A Quotes
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“As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and those who want to work out the chemical equation for language and pass on their experiments as poetry.”
“As far as I can tell, writing the essays didn't change the way I wrote poetry. Although the essays contain scattered passages that might be called lyrical, they often contain closed statements of what is only suggested in the poetry.”
“As far as I can understand it, writing poetry is just putting into rhyme what everyone feels.”
Source: The Blythes Are Quoted
“As far as I can work out, no-one really loses out.”
“As far as I could discover, the notion that a play could succeed without any further help from the actor than a simple impersonation of his part never occurred to Tree.”
Source: Hebert Beerbohm Tree: some memories of him and of his art collected by Max Beerbohm
“As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.”
Source: Girl, Interrupted
“As far as I could tell, the quickest way to a geeky guy's heart usually involved geometric shapes.”
Source: Once Upon an Ever After
“As far as I’d seen, the basis of friendship for guys past the age of bedwetting is trash talk.”
Source: Demon Copperhead
“As far as I get as more I learn. As now I don't think that ordinary person is Stephen King... as far as now I think that he looks at people's behavior and look as far as they can reach... ( - Awesome as that!)”
“As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.”
“As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.”
Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
“As far as I know, every person has a dream. Every person is a born artist.”
Source: Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination
“As far as I know, I'm the most honest person I’ve met in this life.”
Source: Os Homens Nunca Saberão Nada Disto
“As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.”
“As far as I know, only politicians can make this kind of miracle staying more than 30 years of their entire life lying or hiding from the electors what really happen behind the political curtain of our status quo. This is one of the rare cases that a politician can swear in front of any deity or authority without any hesitation: “I really appreciate your ignorance or indifference about politics. It’s a blessing for me in my lifetime”.”
“As far as I know, Clifford Pickover is the first mathematician to write a book about areas where math and theology overlap. Are there mathematical proofs of God? Who are the great mathematicians who believed in a deity? Does numerology lead anywhere when applied to sacred literature? Pickover covers these and many other off-trail topics with his usual verve, humor, and clarity. And along the way the reader will learn a great deal of serious mathematics.”
“As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.”
Source: The Kite Runner: Rejacketed
“As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.”
“As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.”
“As far as I know, most organizations are avoiding population issues because they're politically frightened by the charge that comes from some proponents of immigration that if you oppose the immigration policy we have now, you're a racist.. There is no way in the world we can forge a sustainable society without stabilizing the population. ... There's no practical way of stabilizing the population of the U.S. without reducing the immigration rate. When do we decide we have to do something, or do we wait until things are as bad here as they are in the countries people want to leave?”
“As far as I know, my husband never had a baby.”
“As far as I know, no one in the Kaufman or Hart clan was the basis for anyone in the play. I think we all wish we had a Grandpa, Penny, and Mr. De Pinna in our families.”
“As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.”
“As far as I know, Russians are the first among tourists going to Turkey; last year three million Russians visited that country, although its climate zone is almost the same as the one of the Black sea region. Therefore, we have had an important task to develop an infrastructure in this region of the Russian Federation.”
“As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.”
“As far as I know, the line of communication between the U.S. and Russia continues to be open and the battlefield commanders are able to communicate with one another. I am aware that there have been certain public statements made out of Moscow.”
“As far as I know, the people who are against my candidacy now have the upper hand in the Kremlin. They say: Who knows what the election result will be? We already made that mistake once. And they are also afraid of all the things I would say if they let me run.”
“As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open debate in Germany after 1945, no doubt mainly because a nation which had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps could hardly call on the victorious powers to explain the military and political logic that dictated the destruction of the German cities.”
“As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and I do not see why we should accept the outside world as such solely by virtue of our senses.”
“As far as I know, there's nothing more dangerous than a man who doesn't care if he lives or dies.”
“As far as I know, Vera Miles had a terrible time with Hitchcock, and she wanted to get out of the contract. He didn't let her. She did 'Psycho,' and I believe, if you look at 'Psycho,' there isn't one close up of Vera, not one. After that, she would never even speak about him to anyone.”
“As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us to pay for it.”
“As far as I know, you can fancy someone, you can enjoy their company or you can wish them well. But what being in love is, I don't know.”
“As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I'm not working, you'd better spend that time with someone important.”
“As far as I’m concerned, a woman’s p*ssy can only taste as good as her sensuality. So, if a man is with you but your p*ssy is not good enough for him, chances are, the issue isn’t with your p*ssy but rather most likely with your sensuality. Check your sensuality.”
“As far as I'm concerned, taking a bath is sort of like drowning, with soap.”
Source: The Mostly True Adventures Of Homer P. Figg
“As far as I'm concerned, you can't beat a good whodunnit: the twists and turns, the clues and the red herrings and then, finally, the satisfaction of having everything explained to you in a way that makes you kick yourself because you hadn't seen it from the start.”
Source: Magpie Murders
“As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.”
“As far as I remember, there was no actual lyric written to that.At the very beginning of "Fiddler on the Roof," there's a violin solo, an unaccompanied violin solo.”
“As far as I see it you just can't give Messi space in the dangerous areas - we have to close him down, get tight and give him as little room as we can because if you don't, he can destroy you.”
“As far as I understand, the president-elect of the United States [Donald Trump] is ready for such joint work. We do not know yet what it will be like in actual practice. We have to wait for him to take office and form his administration.”
“As far as I understand, the Second Coming is already here. It's a consciousness. It is not someone who is going to arrive and land in a clearing in the forest. The Hell that they talk of is going to be people creating their own unhappiness, a Hell on Earth.”
“As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly.”
“As far as I was concerned, the war they sent him to had ruined his life, and he deserved every penny I could squeeze out of them.”
Source: Alive Day: A Memoir
“As far as I was concerned, there wasn't any difference between my friend Miho's child and my nephew, and I didn't understand the logic of coming out all the way here just to see him. Maybe this particular baby should be more important to me than the others. But so far as I could see, aside from a few minor differences they were all just an animal called a baby and looked much the same, just like stray cats all looked much the same.”
Source: Convenience Store Woman
“As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.”
“As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.”
“As far as I was concerned, the Panthers were 'baaaaaad.' The Party was more than bad; it was bodacious. The sheer audacity of walking onto the California Senate floor with rifles, demanding that Black people have the right to bear arms and the right to self-defense, made me sit back and take a long look at them.”
“As far as I was concerned, we'd come to a draw: I hadn't wanted to come, and she didn't want me to leave. We were even. But I knew my mother wouldn't see it that way. Lately, we didn't seem to see anything the same.”
Source: Someone Like You