A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“All I really want is a three-room house. The home I have designed at my new farm in Bedford, New York, is a three-room house: bedroom on top, living room in the middle, and kitchen on the ground.”
“All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.”
“All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it.”
“All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be really good, and maybe when I'm 85 and presenting an Oscar like Bette Davis did, I can look back and say, 'It was okay, I did all right.'”
“All I really want to do is someday be in a western. If I could be on a horse with a rifle, I would be a really happy camper.”
“All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.”
“All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good.”
Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5
“All I really wanted to do was give people the relief of laughing... If a hundred years from now people are still laughing, I'd certainly be pleased.”
Source: A Man Without a Country
“All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do... And it was a coincidence that these new bands, this new wave of bands, were doing Alice and Iggy rock.”
“All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.”
“All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?”
Source: Demian
“All I really, really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me and in you too.”
“All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header.”
“All I remember about the examination is that there was a question on Sturm's theorem about equations, which I could not do then and cannot do now.”
“All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.”
“All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.”
“All I said to you, all i did for you, seems so silly to me now.”
“All I said was that I thought it was a judgement from God that Blyth had first lost his leg and then had the replacement become the instrument of his downfall. All because of the rabbits. Eric, who was going through a religious phase at the time which I suppose I was to some extent copying, thought this was a terrible thing to say; God wasn't like that. I said the one I believed in was.”
Source: The Wasp Factory
“All I saw were flaws- the spots on my chin, the hint of baby fat around the jaw, the way my unruly flyaway hair wisped out from the elastic band.
"Look," he said. "The reason it's not coming together is because you're drawing the features, not the person. You're more than a collection of frown lines and doubts. The person I see when I look at you..." He stopped and I waited, feeling his eyes on me, trying not to squirm beneath the intensity of his gaze. "I see someone brave," he said at last. "I see someone who's trying very hard. I see someone who's nervous, but stronger than she knows. I see someone who's worried but doesn't need to be."
"Draw that." " Draw the person I see.”
Source: The Lying Game
“All I say cancels out, I’ll have said nothing.”
Source: Stories & Texts for Nothing
“All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.”
Source: Essays
“All I say is that I don't go out with famous men.”
“All I say is that I think it is damned unlikely that anything like a central cosmic will, a spirit world, or an eternal survival of personality exist. They are the most preposterous and unjustified of all the guesses which can be made about the universe, and I am not enough of a hair-splitter to pretend that I don't regard them as arrant and negligible moonshine. In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of radical evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.”
Source: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
“All I say is, if you cannot ride two horses you have no right in the circus.”
“All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.”
Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)
“All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?”
Source: Complete Stories
“All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let's just leave them be. Don't judge them. You are not superior to them - don't put them down.”
Source: In One Person: A Novel
“ALL I SAY UNLESS YOU ESCAPED THROUGH BULLETS FROM COMMUNIST REGIME AS I DID YOU DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY MEAN SINCE I IMMIGRATED TO THE USA I HAVE SEEN AND MEET MANY PEOPLE WHO CALL THEIR SELFS "DEMOCRATS" WHO THEY TAKE THEIR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY FOR GRATED I EVEN MEET PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT SOCIALISM I DON'T THEY HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT SOCIALISM IS ALL ABOUT IT, THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW DEMOCRATS THEY SAY AND DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET ELECTED BUT THEY WON'T TELL YOU THE TRUTH. YOU HAVE TO GIVE A LOT TO GET A LITTLE, AT THE END YOU END UP LOSING EVERYTHING FROM YOUR GUN RIGHTS TO YOU FREEDOM OF SPEACH Vladimir Lenin, once said, “The goal of socialism is communism.”
“All I see are ankles and wrists--and FYI, you're pulling a Mileyfrickin'-Cyrus with that belly flash. Not attractive.”
Source: Lover Unleashed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“All I see in the mirror every morning is a face that needs washing.”
Source: Elizabeth Taylor: an informal memoir
“All I see is my father’s tax money being wasted on shooting satellite pictures of South America like you guys work for the Travel Channel.
-- Todd Dooley (BLACK MARIAH - A Calling)”
Source: Black Mariah - "A Calling"
“All I see is people out there who are hungry for more.”
“All I see is sissies in magazines smiling...
Whatever happened to wildin' out and being violent?
Whatever happened to catching a good, old-fashioned, passionate ass whoopin'?
And getting your shoes, coat and your hat tooken?”
“All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I've surpassed that.”
“All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'”
“All I think of ever is that I love you.”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“All I thought about when I wrote my stories was, "I hope that these comic books would sell so I can keep my job and continue to pay the rent." Never in a million years could I have imagined that it would turn into what it has evolved into nowadays. Never.”
“All I trust is the past. Things that have ended can't betray me.”
“All I try to do in the press is to be honest about something that I really care about.”
“All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.”
“All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.”
“All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American literature is stuck in one idea: sort of spiritual, environmentalist Indians. And I want to portray everyday lives. I think by doing that, by portraying the ordinary lives of Indians, perhaps people learn something new.”
“All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.”
“All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself.”
Source: The Carrying
“All I’ve done my entire life is take people’s souls away. I have no real friends, no family, few hobbies. I’ve been miserable for so long, and you . . . you’re like the sun breaking out from behind a cloud. You make everything bright and warm.”
Source: Guía de brujas para citas falsas con un demonio
“All I've ever been good at is telling somebody else's story.
You think that's nothing? There is no 'somebody' until somebody tells their story. The world needs witnesses.”
“All I've ever wanted is to be loved. Well, to be worshiped. To be desired, madly and painfully, to the exclusion of all else. Is that so wrong?”
Source: You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories
“all I've ever wanted out of our divorce was my freedom from fear”
Source: It Starts with Us
“All I’ve ever wanted
was a home so I could rest;
but even the years
were left empty
with no heart to call my own
and suddenly I realised the truth,
that the words I kept
were the only way to forget.”
“All I've ever wanted was a place to belong, and someone to belong to.”
Source: Hired by the Cowboy