A Quotes
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“All those girls who were mean to me[in high school], I pay them back by going through the drive-through window and asking for my burger. That feels really great.”
“All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . . bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.”
Source: By the Shores of Silver Lake
“All those happy memories have lost their colour, all at once. I clutch for them, but they are like sand, gritty and abrasive. Sand under the eyelids. Sand in the mind.”
Source: Elder Race
“All those happy, pretty, successful people- he hated them because he knew they didn't really exist, and he hated even more the magazine that glorified them and in a way that made them exist, actors, rock musicians, famous writers, politicians. Those aren't people, he fumed, they're photographs.”
Source: Continental Drift
“All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency to slip away from us and to leave us sadly unguided and perplexed when we attempt to act upon them.”
Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
“All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.”
“All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident.”
“All those hours spent alone on the rink is where a skater's strength comes from. That's where a standing ovation starts and if you don't want to be there, it is going to show. Nothing you dreamed about is going to happen if you forget why you started in the first place. You have to skate with you heart. Before anyone can believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.”
“All those hours spent together, playing, talking, laughing, lovemaking... I should know him by now, surely. I should know the secret, vulnerable corners of his brain. Shouldn't I? But then, he did always keep part of himself hidden away, I remind myself. As though he couldn't trust it with anyone, not even me.”
Source: The Party Crasher
“All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.”
Source: The Portable Edmund Burke
“All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.”
“All those involved in the firebombing of Tokyo .. were war criminals interviews recorded in the movie The Fog of War.. the firebombing of Tokyo occurred before the atom bombs.. 100,000 civilians died in one night from American bombs.. 500,000 altogether over several days say some.”
“All those large dreams by which men long live well Are magic-lanterned on the smoke of hell.”
Source: The Complete Poems
“All those layers of silence upon silence.”
“All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.”
“All those little congruences and arabesques you prepared with such delicate anticipatory pleasure are gobbled up as if by pigs at a pastry cart.”
Source: Conversations with John Updike
“All those memories....and a poem fell off my pen, a river broke loose somewhere and now they run stories through my soul..”
“All those men have their price.”
“All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life.”
“All those million stars lighting up my room or shining down on us. They're so far away but they can make me feel some happiness. I guess it reminds me that no matter how big my problems are, it's nothing compared to what's out there.”
Source: The Secrets of the Isle
“All those moments spent in concetration will give you a terrific strength and with that strength you will cut aside all illusions.”
“All those moments throughout the days, weeks, months that don't get marked on calendars with hand-drawn stars or little stickers.
Those are the moments that make a life.
Not grand gestures, but mundane details that, over time, accumulate until you have a home, instead of a house.
The things that matter.
The things I can't stop longing for.”
Source: Funny Story
“All those moments, those memories. Everything that we are, compressed in just two or three kilos of paper — the weight of a human heart.”
“All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly. And I hate him for it.”
Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
“All those muscles and that gorgeous dark blond beard were wasted on a grump.”
Source: Butting Heads With Her Mountain Man
“All those night long phone calls! All those secret visits to my house! All those secret walks! And you’re fond of me! You think I’m being over dramatic! How about I break your face open for over dramatics!” ~Becca”
Source: Lucifer
“all those nights with the phone warming the side of my face like the sun.”
“All those other gestures of sympathy seemed a little melodramatic to me. My loss was mine and only mine. For the others, it was just a matter of words.”
Source: Jasmine Days
“All those other girls are cake...I'm Crème brûlée...Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above.”
“All those other summers and those other kisses and everything else we shared, my dad choosing some random lake in some random town to stay in one year, the fights and the screw ups that helped us learn and gave us experiences with other people. They were all meant to happen, and our paths were supposed to cross over and over again. Until we found that point, the bright star in the summer sky that would be ours forever.”
Source: Four Summers
“All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.”
Source: Paper Towns
“All those pathetic lonely people fooling one another into their clumsy games of afterlife and cosmic relevance just to avoid noticing the nauseating sadness of their real lives.”
Source: The Supernatural Enhancements
“All those people who are chained here thinking that their reputations matter and this little shit matters are so freaking shortsighted. Dude, what matters is that you're happy. What matters is your future. What matters is that we get out of here in one piece. What matters is finding the truth of our own lives, not caring about what other people think is the truth of us.”
Source: Ask the Passengers
“All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.”
Source: Alan Partridge: every ruddy word : all the scripts - from radio to TV and back
“All those people who have achieved greatness in their life have one thing in common as a personality trait within them that is "Discipline". They follow a routine and they are constantly striving towards excellence. If you have a million-dollar dream but lacks discipline, your dream will be your dream only it will not become a reality. Great people have mastered discipline in their life and without discipline, they are just people without greatness.”
Source: Science Behind A Perfect Life
“All those people who rejected me gave me a head-start on freedom, because the fear and obedience we are all taught, well, those things weren't getting me any love.”
“All those people who went out [to Occupy Wall Street] missed work, didn't get paid. Those were individuals who were already feeling the effects of inequality, so they didn't have a lot to lose. And then the individuals who were louder, more disruptive and, in many ways, more effective at drawing attention to their concerns were immediately castigated by authorities. They were cordoned off, pepper-sprayed, thrown in jail.”
“All those plans you made for the future mean nothing. Life becomes like death. It’s the hardest thing in the world.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“All those poor elves I haven’t set free yet, having to stay over during Christmas because there aren’t enough hats!”
“All those posters and PSAs and health class presentations on body image and the way you can burst blood vessels in your face and rupture your esophagus if you can’t stop ramming those sno balls down your throat every night, knowing they’ll have to come back up again, you sad weak girl.
Because of all this, Coach surely can’t tell a girl, a sensitive, body-conscious teenage girl, to get rid of the tender little tuck around her waist, can she?
She can.
Coach can say anything.
And there’s Emily, keening over the toilet bowl after practice, begging me to kick her in the gut so she can expel the rest, all that cookie dough and cool ranch, the smell making me roil. Emily, a girl made entirely of donut sticks, cheese powder, and haribo.
I kick, I do.
She would do the same for me.”
Source: Dare Me
“All those practice fights when it was just us, two children pretending to be soldiers. Or two soldiers pretending to be children.”
Source: Snow Like Ashes
“all those pretty things…
the way you would say such
pretty things to me, i took it in like air,
but you were so careless with special things,
and it left me here…
so
unable
to breathe.”
“All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.”
“All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.”
“All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“All those reports that I sleep in my closet. I don’t know how people get that. People are so obsessed with what you do at home.”
“All those ridiculous songs about love - I finally understood.”
“All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She's [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.”
“All those scenes of flight he’d included in his videos; and yet, when he needed it most, such flight had proved beyond him.”
Source: The Vegetarian
“ALL THOSE SONGS ABOUT a love lost make sense now. I thought I had loved before, but never has it ending felt like this.”
Source: Her Rock Star Mountain Man