All Quotes

After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood.
‐‐ Charles Perrault

After a life deprived of everything from romantic love to the choice of when to wake up in the morning, after 29 years without the ability to have a career or even to be alone at toilet, the Bijani sisters are not symbols but women who have had to live a shared life of constant, quotidian sacrifice.
‐‐ Darin Strauss

After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.
‐‐ Valerie Bertinelli

After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.
‐‐ Charlie Gonzalez

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.
‐‐ Jim Harrison

After a long day at work, I want someone to come home, turn on my video and think, 'Oh my God, how girls get ready? This is hilarious. I love this; I'm forgetting about all my problems.'
‐‐ Lilly Singh

After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.
‐‐ Becca Fitzpatrick

After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth.
‐‐ John Biddle

After a long period in which the desired direction for inflation was always downward, the industrialized world's central banks must today try to avoid major changes in the inflation rate in either direction.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

After a long period of division, I will unite Israel.
‐‐ Isaac Herzog

After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.
‐‐ Bryan Lee O'Malley

After a long run of almost thirty years, you get to the point where you say, 'These are my concerns.' It's not so much this is what I set out to claim - it is a kind of refrain.
‐‐ Alice McDermott

After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.
‐‐ Kristin Scott Thomas

After a major loss of dynamism in the 1960s, productivity growth rates began dropping in most countries, falling by half in the U.S. in the 1970s and more or less ceasing altogether in France, Germany and Britain in the late 1990s.
‐‐ Edmund Phelps

After a man falls madly in love, he no longer cares how old she is.
‐‐ Helen Fisher

After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided.
‐‐ Bill Veeck

After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
‐‐ Melinda Gates

After 'A Perfect Storm' came out, I heard from a young reader, who had suffered a similar background as 'Arizona,' that I had helped her to find peace. That was the most amazing thing in the world to me.
‐‐ Lori Foster

After a performance, I met the man who would later be my acting coach who helped me get into my acting conservatory. It was apparent to me that there were many others who were in support of me becoming an actor and making a name for myself. I am forever grateful to those teachers and mentors who instead of saying, 'Why you?' said, 'Why not you?'
‐‐ Vincent Rodriguez III

After a plane or train crash, the National Transportation Safety Board dispatches its experts within two hours. The investigators in their familiar jackets take charge of the scene, secure evidence, follow leads.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.
‐‐ A. R. Rahman

After a Polish Pope, whose country was first to be invaded by the Germans in World War Two, we now have someone from the generation drafted at the close of the war.
‐‐ Horst Koehler

After a pretty amazing year that included more wins than I thought possible, I rang in 2013 by watching the Times Square ball drop on TV... and then heading directly to bed. It might not have been the typical New Year's Eve for a 21-year-old, but what can I say? It was a training night!
‐‐ Ashley Wagner

After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.
‐‐ Adelbert von Chamisso

After a really hectic week, I hate going out on a Friday evening, so I'll always opt for a night at home.
‐‐ Donna Air

After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.
‐‐ Eric Allin Cornell

After a show, I'll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up 'hood, and they say that now they realize there's someone out there who thinks like they do.
‐‐ Michael Franti

After a show over the summer, a girl came up to me who was a pastor at her church, which was not accepting of same-sex relationships. She said that 'Same Love' allowed her to come out regardless of the consequences.
‐‐ Mary Lambert

After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.
‐‐ Stijn Streuvels

After a sound public education, I attended Penn and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After being drafted into the military and studying Indonesian, I emerged as a writer, not a painter.
‐‐ Allan Gurganus

After a storm comes a calm.
‐‐ Matthew Henry

After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.
‐‐ Rudolph A. Marcus

After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
‐‐ Vikram Seth

After a summer trip to Switzerland, which was rich in experiences, I started writing. In the beginning, I aimed at descriptions of nature and folk life until, as the years passed, the description of man became my chief interest.
‐‐ Henrik Pontoppidan

After a training camp workout, my body is eager to replace nutrients and energy that are lost during the workout. It's best to have a quick bite about 30 minutes after practice. I like to have yogurt and granola, the combination of carbs and protein helps me recover after a long and tiring workout.
‐‐ Troy Polamalu

After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.
‐‐ Herb Kohl

After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.
‐‐ Dave Chappelle

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.
‐‐ Alan Alda

After a while I thought it didn't make any sense to use a pick. It's kind of like typing with one finger on each hand instead of using all your fingers.
‐‐ Kevin Eubanks

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

After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.
‐‐ Monica Bellucci

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

After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
‐‐ Tori Amos

After a while, the character sort of took over.
‐‐ Peter Mayhew

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

After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written.
‐‐ Mark Knopfler

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.
‐‐ Tori Amos

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

After a while, you get tired of being the official Scot and defending everything Scottish.
‐‐ Philip Kerr

After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times.
‐‐ Sandra Bullock