Top 100 All'a Quotes
#1. No, I'm telling this wrong. After all a person is herself and others. Relationships chisel the final shape of one's being. I am me and you.
N.K. Jemisin
#2. ( ... ) there was actually nothing, and /you/ were nothing, and it was all a delusion. And that you were better than everyone else because you saw that it was a delusion, and yet you were worse because you couldn't function.
David Foster Wallace
#3. If you can't say something nice... don't say nothing at all! A quote from Thumper in Bambi.
G.J. Griffiths
#4. All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.
E.L. James
#5. still remember the way a twenty-year-old shouted, 'I don't want to hear about any political mistakes! I just don't want to! Give me my two legs back if it was all a mistake.
Svetlana Alexievich
#6. Kolya was a braggart, a know-it-all, a Jew-baiting Cossack, but his confidence was so pure and complete it no longer seemed like arrogance, just the mark of a man who had accepted his own heroic destiny.
David Benioff
#7. His days were full and they were filled decently, he supposed it was all a man ought to ask. Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life.
Edith Wharton
#8. San Diego shaped me a lot. The visual landscapes, the emotional panoramas, the teachers and mentors I had from the third grade through San Diego High - it's all a big part of the poetry fountain that I continue to drink from.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#9. Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.
John Lennon
#10. You have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it's all a question of balance.
Rohinton Mistry
#11. The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine.
Woody Guthrie
#12. I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond
all this fiddle.
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers in
it after all, a place for the genuine.
Marianne Moore
#13. I would tell you about the rest of the night, but i honestly dont remember much about it. It's all a very sad daze.
Stephen Chbosky
#14. Resistance is first of all a matter of principle and a way to live, to make yourself one small republic of unconquered spirit. You hope for results, but you don't depend on them.
Rebecca Solnit
#15. Life is long, and the world is large. It is all a question of taking a chance.
Isabel Allende
#16. Sometimes laughin' is all a body can do, child. It's laugh or lose your mind.
Susan Crandall
#17. Anyway, what does mad mean exactly?" Rami added quickly "Aren't we all a little mad? Don't we have to be somehat mad just to go on living, to go on hoping?
Tabitha Suzuma
#18. Was after all a rather mature blossom, such as could be plucked from the stem only by a vigorous jerk.
Henry James
#19. How strange a scene is this in which we are such shifting figures, pictures, shadows. The mystery of our existence
I have no faith in any attempted explanation of it. It is all a dark, unfathomed profound.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#20. Something will pop up in my head. It could be like the weirdest thing. Like all'a sudden like I have like a jumping banana in my head.
Ryan Lochte
#21. Drawing is ... not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.
Henri Matisse
#22. So you say there is no Father Christmas, You say there is no Santa Claus Reindeer cannot fly, it's all a grown-up lie...
M.C. Frank
#23. We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty.
Sidney Hillman
#24. Belts with potbellies are pretty bad. I mean, what about an oversized shirt and a trouser? What about an oversized button-up shirt in linen and a trouser? Do us all a favor.
Kelly Cutrone
#25. A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.
Aristotle.
#26. I think it's very important for any actor to eventually produce, and create the projects they want to create. I believe it's all a part of the same art form, which is storytelling.
Michael Eklund
#27. And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives,
Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake,
How if our waking life, like that of sleep,
Be all a dream in that eternal life
To which we wake not till we sleep in death
Pedro Calderon De La Barca
#29. To grant all a man's wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at.
P.B. Kerr
#30. As she
drove me through the hills everything screamed inside of
me, and I kept saying as we drove along
(to myself, of course)
fucker, it will pass,
everything passes,
it's all a joke
a joke on you
Charles Bukowski
#31. We are never entirely sure about each other's powers. It's all a game. I would no more have asked him how he got here, or in what manner, than I would ask a mortal man how precisely he made love to his wife.
Anne Rice
#32. It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.
M.F.K. Fisher
#33. My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment.
Davy Jones
#34. It reminds me of myself - seemingly perfect on the outside but inside is all a mush.
Simone Elkeles
#35. In 1979 the New York Times reported that in many {New York Subway} stations, the signs are so confusing that one is tempted to wish they were not there at all - a wish that is, in fact, granted in numerous stations and on all too many of the subway cars themselves.
Simon Garfield
#36. Then again, maybe we're all a little broken and just trying to find the glue that'll hold us together.
Dannika Dark
#37. I found it a little bit stressful, because I wasn't used to working with Doctor Who. I got the impression I'd walked into the end of seven years and it was all a bit tense.
Sarah Sutton
#38. I love the tour bunks. I can sleep like a baby in those bunks. It really doesn't bother me at all. A lot of people have a difficult time - they're like, 'It's like a coffin.' I get in there and I just pass out. You can't even wake me up.
Joe Jonas
#39. The train was parked fifty feet up, by a toy station that mimicked the one across the street. Hanging from its eaves was a sign which read TOPEKA. The train was Charlie the Choo-Choo, cowcatcher and all; a 402 Big Boy Steam Locomotive.
Stephen King
#40. She'd been an actress, an artist's model, once or twice a kept woman, through all a voracious reader.
Glen Duncan
#41. Ideally, content should be shared, mixed, mashed, and reposted - it wants to flow through the Internet like water. This was the point of RSS, after all - a technology that has actually been declared dead more often than the lowly display banner.
John Battelle
#42. I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute.
That you most certainly are not. A tongue, Henet, may sometimes be a weapon. A tongue may cause a death - may cause more than one death. I hope your tongue, Henet, has not caused a death.
Agatha Christie
#43. Nobody makes bouillabaisse from scratch. It's all a bunch of malarkey. Even the restaurants buy a commercial-grade product. I had a very famous chef tell me that.
Sandra Lee
#44. Poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.
May Sarton
#45. Stand-up came naturally to me because people in Ireland talk. But that's not talking on panel shows; it is structured fun. It reminds me of some tragic aunt clapping her hands and bouncing into a room and announcing we should all play games ... and if we don't we are all a rotten spoilsport.
Dylan Moran
#46. Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it.
Nikola Tesla
#47. No one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#48. A writer is first of all a reader. It is from reading that I derive the standards by which I measure my own work and according to which I fall lamentably short.
Susan Sontag
#49. What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a masquerade. What good stories deal with is the horror and incomprehensibi lity of time, the dark encroachment of old catastrophes ...
Joy Williams
#50. You know what's the sexiest thing of all? A little mystery.
Raquel Welch
#51. I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum machine. I tried to cover up the mistake by playing faster and improvising a new song but it became crazy, and I had to admit it was all a mess.
Violante Placido
#52. Sin in the Second City is a masterful history lesson, a harrowing biography, and - best of all - a superfun read. The Everleigh story closely follows the turns of American history like a little sister. I can't recommend this book loudly enough.
Darin Strauss
#53. Body weight is the enemy of running performance. Running is, after all, a continuous fight against gravity. With every stride you take your body must be lifted completely off the ground, because all of the progress you make when running is made while your body is airborne. What's
Matt Fitzgerald
#54. I had a chance. I knew I had no more than that. it's all a hero asks for.
John Gardner
#55. I've translated a lot of American literature into Japanese, and I think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a feel for language and also a great affection for the work you're translating. If one of those elements is missing the translation won't be worth much.
Haruki Murakami
#56. I stayed there only a week before I ran away. That was the first of many times I would run from a foster home. It was, after all, a foster home, and I did not belong there. It turned out that I did not belong anywhere.
Waln K. Brown
#57. So, before we go too much further, now is a good chance to acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, we are all a little guilty of sometimes living someone else's aspirations for us instead of our own. And this is a great time to say 'No more!' to living out of fear and other people's expectations.
Bear Grylls
#58. All a woman needs is a little pampering and a little perspective and she is ready to conquer the world.
Jennifer Ott
#59. Unexpected events can set you back or set you up. It's all a matter of - perspective.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#60. A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles,Mthat was what distinguished him.
Henry David Thoreau
#61. By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
Ralph Ellison
#63. After all, a silent fart has a smell that really sticks!
W.W. Wright
#64. That's all a grit is, a vehicle. For whatever it is you rather be eating.
Kathryn Stockett
#65. Wishing you all a very happy Mahahivrati.
God bless you all with lots and lots of happiness,
your wishes will be accomplished.
Om Namah Shivaya
R.D.Sharma
#66. So say it loud and let it ring We are all a part of everything The future, present and the past Fly on proud bird You're free at last
Charlie Daniels
#67. Don't wait until you're faced with someone's absence to acknowledge the importance of their presence. Love them now. Realize that the flaws, irritations, bad habits, and imperfections are all a part of what makes them, and you, unique, special, and rare to this universe.
Mandy Hale
#68. Proverbs 16 To humans belong the plans of the heart, but from the Lord comes the proper answer of the tongue. All a person's ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the Lord. Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans ...
Bible. New International Version
#69. Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.
Susan Sontag
#70. As a filmmaker, I love the medium. I have a great affection for it and I've been lucky enough to do all different kinds of films. The greatest part of the success I've had comes from horror. I love the idea of mixing humor and horror and to me, it's all a giggle.
George A. Romero
#71. I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture.
Matthew Arnold
#72. I would assign every lie a color: yellow when they were innocent, pale blue when they sailed over you like the sky, red because I knew they drew blood. And then there was the black lie. That's the worst of all. A black lie was when I told you the truth.
Steve Martin
#73. All my shows is about a party. We party from the door then we get into the gig, get back to the middle then we gonna party at the end. It's all a good time.
Kurupt
#74. It's one thing to not want an evil-sorcerer type villain in your story, but it's another thing to avoid having any sort of antagonist at all. A story without an antagonist gets weird pretty quick.
Patrick Rothfuss
#75. All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a chief of state.
W. H. Auden
#76. Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.
Seneca The Younger
#77. Boys have never been to war. It's easy to believe that it's all a game. That the dead will get up off the grass in time for tea.
Charles Todd
#78. I am not quite sober you know. In fact, I am drunk, but I cannot help feeling this is all a trifle, shall we say, irregular?
Georgette Heyer
#79. I think I'm comfortable making myself, or my speaker, larger than life if I can then cut myself off at the ankles. The way, in "My Major Prize," the speaker does this drippy performance of sadness and poetry for some unnamed prize committee, only he lets us know that it's all a wry game.
Randall Mann
#80. Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.
J.M. Coetzee
#82. Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.
Dorothy Parker
#83. Conversion isn't, after all, a moment: It's a process, and it keeps happening, with cycles of acceptance and resistance, epiphany and doubt.
Sara Miles
#84. Americans love to pick up, move on, start over. But instead of being somebody fresh and new, they become somebody lonely and lost, or, far too often these days, they become nobody at all, a machine for satisfying hunger, without loyalty or honor or duty.
Orson Scott Card
#85. I've learned ... That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.
Andy Rooney
#86. It's all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories. The old story, the account of how we fit into it, is no longer effective. Yet we have not learned the new story.
Thomas Berry
#87. I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#88. Sometimes all a broken heart needed was a bag of shit and a little fire.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#89. Education is all a matter of building bridges.
Ralph Ellison
#90. Above all, a well-imagined story is organized around extraordinary human behaviors and unexpected and startling events, which help illuminate the commonplace and the ordinary.
Tim O'Brien
#91. We're all a blemished spirit full of censurable faults
Netiera Danise
#92. What a sight there is in that "smile!" it changes like a chameleon. There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a smile of hate, a satiric smile, an affected smile; but, above all, a smile of love.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
#93. What if everything you have been taught is all a lie and everything you feel is all a truth?
Nikki Rowe
#94. I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I'm so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that's all ... a day ... an hour.
George R R Martin
#95. Well, we're all a little hostile every now and then, some of us are able to sublimate, others of us can't adjust. You know how it is ...
Stan Freberg
#96. We are all a little desexualized, a little defeminized. We can't carry our bodies comfortably in a society that is so bent against women. In order to be a "brain" in the public realm, we control our "bodies.
Elif Shafak
#97. The ISI is above all a paramilitary organization. It doesn't do all that much collection of intelligence. It's not a very good spy agency, but it's good at running covert action.
David Ignatius
#98. Everywhere he looked was a nut, and it was all a sensible young gentleman like himself could do to maintain his perspective amid so much madness. And it was urgent that he did, for he knew his life was in peril.
Joseph Heller
#99. We experienced events in an order, and perceived their relationship as cause and effect. They experienced all events at once, and perceived a purpose underlying them all. A minimizing, maximizing purpose.
Ted Chiang
#100. Have you ever seen Glenn Beck in operation? It is the most terrifying thing. It's so bad that you think he's going to announce in a minute that it's all a great con. He makes Sarah Palin look reasonable and steady.
Bill Bryson
