A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“All I did was think about being worthy of coming home to you.”
Source: Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.”
“All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.”
“All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.”
“All I do is convert liberals to conservatism. That's what I do, and that's why they don't like me.”
“All I do is dream," she said. "I dream the whole history of my people. They are my mothers, but now they are also my sisters, because I remember doing all the things they do.”
Source: Ender in Exile
“All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.”
“All I do is go to the movies.”
“All I do is lie, and that has made me immune to compliments.”
Source: The Santaland Diaries ; And, Season's Greetings
“All I do is listen to music. It's a weird thing. It's like I have so much catching up to do. I've always been over my head. That's just the way I work best, you know. Like when you're studying for school you think, "I can only study when I have to study the night before." That kind of means you're lazy or you're a procrastinator, but for me with music it's a similar thing. It's like I've been over my head for most of my career so to speak.”
“All I do is make photos. It's my life.”
“All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?”
“All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.”
“All I do is see all these incidents of [Hillary Clinton's] coughing all the time. I don't know what it is.”
“All I do is sit at home and play guitar. That's seriously what I do.”
“All I do is stay in the kitchen and cook. I don't go there to party.”
“All I do is try to debunk the lies, hate, and racism that I see online every day.
That's what I do every day on FB and other sites. /"So you're not the only one."
If it's an untruth, I will show you the truth.
If it's an outright lie, I will prove it's a lie.
If it's racist, I will tell you why it's racist.”
“All I do is watch TV and films, and when I'm not doing that, I'm making them. I need a hobby!”
“All I do is WIN, WIN, WIN no matter what”
“All I do is work out, oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.”
“All I do is work, so I eat to live and to keep going.”
“All I do is work, that's all my life is work.”
“All I do know is that I'll never be able to achieve what Tommy Docherty did, and that is take Aston Villa into the third division and Manchester United into the second division”
“All I do know is that so long as I'm asleep I'm rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thoughts, the food that takes away hunger, the water that chases away thirst, the fire that warms the cold, the cold that cools the heat and, in short, the universal coinage that can buy anything, the scales and weights that make the shepherd the equal of the king and the fool the equal of the wise man. There's only one drawback about sleep, so I've heard – it's like death, because there's very little difference between a man who's asleep and one who's dead.”
Source: Don Quixote
“All I do know is that the plant manager himself took me outside to the gate, waved down a passing police open-top jeep, greased the palm of the officer who was driving, and pushed me into the back next to a man dressed in camouflage with an automatic rifle on his lap. Sirens blaring, I was driven to the airport, scared out of my skin.”
Source: There's No Business Like International Business: Business Travel – But Not As You Know It
“All I do know is that the world has a Chief who was victorious when the powers of darkness struck at him with everything they had. He has the plans today. The darkness won't last forever. There's a splendour beyond.”
Source: Enemy Brothers
“All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality ought to be plumbers.”
“All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.”
“All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.”
Source: The complete short stories
“All I ever aim to do is to put the Development hypothesis in the same coach as the creation one. It will only be a question of who is to ride outside & who in after all.”
“All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular.”
“All I ever do is learn from my mistakes so I don't make the same ones again. Then I make new ones.”
“All I ever had before you was nightmares. But now I dream. Because of you.”
Source: Passion Unleashed: Number 3 in series
“All I ever have is what I have right now. I try not to have expectations, play my cards straight, and I hope for the best.”
Source: What Awaits?
“All I ever have to be is what you made me.”
“All I ever hoped for was freedom of choice and to not have to just do work because I needed to pay the bills. If you can, weave your way into a studio in a situation where it's supportive of the other work you wanna do. Also, there is caliber and weight in studio films, and I think the ideal is to get that balance right: Do a studio film, go away and do something that is smaller.”
“All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond.”
“All I ever learned at my mother's knee was what a bony knee looked like.”
“All I ever learned was that, having reached that limit, another horizon would open up, and that I had to keep on driving myself, escaping toward a horizon line that was forever receding, until today, here, as I walked beside the frozen river, the entire horizon turned back and came at me from all sides and its lines passed through me, creating a central point that did not impinge on me but rather came back to my hands and feet like a boomerang.”
Source: All My Cats
“All I ever need is one sweet day and a good view with you.”
“All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess.”
“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”
Source: It Chooses You
“All I ever really wanted to do was arouse souls through my writing and enjoy my journey to becoming one with myself and with the world.”
“All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.”
“All I ever think about day and night is-how can I make a difference in the lives of others, how can I provide an ounce of contentment and happiness?”
“All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.”
“All I ever want to do is just play chess.”
“All I ever want to do is what I am: a singer.”
“All I ever wanted from you was to know that I was wanted by you. That would have changed everything.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“All I ever wanted from you, was to live in the world with no wit, no intellect; a world where you worship me for the perfect creature that I am.”