A Quotes
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“and i closed my eyes
in the middle of all the wild noise
and just stayed still… and i felt myself
being pulled that way.
and so i asked, “why that way?”
and i heard, “because there are dreams over there.”
and that feels like as good a reason as any
to ever do anything…
and so i’m going to go that way.”
“And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.”
“And I come from a small Vietnamese family. We're really close too, all ten of us.”
“And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.”
“And I come to realise that all my small todays, the way I act, will lead into my tomorrows.”
“And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing.”
“And I completely am one of the most sensitive in that area as far as the NFL is concerned.”
“And,” I continued, “I’m probably going to be a bitch most of the time. I guarantee I’ll find a reason to yell at you almost every day, and don’t be surprised if a few drinks get dumped on you from time to time. That’s just me, and you’re going to have to deal with it. Because I’m not changing for you or anyone else. And I-”
Wesley slid off his bar stool and pressed his lips against mine before the words could get out. My heart pounded as every thought vacated my mind. One of his arms encircled my waist, pulling me as close to him as possible, and his free hand cupped my face, his thumb tracing my cheekbone. He kissed me so passionately I thought we would catch on fire.
It wasn’t until after he pulled away, both of us in need of some air, that I could think straight again.
“You jerk!” I yelled, pushing him away from me. “Kissing me to make me shut up? God, you’re so obnoxious. I could just throw something at you right now.”
Wesley hopped onto his bar stool with a big grin, and I suddenly remembered him telling me that I was sexy when I was mad at him. Go figure. “Excuse me, Joe,” he called to the bartender. “I think Bianca wants a Cherry Coke.”
Despite my best efforts, I smiled. He wasn’t perfect, or even remotely close, for that matter, but, hey, neither was I. We were both pretty fucked up. Somehow, though, that made everything more exciting. Yeah, it was sick and twisted, but that’s reality, right? Escape is impossible, so why not embrace it?
Wesley took my hand and laced his fingers with mine. “You look beautiful tonight, Bianca.”
Source: The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend
“And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.”
“And I could always set Coach Hedge on fire,” Leo volunteered. “Then he can be fire.” The thought of a blazing satyr screaming, “Die, scumbag!” as he attacked Gaea was almost enough to make Piper laugh— almost.”
“And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.”
“And I could see her for what she was... Someone who wasn't invincible.. Someone who had flaws, and things she wanted.”
Source: Big Summer
“And I could see this boy doing his homework and thinking about my sister naked. And I could see them holding hands at football games that they do not watch. And I could see this boy throwing up in the bushes at a party house. And I could see my sister putting up with it. And I felt very bad for both of them.”
“and I could tell her the best
of my poor, partial love, I could sing her
out, with it, I saw the luck
and the luxury of that hour.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“And I could weep at how mean people are and how they betray their fellow creatures, perhaps for the sake of personal advantage. It is enough to make a person lose heart sometimes. I often wish I lived on a Robinson Crusoe island.”
“And I could write it better than you ever felt it.”
“And I couldn't help but feel that justice had been served.
That the princess had won.
And that, somehow, she'd even gotten herself a prince.”
Source: Bane
“And I couldn't tell my mother to fuck off.I'd be killed.”
Source: The Fall of January Cooper
“And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either. We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly.”
“And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.”
“And I'd add that every good thing has its disadvantages, and the disadvantage of love is precisely that it leaves room for nothing else, not even the prudence of ferrets.”
Source: Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was
“And I'd also had an experience that I decided, firmly, I'd use to remind me, instead of life being a day-to-day battle, it was a gift. You could struggle through it. Or you could rise each day and make the most of it. I chose the latter.”
Source: The Girl in the Mist
“And I'd be struck a new by the finality of Ruth's absence.”
Source: The Longest Ride
“And I'd be willing to bet that you were great at it, if only because you have to love something before you can hate it.”
Source: The Last Song
“And I’d have you know, through all of it, I still had perfect nails! Because I am completely swell.”
Source: Bellevere House
“And I'd noticed her eyes, the lightest blue, and alive, moving here and there and then staring straight on. And now there's darkness under her eyes like she hasn't slept well for too many days, almost like someone punched her just hard enough to leave a little black, a quarter-moon smudge under each eye.”
Source: The Number of Missing
“And I'd said, wouldn't it be easier if you just hit me once in the face, and got it over with?”
Source: In the Cut
“and I’d scream and run away, flailing my arms but not actually scared, because back then all emotions felt like play, like I was experimenting with feeling rather than stuck with it. True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice in the matter.”
Source: Turtles All the Way Down
“And I'd started thinking about my mother's last weeks--the way she'd drifted listlessly about the house in her dressing gown, cigarettes in one hand, glass of something strong-smelling in the other.”
Source: Cheet
“And I dare to believe that it really is. I dare to bet on us again.”
Source: Being Me
“And I deal with all that by being like a perfectionist. But that's okay.”
“And I Decided (From Arabic)
And I decided to go
Round the world on freedom's bicycle
By ways illegal
As the travels of wind.
When asked for my address
I give the address of all sidewalks
I chose as permanent residence.
When asked for my papers,
I show them your eyes
And am allowed to pass
For they know that travel in the cities of your eyes, my dear,
Is the right of all world citizens.
وقررت
نزار قباني
وقررت
أن أطوفَ العالمَ على درّاجة الحرِّية..
وبنفسِ الطريقةِ غيرِ الشرعيِّة
التي تستعملها الريح عندما تسافر..
وإذا سأَلوني
عن عُنواني
أعطيتُهم عنوانَ كلِّ الأرصِفة
التي اخترتها مكاناً دائماً لإقامتي.
وإذا سألوني عن أوراقي
أريتُهُم عينيكِ، يا حبيبتي..
فَتَرَكوني أمرّ..
لأنهم يعرفونَ أنَّ السفر في مدائن عينيكِ..
من حق جميع المواطينَ في العالم”
“And I decided I'd rather love too much than not at all.”
Source: Chasing Trains
“And I decided to play the hero. See how it felt. To try."
"And?" she asks.
"I didn't like it," he admits. "Henceforth, I think we should consider our roles as monarchs to be largely decorative. It would be better for the low Courts and the solitary Folk to work things out on their own."
"I think you have iron poisoning," she tells him, which could possibly be true but is still a hurtful thing to say when he is making perfect sense.”
Source: How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
“And I deeply pray that everyone discovers that they can strip away anything that might be holding them back on every level, and can begin living life from the real essence of their own soul.”
“And I definitely do that very British thing of, take things with a pinch of salt, stiff upper lip, you know what I mean?”
“And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.”
“And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.”
“And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)
“And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater.”
“And I did Batman, too. I did Mr. Freeze. I get more mail for him than anything I've ever done.”
“And I did everything I could to get over the nagging emptiness that took over every time I thought of Felicity Williams.”
Source: Wild Irish Envy
“And I did long for it, to say one true sentence of my own, to leap into the subject, that sturdy vessel travelling upstream through the axonal predicate into what is possible; into the object, which is all possibility; into what little we know of the future, of eternity--the light of which, incidentally, was streaming in on us just then through the high windows. Above Stasselova's head the storm clouds were dispersing, as if frightened by some impending goodwill, and I could see tht the birds were out again, forming into that familiar pointy hieroglyph, as they're told to do from deep within.”
Source: Bobcat and Other Stories
“And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.”
“And I did work out something: that the rich of the earth indeed create misery, but they cannot bear to see it. They are weaklings and fools just like you. As long as they have enough to eat and can grease their floors with butter so that even the crumbs that fall from your table grow fat, they can't look with indifference on a man collapsing from hunger - although, of course, it must be in front of their house that he collapses.”
Source: The Threepenny Opera
“And I didn’t even want a baby, he thought to the rhythm of his digging. Isn’t that the damnedest thing? I didn’t want a baby any more than she did. Wasn’t it true, then, that everything in his life from that point on had been a succession of things he hadn’t really wanted to do? Taking a hopelessly dull job to prove he could be as responsible as any other family man, moving to an overpriced, genteel apartment to prove his mature belief in the fundamentals of orderliness and good health, having another child to prove that the first one hadn’t been a mistake, buying a house in the country because that was the next logical step and he had to prove himself capable of taking it. Proving, proving; and for no other reason than that he was married to a woman who had somehow managed to put him forever on the defensive, who loved him when he was nice, who lived according to what she happened to feel like doing and who might at any time—this was the hell of it—who might at any time of day or night just happen to feel like leaving him. It was as ludicrous and as simple as that.”
Source: Revolutionary Road
“And I didn't know how to say the future was like a language I couldn't speak anymore.”
Source: No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
“And I didn't think even eternity would be long enough to fix me.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“And I didn't think you believed in god or a heaven.'
'Having been here thirty-four days,' I tell him, 'I've changed my mind, Sydney.'
'Why's that then?' he smiles.
'Well, if there's a hell like this place, then there has to be heaven somewhere.”
Source: The Damned Utd
“And I didn't choose it, Kat. I chose you.”