A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“And I sing and sing of awful things The pleasure that my sadness brings.”
“And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“And I sit in my jacuzzi with my script.”
“And I smile at him, happy. Because it turns out the only thing better than sharing your own worst secrets is when the person you love shares his with you.”
Source: Believe Me
“And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest.”
Source: Poetical works
“And I so badly needed to self-destruct.”
Source: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
“And I somehow always felt less lonely when I was completely alone.”
Source: Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
“And I sometimes think that a moment of touching is the difference between complete utter despair and the ability to carry on.”
Source: The Court of the Stone Children
“And I sort of frowned about that, thinking. 'You felt ill this afternoon,' he said, 'because you're getting better. When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea. You're becoming healthy, that's all.”
Source: A Clockwork Orange
“And I sort of look at us as two of the luckiest guys [Bill Gates the other] on the planet because we found what we loved to do and we were at the right place at the right time and we've gotten to go to work every day with super bright people for 30 years and do what we love doing.”
“And I sowed the seeds of elixir and poison next to each other. The plants that sprouted began entangling their roots and grew into gigantic trees. Each tree bore a different fruit, and each fruit tasted differently. What would happen to you when you consume that fruit that would differ every time, like its taste? Some have met death in the most beautiful ways, and some have become immortal in the most cursed ways that can exist. But above all, the one who died didn't really die. The ones who became immortals aren't really living.”
Source: Reflections in a Shattered Mirror
“And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life”
Source: The Dispossessed
“And I specialize in fixing things up and restoring them to their former glory.” She wondered if that talent extended to humans, maybe even humans who never really had a former glory.”
Source: Simply Irresistible
“And I spent a wonderful summer, below the trees in the Godavari, writing my poetry.”
Source: Why the Silhouette?
“And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.”
“And I spilled gravy on my Carolina sweater, because I am alive.”
Source: Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
“And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work”
“And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.”
“And i start sleeping and dreaming and i think i'll dream about you, all through the night.”
“And I start to say, no. Start to ask him to please just take it off and put it away. Start to explain how it holds far too many memories for me. But then I remember what Damen said once about memories - that they're haunting things. And because I refuse to be haunted by mine - I just take a deep breath and smile when I say, "You know, I think it looks really good on you. You should defiantly keep it.”
“And I start to wonder if I will every manage to find something worth living for, admit all of these billions of billions of stars that shine down on me at this very moment. And what if I don't manage that? Do not find something to live for? Will I have to settle with giving up my dreams? So, in light of this, where is my speck of hope that will motive me to carry on after this monumental and life changing trip? Lost somewhere between the stars? Or maybe buried deep down within me, motivating me to keep carry on and doing my best, at whatever life throws at me?”
Source: Peruvian Days
“And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.”
“And I started to cry again, realizing that it must be changing him, too, this man who was kind enough to be a soul but strong as only a human could be.”
“And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.”
“And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores.”
“And i still don't know how to make sense of the world. but maybe it's okay that it's bigger than what we can hold on to.”
Source: Love Letters to the Dead
“And I still don’t know what I would do next. I still don’t know how to become an adult. But I know for sure that my parents would be proud of me, proud of their three daughters, no matter what path we choose. And it doesn’t matter if we get lost or choose the wrong path, because what matters is choosing to get back up once again.”
Source: What I Wish I Had Known
“And I still fell apart, like my life was happening to me. [From Cat People by Devapriya Roy (ed.)]”
“And I still love you in my own fucked-up way. I miss you, I really do. Can we still be friends?”
Source: The Silver Linings Playbook
“And I still say it was just a coincidence;' he muttered pugnaciously. 'You say it too! Look at me and say it! It was just a coincidence. That happened to be the nearest place on the dial where they both met exactly, those two hands. My blows dented them. They got stuck there just as the works died, that was all. Stay sane whatever you do. Say it over and over. It was just a coincidence!'
Outside the tall French windows, in the velvety night-sky, the stars in all their glory twinkled derisively in at them. ("Speak To Me Of Death")”
Source: The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
“And I still walk the sidewalk mumbling
something about how it will all be fine
Fine is its own crazy village on the Rhine
Fine is the name of the cuckoo-clock maker
Fine is the word the cuckoo cries
every hour after hour on the hour—
scrambling out of its dark little hole
like something being chased with a knife by Time”
Source: Space, in Chains
“And I still want to know why you hit that man in front of me. You wanted me to see it, didn’t you?”
“Why would I want you to see it?”
Sarah was getting very annoyed with him. He usually wasn’t this dense. “Because you wanted me to think badly of you, and I demand to know why!”
“You do, do you?” he said in a very odd tone.
“Yes, I do, and I’m not getting out of this cab until you tell me!”
“I don’t want to tell you.”
“Then what do you want?”
She knew he was looking at her, although she doubted he could see very much in the darkness. “I want to show you,” he said.”
Source: Murder on Washington Square
“And I still wouldn't like it. Oh, I'd love the clothes and the wedding. I am not so sure I should like the facts of life, but I have got over the bitter disappointment I felt when I first heard about them [...]”
Source: I Capture The Castle
“And I stood there and took it because I was an object. We were all objects to Marcus McCoy.”
Source: We Are the Ants
“And I stood there for a while in my sighing senselessness, waiting for her to make like a gorgeous flower and kiss me or something.”
Source: Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream
“And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.”
“And I strongly believe people should rescue dogs, or, at the very least, listen to Bob Barker and have your pet spayed or neutered.”
“And I strongly support the faith-based initiative that we're proposing, because I don't believe it violates the line between the separation of church and state, and I believe it's going to make America a better place.”
“And I struggled with lust in the same way. While some people are freed overnight, for me it was a very hard, very slow, very intentional process that has taken over a decade.. There was no quick fix or magic solution, but there has been a lot of healing over time.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“And I suddenly feel like Pinocchio after he’s been swallowed; dome roof with curved steel beams like a whale’s ribs, the moon and Milky Way right there at the yawning shutter of its mouth.”
Source: Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology
“And I suddenly felt a shiver of fear—if Anton could not tell even Eline why he had been there, then wasn’t that because of Miriam? Wasn’t that because, despite the assaults he himself forced upon it, there was nonetheless something sacrosanct in the idea of his marriage, some illusion he could not bear to break, however divorced it might be from the reality that was in this restaurant now?”
Source: Intimacies
“And I suddenly sensed the nature of the terrain on which I walked: it was hardly solid ground... and perhaps what I walked on couldn't even be called earth, this matter that buckled beneath my steps and sometimes seemed to sigh from its depths with a hollow reverberation. Hadn't the term 'earth' arisen solely on the basis of an embarrassed convention, wasn't it a noun that passed in silence over matter's true nature...? Wasn't the use of substantive nouns nearly always a silence about the true substances of things—and wasn't that silence so essential to us that it became the basic material of our thinking? What were we really passing over: over silenced things, over vanished things, over the basic substance of ourselves, over the silence in our thoughts? Passing silently over our silence?”
Source: Old Rendering Plant
“And I suddenly think, as I look across the table at him, that these are the days as they will be. This is the future as we see it. The swerve and the static. The confidence and the doubt.”
Source: Let The Great World Spin
“And I suddenly understand what to do when bad things come. You don't hide, you don't look away; you get right up on them, you take the reins and you ride.”
Source: Tell Me
“And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.”
“And I suppose I might have grown up better, might have become a proper house girl or even taken Aunt Aggie's place as House Negro. I might have been a good girl if it had been in the cards. But all of that was dashed to hell two days after I was born, when the dead rose up and started to walk on a battlefield in a small town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg.”
Source: Dread Nation
“And I suppose I must go alone, if I am to do that and save the Shire. But I feel very small, and very uprooted, and well - desperate. The Enemy is so strong and terrible.”
Source: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
“And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase.”
“And I suppose they [Spurs] are nearer to being out of the FA Cup now than any other time since the first half of this season, when they weren't ever in it anyway.”
“And I suppose you’re going to sit beside me every single class?”
“I don’t know. You seem like an angry student. I’m not sure I want the prof associating me with you.”