair. "Hey, it's Friday night, let's go out." "Your sneakers are filthy." I scowled, spotting muddy tracks on the floorboards. "What do you expect, your backyard is mucky.
Cathrina Constantine
#17. What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.
William E. Rothschild
#18. You said "Is THIS the behaviour of a leader of men?" What do you mean? Are you asking me if leaders have consensual sex with their long-term monogamous partners? Yes. They do. Are you asking, are leaders ever betrayed? Yes. All the time.
Robin York
#19. What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?
Grover Cleveland
#20. To describe yourself as an entrepreneur or a disrupter is as meaningless as describing yourself as an athlete or a thinker. Really? What sports do you play? What do you think about?
Eric Weiner
#21. We were alone in a strange mansion with a baboon, a crocodile, and a weird cat. And apparently, the entire world was in danger.
I looked at Sadie. What do we do now?
Rick Riordan
#23. Your harem. They exist to serve you. They give you sons." She spat the word out. "What do you do for them?"
They are - It is different. It is like the man who carries my stool. I neither like nor dislike him. He is there to serve a purpose.
Kiersten White
#24. She's 80 my nan, what do you want for your birthday? "SHREDDER!! GET ME A SHREDDER!!", what do you want a shredder for? "IDENTITY THEFT!!".
Russell Howard
#25. Odin, not unlike Charlie Brown, sighed, "Good grief," then added, "Why are we going to let this, this, coward on our trip? What do you see in him that could make you want him to come along?
Dylan Callens
#26. What do you think your valuation is right now? Mark asked as they both sat uncomfortably across from and below him, peering up at a boy who could, hypothetically speaking, quite happily buy them or murder them, all with the same exact expression on his face.
Nick Bilton
#27. That may be. But to decide that I was never going to live as a proper woman was not your choice to make.' 'What do you mean a proper woman?' 'A proper woman marries - she has children -' 'Then what does that make me? Am I not a proper woman? Last time I looked I certainly was.
Jessie Burton
#28. What do we plant when we plant the tree? We plant the ship that will cross the sea, we plant the mast to carry the sails, we plant the planks to withstand the gales
the keel, the keelson, and beam and knee
we plant the ship when we plant the tree.
Henry Abbey
#29. People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'
Jean-Luc Godard
#30. What do we have to live for, but each other. What do we have to die for, but our love?
Don DeLillo
#31. I always try to see things with children's eyes. Are they happy? Sad? What do they need? Everywhere I went, I realized that children are society's victims ... We have a duty to speak to political leaders, to influence people to give these children a better future.
Nana Mouskouri
#32. What do I care about the universe? It's people who will miss me when I'm gone.
Marty Rubin
#33. I was looking for an opportunity to make my first feature, so I asked myself: "What do you want to do? Is there something you can give to the world?"
Warwick Thornton
#34. Swallowing, he peered down at Noelle, floored by the sheer calm reflecting back at him. "You okay, babe?"
She rolled her eyes. "Of course. What do you think I am, a pansy-ass damsel who weeps at the first sign of trouble?
Elle Kennedy
#35. What do you mean Taurus? he frowns. I'm not a Taurus.
You were born on the cusp, I remind him. Jason merely shrugs.
Shows what you know, Scotty, I was born in Ohio.
I can take him anywhere but out.
Steve Kluger
#36. What do you think the most gruelin' thing about evolution is?" "I don't know. Tell me," I said. "It's being unable to pick and choose. Nobody chooses to evolve. It's like floods and avalanches and earthquakes. You never know what's happening until they hit, then it's too late." I
Haruki Murakami
#37. If somebody had said to me in June or July of 1987, 'We'd like you to become chairman of the Federal Reserve, but you're never allowed to discuss any economics after you leave,' I'd have said, 'Forget it.' What do they want me to do? Become an anthropologist?'
Alan Greenspan
#38. Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?
J.G. Ballard
#39. What do people in prison say when they meet new friends? Give me your cell number.
Dana Gould
#40. -"What do you think people want, if it's not greatness and to be remembered for all time?"
-"Mostly? I believe people want to eat a good lunch, and then take a good piss.
Barbara Kingsolver
#41. You're bisexual."
Travis grimaced. "No, I'm not. I'm straight. I just am attracted to guys sometimes."
She laughed, actually laughed, albeit bitterly. "Well, what do you think bisexual is, stupid?
Brandon Witt
#42. Look at all the countries that are based on a religious ideology; look at their people and the generations born into it: What do they have to offer human civilization?
Raif Badawi
#43. But what do I do with them?" Miss Smith said "I've never been around children." "Feed them, bathe them, make sure they get plenty of sleep," the doctor said. "They're no more diffi cult than puppies, really." He grinned
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
#44. What, what? What do you need, son?" Alexander kept saying.
Anthony's only arm was around his father's shoulder. "A fucking cigarette.
Paullina Simons
#45. ... Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently?
What do you mean, odd?'
Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.
Jasper Fforde
#46. My wife and I have mellowed out as we've gone along. With the first baby, when she cried, we'd think, Oh my God, what do we do now? But with Finley, our fourth - he's the easiest baby ever, and I think that has a lot to do with the fact that we're much more relaxed these days.
Chris O'Donnell
#47. The significant mistake of the traditionalists is they require the people to start where the church is instead of the church starting where the people are. Innovators begin by asking, 'What do we need to do to reach the people where they are?'
Leith Anderson
#48. It was told in the Bible. A man fell. He bit into knowledge and fell ... How do you fall without falling completely? What do you bring as knowledge to a blank canvas? How do you begin?
Milton Resnick
#50. Look out my window, what do I see?
A crack in the sky and a hand reaching down to me.
All the nightmares came today
And it looks as though they're here to stay.
David Bowie
#51. With my misery accomplished, Sydney turned her attention to Rebekah. "So, what do you want be when you grow up?" she asked in a cheery voice. "Not a bitch like you," Rebekah said, making that smacking noise with her lips. Had I ever not liked that sound? Now it was the sweetest thing I'd ever heard.
Alicia Thompson
#52. Poor land, poor land, what do you mean
to the heart that moves in me?
Poor love, poor love, poor wife of mine,
why do you weep so bitterly?
(from Retribution book 2, I)
Alexander Blok
#53. Most people hate cell phone use on trains; I love cell phone use on trains. What do you want to do, read that report on your lap, or hear about your neighbour's worst date ever?
Liza Mundy
#54. What do you think it is that drives people to want far more than they could ever use or need? I frankly think it's insecurity. How do we let the world know that the trappings of this life are not the things that are ultimately important for being accepted?
Fred Rogers
#55. Correct morality can only be derived from what man is - not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.
Robert A. Heinlein
#57. Sometimes at night I conduct interviews with myself.
What do you want?
I don't know.
What do you want?
I don't know.
What seems to be the problem?
Just leave me alone.
Jenny Offill
#58. So, what do they pay you for ... exactly?"
Slapped around. Tied up. Beaten. Given orders, made to do things."
"What kind of things?"
"You know."
No, I can't even begin to imagine."
"Lick my boots, crawl on floor, eat like dog."
"Nothing useful, then, like hoovering?
Kate Atkinson
#59. What do you do for fun in this town?
Well, you know. Wash dishes. Wipe up baby drool, put a new quart of oil in him once in a while. Watch the Weather Channel to see if any of the neighbors have been blown away by a tornado. Eat too much cheese and get cheese farts.
Keeps you busy, huh?
Nick Wilgus
#60. He tossed her over his shoulder and stalked back to the bedroom.
"What do you think you're doing?"
"I've had enough babysitting duty. It's time for some grownup action.
Terry Spear
#61. I have a 41-year track record of investing excellence ... what do you have?
Bill Gross
#62. What do you want me to do? he whispers into the empty air.
It's hard to know.
Oh Jimmy, you were so funny.
Don't let me down.
From habit he lifts his watch; it shows him its blank face.
Zero hour, Snowman thinks. Time to go.
Margaret Atwood
#63. This is really a pretty good system you have here. What do you call it? "Due process". We're very proud of it.
Alex Kozinski
#64. Are we to say that any individual who's on steroids that has an angry moment is due to steroids? What about the individual who gets angry and kills someone who's not on steroids? What do we blame it on now?
Jose Canseco
#65. What do you say when you're not enough to make someone stay?
Katie Kacvinsky
#66. On November 5 he landed at Torbay, on the coast of Devon. Reminded that it was the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, he remarked to Burnet, What do you think of Predestination now?
Winston S. Churchill
#67. Who's that? That's the King. Who's he? The Duke. Who's she? The Princess. What do they call you? The Count. What does that make me? Umm ... how about the Peasant? And the name stuck.
Jordan Sonnenblick
#68. So what do we need to do? (Kat)
One: Don't die. Two: Don't get bitten. (Sin)
And? (Kat)
Kick their ass. (Sin)
Good plan. Little vague on the details. (Kat)
Isn't it, though? (Sin)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#69. I smiled and ran my hand through his dark curls. So,
Death, what do we do now?
Abbi Glines
#70. 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
#71. It's unnecessary and destructive to think of oneself at all. People ask me, 'What do you think of yourself as?' My answer is, 'Nothing.
Paul Bowles
#72. Abomination . . ." The word escaped him in a slow breath. "And more besides," I agreed. "Now forgive me." Father Gomst found his wits at last, but still he held back. "What do you want with me, Lucifer?" A fair question. "I want to win," I said. He
Mark Lawrence
#74. And what do they even call this? It's not a threesome, or a love triangle. It's a two-and-a-half-some, an affection dihedron.
N.K. Jemisin
#75. Feel that? I don't walk around with a lead pipe in my jeans, so what do you think that tells you about how much I want you. (Simon Brant)
Lucy Monroe
#76. We become what we think about all day long. The qustion is, "What do you think about?"
Wayne Dyer
#77. We owe the government taxes. We owe our creditors interest. What do these powers owe us?
Anna Deavere Smith
#78. Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, what do I want to do everyday for the rest of my life ... do that.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#80. He put his arms around her. "Well, in my defense, then, whatever I did seemed to work, didn't it?"
She sighed. "I suppose."
"You suppose?"
"What do you want? A medal?"
"For starters. A trophy would be nice, too."
She smiled. "What do you think you're holding right now?
Nicholas Sparks
#82. Pickaxes?" Alex screwed up his brow. "What do you plan to do with those in Bristol, Pooele? Beat upon little old ladies?
Katharine Ashe
#83. Every day I practice yoga, read poetry, and translate. What do I need politics for?
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#84. When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.
Nicole Richie
#85. Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down.
Scott Baio
#86. It's a strange thing that we're actors, and we're always playing a character, and then suddenly we're at a place like Cannes, and we're getting photographed as ourselves, and you're like, 'What do you do?'
Rachel Brosnahan
#87. What do you believe about who you are? About your capabilities? When was the last time you trusted yourself enough to test them?
Gina Greenlee
#89. [Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?]
We won't know for a few years.
Stephen Hawking
#90. If you weren't scared,
you wouldn't be human,
you wouldn't be brave."
"What do you mean?" I ask.
"If you were fearless,
you wouldn't
need to overcome it.
Bravery means being scared
and going forward
anyway," Fia says.
"That's courage.
Leza Lowitz
#91. What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?
Peter Abrahams
#92. Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves.
Herbert Simon
#93. People might ask me, What do you propose instead? I propose nothing. I am a mere novelist, I just write about the world as I see it. It is not my job to transform it. I cannot transform it all by myself, and I wouldn't even know how to. I limit myself to saying what I believe the world to be.
Jose Saramago
#94. It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'
Macklemore
#95. Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.
Richard Stallman
#96. When we take a picture, we have a negative. We put the right solution on it and, suddenly, the picture comes to life. So what do we do? We take the negative and turn it into a positive.
Madonna Ciccone
#97. My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?
Hilary Swank
#98. Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?
Stephen King
#99. Having an opportunity to play different characters, and work in different mediums, that's what's fun. The worst question you could be asked is, "What do you like better, film, television or theater?"
Corey Stoll
#100. I know what those fuckers were capable of, and I would never wish that on you"
Her throat worked on a swallow. "What do you wish on me?"
"Me," he said with brutal honesty. "Fool that I am, I wish me on you. Like, on you.
Larissa Ione
