All Quotes

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
‐‐ Edward Abbey

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
‐‐ Thomas Fuller

A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don't want to see it hovering over anybody's home.
‐‐ Charles Krauthammer

A drone isn't any different than a bomb; it's not any different than other weapons that are used, where there is always a capacity for people to be killed who you wished were not.
‐‐ Tim Kaine

A drop in younger children visiting libraries is of great concern. As children's laureate, I am passionate about the role of libraries, both in schools and in the wider community. They are unique places where children can begin their journey as readers, as well as being creative hubs.
‐‐ Chris Riddell

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.
‐‐ Lucy Larcom

A drummer is usually like the backbone.
‐‐ Brody Armstrong

A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive.
‐‐ Demetri Martin

A drunk truck driver ran over me. I was in a Volkswagen. It was horrible. It sounds like a cliche, but anything that doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I give a lot of credit to my dad, who was a very strong guy.
‐‐ Robert David Hall

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.
‐‐ Arthur Keith

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

A dry stretch of commentary in the middle of an 'Anchorman' movie would have been a terrible thing.
‐‐ Adam McKay

A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.
‐‐ George Mercer Dawson

A duck tastes the same whether they're shot sitting or flying.
‐‐ Jase Robertson

A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak.
‐‐ Leon Askin

A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal proceeding to try and recoup that money. Given the profession's notoriously low wages, however, it's probably not worth the publicity headache and legal fees. No news organization has ever pursued such a case.
‐‐ Brendan I. Koerner

A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.
‐‐ Alexander Haig

A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or useful which is not helpful to the future life.
‐‐ Saint Ambrose

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
‐‐ Robert Burton

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.
‐‐ Laurence Sterne

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
‐‐ Stewart Alsop

A dynamic economy begins with a good education.
‐‐ Bob Taft

A fabulous pair of shoes? I have to have willpower.
‐‐ Keshia Knight Pulliam

'A Face in the Crowd' is Elia Kazan's forgotten movie.
‐‐ Peyton Reed

A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.
‐‐ Norman Rockwell

A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.
‐‐ Chuck Close

A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.
‐‐ Loretta Young

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
‐‐ Mary Wortley Montagu

A face isn't an organ, like a liver or a heart. A face is muscles, nerves, bones, and skin. A face is more like a hand or a foot.
‐‐ Jeanne Marie Laskas

A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.
‐‐ Loretta Young

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
‐‐ Robert Browning

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
‐‐ Claude Bernard

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
‐‐ Edward Teller

A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.
‐‐ Luigi Pirandello

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.
‐‐ Henry Mayhew

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
‐‐ Jessica Savitch

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

A factory-installed security measure - one that phone owners would have to opt out of, rather than opting in - could automatically render purloined devices inoperable on any network, anywhere in the world. No resale value, no thefts.
‐‐ Eric Schneiderman

A factory that can turn carbon nanotubes into a sheet a yard wide and long enough to stretch one-fourth of the way to the moon is not something you'll find at your local industrial park. That's the show-stopper for the space elevator. The ribbon.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

A failure doesn't mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try.
‐‐ Leonard Mlodinow

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
‐‐ Christian Nestell Bovee

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.
‐‐ Charles Inglis

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
‐‐ B. F. Skinner

A failure to act is a terrible, stunning legacy for any leader. But far worse when it is the president of the United States. And that's the point driven home by Romney's selection of Ryan, who dared to lead when Obama did not.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
‐‐ Arthur Bloch

'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes - 'ideas for stories.' Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly - in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?
‐‐ Jack Schwartz