A Quotes
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“All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.”
Source: A Little House sampler
“All I have, really, is my creativity.”
“All I hear is my own grating thoughts. Is there anything more horrid than being trapped inside yourself with nothing but your own insecurities.”
“All I heard was the blood rushing through my ears, and the distant rumble and crackle of the Lake of Fire. (And Khufu scratching himself and grunting, but that was nothing new.)”
“All I heard was the sound of my own heart.
Beating, but not breathing.
Alive, but not living.
Whole, but fatally broken.”
Source: Chroma Hearts
“All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.”
“All I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.”
“All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.”
Source: The Letters of Mozart and His Family
“All I kept thinking about was, "Man, he's so relaxed onstage! I'm never going to be that relaxed! I'm clearly not meant to be in front of the camera. I'm really not meant for anything but behind the camera."”
“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.”
Source: (The Great Gatsby)
“All I kin git out o' the Wickersham position on prohibition is that the distinguished jurist seems to feel that if we'd let 'em have it the problem o' keepin' 'em from gitten;' it would be greatly simplified”
“All I knew about Ireland before I went there was what I learned from watching soap commercials all my life. I was totally misinformed. I thought it was an Irish tradition where you don't even take a shower with your soap - you take your soap for a walk, you compliment the soap for a little while and then, suddenly, you just start hacking it up with a hunting knife.”
“All I knew about shot putting was that my [older] brother could do 44 feet. I decided I wanted to beat him. . . . So I got a shot and went to work and made up my mind to do 45 feet.”
“All I knew about the word cyberspace when I coined it, was that it seemed like an effective buzzword. It seemed evocative and essentially meaningless. It was suggestive of something, but had no real semantic meaning, even for me, as I saw it emerge on the page.”
“All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, made some money, and put it on the dresser. She spent it on the family, and he went out and earned some more. He taught me the most about love.”
“All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward.”
“All I knew is that I loved movies and comedy and TV, and I wanted to perform. I made a bunch of shorts and movies in college, and that was always fun too. I directed some plays in college. It was taking it all in and trying to immerse myself in as much of it as possible.”
“All I knew is that I NEVER wanted to be AVERAGE.”
Source: Driven from Within
“All I knew is that sometimes my father was sad. I hated that he was sad. It made me sad too. I didn't like sad.”
“All I knew now was that nothing lasted forever, not even a friendship, and that being "different" felt the same as being alone.”
Source: Kissing Kate
“All I knew, really, was that she had taken away with her when she had gone something which in the past had held me together, some necessary sense of myself... For without whatever it was, I seemed poor, depleted, injured in some mysterious way; without it, there was nothing to interpose between the world and me.”
Source: In Love
“All I knew, then, was that he was going to be my friend. Everything attracted me to him.”
Source: Reunion
“All I knew was I just wanted to make music, I wasn't thinking about label politics or what that means. It was really much simpler back then but yea I was discouraged a little bit. I felt really confident in my skills when I was that young, I was really cocky when I was younger.”
“All I knew was, my Father was famous for being a loser, and a loser that wanted nothing to do with me, since the day I was born.”
Source: Run
“All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.”
“All I knew was that I couldn't have him right now. It was impossible. Could I have him in a year? Two years? Five years? Ten years? I didn't know. All I knew was that although the universe was pushing us together, it was also pushing us apart.”
Source: Volition
“All I knew was that I loved the God of the Bible, and so I pursued Him more and more by reading as much as I could.”
Source: Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity
“All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content.”
“All I knew was that I would die if he sent me away. He shrugged. You can cut a man’s heart out with a shrug, did you know that?”
“All I knew was that it was something Mama always warned me about.”
Source: 29 Dimes: A Love Story
“All I knew was where it had started, a year before. The three strikes against me and all the reasons I couldn’t say no. I couldn’t have explained the girls, the women, who had briefly entered my life. Briefly changed it. [He] wouldn’t have understood their laughs, their indignations, their secrets. For the rest of the night my eyes drifted to the people on the street, the girls, the women, and I felt like I was seeing the lives they wouldn’t live.”
Source: Sirens
“All I knew was, even if she wasn't mine, I wanted to leave her with a smile.”
“All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.”
“All I know about 1970s New York City is that it's where I grew up, and you always have an umbilical connection to the time and place of your growing up. It was cheap, didn't have too many people in it, you could go to the movies or whatever on the spur of the moment, you could get by without working too much and especially without involving yourself in the corporate world.”
“All I know about getting something that you want is that there are three essential things: wanting, trying and getting the opportunity, the breaks. None works alone without the others. Wanting is basic. Trying is up to you. And the breaks - I do know this, they always happen.”
“All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.”
“All I know about humour is that I don't know anything about it.”
“All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear I know nothing.”
Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition
“All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.”
“All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within, and the music enters, what we mainly hear, or hear corroborated, are personal, private, vanishing evocations. But the man who creates the music is hearing something else, is dealing with the roar rising from the void and imposing order on it as it hits the air. What is evoked in him, then, is of another order, more terrible because it has no words, and triumphant, too, for that same reason. And his triumph, when he triumphs, is ours.”
“All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.”
“All I know about what people think of my gear is what a couple of my friends tell me, and one of them always wants to borrow money, so I'm not sure how reliable he is.”
“All I know, all I can comprehend of the mathematics of a life, are the times your hand is inside my hand, and the times it is not.”
“All I know for sure is that dreams are the pictures of states wanting to turn into processes. Dreams are maps of the beginning of an otherwise unchartered trip into the unknown. They are pictures of the unknown which appear in many channels. Because process work is body-oriented, I put a stress upon feelings, but dreams are not pictures of just feelings; they are pictures of the way the unknown is showing itself in a given moment.”
“All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.”
“All I know for sure is there are some souls who find a home with other souls—sometimes for years, sometimes for life, sometimes for not very long at all. I believe a soul mate is someone who makes you more you just by being themselves. I think some souls just burn brighter when they’re together.”
Source: Just Might Work
“All I know from my own experience is that the more loss we feel the more grateful we should be for whatever it was we had to lose. It means that we had something worth grieving for. The ones I'm sorry for are the ones that go through life not knowing what grief is.”
Source: A Set of Variations: Twenty-seven Stories
“All I know: I could only encounter you, my oasis, coming out of a desert. Deserted myself. This is all right. My futureless and solitary self. When suddenly I hear the voice of the springs--Right away you made me want to sing. To cry. Then to drink. But after the desert, the merest trickle of water sounds like a storm. And ever since, Promethea's every murmur shakes my life like an earthquake. I was asleep. I was not thirsty. It would have been possible for me not to hear the first three tears. Ever since I never sleep. I listen.”
Source: The Book of Promethea
“All I know is "make a joyful noise unto the Lord", and I do that whatever opportunity I get.”
“All I know is a door into the dark”
Source: Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996