A Quotes
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“After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.”
“After you've been wounded a few times, it's hard to let somebody get that deep again.”
“After you've dated someone it should be legal to stamp them with what's wrong with them so the next person doesn't have to start from scratch.”
“After you've done 60-something movies, you're always looking for something different.”
“After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your inspiration.”
“After you've done the first feature, then you have heck of a difficult time getting your second film off the ground. They look at your first film and they say, "Oh well, we don't want you anymore."”
“After you've had Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna as team-mates you don't give a **** who the next bloke is”
“After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules.”
“After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.”
“After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. In other words, you can't go backwards and regain your ignorance, you have to move forward.”
“After you've won something, you're no longer 100 percent, but 90 percent. It's like a bottle of carbonated water where the cap is removed for a short while. Afterwards there's a little less gas inside.”
“After you've work hard to get what you want, take the time to enjoy it.”
“After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.”
“After you, it's all cheap tequila.”
“After your brothers have come and gone my days seem that much emptier, and I mostly just sit out on the veranda warming myself in the sun.”
Source: Human Acts
“After your daily bread, if you ask God for anything, ask 'him' to make you right in the head.”
“After Your Death
First, I emptied the closets of your clothes,
threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised
from your touch, left empty the jars
you bought for preserves. The next morning,
birds rustled the fruit trees, and later
when I twisted a ripe fig loose from its stem,
I found it half eaten, the other side
already rotting, or—like another I plucked
and split open—being taken from the inside:
a swarm of insects hollowing it. I’m too late,
again, another space emptied by loss.
Tomorrow, the bowl I have yet to fill.”
Source: Monument: Poems New and Selected
“After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.”
“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays
“After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.”
Source: The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll
“After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are you a good leader? Do people follow you? Do you have integrity? Are you innovative? Do you solve problems? Somebody's got to do that homework and redesign the educational system so that it can actually train people to be successful in life.”
“After your month long battle for breath,
Today I place you in nature's lap.
I know she'll care for you well,
like she once brought you to the world.
Fact of the matter is, you still live,
just in different form among the elements.
Nature's forces make us awake and restless,
Nature's forces coerce us into eternal rest.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“After your visits, I twisted my blinds shut every night. I locked out the stars and I never saw lightning again. Each night, I simply turned out the lights and went to bed.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“After youve been married quite a few years, you learn to take orders; it just comes easy.”
“After you’ve done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.”
“After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.”
“After “Melancholia” and “On the Road,” I wanted to do a comedy. And I did so many comedies when I was younger, but if you’re not consistently in those movies, people don’t always think of you for them.”
“After-dinner talk
Across the walnuts and the wine.”
Source: Fifty Poems
“After-sales service is more important than assistance before sales. It is through such service that one gets permanent customers.”
“After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.”
“Afterall a concerned sincere heart & clear conscience is what matters & nothing else...”
“Afterall, trust is greater than love, and to truly trust another humanbeing is rare. Love can exist without trust, but trust cannot exist without love. Antonio; Hidden Mountain”
Source: King Solomon's Journey
“Afterall,
With great imagination comes great fear.”
Source: my, self.
“Afterdeath. That one landed differently. The name didn’t have to explain itself; it sat there, already loaded. It wasn’t a promise. It was a brand.”
Source: Noetic Gravity
“Afterlife exist in the unidentified substances.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Afterlife is about living in people's heart, not in some fictitious paradise. Do something so impossibly human that the humans aren't able to forget you ever.”
Source: Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was
“Afterlife is other people.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Afterlife is other people
(Soul Biology, Sonnet 2476)
Like many streams finally meet in the sea,
we are all born of nature, and ultimately
disperse into nature, our identity,
our memory, emotions, everything -
then the only place we exist is
in the memories of other people, whose
lives we might have influenced in some way.
There is no transference of soul,
the way our primitive ancestors believed;
soul is just electrochemical response of
uniquely individual makeup of organic matter,
once that individual makeup breaks down,
the individual soul simply vanishes.
Your soul disperses as your body does,
but not your role in other people's lives.
Entity can be wiped out, but not existence,
existence that has ignited a few lives.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Afternoon classes - that evil invention!”
“Afternoon drinkers shifted in the gloom as if they sensed new blood.”
Source: British Bulldog
“Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive.”
“Afternoons are hard. Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell, which is why I don't do them anymore.”
Source: Bite Club
“Aftershock by Stewart Stafford
Sitting by myself at the firepit,
The dregs of last night's inferno,
Still charcoal from vibrant flame,
Charred bones of the festivities.
Dropped food and empty bottles,
A littering ring, now seen in light,
The laughs and drunken banter,
Distant echoes that bring smiles.
Head throbs, chill morning breeze,
Take two pills and zip up my jacket,
Post-party blues gripping onto me,
Happiness, revisit on swiftest wings!
© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
“Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.”
Source: Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
“Afterward, as those in attendance sifted through their own junk drawer of troubles, they would thank the tilted universe it wasn't their change to bear; their blood and bones ripping away from humanity's known, narrow lane; their life and family broken and rearranged.”
Source: Shark Heart
“Afterward, as we walk down Congress Street toward my apartment, the man says, “Men like that know how to pick the right ones, you know? They’re real predators. They know how to scan a herd and select the weak.”
As he says that, I see a scene of me, fifteen and wild-eyed, separated from my parents, running in a panicked gait across a tundra landscape while Strane sprints after me, gathering me in his arms without breaking stride. An ocean roars in my ears, blocking out the rest of the man’s thoughts on the film, and I think, Maybe that’s all it was. I was an obvious target. He chose me not because I was special, but because he was hungry and I was easy.”
Source: My Dark Vanessa
“Afterward, he places the chest film on the light panel outside the door. Kate's ribs seem as thin as matchsticks, and there is a large gray blot just off the center. My knees go weak, and I find myself grabbing on to Brian's arm. "It's a tumor. The cancer's metastasized."
The doctor puts his hand on my shoulder. "Mrs. Fitzgerald," he says, "that's Kate's heart.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“Afterward, he would leave her, and he would go to sleep in his own home. "It's hard to understand," he would tell Lila whenever she would press his gently on the subject, "but with us Arabs, a man can come and go, and his wife will not say a word. She'll notice the length of his absences, but she won't press him or ask for explanations. For his part, so long as he acts modestly and doesn't show off his lover in plain view, then he will not bring shame on his family. /”
Source: About the Night
“Afterward I told his widow, "Your husband is dead, but at least he died laughing.' I think she took some comfort in that. It is the second-best way to die, Will Henry." He did not say what the best way was.”
Source: The Isle of Blood
“Afterward, I would mourn her as if she'd died, because something had: someone we had created together.”
Source: In the Dream House