Top 100 What Do You Do Quotes
#1. I know you miss me but what do you do about that?
Pushpa Rana
#2. Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.
Avi
#3. I probably could have handled things a hell of a lot better, but what do you do when someone shoves a grenade at you, pulls the pin and tells you to make the best of the situation? Fuck if I know.
Autumn Doughton
#4. What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.
Wilma Rudolph
#6. When someone asks me, 'What do you do?' under my breath I want to say, 'Ask my f
king bank account what I do,'
Kim Kardashian
#7. From Out of the Darkness (book 2):
Zoe met Eric's eyes. Even in her platforms she was still a few inches shorter than he was. "And what do you do?"
His mouth quirked. "I set people on fire.
Jaime Rush
#8. If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.
Carly Fiorina
#9. We believe what we see.' ... What do you do when you're in the dark?
Yann Martel
#10. Sometimes I ask lots of people the same question." His head hurt. "What do you do if you don't get the same answer?" "Think about it.
Anne Bishop
#11. I was working in Lexington when I recognized this actor, Michael Shannon, and I was like, 'What do you do?' He told me to get into a theater company, so I got into a theater company near my hometown. I was a carpenter there. And then I slowly got some work.
Boyd Holbrook
#12. What do you do with a textbook case when no one's written the textbook?
Neal Shusterman
#14. The Handsome Prince Handbook is mute on the subject of chronic workaholism - Prince Charming, apparently, knew how to delegate - and I didn't know where else to turn for help. What do you do when life begins to go wrong and you've used up all three wishes?
Nancy Atherton
#15. I'm a customer and I ask you where I can find Lethal Weapon. What do you do?" Me: "Call the cops?" Martin
T. Torrest
#16. What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.
Iggy Pop
#17. What do you do if youre in a room with Muammar Qaddafi, Saddam Hussein, and John Sununu, and you have a gun with only two bullets? Shoot Sununu twice.
Michael Dukakis
#18. O how terrible it must be for a young man
seated before a family and the family thinking
We never saw him before! He wants our Mary Lou!
After tea and homemade cookies they ask What do you do for a living
Gregory Corso
#19. What do you do with Sex Gods? Besides snog and worship them, I mean.
Louise Rennison
#21. It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust into motion by the idea of what do you do when your 13 year old daughter comes home pregnant. And not only is she pregnant, but she wants to keep the baby.
Todd Solondz
#22. You can talk to me, too."
"I do!"
"But you say so little."
"Women talk a great deal to one another. All this gossip and such. I am not a woman."
"What do you do when you have to command your men?" She inquired, exasperated. "Grunt?
Catherine Asaro
#23. So what do you do for sex? Just one-night stands? Or do you play a lot of five-on-one?
Clarissa
Tiffany Snow
#24. Everybody has 24 hours and the question is, what do you do with your 24 hours? That's what makes everybody equal.
Stedman Graham
#25. In a world that values the primacy of work, the most common question that we ask and get asked is, "What do you do?" I used to wince every time someone asked me this question. I felt like my choices were to reduce myself to an easily digestible sound bite or to confuse the hell out of people. Now
Brene Brown
#26. What do you do when you discover your adult life is a sham?
Nathan Hill
#27. Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie ... and I begin to believe that birthplaces are accidents, that everything is an accident. But if you believe that, where do you go? What do you do? What does anything matter?
Zadie Smith
#28. What do you do? I asked the man, to break the silence shooting up around me on all sides, thick as jungle grass
Sylvia Plath
#29. I had a one day slip, Matt. So what do you do? You get up and you go on, and you try not to do it again.
Liza Minnelli
#30. What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.
Joe Klein
#31. A high-school girl, seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up a conversation with him by asking: "What do you do for a living?" "I study astronomy," he replied. "Really? said the teenager, wide-eyed. "I finished astronomy last year."
James Keller
#32. What if your brother is dying and you can't stop it. What do you do?"
...
"You help him find something that makes him feel that he still wants to be alive. Only thing to do.
Alice Hoffman
#33. There he is, tall, tanned, Italian, sophisticated. So what do you do?"
I said, "Er, leap on him and snog him within an inch of his life? Taking care not to strangle myself on his false beard, or disturb his banana.
Louise Rennison
#34. We believe what we see.
So did Columbus. What do you do when you're in the dark?
Yann Martel
#35. What do you do if you're an executive who resigns? You declare yourself a consultant.
Mo Ibrahim
#36. What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?
Chuck Palahniuk
#37. What do you do with everything that is cut away? she asked Tilman, thinking now about the negative space of stone sculpture, the stone that is discarded, thinking too about how she had thrown away huge pieces of her own early life ...
Jane Urquhart
#38. What do you do when other countries' intelligence agencies give you information and you aren't entirely certain about its source? Simply ignore it? That's impossible. We have a duty to guarantee the safety of our citizens.
Angela Merkel
#39. What do you do to help us win when you're not scoring baskets?
John Calipari
#40. One of the rudest questions you might hear from an American is "What do you do for a living?" The only proper response is "Excuse me?" followed by a self-satisfied smirk and a stony silence. Then they assume that you are independently wealthy and grovel shamefully.
Dmitry Orlov
#41. I can't understand guys who just have to have your autograph. What do you do when you get home, take it out & look at it?
Artie Shaw
#42. What do you do?" I ask.
"I live."
"I live" is not an answer, until I think about it. Maybe it's the perfect answer.
Jewel E. Ann
#43. What do you do when you're visiting someone's house and their garden starts vanishing?
David Mitchell
#44. It's brain," I said; "pure brain! What do you do to get like that, Jeeves? I believe you must eat a lot of fish, or something. Do you eat a lot of fish, Jeeves?"
"No, sir."
"Oh, well, then, it's just a gift, I take it; and if you aren't born that way there's no use worrying.
P.G. Wodehouse
#45. If a tree falls in the forest and kills your ex-wife, what do you do with the lumber?
Neil S. Plakcy
#46. Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.
Steven Erikson
#47. There are three things that make people happy, the people they love, the things they do, and what they hope for, I think I know who you love and I know what you hope for but what do you do to make you happy
Dominique Thomas
#48. If Christmas is for families, what do you do when there are families scattered all over the country? I am pretty sure God wants to make sure I touch all the bases, even if I spend his actual birthday with Delta Airlines.
Gail Collins
#49. So what do you do? Really? (Kat)
Nothing. Really. It's boring as hell. Artemis won't allow me to bring anything here with me. No guitar. No Cartoon Network. Occasionally, I sneak a book in just to watch her wig out when she finds it. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#50. What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?
Donald Fagen
#51. What do you do with the kid who can't read? ... Well, what he did with the kid who couldn't read was to make her his mistress. What Farley did was to make her his punching bag. What the Cuban did was to make her his whore, or one among them
so Coleman believed more often than not.
Philip Roth
#52. So what do you do when you build yourself up - only to realise you built yourself with the wrong things?
Caitlin Moran
#53. Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?
Bernie Sanders
#54. What do you do when the one person you want comfort from the most is the one who caused your pain? How can I want so desperately for him to wrap me up in his arms but also want so much for him to leave me alone.
Amanda Grace
#55. So, what do you do, Ellie? he asked. Well, previously, I held a position on death row, but lately I've been a vampire's plaything. Soon I'll be sacrificed so the Soul Reaper and the Enemy of Old can make babies.
Kresley Cole
#56. My heart goes out to many women that I've met across the country who barely make enough to make a living, and they want to have kids. That's very understandable, but what do you do with the kids?
Eric Braeden
#57. Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?
Sharon Gless
#58. In interviews, the first question I get in America is always: 'What do you do to stay young?' I do nothing. I don't think aging is a problem. What irritates me a little is growing fatter. It irritates me that if I eat what I want to eat, it shows.
Isabella Rossellini
#59. I want you to carry this question home with you: gain such a victory, and what do you do with it?
Joseph S. Nye Jr.
#60. I don't believe this," Morelli yelled. "I don't fucking believe this. What do you do, sit in bed at night and think about ways to fuck up my life?
Janet Evanovich
#61. But the steep drop in violent crime presented police with a problem. If making arrests is the only way to advance in your career, but crime is dropping, what do you do? Furthermore, what to do if the only way to make a living wage is to rack up as much overtime as possible?
Matt Taibbi
#62. COMEDIAN: [ ... ] What is it you do for a living?
HECKLER: I mind my own business.
COMEDIAN: Self-employed, eh? No really, what do you do?
HECKLER: I try not to do.
J. Ross Clara
#63. And what do you do in times of crisis, Gin?" Grayson asked. I stared at him. "I survive.
Jennifer Estep
#64. All right," she said a little sarcastically. "I was going to assume you liked eating babies and sacrificing virgins, but I might as well ask, what do you do for fun?"
"I languish in sin," I replied in the same tone. "I take my babies rare, and my virgins over easy.
Nenia Campbell
#65. What do you do when God's logic doesn't line up with yours? When the will of God doesn't add up? When you think you know better or know more than God?
Mark Batterson
#66. And what do you do when you can't use anger to fall back on? You admit the truth.
Stephen King
#67. Tell me what do you do when you've done all you can and it seems like you can't make it through? Well you just stand, stand, stand, don't you dare give up. Through the storm, through the rain, through the hurt , stand through the pain, hold on, be strong, God will step in and it won't be long.
Donnie McClurkin
#68. I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
Eric Clapton
#69. -So how about you?, I said: what do you do, if you don't mind my asking;
-Not at all, he said: I'm into mitosis;
-Aren't we all, I said;-
Evan Dara
#70. When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?
Shel Silverstein
#71. When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
John Maynard Keynes
#72. What do you do if you're in the car and your girlfriend touches your crotch then asks you to remind her to get kitchen scissors?
Bob Saget
#73. What do you do when the thing you want most suddenly feels like it's beyond your
fingertips?
J.M. Darhower
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. What do you do when the dead return? It is the thing people most fear- yet, in some cases, most desire
Mitch Albom
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. It's funny about love', Sophia said. 'The more you love someone, the less he likes you back.'
'That's very true,' Grandmother observed. 'And so what do you do?'
'You go on loving,' said Sophia threateningly. 'You love harder and harder.
Tove Jansson
#83. It's nice to have boundaries, because as long as we have them, we can cross them a bit, and that's what perks interest. If you have full freedom, what do you do?
Pamela Anderson
#84. With technology today you can sing like a frog and sound good. And then when you come on stage, what do you do. Some of those artists never toured, probably just hype.
Angelique Kidjo
#85. 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
#86. Whenever I meet someone new, I always ask the same question ... 'So, what do you do?
Daniel H. Pink
#87. People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'
David Mamet
#88. You can be talented as a wolf is breathtakingly fierce ... silver and gray, like smoke in the trees - but what do you do with terrible beauty? ...
John Geddes
#89. I have architects write to me and ask me: How do you - and what do you do to - design the magic thing? I answer that very carefully. It's not necessarily about what you do, but the clients you do it for. You should write to Target, not me.
Michael Graves
#90. What do you do with all your money?"
"Me and the French hoard gold.
Dashiell Hammett
#91. If you're trying to diet, what do you do? You grab your two friends and say, 'We're going to the gym; let's do this together.' Money shouldn't be any different. If you're trying to make progress, if you're trying to save more, we really need to be able to get support.
Alexa Von Tobel
#92. What do you do when you despair, and there isn't an August Rain to drown your sorrow?
Sherry Thomas
#93. What do you do here that you could not do there?'
'I do no harm. I do no more harm.'
-Hamnet
Suzanne Collins
#94. What do you do with your best friend? You do nothing.
Blake Lively
#95. My favorite question that is asked only of women is, 'What do you do with yourself all day?' The only possible answer is, 'Make nuclear bombs in my bathroom. Just little ones, though.
Lois Gould
#96. One of the reasons why I went to the Yale School of Drama is because I felt that I was acting off of instinct, but sometimes that is not reliable. When you're not feeling it, what do you do? So, going to grad school was about getting the tools to just use my instrument to the best of my ability.
Lupita Nyong'o
#97. What do you do with children, all the time? In Washington, she'd had charge of the kids on weekends; preschools and the nanny had borne the brunt of the day-to-day child-care responsibilities. She'd wanted more time with the kids, then.
Chris Pavone
#98. I meet the answering machine's small, steady stare. "What do you do when God tells you no?" I ask. But it doesn't answer me, so I undress for bed
Skyler White
#99. What could I do? What do you do to make up for failing everyone in your life? How do you make it right? How do you apologize for hideous things you never intended to happen?
Jim Butcher
#100. Coca-Cola is the only business in the world where no matter which country or town or village you are in, if someone asks what do you do, and you say you work for Coca-Cola, you never have to answer the question, 'What is that?'
Muhtar Kent
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