A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Am I a spaceman? Do I belong to a new race on earth, bred by men from outer space in embraces with earth women?”
“Am I a star? That's a different thing. I mean no, I'm not in People magazine. But I must be doing something right, because I've done it for 50 years! And I like doing what I do.”
“Am I a storm-waster? For it is within the fury of the very storms within which I cower that I find resources for my growth that are entirely absent on calmer days.”
Source: Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
“Am I a technocrat? Im just a guy who went down to the bookstore and bought a couple of textbooks on TCP/IP, which is the underlying protocol of the Internet, and read them. And then I signed on to a computer, which anyone can do nowadays, and I messed around with it for a few years, and now I know all about it. Does that make me a technocrat?”
Source: Cryptonomicon
“Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.”
“Am I a troubled kid? Yeah, you could say that.”
Source: The lightning thief
“Am I a vampire?" Massie asked. "Huh?" Alicia asked. "Then why are you keeping me in the dark?”
“Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?”
Source: The Years
“Am I a womanizer? Yes, I'm. Born from a woman, born for a woman, and born to die for a woman.”
“Am I a workaholic? Yes, but I also have no problem taking time for myself.”
“Am I about to discover where you, Ron, and Hermione disappeared to while you were supposed to be in the back room of Fred and George's shop?" How did you...?" Harry, please. You're talking to the man who raised Fred and George.”
“Am I about to feel really, really stupid?”
“Am I accurately reporting what I see in such a blossom? The answer is no ... and yes.”
“Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?”
“Am I aging? The pros and the cons? Well, you know a lot more, at least until the time you start forgetting it all. Actually, aging can be a fun process, to some degree.”
“Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”
Source: The Return of Tarzan
“Am I, Allen Ginsberg, the product of one of the CIA’s lamentable, ill-advised, or triumphantly successful experiments in mind control?”
Source: Poems all over the place, mostly 'seventies
“Am I allowed to ask my book / whether it's true I wrote it?”
Source: The book of questions
“Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich.”
“Am I allowed to say I really wanted this? This is fantastic.”
“Am I alone in an ensconced inner world where I obsessively worry about what happens to me, where the story of personal survival becomes the central theme of my shallow existence? I think not. Swaddled in our own brand of strangeness, we all struggle to come to terms with our demonstrated personal shortcomings. Our yearned-for life of living in pink skyways far removed from harm’s way is depressingly marked in contrast by our actual crabby existence spent scuttling along akin to a smug lobster, scrunched down on the asphalt streets, working in the city grid as frumpy members of the faceless mob.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square but I open my eyes and exclaim, "Good God! Here I am again!" not always with pleasure, often with pain; sometimes in a spasm.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“Am I alone in this mother-food connection or does being with your mom trigger the sudden and voracious need for large amounts of mac & cheese, rice pudding, and the scraps along the side of a bowl of cookie dough?”
Source: 1 Weight Loss Plan, 2 Friends, 3 Weeks: Using the Buddy System to Fight Fat
“Am I always in contact with Reality, or do I only pray when things have gone wrong, when there is a disturbance in the moments of my life?”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition
“Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.”
“Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.”
“Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.”
“Am I an intellectual? I don't think so. Less than people sometimes think, I have to say. But more than some others think.”
“Am I as admirable as that ant?”
Source: Saikyō Densetsu Kurosawa 11
“Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.”
Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers
“Am I at home, or am I in hell?”
“Am I athletic? In my dreams.”
“Am I awake or dreaming? It doesn’t matter anymore. When I close my eyes I dream of death and war. When I open my eyes I see death and war.”
Source: Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq
“Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, “Oh well, sin doesn’t matter much”?”
Source: Love: A Holy Command
“Am I becoming the kind of person I would like to have as a friend?”
Source: Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness
“Am I being typecast as a horrible person? I don't know. I don't think so. But if it happens, I'd rather get to play that, because there's nothing fun about being sweet. Sweet can be so boring, so I'd be happy staying away from that.”
“Am I blind?" Will's voice floated out of the darkness, tinged with annoyance. "I'm not going to be at all pleased if you've blinded me, Henry.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told 'no', then I find another way to get my 'yes.'”
“Am I brave enough to face a truth that will challenge all of my lies?”
“Am I brave enough? What is brave? Is bravery counted by the medals, proudly on display on a soldier’s uniform or is it in laying down your life for something bigger than yourself. Is bravery in holding tight or letting go? For some, bravery is in standing against the world for your Principle …. For me bravery is living each day of my life for the sake of something greater than myself.”
“Am I calm all the time? That is a question to ask my mother. I am very happy in my home. I have a good family, that gives me something extra.”
“Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?”
“Am I chasing an empty idea,
Or is the empty idea chasing me?
Everything that once was is gone.
What’s left, can I ever see?
My mind feels heavy
And yet my thoughts are few.
It takes up all and none of me.
You are all I ever knew.”
Source: Beneath
“Am I conservative? Yes, I am. I would have thought conservative is very much middle of the road, representative of the aspirational values of the Australian people. The extreme right has connotations with it that I would never seek to identify with.”
“Am I considered a virtuous young lady?"
He surveyed her thoughtfully. The stark black of her dress molded to her lush form, and the neckline, though demure by Lady Barbara's standards, was scandalously low for a proper young lady. Her gorgeous hair hung down her back, and her mouth was soft, damp, abominably kissable.
There were also her eyes. Honey-brown, staring up at him with an unassailable innocence that only a complete fool would miss.
But then, how many people would their time looking in her eyes when there were so many other delectable attributes to gaze upon? "Not likely," he said. "Anyone who spends time in my presence is tainted." He advanced on her slowly, giving her time to run.
She didn't, but she wanted to. He could see the faint startled reflex in her eyes, the momentary flash of panic. But she held firm, tilting her chin up with just a trace of defiance. Poor child. Little did she know that her defiance enchanted him as much as her panic.
He fastened the pearls around her neck, their rich luster luminous against her skin. He resisted the temptation to stroke her bruised flesh, the need to touch his mouth to that abrasion. He resisted the impulse to turn away from her, lock himself in his study, and immerse himself in brandy.
He stepped back, a deceptive half smile on his face. "Lovely," he said.”
Source: To Love a Dark Lord
“Am I considered odd and crazy if I'm caught talking to myself in my dreams.”
“Am I crazy Loretta?" "A little," she says. I glance up at her. "Sometimes we're called on to do crazy things.”
Source: The Good Dream
“Am I crazy or am I a genius? I don't think I'm either.”
“Am I crazy or am I just in a very unnatural electromagnetic radiation environment?”
“Am I crazy or falling in love? Is it really just another crush?”