Top 100 While You Were Quotes
#1. Where did your art go while you were tweeting?
Seth Godin
#2. Why does each man kill the thing he loves? ... you killed it by accident. Thinking you were doing something else. It was a cherished vase that broke while you were cleaning it. The phone rang and you dropped it. Shattering, when all you wanted was to keep it safe.
Janet Fitch
#3. Well, you know ... I grew up in postwar Britain, when you were lucky to get anything to eat. People in America have absolutely no conception of how austere England was after the war. While you were all sort of eating butter and eggs, we were eating rabbit. That's what there was in the butcher shop.
Tim Curry
#4. I just sliced and diced a Burmese python while you were busy growling at the universe, fuzz bucket.
J.C. Daniels
#5. You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here ... Death ends life, not a relationship.
Mitch Albom
#7. You married me while I was sleeping?" I asked in amazement. They sky was beginning to bruise with the purple haze, and in it, I could see Chase's face glow a little deeper copper.
"You hit me for kissing you. It seemed in my best interest to marry you while you were passed out.
Kristen Simmons
#8. I was the one with all the glory, while you were the one with all the strength. Only a face without a name, and I never once heard you complain.
Gary Morris
#9. I remember seeing the song in some diners on the selection gadget that plays records at the table while you were eating. We were never told if the songs ever got on any charts.
Phil Harris
#10. You won't remember me. You won't need me anymore.
You will leave me again.
I forgive you. I forgave you. I will always forgive you.
You should know that for a little while, you were not alone.Not alone.
I loved you when you were pixels on a screen.
Julio Alexi Genao
#11. When you were little and you were afraid of the boogey man, getting under the covers meant he couldn't see you or grab your foot while you were sleeping. True story. I figured the same rules applied with dead people watching you masturbate.
Tara Sivec
#12. Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#13. smell flowers, or whatever you wanted to do while you were on that stuff." "I'll kill them," I say. "I will kill them.
Veronica Roth
#14. A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.
Sandra Bernhard
#15. You're in a situation where you have limited education opportunities, you don't have any money, you can't get a job; what are you going to do? You're going to go back to this criminal network that you actually made while you were in prison.
Hill Harper
#16. I took off my glasses while you were yelling at me once more than once so as not to see you see me react. Should've put 'em, should've put 'em on again
so I could see you see me sincerely yelling back.
Fiona Apple
#17. Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other's constant.
Jodi Picoult
#18. If you struggle with being able to run hard after the Lord because you feel so unworthy, so unclean, so unsteady, listen up: "While [you] were still weak, at the right time," God came to your rescue. And still does. And still is.
Matt Chandler
#19. Choose wisely
From those who start
A fire in your heart.
Some may burn you to shreds,
While you were looking for warmth.
Saiber
#20. While you were protecting me from the world, just never thought you'd be my greatest enemy
Vivian E. Moore
#21. You want to go back, and so you hold on to the habits you learned while you were traveling, because it's better that admitting the journey's over.
Seanan McGuire
#22. My mother said it was like a cassette tape you could never rewind. But it was hard to remember you couldn't rewind it while you were listening to it. And so you'd forget and fall into the music and listen and then, without you even knowing it, the tape would suddenly end.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#23. A legacy is not about what you did while you were there it is what happens when you are gone
Darrell Waltrip
#24. Sometimes love didn't spring up on you in a moment of blinding clarity. Sometimes it crept up on you on a Tuesday night while you were standing at the sink doing dishes, the feeling settling into your soul in a way that made it too heavy to ignore anymore.
Jessica Gadziala
#25. In life, it is important that we act fast. If you don't act fast and act now, someone else will do exactly what you have thought of doing. Someone else would have fired while you were spending time aiming.
Jan Mckingley Hilado
#26. I fell in love with you again; While you were away - Jack Salmon
Alice Sebold
#27. Am I about to discover where you, Ron, and Hermione disappeared to while you were supposed to be in the back room of Fred and George's shop?'
'How did you ... ?'
'Harry, please. You're talking to the man who raised Fred and George.
J.K. Rowling
#28. Sean: 'People stop giving a shit about what you do with your life after college,'
Leon: 'I'm pretty sure nobody gave a shit about it while you were in college.
Patrick Anderson Jr.
#29. If you remember the pleasure of hearing a story many times, and you will remember that while you were listening you become three people. There is an incredible fusion: you become the storyteller, the protagonist, and you remember yourself listening to the story.
Marina Warner
#30. Are you asking if I ever spied on you while you were taking a shower?
Christopher Pike
#31. Where the heck was I while you were playing Grand Theft Cellar?
Rachel Hawkins
#32. Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.
Bill Pullman
#33. While you were off getting hair and makeup done for the wedding, I was planning bondage and debauchery in the woods.
R.K. Lilley
#34. But while you were doing it, he looked at me, and the look on his face - I still cannot describe it, other than in that moment, I felt something crumble inside me, like a tower of damp sand built too high: for him, and for you, and for me as well. And in his face, I knew my own would be echoed.
Hanya Yanagihara
#35. Dengar guffaws. "You little scrap-muncher. I was putting away bounties while you were still in your space diapers." "What's it say about you that you're still in your space diapers?
Chuck Wendig
#36. It's good to have you back, David. We missed you while you were away.
Max Lucado
#37. You mentioned a telephone conversation that you had with him, your last conversation. While you were in Kirkjubaejarklaustur. He called you there.
Anonymous
#38. While you were out JUDGING others, you left your closet door open...and guess what fell out!....Ooops
Karen Gibbs
#39. Have you asked the question yet? I'm rather good at it, if I do say to myself. I got three different ladies to agree to marry me while you were gone. Did you know? Some didn't actually make it to the alter, but that's another problem altogether. Perhaps you'd like some pointers on-
Elizabeth Hoyt
#40. I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
#41. They do the soaps differently in Mexico. You just have to know the storyline and not memorize the lines. There would be someone feeding you lines while you were performing.
Erik Estrada
#42. While you were anesthetized to the tragedy of life you were able to survive. When clarity was returned to you, when it was painstakingly restored, it could drive you mad.
Salman Rushdie
#43. You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.
Jonathan Coe
#44. Kitten, when did you get so tall? (Ravyn)
I grew while you were in the bathroom. (Erika)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#45. I tagged your ass the other night," I said, "while you were sleeping- and you liked it."
"Really? I thought it was a dream."
"It was. A WET one.
Giorge Leedy
#46. Life is what is happening today while you were planning tomorrow
John Lennon
#47. Fairfield," she said in cutting tones, 'if you had been a hunter on the plains of old, the lions would have killed you while you were wandering around the savannah saying, 'Where is everyone, and what have they done with my spears?
Courtney Milan
#48. New Rule: If you married a manic-depressive, three of your children died, and while you were president civil war broke out and someone shot you in the head, your coin really shouldn't say, In God We Trust.
Bill Maher
#49. Was I always your option ... while you were my choice?
Mandy Hale
#50. I was using the word awesomeness while you were still in high school, popping zits.
Edge
#51. As I was saying. He could never use you. You own him. You should've seen the way he was looking at you while you were out."
I smiled a little. "How?"
"Like you're the ocean and he's desperate to drown.
Michelle Hodkin
#52. I was descended from a handful of fertility deities, but I guess I really hadn't understood what that meant. I mean, there was fertile and then there was being able to get pregnant while you were already pregnant.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#53. Wouldn't it fun to be able to communicate with a horse while you were riding it?
Kou Shibasaki
#54. I hope you don't mind the intrusion," she said. "I thought we'd air out your chambers while you were
downstairs at breakfast."
"We?" he repeated ominously, wondering just how many witnesses there were going to be to her
murder.
Teresa Medeiros
#55. You were alive for such a short time and then you went back into the great silence. The only ones who didn't vanish were the artists. While you were reading their words and looking at their pictures they were still alive, and you shared some of their life too.
Kate Grenville
#56. I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth.
Mitch Albom
#57. Money is like a child - rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.
Lemony Snicket
#58. Aedion rubbed at his face. "Do you understand what it was like to sit on my ass while you were gone? You said two hours. What was I supposed to think?"
"Aedion," she said as calmly as she could, and pulled off her filthy gloves before taking his broad, callused hand. "I get it. I do.
Sarah J. Maas
#59. That was the trouble with being a writer, that was the main trouble - leisure time, excessive leisure time. You had to wait around for the buildup until you could write and while you were waiting you went crazy, and while you were going crazy you drank and the more you drank the crazier you got.
Charles Bukowski
#60. DID YOU KNOW WHETHER OR NOT [SPOILER REDACTED BECAUSE I KNOW PEOPLE WILL READ THIS DISCUSSION GUIDE BEFORE THEY'VE READ THE BOOK, EVEN THOUGH I JUST FORBADE YOU TO DO SO LIKE SIX PARAGRAPHS AGO] WAS INTENTIONAL WHILE YOU WERE WRITING IT?
John Green
#61. It was like meeting someone exceptional while you were married: the yank of possibility, the realization that here was another path your life could have taken.
Marcus Sakey
#62. It's frightening to wake up one morning and discover that while you were asleep you went out of style.
Erma Bombeck
#63. The quality of your faith will be judged by the quality of justice in the land; and the quality of justice in the land will be judged by how the weakest and most vulnerable groups in society ('widows, orphans, and strangers') fared while you were alive.
Ronald Rolheiser
#64. With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.
Bill Pullman
#65. If there is a heaven, it should be like all the places you love or the places you've never been but wish you'd visited while you were still alive." -Giselle
Edwidge Danticat
#66. It turned out that while you were searching for the meaning of life, you missed the experience of being alive.
Ruth A. Baer
#67. The path to love wasn't a smooth road. Love would show up while you were busy with another love, leaving you to decide.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#68. One day you just wake up and discover that you got old while you were sleeping.
Jonathan Tropper
#69. You ever had the feeling the future's become the past while you were busy being scared?
Benjamin Johncock
#70. This was excitement, and desire, and pleasure. Nothing mattered while you were with a man. Nothing but the man, or men in this case.
This was freedom. This was forgetting.
Marshall Thornton
#71. You should know that for a little while, you were not alone.
Not alone.
Julio Alexi Genao
#72. Just remember, Braithwaite. While you were learning to be a fool at Oxford I was learning to kill men. And I learned well.
Bernard Cornwell
#73. What would I possibly know - I've only been stationed in the mountains of Iliaz for half a decade. I only heard Rocs screaming every night while you were still sleeping in the harem by your mother. But you know better, I'm sure.
Alwyn Hamilton
#74. I think it was probably the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
"I can't believe I don't have my camera," Jane said again, her voice almost reverent.
"You couldn't ever get this into a picture," I said. "And you'd miss it while you were trying to.
Emily M. Danforth
#75. So, you got shit-faced, spray-painted a barn with a lovely shade of Exorcist-green puke, fucked a donkey while you were there, and started a fist fight with a recovering, meth-addicted nun and her lovechild who were reenacting the nativity scene?
Kendall Grey
#76. As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here
Morrie Schwartz.
#77. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it.
Stephen King
#78. He considered what he should do with the rest of his life. And he considered whether you ever found out if you had made the right decisions while you were still alive. It
Jo Nesbo
#79. At some point, while you were roaming the globe, making treaties and dividing the spoils of war, I quietly declared my own independence. I am the sovereign nation of Clio now. And there will be no terms of surrender.
Tessa Dare
#80. Did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there..
Train
#81. Yet there was something else, something different about her this time, like a room where someone has thrown out all the flowers while you were gone: a change in the interior you don't even notice at first, not until you see the stems sticking out of the garbage.
Herman Koch
#82. We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time.
V.C. Andrews
#83. If it scares you, I'll shift back." "I just sliced and diced a Burmese python while you were busy growling at the universe, you overgrown housecat." I
J.C. Daniels
#84. You thought what we had was beautiful. I did, too, except while you were gone, I made it ugly.
Kate Stewart
#85. When you become an adult, you get to choose your path. You take all the things you learned while you were on everyone else's and use it to build your own, but it's about where you heart wants to go. It's all up to you.
Lisa De Jong
#86. Just hear me out. While you were napping, I was busy chatting up our allies. Didn't you know
your woman's a golden-tongued ambassador! My sisters always said I graduated from the shock-and-awe school of diplomacy, but joke 'em if they can't take a fuck, right?
Kresley Cole
#87. When it turns out that you were supposed to be disclosing all these foreign government donations to the Clinton Global Initiative while you were Secretary of State, and you didn't, and now the Clinton Global Initiative is having to restate their 990s, that doesn't sound very trustworthy to me.
Carly Fiorina
#88. Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.
Gil Scott-Heron
#89. I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.
Gavin DeGraw
#90. If anyone other than you had me fly halfway around the world just to keep me waiting while you were obviously lingering in bed, I'd have my driver run them over. Twice.
Jeaniene Frost
#91. You took the words right out of my mouth, it must have been while you were kissing me.
Meat Loaf
#92. Ginny came in to visit while you were unconscious, he said, after a long pause, and Harry's imagination zoomed into overdrive, rapidly constructing a scene in which Ginny, weeking over his lifeless form, confessed her feelings of deep attraction to him while Ron gave them his blessing ...
J.K. Rowling
#93. I don't know whether you've ever had a woman eat an apple while you were doing it. Well, you can imagine how that affects you.
Henry Miller
#94. But while you were looking out the window, you missed the chance to explore the equally interesting Buddhist belief in being present for every facet of your daily life, of being truly present. Be present in this class. And then, when it's over, be present out there, he said,
John Green
#95. Was Philip Dexter upset?"
"He's telephoned the office every day."
She was pleased about that. "Who else was upset?"
"Everybody. Roosevelt orderded an hour of silence while you were on the table. Like Armistice Day.
Rose Franken
#96. Don't believe for one damn minute that you're remotely fine with being a pretty trophy for someone who sat on his ass for nearly fifty years, then sat on his ass while you were shredded apart - " "Stop
Sarah J. Maas
#97. Yeah. I went out while you were getting your beauty sleep."
"Which I needed," she said with a chuckle.
"Well it worked.
Nicki Edwards
#98. After facing backlash from customers, Subway says it will remove a chemical in its bread that is also found in yoga mats. Some people were like, 'You mean I've been eating a dangerous chemical?' While most people were like, 'You mean I can eat my yoga mat?'
Jimmy Fallon
#99. I mean, you can't have sex until you're married if you're Mormon. The first time I had sex, my parents found out. They were listening in on the phone while I was talking about sex to my girlfriend. They freaked out, man. They both cornered me in my bedroom.
Bert McCracken
#100. It took a while to find a passion for another career that was as strong as the passion that I had for football. Once I found it in acting, it was simple. Use the tools you were given from playing football and apply it to your new passion. I have done that through acting, producing and writing.
Maurice Hall
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