After A While Quotes

#1. One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.

Mark Spitz

#2. I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.

Lord Mountbatten

#3. Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they wouldn't be publishing anyone at all after a while.

Victoria Strauss

#4. The ship founders on a sandbank and then gets back afloat. Electric power stops; after a while, the machines start up again. During such recesses, the anarch measures his own strength and autonomy.

Ernst Junger

#5. But I guess you learn to stop hoping, after a while. Life teaches you to expect the worst, eh?

Joe Abercrombie

#6. I have to say that most of the deals I have done initially were badly received, and after a while, people realised that maybe I was not that wrong.

Stefano Pessina

#7. I started playing golf because I wanted to be good. After a while, you have to come to a decision of, 'Am I good enough or not?' If you say 'yes,' then it's a simple step towards deciding to be as good as you can be.

Tom Lehman

#8. If I just retweet the nice things, it rings hollow after a while.

Cory Booker

#9. You get so used to lying that after a while it's hard to remember what the truth is.

Philip Agee

#10. There are so many beautiful girls around that after a while you start looking for someone who can make you laugh

Candace Bushnell

#11. One of the general considerations about new buildings is that people tend to say that anything new is a monstrosity. And then after a while they either accept them or they go on thinking that they are monstrosities. Reactions vary. This depends to some extent on the quality of the building.

Joseph Rykwert

#12. Analog sounds so much better. I frankly can't listen to digital audio for more than a few hours without really starting to hate what I'm listening to. Even decent 24-bit digital resolution really irritates me after a while.

Tom Scholz

#13. See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.

Bill Haley

#14. I'm really nervous, because it's actually happening. You forget after a while when you start talking about something that it's actually going to happen.

Selena Gomez

#15. Most of the time, I grill over high heat. I like things to move fast. I like the sound and smell of a very hot fire. I gravitate towards dishes that you can get on and off the grill as quickly as possible. After a while, you'll know without thinking about it how hot the fire is.

Bobby Flay

#16. Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

Tom Perrotta

#17. When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.

Frank Butler

#18. I can understand not wanting to underuse Hawke, but after a while the narrative composition starts to look like a dad's testimony at a custody hearing.

Anonymous

#19. I had a great deal of confidence when I graduated from Berkeley. I had almost none when I was at Princeton. After a while, when people tell you you can't do something because you're a woman, you begin to believe maybe they're right.

Margaret Geller

#20. Suddenly he fell asleep in the candlelight. After a while I got up to look at his face. He slept like everybody else. He looked quite ordinary. There ought to be some mark by which to distinguish good from the bad.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#21. It's funny, because I'm a man of strong opinions and when I make one, I stand by it even if it starts to appear incorrect to me after a while.

Danny Bonaduce

#22. After a while Estevan said, What I really hate is not belonging in any place. To be unwanted everywhere.

Barbara Kingsolver

#23. It is a good life we lead, brother,' said Federico with uncharacteristic solemnity.
'The best,' Ezio agreed.'And may it never change.'
They both paused - neither wishing to break the perfection of the moment - but after a while Federico quietly spoke.'May it never change us either, fratellino.

Oliver Bowden

#24. After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times.

Sandra Bullock

#25. Well," he said, opening the door to his car, "all you can do is put on an appearance of confidence sometimes. And after a while, others will start to believe it." [Eric Weber] grabbed the door handle to pull it closed. "And then you die.

Neil Strauss

#26. You're a queer?"
"That's exactly what I am. I didn't choose to be."
After a while Woody put his arm around Chuck's shoulders.
"Well, what the hell," he said. "At least you're not a Republican.

Ken Follett

#27. So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

Ben Carson

#28. I write ... sonnets ... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.

Italo Calvino

#29. The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices - after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

Tom Stoppard

#30. There's something peculiar about artists. They have ups and downs ... After a while everything you do is just wonderful ... then you slide back. If you're a good artist you're going to go down. And then it's up to you.

Milton Resnick

#31. Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.

Tina Fey

#32. Views are overrated; it's light that counts. I have an apartment in Miami's South Beach, and I get tired of looking at the ocean. Even that view gets old after a while. Sunlight streaming into a room - it never gets old.

Michael Graves

#33. It's funny, after a while, you get tired of having to fight someone because they don't like the way you look.

Chris Robinson

#34. If you lose someone, you feel a loss, then after a while you fill in the hole in your life and the loss gradually gets smaller and smaller and eventually goes away. There's a point to the pain. There's a reason and a direction.

Marian Keyes

#35. It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.

Frank Rich

#36. The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.

Ursula Burns

#37. She can love one minute and feel nothing the next, not even anger or pain, because after a while those, too, will pass.

Patricia Cornwell

#38. Instead, he reflected on what she'd said earlier, about their similarities, thinking she was right and hoping that it was enough to keep her coming back to the ranch. After a while their conversation lapsed into a peaceful lull, and he realized he had no

Nicholas Sparks

#39. I grew up, especially as an actor thinking that I had to move to New York to be a good actor. But after a while you start to live the world a little bit and you start to appreciate where you're from.

Josh Brolin

#40. You don't know what it's been like all these years, seeing things that are invisible to everybody else. I knew I wasn't crazy, I knew it, but the rest of the world thought I was, and after a while even I started to wonder, you know?

C.A. Gray

#41. I always think it's better to be not taking drugs or drinking or anything. That's not saying I've never done it because I have. But I sort of learned I think after a while there has been - it didn't take me that long to realize that it wasn't a good thing.

Mick Jagger

#42. It's really more about the moment than it is the award. You know how trophies are, you don't really think about them after a while. It's more about the moment of being encouraged to keep doing what you're doing that keeps you going.

Mark Hall

#43. God will bring you a gift. However, it is up to you to stop shaking the same box and expecting something wonderful will fall out of it again. After a while, you are going to break that box and it won't remind you of that moment when it meant everything to you.

Shannon L. Alder

#44. I've been playing the bad guy in the last seven or eight projects I've done. I like it. It's a lot more interesting! Being the good guy gets a little stale after a while, you know?

Greg Evigan

#45. After a while, you get tired of being the official Scot and defending everything Scottish.

Philip Kerr

#46. One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing

Norman Maclean

#47. An album is like a child and after a while I was ready to give birth!

Gloria Trevi

#48. Drama schools are very small community, a very incestuous community, so you get to know one another very, very quickly and it just washes over after a while. Every now and then I'll say "dude" or I'll say "bro," and people will laugh.

Ben Schnetzer

#49. I do love video games. But after a while, you feel like you really need to get up and do something.

Patrick Chan

#50. After a while, marriage is a sibling relationship
marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest.

Martin Amis

#51. It's not like you're becoming a born-again Christian or teetotal or an accountant or something you can stop being after a while. You'll never not be a father now.'
'It feels great, Rob' he said. 'Just great.

Tim Relf

#52. I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing.

Alice Hoffman

#53. When you're on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes.

Joan Van Ark

#54. After a while, Eve thought, marriage turned walls into clear glass so both of you could see right through each other.

J.D. Robb

#55. It's only a matter of getting through the next few moments, she thought: take care of the next few moments, and then the next, a few at a time, and after a while it will be easier; you'll get over it, after a while.

Ayn Rand

#56. Where else can you go with respect to the work, lyrics, and message of the music? If you are past high school age, you can get by with saying very little the first or second time around. However, after a while you know you are going to have to say something beyond high school stuff.

Chuck D

#57. I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence, gazing at the barren canyon walls. And the mute desert seemed to carry on our conversation for us.

Huston Smith

#58. After a while, your coaching development ceases to be about finding newer ways to organize practice. In other words, you soon stop collecting drills. Your development as a coach shifts to observing how great coaches teach, motivate, lead, and drive players to performances at higher and higher levels

Anson Dorrance

#59. The noise the phone makes when you leave it off the hook It stops after a while.

Rainbow Rowell

#60. Before long, Maxine finds herself wandering around clicking on everything, faces, litter on the floor, labels on bottles behind the bar, after a while interested not so much in where she might get to than the texture of the search itself.

Thomas Pynchon

#61. You never think you're on the verge of disaster while you're looking over the edge yourself. It's your friends and family who are trying to get you to stop destroying yourself and after a while it kind of sank in and I just cleaned up my act.

Johnny Depp

#62. If a man loves you ... he's willing to profess it. He'll give you a title after a while. You're going to be his lady, his woman, his fiancee, his wife, his baby's mama, something.

Steve Harvey

#63. And after a while, you just pare things down more and more and more, until you get to certain basic things which just - basic ideas which just seem to work for you over and over again.

Robert Barry

#64. It's admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so cheerful and well-intentioned that after a while you itch to go off and do some raping and pillaging. Or to kick a cat.

J.M. Coetzee

#65. When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, 'This is just dumb.'

Louis C.K.

#66. Too many good things all seem the same after a while.

Amy Tan

#67. At one point, she said after a while, at one point we thought we might raise silkworms in one of the empty rooms. But then we never did. Oh, for the countless things one fails to do!

W.G. Sebald

#68. Ah ... it says here that she was, I mean is, fairer than all the stars in heaven ... ." They all looked at Tiffany. "You could try doing something with your hair," said Nanny Ogg after a while. "Like what?" said Tiffany. "Like anything, really.

Terry Pratchett

#69. After a while, you start to believe that your opinions are more valid than everyone else's. It can be hard to be humble about making really good music; you really believe that you're a savior to music. That's why bands don't like each other.

Matt Tong

#70. After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a tour. When I did it, I wanted to feel inspired. After a while I finally had my fill working on other people's music, and I started coming up with music on my own and said, 'This could be for me.'

James Iha

#71. But after a while, you know, I find it better to face in one direction, in front of you, just let the past lay and get on with it,

James Patterson

#72. If you want to play a cool punk club, that's great - but punk clubs don't have any toilet seats. After a while, little things like that become big issues.

Joe Casey

#73. Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.

John Milton

#74. Erik the Red left Norway for frontier Iceland 'on account of some killings' and after a while he had to leave Iceland on account of some more killings; he needed a fresh start after his first fresh start.

Michael Pye

#75. I think about the story of Job I heard in Carol Sharp's Sunday school. How he sort of learned to lean into feeling hurt at the end, the way you might lean into a heavy wind that almost winds up supporting you after a while.

Mary Karr

#76. After a while he said, If there's no bottom in your eyes, they hold more.

Flannery O'Connor

#77. But after a while, that too passes, and she and Jack go back to normal, as they have been before, which is to say that they, like all the other couples Kathryn has ever known, live in a state of gentle decline, of being infinitesimally, but not agonizingly, less than they were the day before.

Anita Shreve

#78. The ache became longing, longing became nostalgia, nostalgia became fondness, and after a while he could see the funny side of it. A long while.

Charlaine Harris

#79. After a while, you can't get any higher. It's like your head is in a wind tunnel - everything is vibrating.

Method Man

#80. I mean, if you think about doing things to people like that, if you think about it too much, it gets all up in you and you can't control it after a while. Then they really got you.

Walter Dean Myers

#81. I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.

Joanne Harris

#82. From children to men we cage ourselves in patterns to avoid facing new problems and possible failure; after a while men become bored because there are no new problems. Such is life under the fear of failure.

Luke Rhinehart

#83. After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.

Elliot Perlman

#84. I drifted off after a while, staring at the only star visible through the thick covering of leaves. Hope seemed a futile wish, but I troubled the lonely star to grant it anyway.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#85. We all become well-disguised mirror image of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the energy and frames the questions after a while. Most frontal attacks on evil just produce another kind of evil in yourself, along with a very inflated self-image to boot.

Richard Rohr

#86. I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.

John Candy

#87. Articles always end up being about my appearance. I had a conversation with Jude Law: he told me people's obsession with looks goes away after a while.

Douglas Booth

#88. After a while you learn what you once considered monolithic is infinitely intricate.

Greg Baxter

#89. Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of the tragic sort, but rather of the comic variety.
At any rate that afforded me some comfort.

Milan Kundera

#90. I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it.

Douglas Adams

#91. After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction.

Alice Hoffman

#92. After a while, no matter how much you love any pop song, you're going to get tired of it. That's the way it is with any entertainment. It's good when you first hear it or see it, you like it for a while, then it gets old. It gets chewed up and spit out and it's done.

Joe Perry

#93. I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.

Terry Pratchett

#94. I miss her all the time. I know in my head that she has gone. The only difference is that I am getting used to the pain. It's like discovering a great hole in the ground. To begin with, you forget it's there and keep falling in. After a while, it's still there, but you learn to walk round it.

Rachel Joyce

#95. It's [grief] like discovering a great hole in the ground. To begin with, you forget it's there, and you keep falling in. After a while, it's still there, but you learn to walk around it.

Rachel Joyce

#96. Sometimes an opponent stops breathing, and you realise something drastic has happened and they are trying not to let on. Or they go quiet, or they get fidgety. After a while you pick these things up and become more alert to them.

Viswanathan Anand

#97. After a while, with nothing to lose, I'll only able to win.

Brent Weeks

#98. After a while, you crave pajamas and a shaved head.

Andrew Garfield

#99. We'd better get there soon," said Corwin. "They're probably building new streets in Paris right this minute."
"What if I don't want to, being a lesbian?"
Corwin fell silent; after a while he spoke.
"So you think it might be permanent?

Louise Erdrich

#100. But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.

Ernest Hemingway,