All Quotes

A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.
‐‐ James Thomas Fields

A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.
‐‐ Laura Wade

A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.
‐‐ Matt Gonzalez

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
‐‐ Henry A. Wallace

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

A fashion photographer is nothing without clothes and hair and makeup. And when I speak to other photographers, a lot of them can't reference a picture by the designer. Me, I say, 'The Balenciaga.' And I go to the shows. I feel like it's my business.
‐‐ Mario Testino

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.
‐‐ Marcel Proust

A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture?
‐‐ Jane Welsh Carlyle

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.
‐‐ Edwin Louis Cole

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
‐‐ St. Jerome

A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.
‐‐ Norman Reilly Raine

A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'
‐‐ Lewis Black

A father draws boundaries and calls a halt, whenever necessary. As I didn't have that, I was able to stay childishly naive that much longer - so I did what I liked, because there was nobody stopping me, even when I got it wrong.
‐‐ Gerhard Richter

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
‐‐ Frank A. Clark

A father is a person who's around, participating in a child's life. He's a teacher who helps to guide and shape and mold that young person, someone for that young person to talk to, to share with, their ups and their downs, their fears and their concerns.
‐‐ Michael Nutter

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
‐‐ Enid Bagnold

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.
‐‐ Michael Bergin

A father-son relationship is strong, like no other teammates. You could be straightforward with one another.
‐‐ Mario Andretti

A father who sees his daughter leave in the arms of another man does not feel the same as a mother. It is heartrending for her, too. But it is not the same.
‐‐ Claire Denis

A fatwa is a religious edict. Such edicts bind only those who seek to follow the Imam issuing them but can be regarded as an option for others seeking an alternative view.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

A favorite cooking method? I'm a fan of all of them! Anything that gets a pile of random ingredients into a cruelty-free dish works for me!
‐‐ Rory Freedman

A favorite film of mine is 'Office Space' and I love 'The Hangover.' That is a really good comedy from character in that film, and that is true of 'Office Space' too.
‐‐ Seth Gordon

A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations.
‐‐ Kathie Lee Gifford

A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.
‐‐ Michael Haneke

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.
‐‐ David Crystal

A Fed loan to Lehman Brothers would not have prevented a bankruptcy.
‐‐ Henry Paulson

A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that.
‐‐ Michael Newdow

A feeble body weakens the mind.
‐‐ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.
‐‐ Joseph Story

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.
‐‐ Joseph Story

A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.
‐‐ Fernando Flores

A feeling for equal rights for other human beings cannot exist in adults if a feeling for authority is not implanted in them during childhood. Otherwise, adults will never become mature enough to recognize the rights of others.
‐‐ Rudolf Steiner

A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.
‐‐ Pamela Sargent

A feeling I got from working at Google was that technology could solve any problem. Yes, it's fantastic, but what I realized later was there's technology, and there's people. Google had its list ordered: Technology. People. And I think the right order is: People. Technology.
‐‐ Biz Stone

A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
‐‐ Umera Ahmad

A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays.
‐‐ Bruno Rossi

A fella who accepts himself and is relaxed into who he is - that appeals to people.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
‐‐ Carl Hubbell

A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.
‐‐ Alvin Dark

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
‐‐ Anthony Trollope

A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.
‐‐ Carl Reiner

A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.
‐‐ Tom Shales

A fellowship to Oxford acquainted me with the depths of English cooking. By the twenty-first century, London's best restaurants are as good as Paris's, but not in the 1950s.
‐‐ Donald Hall

A female friend who caught me watching Fashion TV reckons its audience is largely made up of slobbering men who are just taking a break from the appalling Men & Motors channel. I don't agree.
‐‐ Arthur Smith

A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.
‐‐ Chrisette Michele

A female professional athlete has to have the whole package, as opposed to a guy who can just be good at sport. You have to have a job or go to uni or do three sports instead of one, you have to be a standout.
‐‐ Caroline Buchanan

A female vocal can lift a song.
‐‐ Jessie Ware

A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.
‐‐ Zendaya