Top 100 When They Quotes
#1. Here's what I tell people now when they come to my shows: 'First of all, thank you for stimulating the economy, or at least my economic package.'
Daniel Tosh
#2. When they ask you where you're from, tell them your name was fleshed from the toothless mouth of a war-woman. That you were not born but crawled, headfirst - into the hunger of dogs. My son, tell them the body is a blade that sharpens by cutting.
Ocean Vuong
#3. I think [indications of vulnerability are] why so many portraits work when they're difficult: we believe we're presenting ourselves one way, but the camera always reveals something more vulnerable, despite our best efforts.
Katy Grannan
#4. The only time I use women in films is when they're naked or dead.
Joel Silver
#5. I lost my dad. He lost his tomorrows and I lost all the tomorrows with him. You could say that now, I appreciate them when they come. Now, I want to make them the best they can possibly be.
Cecelia Ahern
#6. Some of the guys when they play, they try to keep it reality. Nah, I need the best everything.
DJ Khaled
#7. Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.
Chris Marker
#8. I He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead, The poor dead woman whom he loved, And murdered in her bed. He walked amongst the Trial
Oscar Wilde
#9. An eternity of chocolate fountains and perfect love and guys who always call when they say they will and banana sundaes that actually help you burn calories.
Lauren Oliver
#10. Endings were hard, even more so when they faded away rather than exploding into dust
Tiffany Snow
#11. When they give you things, ask yourself why. When you're grateful to them for giving you the things you should have anyway, ask yourself why.
Jeff VanderMeer
#12. They matched. God made them this way so they would recognize themselves as meant for one another when they were born, so they would always find each other no matter where they were on Earth.
Anonymous
#13. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.
Yann Martel
#14. Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.
Diogenes
#15. The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.
Ernest Hemingway,
#16. I'm a firm believer the the first two tenets of effective child-rearing boil down to "spend a lot of time with your children" and "cherish them," because, one, they need you when they're growing, and, two, they're going to be up and gone before you realize it.
Archie Manning
#17. No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when they please.
Charles Hodge
#18. When they got there, the first thing they saw was the man himself, with a white stick burning away in his mouth, cutting row after row of frosted cabbages. Rowsby Woof was with him, wagging his tail and jumping about in a ridiculous manner. After
Richard Adams
#19. It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
#20. That's me, Brady thought happily. When they give your middle name, you know you're an authentic boogeyman.
Stephen King
#21. I want people to have a new way of looking at the world when they leave the theater.
Jenni Olson
#22. Missionaries never give up on their dream of peace, even when they experience difficulties and persecution, which makes their presence strongly felt today.
Pope Francis
#23. Players only understand substitutions when they become managers.
Bobby Robson
#24. When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus. ACTS 4:13
Andrew Murray
#25. When they want to leave, they accuse you with endless flaws.
Eyden I.
#26. The social custom of calling on people when they are unwell has always mystified me. By definition, you're not feeling or looking your best. Why on earth do people assume you might want visitors?
Mary Louise Kelly
#27. I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were scared of the story, or they just didn't think it was appropriate.
David Talbot
#28. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before. It
Henry David Thoreau
#29. There's a reason why young people think what they think. They are taught it. In many cases when they learn at home is erased or countered or overcome.
Rush Limbaugh
#30. I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.
Chris Rock
#31. In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.
David Morse
#32. In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#33. I work with a couple charities called Serving Those Who Serve and Rebuilding Together. Both are supportive of veterans when they come home.
Jessica Biel
#34. How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?
John Howard Griffin
#35. You really feel an obligation to someone when they're trusting you to do something, and you promise that you'll come through for them.
Jonah Hill
#36. I took a break after 'Confessions.' I was real picky. And then I suddenly realized I hadn't worked in a year. And I was sort of, like, not really happy. I think people are happier when they have structure, you know? You realize that as you get older. You have to have rituals and structure.
Sam Rockwell
#37. You can't expect someone to understand your journey, when they've hardly lived one of their own.
Nikki Rowe
#38. Anger does not last, that way, for years. But there are other things. Impressions last, when they have been strong.
Henry James
#39. People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand.
Michael J. Fox
#40. Too many heroes stepping on too many toes, too many yes-men nodding when they really mean no.
Jethro Tull
#41. A true test of someone's love is how they act when they're stressed and not how much they love you when everything's goin' good.
T.R. Graves
#42. Women's voices always rise two octaves when they talk to cleaning women or cats.
Lucia Berlin
#43. I've noticed that a lot of people, subsequently, when they introduce me are very careful not to say the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. A lot more people are saying Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport.
Jeremy Hunt
#44. I hope we'll be able to see that in our lifetime: the end of the camera! When I'm in Paris, I'll buy a big bottle of champagne and I'll save it for that day, for the day when they'll be no more camera.
Bill Viola
#45. I really dislike it when the media asks young actresses, normally when they're about 23, how they feel about ageing. There are other things to worry about.
Penelope Cruz
#46. 'Diversity' is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each other. A 'diverse,' peaceful or stable society is against most historical precedent.
Richard Lamm
#47. Science... internet... and women have one in common all end up as biatch.... So it's very bitchy, when they don't stop talking.
Deyth Banger
#48. It's moments like these that you wait for not knowing what you
are waiting for, but when they come . . . you know that this is
something you could have waited your life for !
Durjoy Dutta
#49. My children were educated in what were then Chinese schools, and they learned English as a subject. But they made up when they went to English-language universities. So they didn't lose out. They had a basic set of traditional Confucian values. Not my grandchildren.
Lee Kuan Yew
#50. What's amazing is that I'm recognized all over the world through 'Red Dwarf.' British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse. It makes you feel like a rock star!
Craig Charles
#51. Every act of courage is the work of an unbalanced man. Animals, normal by definition, are always cowardly except when they know themselves know themselves to be stronger, which is cowardice itself.
Emil Cioran
#52. I love 'Harry Potter.' I love those books. That started because I lived with a woman who had kids who were, like, 10 and 7 when they moved in with me.
Steve Earle
#53. Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.
Cyril Connolly
#54. I think it hurts blogs when they have to turn off their comments.
Jason Calacanis
#55. She didn't know what a goji berry was, but it sounded like something Amazonian tribesmen might eat when they wanted to talk to their ancestors and embark on an inner voyage into some sort of unicorn-infested netherworld.
Whatever worked.
Lola Salt
#56. The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#57. Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
Hallie Ephron
#58. There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse.
John Lasseter
#59. I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.
Rita Hayworth
#60. We pray with our hands and often communicate with them. We use them to eat, work, and make love. We employ them as marvelously sophisticated instruments of flexibility and strength, and when they are damaged, we anguish.
Keith L. Moore
#61. Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. There are others: innocence, but that is for little children; penance, but we are afraid of it; generous endurance of trials of life, but when they come we weep and ask to be. The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist.
Pope Pius X
#62. Politicians often call for sanctions as a way of sounding tough when they don't want to take riskier measures.
David Ignatius
#63. You're stunning. And charming. Who needs to flirt when they're as smart as you.
Rachel Hauck
#64. It is only in the philosophy of the seminar room that serious doubts are raised as to weather or not dogs and cats and other animals have consciousness. We all know how aware they are of their surroundings... and of us... they leave no doubt when they are in pain...
Daniel N. Robinson
#65. Most of the great practitioners of the art of acting know exactly what they're doing; even in the best, most successful moments, when they let go of the awareness of what they are doing, they still, somewhere deep inside their body, know what they're doing. There is a craft.
Meryl Streep
#66. What is different is I am giving the kids a chance to train every day. Not only once a day, but sometimes when they do not have school, we will try to do something in the morning too.
Thomas Dooley
#67. I think maybe they're all right when they say there are some things I won't know anything about until I'm older. But if [love] makes you like to eat all kinds of wurst I'm not sure I'm going to like this.
Louise Fitzhugh
#68. The fact is that people would rather cling when they're afraid of something to a priori beliefs than rather open their minds about it.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#69. What's the matter, don't you like surprises?"
"I like them if they're pleasant ones, and when they happen suddenly," Holly said. "But not when I have to ponder them for an hour and forty-five minutes.
Stuart Woods
#70. The question is not whether or not change and challenge are going to happen. They are. The question is, when they do happen, how are we going to choose to look at them, contextualize them, and navigate them?
Jeffrey R. Anderson
#71. People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots.
Tom Robbins
#72. Anyway, if you need your heroes to be perfect, you won't have very many. Even Superman had his Kryptonite. I'd rather have my heroes be more like me: trying to do the right thing, sometimes messing up. Making mistakes. Saying you're sorry. And forgiving other people when they mess up, too.
Madeleine George
#73. The men who were running the church in the late '60s and '70s panicked when they saw the chaos, which developed after the council. The relatively modest changes of those years thawed the ice in which Catholicism had been frozen since the French Revolution.
Andrew Greeley
#74. It is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed we beginto keep them company. How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual Friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.
Henry David Thoreau
#75. The women's song was always the same, as monotonous as the beating of the waves against the beach: loss, loss. The conch offered them no enchantment. When they put their ear to it, all they heard was the echo of their mourning.
Carsten Jensen
#76. I've never really liked the Yanks ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.
Terry Pratchett
#77. Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.
Ming-Dao Deng
#78. It's nice when somebody tells you about their uncle. Especially when they start out telling you about their father's farm and then all of a sudden get more interested in their uncle.
J.D. Salinger
#79. I think people find each other when they're ready for them. When they need each other the most. And it's in that time of need that the strongest relationships are formed.
Kim Holden
#80. The most peaceble people will do the most terrible things when they're pushed.
John Le Carre
#81. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.
John Le Carre
#82. Just as there are primary colors from which all of the others come forth when they're combined, so there are primary vibratory qualities of energy and light within us.
Frederick Lenz
#83. When they speak of Hell there's something they miss there's a worse place to be and it's called the Abyss.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#84. Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back.
Robin Hobb
#86. Bossy means "given to ordering people around, highhanded, domineering, overly authoritative, dictatorial, abrasive." ... Could it be that girls are called bossy when they're ... well, bossy? Could it be that boys are also called bossy for the same reason?
Matt Walsh
#87. Wherever it might be that good men like Smit go to when they die I hope very much that it has a decent library.
Christopher Leary
#88. Out of 135 criminals, including robbers and rapists, 118 admitted that when they were children they burned, hanged and stabbed domestic animals.
George W. Bush
#90. Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.
Ouida
#91. That was the problem with most relationships, when they began you never know what they'd cost you.
Marshall Thornton
#92. When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.
Henry Rollins
#93. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.
D.H. Lawrence
#94. A faithful parent must discipline his children. It is not enough to teach them and be an example before them; he must also punish them when they rebel and refuse to obey.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#95. In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?
Nellie McKay
#96. It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.
Ellie Goulding
#97. I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
Ian McKellen
#98. They all saw her as a little sister, someone cute and sweet to spend time with when they were feeling homesick or their girlfriends were busy. They didn't see her as a woman, as someone worthy of spending time with, someone worth the risk of losing their heart.
R.L. Mathewson
#99. Many start the race with high energy and vibrant passion, but when they do not move ahead as quickly as they think they should, they lose their zeal and commitment.
Christine Caine
#100. Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.
Bell Hooks
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