Whereupon Quotes
18 quotes by 15 authors
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After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy [Astor] . shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee! Whereupon…
— John F. Akers
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My agent had told me that he was going to make me the Janet Gaynor of England—I was going to play all the sweet roles.…
— Ida Lupino
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He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything…
— Stanislaw Ulam
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Indeed our words will remain lifeless, barren, devoid of any passion, until we die as a result of these words, whereupon our words will suddenly…
— Sayyid Qutb
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Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.
— Ida Lupino
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He received me not only cordially, but he was also full of confidence with respect to the war. His first words, after he had welcomed…
— Chaim Weizmann
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A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing…
— Nelson Mandela
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The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends; whereupon we…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to the existence…
— Jean-Dominique Bauby
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The punch connected, but (1) Colin forgot to close his fist, so he was slapping not hitting, and (2) instead of slapping TOC, he ended…
— John Green
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Gilbert took from his desk a little pink candy heart with a gold motto on it, “You are sweet,†and slipped it under the curve…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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[The kakapo] is an extremely fat bird. A good-sized adult will weigh about six or seven pounds, and its wings are just about good for…
— Douglas Adams
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We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down onto the couch and sneaked…
— John Green
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Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you think you will…
— Chinua Achebe
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Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we…
— Charles Jencks
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As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own…
— Nelson Mandela
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To the questions of the officiously meddling police Falter replied absently and tersely; but, when he finally grew tired of this pestering, he pointed out…
— Vladimir Nabokov
Who Wrote These Whereupon Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 18 Whereupon Quotes as follows: