Top 100 What You Quotes
#1. Psychology, the talking cure, linguistics, and semantics - they're all like dogs poking around and sniffing their own vomit. There might be some gems in there, you never know. For certain you will at the very least know what you had for lunch. And you can ascertain what not to eat again.
David Byrne
#2. Before I came out, I had a lot of anger. For years people would ask, 'How are you doing?' and I'd say, 'Good, fine.' It's show business, and that's what you have to show.
Ricky Martin
#3. You have no idea what you're saying." "I know," Shallan said. "I'm ignorant. There's a simple cure for that." She
Brandon Sanderson
#4. What you feel is making sense could really be dramatized nonsense. So think again.
Debasish Mridha
#5. Oh my God, I love UCLA so much. Their film school is great because it's unstructured, so there's a freedom to fail in there and just tell your story, and everybody makes a film. It's so important to have that freedom in film school because that's what you're there for: to learn and make a film.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
#6. It's all inside of you - what you want, who you are, and who you want to be. Just give it time." He pulls away and helps me to my feet. "Nobody makes you, you. You make yourself.
Patricia Vanasse
#7. Training a horse is above all feeling and trying, according to what you feel, to help the horse and not to force him.
Nuno Oliveira
#8. Ted Sorrenson, JFK's presidential speech writer, when asked how it came about that he wrote the "ask not what you can do ... " speech, he would answer 'ask not.'
Peggy Noonan
#9. It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
Will Rogers
#10. I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.
Joyce Brothers
#11. You have to believe in what you are saying. Maybe they will like it or not but they cannot contest that what you are saying is true.
Jean-Christophe Maillot
#12. So how can you lose what you've never owned?
Lew Brown
#13. It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much.
Conor Oberst
#14. What you hold in your consciousness tends to manifest - the inner game runs the outer game.
William A. Adams
#15. Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself
Alice Walker
#16. Learn to trust what you cannot see far more than what you can see.
Caroline Myss
#17. If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make.
Drew Endy
#18. The focus in the Creator Orientation is on a Vision or an Outcome. You orient your thoughts and actions toward creating what you most deeply want to see or experience in life.
David Emerald Womeldorff
#19. When you hear what you have heard before, you remember what you have heard before!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#20. When you ask for patience, what you get is a line at the bank. In other words, life gives you the people, places, and situations that are going to allow you to once and for all develop what it is you need.
Tracy McMillan
#21. If asking for a sign is asking for too much, how else are you supposed to truly believe on your own? The only other way is to believe what you are told, and that hasn't worked for her.
Chris Dietzel
#22. I didn't think any amount of money was worth something that would take away what you believed in or what you stood for. I didn't want to do something my parents and daughter couldn't be proud of.
Tippi Hedren
#23. Dig down into the blood depths of hormonal bedrock, where violence and sex and power grow fibrously entwined. It's a murky, complicated place down there. No telling what you'll drag up once you start excavating.
Richard K. Morgan
#24. If you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you're asking actors to do. Learning other skills will help you communicate with people and respect what they do.
Tina Fey
#25. Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#26. I think no matter what you look like, the key is to first of all be happy with yourself. And then you know if you want to try to improve things that you don't like about yourself, then do it after your appreciate yourself.
Adele
#27. You only set out to prove what you have already decided to believe.
Stephen Batchelor
#28. And what I like best in you is this particular enthusiasm, which is not at all practical or sensible, which is downright Quixotic. You are not altogether what you seem, and you have your reservations. Living among the wolves, you have not become one.
Willa Cather
#29. I can't help what I have any more than you can help what you don't
Neal Shusterman
#30. Billings pulled a roll from a compartment in his cargo pants leg. We gawked at him in disbelief. He shrugged. What? You never know when you're going to need duct tape.
Shelly Crane
#31. People treat you according to your energy or what you put out there, so what I put out there is very open. I'm not paranoid or scared, I'm open. That's how I treat people, with respect and speak truthfully.
Ziggy Marley
#32. Here is what you do. You ease yourself into a tub of water, you ease yourself down. You lie back and wait for the ripples to smooth away. Then you take a deep breath, and slide your head under, and listen for the playfulness of your heart.
Amy Hempel
#33. Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life."
Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.
Donald Miller
#34. You can't just stick with one thing. You have to let your natural style come through, and paint what you naturally like to paint.
Mark Gonzales
#35. Never mind what you've heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the 74th white one. And never mind all this talk about America electing its first black President; Barack Obama is actually the 44th white man to hold the job.
Jeffrey Kluger
#36. It's about the courage to go for what you want, not just what you think you need. Sometimes we don't even know what that is.
Sarah Dessen
#37. Considering I know what you look like naked and what you sound like when you come and what you taste like, I actually know very little about you.
Amy Andrews
#38. It is when I am cold, alone, bitterly forlorn and shuttered from all hope that you will see who I truly am. And my goal is that at those most precarious of moments, what you will see is Jesus holding you through my tears.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#39. 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
#40. When I make decisions based on other circumstances, things don't necessarily go so well. So sometimes, even if something seems commercially tempting, I've learned that if it's not what's in your heart, it's probably not what you should do.
Renny Harlin
#41. No matter what you're trying to do there will be noise in the market ... Before the race starts, I'm already focused on the victory.
Sanya Richards-Ross
#42. What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.
William Bennett
#43. Once upon a time the fairy tales begin. But then they end and often you don't know really what has happened, what was meant to happen, you only know what you've been told, what the words suggest.
Joyce Carol Oates
#44. The other animals." When she didn't reply, he sighed, frustration on his face. "They have - what you say - hop, hop. And they have the-" He put his hand behind his head and made a 'V' then wiggled his fingers.
"Ah! You mean hares.
Karen Hawkins
#45. I believe that if you do what you love, things tend to fall in place.
Sarah Camp
#46. You'll know you're doing something right if you feel you don't know what you're doing... if you know what you are doing, you are doing it right- but you might just repeating yourself...
Natasha Tsakos
#47. How are you practicing what you preach - whatever you preach, and who is exactly listening?
Audre Lorde
#48. If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life.
Donald Miller
#49. It's unfortunate that a certain type of stripped-down classicism became the in-house architectural language for 20th-century fascism. Can an architectural language recover from such an association? Yes, I think it can, because in the end what you're talking about is a column and beam.
David Chipperfield
#50. Don't ever wait around for your life. Go get what you want. Because believe me, no one's going to give it to you.
Jill Shalvis
#51. The important thing, once you have enough to eat and a nice house, is what you can do for others, what you can contribute to the enterprise as a whole.
Donald Knuth
#52. Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest.
Errol Morris
#53. We hiked the Matterhorn and I stopped every minute to take pictures until he fumed: "Do you think all this beauty and grandeur can fit in a little square of film? Record things in your heart. It's more important than trying to show people what you're experiencing." My
Paulo Coelho
#54. You don't get what you wish for; you get what you work for.
Daniel Milstein
#55. After all, there is nothing like a mother telling you that you're making a bad decision to convince you that what you are doing is the absolute best course of action.
Emily Giffin
#56. Worried moon
I'm afraid of what's to come
Worried moon
Yeah, tell me what you know
Worried moon
You see further down the road
Worried moon
Chris Cornell
#57. Sorry girls, not every man is running after what you think.
Eyden I.
#58. A letter ... changes utterly the moment it slips inside an envelope. It stops being mine. It becomes yours. What I mean is gone. What you understand is all that remains.
Cathleen Schine
#59. If you only write what you know, you'll never know anything else. If you only write what you see you'll never see anything else. In order to experience new things you must always step outside of your comfort zone, or your live you life never knowing anything new
Adam Snowflake
#60. Make linking to the rest an essential part of what you do best.
Jeff Jarvis
#61. You make a pact with life and death: so many years as a king, and then...Say what you will, dirty money spends as green as clean.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#62. I've had a lot of crappy jobs, but one of my favorites was working as a commercial fisherman in Alaska. What I loved about it was, you got paid for what you caught.
Jon Krakauer
#63. And I know you're frightened By my laughter But you're not afraid To hold my pain You see I'm never sure Just what you're after, Babe But it seems you only love me When it rains. How come you only love me when it rains?
Harry Chapin
#64. Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.
Bob Wells
#65. Magic's never what you expect it to be, but it's often what you need.
Charles De Lint
#66. What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
Thomas Carlyle
#67. Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
Mercedes Lackey
#68. It's been so hard!" she whispered. "I don't know what our destiny is!"
Cloudstar bent his head toward her. "Your destiny is what you make it, Leafstar.
Erin Hunter
#69. Don't be embarrassed of who you are, they're gonna judge you no matter what you do.
Melina Kanakaredes
#70. You can push someone's button over and over again to get what you want, but there comes a point when your finger slips and you finally hit the whrong one.
Alexandra Bracken
#71. I do think there is a strange idea that the media has that if you tell the public what you think, they can no longer think for themselves.
Ryan Grim
#72. Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.
Tom Petty
#73. In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being.
Steven Berkoff
#74. What you want to be defines what you become.
Ron Kaufman
#75. I never for one minute questioned what I had to do. I did not think for one minute that I didn't have what I had. If just didn't dawn on me. And so if you know what you have, then you know that there's nobody on earth that can affect you.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#76. I think that part of the difficulty of being a celebrity is that you may have to hide what you're feeling and you aren't totally allowed to be yourself, because you're in the public eye.
Deborah Ann Woll
#77. You can't hide what you are. We can pretend a lot, but our inside is reflected through some aspect of our character, and that inside is either good or bad.
Waheed Ibne Musa
#78. I tend to begin with what you might call the very small world of personal life. But I am certainly interested in how that small, intimate world connects or doesn't connect with a larger world.
Graham Swift
#79. If a young person experiences same-sex attraction, nothing you can say will change that experience. However, what you say can impact whether or not that student feels safe with you and whether or not they will be willing to share their story with you.
Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter
#80. If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.
Ray Conniff
#82. Me: What will I do?
MK: What you always do--only in Switzerland.
Nina Stibbe
#83. I think it's a great honor to win an Oscar but I think if you aim to be rewarded in your life you'll get nowhere. I think that the biggest reward is the work itself and what you get out of it and the connections you make with other people.
Natalie Portman
#84. You could split hairs and bring up words like 'doo-wop' and terms like 'soul' or 'R&B', but I think pop music is what you want it to be - that's why it's pop.
Henry Rollins
#85. Wherever you go, madam, it will matter little what you carry. You will always carry your goodness.
Henry James
#86. There's not much point to being alive if you don't do what you can to make life better for someone else, is there?
Michael Thomas Ford
#87. To love others you must love yourself ... You can only give to others what you have yourself.
Leo Buscaglia
#88. Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus
#89. The Official was bending over his desk, staring at the sergeant.
"May I ask you a question?"
"Yes."
"Have you ever thought you were Christ?"
"I can't say that I have. But I have considered that God was good to me to let me find what I was looking for, if that's what you mean.
Ray Bradbury
#90. Decide what your currency is and let go of what you don't have.
Amy Poehler
#91. Nothing outside you can ever give you what you're looking for.
Byron Katie
#92. What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
Michel De Montaigne
#93. You know, if you're a human and living on the planet, it doesn't matter what you do; you are not immune to the challenges, the trials, the difficulty. And that fact that I happen to be a coach and a minister and a spiritual teacher doesn't mean anything. I'm still human.
Iyanla Vanzant
#94. If you have spent your life building Ineos, and you find yourself in a crisis, you are going to do anything you can to save what you have been building.
Jim Ratcliffe
#95. Whatever you eye falls on - for it will fall on what you love - will lead you to the questions of your life, the questions that are incumbent upon you to answer, because that is how the mind works in concert with the eye. The things of this world draw us where we need to go.
Mary Rose O'Reilley
#96. When you only do what is expected of you, you never learn what you would've done had you chosen for yourself.
Susan Meissner
#97. When you buy into any version of fear, it can become your experience because your molecules are intelligent and your energy responds to the predominant feeling in your being. The focus of your mind is exactly what gives the orders to create what you experience.
Barbara Marciniak
#98. Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.
Andre Breton
#99. There are really only two options - you can feel things, or you can shut down. But, once you decide to feel things, you don't get to pick and choose what you feel.
Jim Palmer
#100. All the good stuff has already been said by someone somewhere at some point in time. You just have to find it. Today, communication pretty much comes down to understanding - saying what you have to say clearly and effectively ... and then living it.
Criss Jami
