A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“All I want to feel is my own sweat drying on those temporary countries that map a body while it is running away.”
Source: The Moral Judgement of Butterflies
“All I want to get is a little bit closer
All I want to know is, can you come a little closer?
Here comes the breath before we get a little bit closer
Here comes the rush before we touch, come a little closer”
“All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there”
“All I want to know is why a party of Fey wanted to kill me,” I said heatedly. The beetle’s lips twisted enough to show fang. “Doesn’t everyone?” Radu hustled me out the door before I could find out if the vamp’s plump little carcass would fit into his overstuffed desk.”
Source: Midnight's Daughter
“All i want to make sure of is that she's doing something she loves. watch your kids when they sit down and absolutely get lost in something. maybe that's what they should be doing-the thing they're dying to do all the time.”
“All I want to say is that anybody, well, from the Democratic side of the fence who thinks that - who's terrified of the possibility of President [Donald] Trump better vote, better get active, better get involved, because this man has got some momentum and we better be ready for the fact that he might be leading the Republican ticket.”
“All I want to say is that life is very fragile. We should live every moment and cherish what we have been given.”
“All I want to say is that when you stop being delusional and start feeling desperate because you're too inept to figure this out on your own, you know who to come to.”
“All I want to say to people, man, is, "Yo, you see me walking down the street and I got a little bop in my walk, don't think because I've got a bop in my walk I'm trying to be all that. The bop in my walk is because I'm just like you, man. I bop when I walk." Know what I'm saying? I'm proud. If you see me smiling, standing straight up, gold around my neck, it's not because I'm conceited. It's because I'm proud of what I achieved. I made this. I worked hard for this. That's all this is about.”
“All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.”
“All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.”
“All I want to shout is 'Moaty, it's Gazza!', and I guarantee me and him could sit and chat. I would say, 'Why don't you just put the gun away, throw it in the river? The police are not going to kill you.”
“All I want to tell young people is that you're not going to be anything in life unless you learn to commit to a goal. You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.”
“All I want you to do is rock. That'll be forever, man.”
“All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you - just because I am.”
Source: The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
“all i want...is mac and cheese”
“All I wanted - all I’d ever wanted - was just to get away. To be somewhere small where I could crowd in and feel safe, all four walls pressed around me, no one staring or pointing or yelling.”
Source: Just Listen
“All I wanted and all Neal wanted and all anybody wanted was some kind of penetration into the heart of things where, like in a womb, we could curl up and sleep the ecstatic sleep that Burroughs was experiencing with a good big mainline shot of M. and advertising executives in NY were experiencing with twelve Scotch & Sodas in Stouffers before they made the drunkard's train to Westchester---but without hangovers.”
“All I wanted to be was a player.”
“All I wanted to do, ever, was be myself.”
“All I wanted to do was be a hero... But do I ever get to be a hero? All I ever get to be is the stupid goat!" "Don't be discouraged, Charlie Brown... In this life we live, there are always some bitter pills to be swallowed..." "If it's all the same with you, I'd rather not renew my perscription!”
“All I wanted to do was be a professional film director with a body of work, and you're going to make some good films, some bad and some indifferent. You don't set out to make a dog, you set out to make something good. But I like them all.”
“All I wanted to do was go back inside to the library and read a book.I used to spend all my time reading books, or watching television. It was safe. Nobody ever was hurt or teased or looked stupid while reading books or watching television.”
Source: Sweetie
“All I wanted to do was help kids not feel alone, and stop kids from committing suicide.”
“All I wanted to do was hide away from the world, but I still had a role to play. I had to be 'Girl A' - the key witness in the trial that finally saw my abusers locked up. Girl A - the girl in the newspaper stories who had been through the most hideous experience imaginable. When I read those stories, I felt like I was reading about somebody else, another girl who was subjected to the depths of human depravity. But it wasn't. It was about me. I am Girl A.”
Source: Girl A: My Story
“All I wanted to do was lie in the dry grass with my feet in a ditch forever. I could be a convenient sort of milemarker, I thought. Get to the thief and you know you're halfway to Methana.”
“All I wanted to do was please my adopted family.”
“All I wanted to do was put together one of the best home maths systems in the world, and that's what we've done. I've loved numbers since I was two or three, and I get really excited about them. Now, I'm allowing myself to get excited about things. If you're doing it for a TV network or any major corporation, you have to put a lid on it a little.”
“All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.”
“All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding.”
“all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.”
Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“All I wanted to do was to become famous, but then I found out that it was nothing special.”
“All I wanted to do was to improve, to keep getting better.”
Source: Driven from Within
“All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.”
“All I wanted to do while I was a teenager was go out and play most of the time and just enjoy life and have fun. I wasn't big into school, you know, I look back now and wish I would have spent more time studying and enjoyed it more. It's not for everyone and I didn't enjoy it that much like going to school and studying - some stuff I did but some of it I didn't. My attention span wasn't there.”
“All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.”
“All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.”
“All I wanted was for things to be like they used to be. Except for all the parts that couldn't be. Which I guess, was almost all of them.”
Source: Phantom Limbs
“All I wanted was for you to be free from everything. And with that freedom, you often showed me another world, so I wanted you to be even freer. I wanted you to be so free that you would live your life for other people.”
Source: Please Look After Mother
“All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.”
“All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality.”
Source: Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps
“All I wanted was peace between our peoples. But I see now that this is not possible, for my people are ruled by a dreamer, and the jinn are rules by a monster.”
Source: The Forbidden Wish
“All I wanted was to be a pea of being inside the green pod of time.”
Source: The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems
“All I wanted was to be a university teacher.”
“All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life.”
“All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.”
“All I wanted was to be left alone. They abhor a vacuum, other people. You find a quiet corner where you can hunker down in peace, and the next minute there they are, crowding around you in their party hats, tooting their paper whistles in your face and insisting you get up and join in the knees-up.”
Source: Eclipse
“All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)”
“All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.”
“All I wanted was to break your walls, all you wanted was to break me”