A Quotes
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“And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.”
“And I watch all the dailies and I grade the jokes or the moments, you know, on a scale from... so I know exactly what we have. And so I can then go into the editing room and be like "I want you to do this moment, this moment, this joke, that joke. I'd like to see 3 versions."”
“And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy.”
Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
“And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy. It climbs the same way on damp walls. You are to blame for this cruel sport. They are fleeing from my dark lair. You fill everything, you fill everything. Before you they peopled the solitude that you occupy, and they are more used to my sadness than you are. Now I want them to say what I want to say to you to make you hear as I want you to hear me.”
Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
“And I watch Saturday Night Live religiously, I have since I was a little boy. I watch it basically like one of my favorite sports teams.”
“And I watched the first man I ever kissed walk away from me forever. My heart full of nothing but regret, my brain full of nothing but reassurance that I was making the right choice, and my voice, completely void of any will to call him back.”
Source: Returning Home
“And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.”
Source: Blake: The Complete Poems
“And I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can so I can
Keep track of the visions in my eyes”
“And I went into the New Year loving myself a little less, but a little more where it actually mattered.”
“And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.”
“And I wept for all of that, without sadness or suffering, with all the less restraint—as I saw it—because crying was living and dying at the same time.”
“and I who live in the basement
one level down from the world”
Source: Falling Awake
“And I will add this point of merely personal experience of humanity: when men have a real explanation they explain it, eagerly and copiously and in common speech, as Huxley freely gave it when he thought he had it. When they have no explanation to offer, they give short dignified replies, disdainful of the ignorance of the multitude.”
“And I will always be there."
Even before I know you.
Even after I've known you.
Even then.”
Source: Dead Astronauts
“And I will always love you for being the bright, beautiful boy who made it worth going outside when I really didn’t want to and for saving me from the outside world when I couldn’t handle it on my own.”
“And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom except we have, we can neither love God, nor keep His commandments?”
“And I will bring a llama into the place where you sleep and make sure that it urinates on everything you possess.”
Source: The Bane Chronicles
“And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty.
[Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.]”
“And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.”
Source: Desolation Angels
“And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.”
“And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.”
“And I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and nothing but herself and her mom in those last moments as she spent as a person.”
Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition
“And I will get to climb on that big beautiful bike of yours and wrap my arms around you and lean into all that gorgeous hair and smell you, and hear you laugh and see your eyes flash fire. Or I may as well just kick it right now because you, Dani Mega O’Malley, make me feel alive like nothing else does.”
Source: Feversong
“And I will go as far as Martin Luther, in that strong assertion of his, where he says, "If any man ascribes any of salvation, even the very least, to the free-will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ aright."”
“And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.”
Source: FAULKNER READER
“And I will love words for their own sake, like 'hyacinth' and 'Piccadilly' and 'onyx.' And I'll have a good old dog, and think what I like, and be part of a different sort of family, with friends, you know? - who understand that things are only worth what you're willing to give up for them.”
“And I will love you; for such as I am, I do not give my love lightly, but once given it is sure. Only remember this, if ever you make an enemy of me, your life shall be as dust or sand in the wind. For what a demon loves and loses he will destroy, and my power is the mightiest you are ever likely to know.”
Source: Night's Master
“And I will make it felony to drink small beer.”
“And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.”
“And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.”
“And I will not be beaten by that jackass." "Jackass?" said Foaly, wounded. "My favorite uncle is a jackass.”
“And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will founder. Some will dash themselves against the cliffs. One sails alone. That is my ship. It sails into icy caverns where the sea-bear barks and stalactites swing green chairs. The waves rise, their crests curl; look at the lights on the mastheads. They have scattered, they have foundered, all except my ship which mounts the wave and sweeps before the gale and reaches the islands where the parrots chatter and then the creepers.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.”
“And I will save your life again and again, aimlessly hoping you will allow me to stay in it.”
“And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867
“And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turn'd to beautiful results, And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death, And I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are compact, And that all the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.”
Source: Selected poems
“And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned to beautiful results.”
Source: Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition
“And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust”
“And I will stop trying to fall in love again, and keep it a secret. It never works out anyway”
“And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my fingers upon thee!”
“And I will tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.”
“And I will trust that He who heeds
The life that hides in mead and wold,
Who hangs you alder's crimson beads,
And stains these mosses green and gold,
Will still, as He hath done, incline
His gracious care to me and mine.”
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
“And I will wait for Jarod to work for me. For free, cause if it's paid, it's work and not love, unless, of course he loves to work, in which case he’ll surely love working for me, because I love people who love to do that to love to do that.”
Source: Nothing is here...
“And I wish that I was made of stone So that I would not have to see A beauty impossible to define A beauty impossible to believe A beauty impossible to endure The blood imparted in little sips The smell of you still on my hands As I bring the cup up to my lips No God up in the sky No devil beneath the sea Could do the job that you did, baby Of bringing me to my knees”
“And I wish to thank you as well, Royce." He was puzzled. "For what?" "For reminding me that anyone, no matter what they've done, can find redemption if they seek it.”
Source: Percepliquis
“And I wished I could believe him. I wished with all that I had. And when you're eleven, you're on the cusp between still believing wishing worked if you wanted something hard enough and understanding the world is teeth and sharp edges. I wished. I did. I promise you with all that I have that I did.
But I knew the teeth. The sharp edges. And they were bigger than wishing. I was only eleven, but I was the product of my upbringing too.
Maybe that's why I was able to be the one to leave. Maybe I'd been looking for a reason and latched on to the first one that came, no matter how hard it was. If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that it's easier to leave someone before they leave you. Because eventually, everyone leaves.
It's inevitable.”
Source: The Art of Breathing
“And I withdrew into myself when I understood that they wanted to extract every thought in my head, one by one, like decayed teeth.”
“And I woke up and as I woke up the dream began to dissolve. The dream and the story of the dream. And I knew that in the dream was an understanding that was simply a gift and it was receding in the darkness and I sat up in bed and called out after it but it simply fell to pieces in my mind”
Source: Stella Maris
“And I won 'em back fair and square. So what are you going to do about it? Want to fight? Who wants the first bloody nose?”
Source: Ava: My Story
“And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm goneAnd I can't question how or when or why when I'm goneCan't live proud enough to die when I'm goneSo I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here.”