A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Apparently people commonly died when their loved ones were out of the room. Bathroom break. Quick trip down to the cafeteria for a grilled cheese. It was easier to die if you didn't have family members to worry about at that exact moment.
Easier for the one who was dying, maybe.”
Source: There Is No Long Distance Now
“Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you”
Source: White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography
“Apparently, people leave you for two reasons:
Either they feel like they deserve better, or they think you deserve better. But if there's love, there's nothing better than what you've got. And if they think you deserve better, they'll try their hardest to give you what they think you deserve.”
Source: Fragrance Of A Dead Rose II: Beauty In The Broken
“Apparently President Obama's favorite cocktail is a martini. When asked how he likes it, he said, 'On the beach, in Hawaii, in 2017.'”
“Apparently profanity had a way of making men listen.”
Source: The Madman's Daughter
“Apparently rational justifications will never explain all sorts of the different feelings and raw emotions art invoke in people.”
Source: Trust: Pandora's Box
“Apparently, she's gorgeous enough for people to excuse lies.”
Source: Endgame
“Apparently Sodapop Curtis said "gnarly," and Chris Traeger said "literally." Every decade I have a favorite phrase I can't stop with.”
“Apparently, some businesspersons believe their success depends on the 'happiness' of their little CEOs. Newsflash: Real success is in the boardroom, not the bedroom.”
“Apparently some people (who don't know history) seem to think that marriage 'always has been' exclusively between males and females - and that this modern inequality somehow justifies the enforced continuation of this inequality.”
Source: Loderunner
“Apparently some rustlers had been swiping red-horned wildebeest from farms in the San Fedora area and transporting them off-world to other colonies where they would sell them. And these were known repeat offenders. He could make a packet if he got the whole bunch of them the same time. The pickings were kind of slim in Atro City lately and he could use the money. He didn’t like feeling like a leech around Cindy-Mei.”
Source: Dead Man's Hammer
“Apparently sometimes my humor is dryer than a desert.”
“Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.”
Source: Midnighters #1: The Secret Hour
“Apparently the average man sees woman alternatelyas an inferior being and as an angel.”
“Apparently the complete works of Shakespeare packed quite a wallop. To think, my mother said I'd never find use for an English degree. Ha! I'd like to see her knock someone silly with an apron and a cookie press.”
“Apparently the driver had driven through three barriers before they ended up at the bottom of the ravine. And when asked how they had missed the “Bridge Out” signs, the driver replied, “I was too busy driving the car to read the signs.” And as I think about our culture, I often wonder how many ravines are we going to have to end up in before we begin reading the signs?”
“Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line was the English national sport.”
Source: Shadow Puppets
“Apparently, the fellow had existed only for her, and so, of
course, had lost her on that very score.”
Source: Heaven Has No Favorites
“Apparently, the highest evolution will not be permitted to creatures capable of what human moral experience has in all eras condemned. Apparently, the highest possible strength is the strength of unselfishness; and power supreme never will be accorded to cruelty or to lust. There may be no gods; but the forces that shape and dissolve all forms of being would seem to be much more exacting than gods. To prove a "dramatic tendency" in the ways of the stars is not possible; but the cosmic process seems nevertheless to affirm the worth of every human system of ethics fundamentally opposed to human egoism.”
Source: Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
“Apparently the most permanent of the dispositions of the human psyche are those that derive from the fact that, of all animals, we remain the longest at the mother breast.”
Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces
“Apparently the new high-tech Star Wars toys will be in stores any day now. The toys can talk and are interactive, so they can be easily distinguished from Star Wars fans.”
“Apparently the only people who are supposed to be responsible are the taxpayers - and they are increasingly made responsible for other people's irresponsibility.”
“Apparently the only thing worse than a terrorist attack, is a gay man stopping it!”
“Apparently the only time the press gets it right is when the White House illegally leaks it to them.”
“Apparently the pro-choice types who jump up and down in the street demanding that you keep your rosaries off their ovaries are entirely relaxed about the government getting its bureaucratics all over your lymphatics.”
“Apparently the rarest commodities on earth are truth and honesty.”
“Apparently the Republican base got radicalized first, and Democrats picked up the ball later. Or something.”
“Apparently the show happens even if I'm not there. Who knew?”
“Apparently their numerous tattoos gave them protection against the cold as they had no coats.”
“Apparently there are not a whole lot of people there that have confidence. They are willing, apparently, to believe that Donald Trump's been lying to 'em all along, while, if you want to characterize it this way, how many years have they been lying to voters about their intentions on repealing and replacing Obamacare?”
“Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.”
“Apparently there are three levels of brain activity. Level 1 is the lowest level - the amount of concentration required to, say, delete emails or serve in congress.”
“Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that nature is some kind of minded entity. That nature is not simply the random flight of atoms through electromagnetic fields. Nature is not the empty, despiritualized , lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of mind.”
“Apparently there is no profit in the unique, or not enough to make it worthwhile to preserve. Ultimately it drains the life out of us, and existentialism starts to make more and more sense.”
Source: Nothing's Sacred
“Apparently there is nothing in the news that falls between inhuman acts of horror and kittens.”
“Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.”
“Apparently there were seven stages of grief but that was a neat way of putting it. Grief was messy and didn't colour inside the lines”
Source: The Other Side of Summer
“Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.”
“Apparently there’s this kind of songbird that thinks it dies every time the sun goes down. In the morning, when it wakes up, it’s totally shocked to still be alive—so it sings this really beautiful song.”
“Apparently they're going to bring in 'Super Asbos'. But 'Asbos' already sound too cool. Teenagers see them as a badge of honour. They should call them 'Gaybos' or 'Bender Badges'.”
“Apparently, this climb was wearing her out—but she’d been taking irregular walks for years, damn it. Surely she should be a semipro athlete by now? Apparently not. The human body was an inconvenient and unreasonable thing.”
Source: Get a Life, Chloe Brown
“Apparently Trump voters think God meant for marriage to be between a man, his third wife, and several porn stars.”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes
“Apparently two, but one in soul, you and I.”
Source: Love is a Stranger
“Apparently we live our lives as a tale which is told. There are times I wish I could tell the tale of my life to others and times I believe it should stay untold, buried with their secrets….and mine. Yet I do not regret my role in what was to come. My early years were very uninteresting but yet they ultimately paved the way for the path that I took.”
Source: Red Velvet Rose
“Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's.”
“Apparently, we're all in the frame," I heard Harry murmur somewhere behind me. And I whirled back to him. Innate, irrational anger surged. Then stopped, dead - as I suddenly took in Handsome, Robert and Doc. They were all staring at me. They were concentrating, all resolute, all a tad furrow-browed… upon my face.
Self-consciousness burgeoned. I gingerly fingered my and lips and my chin,
"Am I drooling?"
"Your arse is hanging out," said Harry, not looking up from the forensics he was scanning.
And so it was.
Handsome, Robert and Doc averted their eyes as I, wishing I'd merely been dribbling, grabbed the back flaps of my breezy hospital gown, fully placed my back against the wall. Then, thinking better of it, dived hurriedly, carefully, back into bed.
If Chinese Lady'd been here, she could've, would've, told me.
I missed her already.”
Source: Gatsby's Smile
“Apparently we're now in a state where most ads are full of people looking at us in a way that would heat us up down to our toes if it happened in real life, and we don't think anything of it.”
“Apparently we've got open borders. We've got people in this country all over the place that could be part of cells. After 9/11 happened, you have to understand, leadership and law enforcement after 9/11, they really got reamed for doing a horrible job of preventing it when in many people's minds it was preventable.”
“Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent.”