A Quotes
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“All of a sudden you realise that you are the person who has control of your life.”
“All of a sudden you see reading in bed and waffles on Sunday and laughing at nothing and his mouth on yours. And it's so far beyond fine that you know you can never go back to fine.”
Source: Gone Girl
“All of a sudden you're like the Bin Laden of America. Osama Bin Laden is the only one who knows what I'm going through.”
“All of a sudden your whole life becomes a public issue. Money, wealth, people, prestige - all of that suddenly comes into play.”
“All of a sudden, I feel very old and very tired. Maybe when I get to California, the smog, brush fires, floods, and earthquakes will cheer me up.”
Source: The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
“All of a sudden, I sort of started to feel that I was constrained by the characters as opposed to enjoying them. And that remains for me to this day the line that I know where it's like, OK, you're not writing fan fiction anymore.”
“All of a sudden, I was hearing stories about how difficult I was to work with, ridiculous rumors about drugs and what a diva I was. I never had to go to rehab or a program.”
“All of a sudden, I'm thinking that if I keep eating the way I'm eating, I'm not going to live long and I'm going to die. Having those thoughts as a young person can be very haunting.”
“All of a sudden, if I can't go cycling, I have to do something else for five hours - I can't do anything for five hours! It just means sitting at home trying to work out something to do. It's just not me, it doesn't feel right.”
“All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.”
“All of a sudden, making a Spanish-American War joke. I think you sort of had to go to probably to an American high school to have remembered that.”
“All of a sudden, people are going to decide they want to go micro, everything's smaller.”
“All of a sudden, space isn't friendly. All of a sudden, it's a place where people can die. . . . Many more people are going to die. But we can't explore space if the requirement is that there be no casualties; we can't do anything if the requirement is that there be no casualties.”
“All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number of people that cross-pollinated each other.”
“All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.”
“All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control,' he said. 'We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our smartphones; we can't turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it's not God.”
“All of a sudden, when you're exposed to a large audience, they think you just started writing that day, but I started years before. I look back at things I wrote then and I'm so embarrassed - the writing seems so blocky and choppy to me and I wouldn't have wanted success any sooner because the writing was even worse.”
“All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It's frightening.”
“All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.”
“All of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee.”
“All of Africa's resources should be declared resources of the state and managed by the nation. Our experience in Bolivia shows that when you take control of natural resources for the people of the town and village, major world change is possible.”
“All of anarchism, libertarianism, and anti-Statism can be traced back to the rise of Protestantism. The USA - founded by Protestants (often extremist Protestants expelled from their own countries) is where the love of the individual and hatred of the collective is practically written into its Constitution, which is extremely Protestant in its character.”
Source: The Quality Agenda: The Search for Excellence
“All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.”
“All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.”
Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
“All of Chinese thinking - Confucianism, Taoism, as well as Buddhism - contains the idea that in the course of life, man will shape harmoniously those psychic and physical predispositions that he received as capital assets by unifying them and giving them form from within a center.”
Source: Lectures on the
“All of Christian existence ... stands within an expectation. Its fulfillment may be sure, but its timing is unknown.”
“All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.”
“All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.”
“All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is”
Source: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
“All of creation is a song of praise to God.”
“All of creation is alive and conscious, and all of creation deserves our burning, churning, yearning love. All of it. Not just the people and creatures and things that we personally find beautiful and helpful and interesting. But everything. All of creation.”
“All of creation wants to create through you. You are not your body and you are not in your body. Your body is in Life. Use it until you need it no more and then you will be happy to release it.”
Source: Faith
“All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything - every natural and physical law - is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth.”
Source: Dennis Prager: Volume I
“All of Creation’s a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game. Everyone ridicules everyone else. But he who has the last laugh Laughs longest.”
“All of Dad's relationships ended exactly the same: subpoena, beep of a moving van backing up the driveway, pile of his clothes burning on the front lawn.”
“All of depiction is fiction, it's only a question of degree. When we think of images, such as the signing of the declaration of independence, we think of that wonderful John Trumbull painting Declaration of Independence that is at the Yale Art Gallery and on the back of our money. When we think of that historical moment we think of that image. That image never happened like that. All of those people were never in that room together to sign that paper. It's a beautiful fiction to help us have an understanding of what went on.”
“All of Dragos’s sentinels were mean and barbaric and sexy. Even that weird harpy-bitch Aryal, who she might have a teensy girl crush on. You know, in a totally hetero kind of way.”
Source: Storm's Heart
“All of earth's creatures have, hidden within their beings, a wild uncontrollable urge to punt!”
“All of Europe is tremendously integrated now; perhaps from all those years of colonization. Everybody that they've colonized has come to the mainland, so you'll have a racially diverse audience as well. You'll have many Middle Easterners, Asians, Africans, from seven to ninety sitting in the audience, and the really incredible thing is that they all know the music. I don't mean they just know a song here and there. They know the music. They are a very educated audience.”
“All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a big bang as a hasty dash toward an opportunity to trade nothingness for somethingness. The main contributory factor to the entire universe was a momentary effect in need of a cause.”
Source: The Woman Who Died a Lot
“All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.”
Source: The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection
“All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“All of great leaders evidence four basic qualities that are central to their ability to lead: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage others through shared meaning, a distinctive voice, and unshakeable integrity. These four qualities mark all exemplary leaders, whatever their age, gender, ethnicity, or race.”
“All of heaven we have below.”
“All of her bones seemed more purposeful than other people’s. Like they weren’t just there to hold her up, they were there to make a point.”
Source: The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection
“All of her days were full of strangeness here at the end of the world, but this day was standing out as one of the stranger ones.”
Source: Dominion of the Damned
“All of her heart, a meaningless phrase, but correct and precise, too. She used her heart to love him, not her head, and not her words and not her thoughts or ideas or feelings or any other vehicle or object or device people use to deliver love or love-like things.”
Source: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel
“All of her is holy site.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“All of Her is Holy Site
(Boys Be Men, Sonnet)
Way to a woman's heart is through
her eyes, not between her legs.
All of her is holy site, to wander
unwelcome even with eyes is sickness.
First be her sanctuary, her safe haven,
then be the filthiest beast you can be.
Slave to her kinks between the sheets,
and in society be her shameless shield.
Anybody can stay the night,
takes backbone to stay the life.
Penetration of flesh is animal affair,
human miracle is to touch the mind.
Boys be Men! Lift your brain above your belt.
In monsoon be her brolly, in drought be her rain.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“All of Her
She shows me all of her insecure places
And I kiss them until she knows
They are beautiful. No dark places
To hide in which love
Doesn't shower her with acceptance.”
Source: Senses