A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot.”
“All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.”
“All I wanted was to have her back as one and, if possible,
not get asked by Easton to be the best man at their wedding. Unless he wanted his bride stolen”
Source: Playing with Fire
“All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for material possessions, money or even close friends with me on my journey. I never understood people very well anyway, and they never seemed to understand me very well either. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. I wanted the open road and new beginnings every day.”
“All I wanted was to plant poetry in broken places and watch flowers grow.”
“All I wanted was to protect her from the mean people who made fun of how she walked. She couldn't help walking the way she did, it wasn't her fault. She was born that way. And mommy always said that God didn't make mistakes, so she was born just as she was supposed to be. Why didn't other people know that? Why wouldn't they leave her alone?”
Source: Unprotected: A Memoir
“All I wanted was to return to - to the people around me. I wanted it badly enough I didn't have room for fear. The worst had happened, and the darkness was calm and quiet. It did not seem like a bad thing to fade into. But I wanted to go home.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important thing is that people should realize that, for when they do, they will most certainly create another and better life for themselves. I will not live to see it, but I know that it will be quite different, quite unlike our present life. And so long as this different life does not exist, I shall go on saying to people again and again: 'Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!'”
“All I wanted was to take my place in the world alongside everyone else, and for that simple wish, people hated me.”
Source: Reflections of a Rock Lobster: A Story About Growing Up Gay
“All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else.”
Source: Endless Love
“All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles.”
“All I wanted, to be petite and attractive. I was afraid I'd never stop growing.”
“All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.”
“All I was trying to do was get home from work.”
“All I was trying to do when they caught me was bury my mother in an unmarked grave.”
Source: Blade Dancer
“All I was was a mechanism.”
“All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheese making class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I'm into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I'd love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef.”
“All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.”
“All I will say is we get wiser as we get older. And that what I am looking for in life is the same as I always have; happiness, peacefulness and joy. And that's all I'm going to say about that because otherwise I'd get into trouble”
“All I will tell you is that I play a small role in someone's happily ever after.”
“All I worried about was what Owings was doing to me, instead of what I was doing to him. When you start worrying about that stuff, you're going down the wrong path.”
“All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.”
Source: On Socrates
“All i would like to say is that I'm rich and you're not.”
“All I would say is, that I can go abroad without your family coming forward to favour me, - in short, with a parting Shove of their cold shoulders; and that, upon the whole, I would rather leave England with such impetus as I possess, than derive any acceleration of it from that quarter.”
Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield
“All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.”
“All I'd ever heard my entire life in my family was, "Nobody wanted you, and we took you in." When you get that into your head at a tender age, you really feel like you are an unlovable human being, and then you behave like one. That's exactly what I had done. It took me many years to deal with my own violence and find my own niche.”
“All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.”
Source: Just Listen: A Novel
“All I'd have to do then was roll with the consequences of inviting dewinged, fanged fairies into Trent's backyard. God, they were savage looking. Served him right.”
“All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“All I'm about is just the pen.”
“All I'm arguing for really is that we should have a conversation where the best ideas really thrive, where there's no taboo against criticizing bad ideas, and where everyone who shows up, in order to get their ideas entertained, has to meet some obvious burdens of intellectual rigor and self-criticism and honesty-and when people fail to do that, we are free to stop listening to them. What religion has had up until this moment is a different set of rules that apply only to it, which is you have to respect my religious certainty even though I'm telling you I arrived at it irrationally.”
“All I'm armed with is research.”
“All I'm asking for is what I want.”
“All I'm being offered now are parts that are authority figures. I've done that. And that's not what I want. I want something different.”
“All I'm doing is being authentic and real and singing about the emotions I go through as a human being.”
“All I'm doing is being authentic and real and singing about the emotions I go through as a human being. I don't think we should be nervous about expressing who we really are when it comes to being a believer but also when it comes to being someone who goes through real life. You have to experience real life before you can understand what it means to really worship.”
“All I'm doing is I'm filling out my tax returns - or my accountants are, and I'm paying whatever I'm supposed to pay, though I'm giving away a large amount of the money and that probably lowers my tax rate because I'm giving away so much money. But change the law, but don't blame me for the law. I'm not writing the law. I didn't write the law.”
“All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.”
“All I'm doing is photographing. When I was working on The Animals, I was working on a lot of other things too. I kept going to the zoo because things were going on in certain pictures. It wasn't a project.”
“All I'm doing is writing it down and putting it in a cadence. Once I get into a cadence, then why should I even stop and wonder what it is? You can do that for the rest of your life, but when it's coming out, you don't want to stop it.”
“All I'm doing now is extra. I've already did what I am going to do in my career.”
“All I'm doing, all I have done for 40 years, is spend time with the best scientific experts, gain their confidence, and take advantage of their patience in explaining things to me over and over again in progressively simpler language that I can understand, so that I can read it back to them and get their sign off, where they say, "Yep, that's it, Al. You've got it." When I understand it, I know I can explain it to other people. When the scientists' predictions end up being true, I see that as an opportunity to say to people, "Listen carefully to what they're saying now."”
“All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to interpret what those facts mean, extrapolate from them what they mean.”
“All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.”
“All I'm looking for is a guy who'll do what I want, when I want, for as long as I want, and then go away. Or wait nearby, like a Dust Buster, charged up and ready when needed.”
“All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.”
“All I'm really concerned with is doing my thing.”
“All I'm saying is [John McCain] cannot look a soldier in the eye and say "Questioning the president is less supportive to you than extending your tour three months." You should be coming home to your family.”
“All I'm saying is once you've been out in the woods and heard the things I've heard, you'd believe in Big Foot and the chupacabra.”
Source: The Between the Covers New Adult 6-Book Boxed Set: Wait for You, Losing It, Taking Chances, A Little Too Far, Rule, and Foreplay
“All I'm saying is that I understand if the novelty's worn off and you want to get off the carousel ride now before it kills you.”
Source: Tangled Threads