A Quotes
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“Am I crazy to spend [millions] in contracts when I have the chance to get three layers deep into the playoffs?”
“Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes." "Maybe," he said, rubbing her forehead. "But don't worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing not a bad thing.”
“Am I creating my own isolation? It seems to me that most of my acts are acts of integrity. So much takes place within me each day that by comparison I find a paucity, a stinginess, a silence in people which drives me to excess.”
Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 5: 1947-1955
“Am I dead?"
A beat of silence, then came the soft hush of rustling fabric. It sounded as if she surrounded him. Her scent certainly did, delicate citrus and warmth.
Mmm. He smiled. "You smell like sunshine."
What a ridiculous thing to say. Maybe he was dead... and in heaven.”
Source: To Wed a Wicked Earl
“Am I disappointed in Barack Obama? Yes, I'm very disappointed in Barack Obama and I'm disappointed in the Democratic administration and in the two Democratic houses of Congress for two years that bailed out Wall Street when they should have bailed out Main Street.”
“Am I doing anything? I do it with reference to the good of mankind. Does anything happen to me? I receive it and refer it to the gods, and the source of all things, from which all that happens is derived.”
Source: Meditations
“Am I doing it right?” he asks as he speeds up his movements.
I hear the nervousness in his voice.
My hands slide up his back.
“If you were doing it any more right I don't think I could handle it,” I respond softly, meaning it. “You're perfect.”
He shakes his head a little.
“You're so quiet,” he says.
My hands go back to his hips as he continues to move over me.
“I'm thinking about how good it is, how good we are.”
Source: Barry the Lonely Reindeer & His Bashful Elf
“Am I doing the movie because I'm really excited about it and want to do it, or am I doing it because it seems like it's a big budget or something like that? It would still have to be the right thing, because my lifestyle's really cheap and I'm able to exist doing smaller movies, so if I'm able to do that, I'm happy to do that. But if something bigger came along that seems really cool, then that would be great.”
“Am I dreaming? Has the world gone mad--or have I?”
Source: H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…
“Am I drinking today? Well, put it this way, I'm not not drinking.”
“Am I eating chicken or tuna?”
“Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies which are free of sin? No, I don't. Do I think ours is, on balance, incomparably the most hopeful set of human relations the world has? Yes, I do.”
“Am I emotional? Yes, my first born was murdered. Am I angry? Yes, he was killed for lies and for a PNAC [Project for the New American Century] Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel. My son joined the Army to protect America, not Israel. Am I stupid? No, I know full well that my son, my family, this nation, and this world were betrayed by George [W.] Bush who was influenced by the neo-con PNAC agenda after 9/11.”
“Am I entitled to my ego if my ego has manufactured impressive results?”
Source: Goodbye, Mr. Nothing
“Am I entitled to one mistake, am I after 35 years?”
“Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.”
“Am I evil? . . . I used to think I couldn't be, because you loved me”
Source: Troubled Blood
“Am I falling in love? She thought, is it safe to do so with this man? She thought, I don't need to answer.”
“Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.”
“Am I for ever to be made the property of strangers?”
Source: Our Mutual Friend
“Am I gay, am I straight? No, I'm just slutty. So, where's my parade? What about slut pride.”
“Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.”
“Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?”
Source: Ollie Chandler Collection: Three Novels: Deadline, Dominion, Deception
“Am I Getting Lazy? Am I Too Busy? Am I Becoming Arrogant? Am I Getting Timid? If you answer 'yes' to any one of these questions, that's your warning to Kick that attitude!”
“Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.”
Source: The Place of Help: A Book of Devotional Readings
“Am I getting smart with you? How would you know?”
“Am I giving you a headache? I think.
“You are a headache.”
Source: Perfect Lies
“Am I glowing?"
"Like a Christmas tree."
"Not just the star?"
The bed moved a little, and I felt his hand brush my arm. "No. You're super bright. It's kind of like looking at the sun.”
Source: Obsidian
“Am I going to be able to be the person I want to be in this relationship?”
“Am I going to be able to provide a real home for her, man? An education? A real life? What's her college application going to look like: 'Raised on Spooky Island by wizard with GED, please help'?”
“Am I going to be here when I'm seventy? he wondered. Creaking around, gumming my dinner, haunting the place like some ghostly old fart?”
Source: The Tea Rose
“Am I going to be in the same office doing the same thing?
Am I going to live 90 years?
Or am I going to live one year, 90 times, over and over again?”
“Am I going to be known by the car I travel in or by the path I pave and walk on?”
“Am I going to change the world, or am I going to change me? Or maybe change the world a little bit, just by changing me?”
Source: Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
“Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.”
“Am I going to crave blood, raw steak, that kind of thing?” Gary asked, straight-faced.
“Well, actually…” Savannah started.
“I do not have rabies.” Gregori silenced her with a look. “I am not contagious.”
“All the books say if you drink my blood, I get to drink your blood, and then I’m like you.” Gary sounded slightly disappointed.
“Some people grow bat wings,” Savannah admitted, her teeth tugging at her lower lip. “That’s where Batman came from. And capes, all those swirling capes. A regular epidemic. It’s from our blood, a kind of allergic reaction. Don’t worry, you would be showing signs already if you were one of those with a problem.”
“Is she always like this?” Gary asked Gregori.
“She gets worse,” Gregori said truthfully.”
Source: Dark Magic
“Am I going to die and all I will have are these fucking poems”
Source: Rome: Poems
“Am I going to have to carry you? If so, it would complete my badass knight-in-shining-armor act with you today.”
“Am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? No. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? Yes.”
“Am I good enough to go to Heaven?”
Source: Reshaping It All: Motivation for Physical and Spiritual Fitness
“Am I good enough?
Trust.”
“Am I happy? is one of those questions that, if it has got to be asked, more or less dictates its own answer.”
Source: Oblivion
“Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Am I honest? Am I sincere? Do I really desire first the praise of God?”
Source: Bible commentary - The gospel of John
“Am I horny enough to hump a bedpost?" Mica asked. "Not quite yet. Should I consult with you first, Doctor?" Sarcasm lay thick and heavy in her voice. "I believe a consult would be a good idea." Ely nodded with mocking solemnity as Mica lifted herself onto the gurney. "You never know what you may end up hurting if the act isn't done properly.”
Source: Navarro's Promise
“Am I hurting you?” Autumn whispers as I slowly reach up and tuck a strand of hair behind her ear that got stuck to her wet cheek.
I shake my head. “No.” She never can.”
Source: Peyton
“Am I in a relationship? Yeah. I'm already in a relationship with everybody that likes me.”
“Am I in love with her already? Perhaps. Or maybe I'm just confusing love with comfort, and I'm okay with that. Is there any difference between love and a safe harbor from a storm? Should there be? There are a lot of different kinds of love, and though I may not be able to tell them apart from each other, I appreciate all of them the same.”
Source: The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
“Am I in love? - Yes, since I'm waiting." The other never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game: whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely: I am the one who waits.”
“Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.”