A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“All I'm saying," said Vince, "is we don't need to have ourselves all figured out in one night. You know?”
Source: All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages
“All I’m trying to say is, be kind to yourself. This one life is all we’ve got, and we all make mistakes along the way. Do things we oughtn’t, fail to do those we should. See those moments for what they were. Learn from them what you can. And then stand up a little taller and keep marching forward. In the end it’s how we keep going that matters. The world won’t remember our falls unless we never pick ourselves up.”
Source: A Dark So Deep
“All I'm trying to say is that if you're not willing to observe this, if you're just going to condemn it, you're never going to see it. It's there, whether you like it or not. This is stupid life-force we're dealing with here," he said. "Think how old it is, Jim. Think how huge it is. Understanding it doesn't make any difference.”
Source: Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon
“All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness; I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true.”
Source: Collected fiction
“All I mean is that a board of directors is one or two ambitious men--and a lot of ballast. I mean that groups of men are vacuums. Great big empty nothings. They say we can't visualize a total nothing. Hell, sit at any committee meeting. The point is only who chooses to fill that nothing. It's a tough battle. The toughest. It's simple enough to fight any enemy, so long as he's there to be fought. But when he isn't. . .”
Source: The Fountainhead
“All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.”
“All I meant was that people take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that. And some places have a way of magnifying your demons, or of, I don't know, giving them pep pills.”
Source: Three Junes
“All I need are chocolates, credit card, and stilettos.”
“All I Need are Shoes, Booze and Bad boys with Tattoos.”
“All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine”
“All I need as payment is a smile. That just really pushes me forward so that I'm always capturing the next opportunity to develop myself.”
“All I need in a relationship is somebody to watch TV with me.”
“All I need is a badly mangled, irate sentence stalking me.”
Source: Iced: Fever Series
“All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.”
“All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen”
“All i need is a chance”
“All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.”
“All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.”
“All I need is one mic
One beat, one stage
One ni%$a frontin' my face on the front page
Only if I had one gun, one girl and one crib
One god to show me how to do things his son did.”
“All I need is one mic . All I need is one life, one try, one breath, I'm one man.”
“All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.”
Source: Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker
“All I need is some cool bud and some tasty hanging change-ups, and I'm fine!”
“All I need is the breakthrough. The joint-venture for my clothing. Same as Stella McCartney has.”
“All I need is the power to be able to protect my comrades. So long as I can have the strength to do that, I don't care if I'm weaker than everyone in the world.”
“All I need is time, time to love you. All I need is time, time to love you, time to love you.”
“All I need is you even if I don't know if I can't have you.”
“All I need is you even though I don't know if I can have you.”
“All I need to do
is place my pen against paper
and your love
writes for me.”
“All I need to do is try and do the best that I can do.”
“All I need to do to stay healthy is look at my three boys.”
“All I need to know I learned from my cat.”
Source: Kate the Great, Except When She's Not
“All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.”
“All I need to understand is the unwritten law of warriors," he said firmly. "And women and children are never sent to do our work without our protection." He pointed to the trees, emphatically. "That's the language I share with them.”
Source: The Complete Lumatere Chronicles
“All I needed for the mind was to be led to new stations. All I needed for the heart was to visit a place of greater storms.”
Source: M Train
“All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand. But you turned into a lover, and mother what a lover, you wore me out.”
“All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.”
“All I noticed was how the sunlight reflected off Nikki's dark hair, lighting her up like a homing beacon, pulling me to her. Maybe I was the only one who saw it that way.
No. The guy who had his arms around her probably saw it that way too.
"He has a clinging problem, doesn't he?" I commented.
Meredith scoffed. "Epic love clings epically.”
Source: Neverfall
“All I owe the world is my art.”
“All I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect”
“All I really care about is that I'm being honest and I'm real and I'm coming from a real place.”
“All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.”
“All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.”
“All I really know in nonfiction is that when I come home, I've got all these notes and I'm trying to figure out what actually happened to me. I usually kind of know what happened, but as you work through the notes, you find that certain scenes write well and some don't even though they should. Those make a constellation of meaning that weirdly ends up telling you what you just went through. It's a slightly different process, but still there's mystery because when you're bearing down on the scenes, sometimes you find out they mean something different than what you thought.”
“All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance”
“All I really need is a song in my heart, food in my belly, and love in my family.”
“All I really need is my bed and my art around me.”
“All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sand pile at Sunday School.”
Source: It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It
“All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.”
Source: Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door
“All I really, really want to do is find a very, very fine chocolate store that I can walk into and then figure out how in the world one manages to pick out just a few chocolates out of all those very many chocolates! If I am one day able to walk into a fine chocolate store and know for certain which chocolates I want, when that happens, I will believe myself to be accomplished!”
“All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.”