A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.
‐‐ Rachel Cusk
A femtosecond is comparable to one second in 32 million years. It is like watching a 32-million-year movie to see one second.
‐‐ Ahmed Zewail
A fever is an expression of inner rage.
‐‐ Julia Roberts
A few actresses have all but set up shop as women of a certain age who attract younger lovers. I think of Susan Sarandon, Cameron Diaz and Isabelle Huppert.
‐‐ Roger Ebert
A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.
‐‐ Antonio Munoz Molina
A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
‐‐ Nicholas D. Kristof
A few days of idleness have completely sickened me, and given me what is called the blue-devils so severely, that I feel that the sooner I go to work and drive them off, the better.
‐‐ John James Audubon
A few decades ago, many people didn't drink water outside of a meal. Then beverage companies started bottling the production of far-off springs, and now office workers unthinkingly sip bottled water all day long.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg
A few decades ago, the Irish decided they were tired of being always near the bottom of Europe's economic indicators. So they envisioned a better future for their country, and they put their people on the right road to get there.
‐‐ Evan Bayh
A few dozen changes to the genome of a modern elephant - to give it subcutaneous fat, woolly hair and sebaceous glands - might suffice to create a variation that is functionally similar to the mammoth. Returning this keystone species to the tundras could stave off some effects of warming.
‐‐ George M. Church
A few drugs - such as beta-blockers, statins and glycogen control medications - have proved very effective at managing hypertension, heart disease, diabetes and strokes. Most insurance plans charge something for them. Why not make drugs like these free? Not for everyone, but just the groups for whom they are provably effective.
‐‐ Sendhil Mullainathan
A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.
‐‐ Abby Wambach
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
‐‐ Jean Rostand
A few honest men are better than numbers.
‐‐ Oliver Cromwell
A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas.
‐‐ Francis Parkman
A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.
‐‐ Denis Kearney
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
‐‐ John Muir
A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.
‐‐ Moira Kelly
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of actually visiting the Playboy Mansion. I saw the peacocks, fed grapes to the monkeys, and even braved the fabled Grotto. After seeing the estate, I understood why anyone would be reluctant to leave.
‐‐ Diablo Cody
A few months into my research, General Petraeus, who was then leading Central Command, invited me to go for a run with him and his team along the Potomac River during one of his visits to Washington. I figured I could interview him while we ran.
‐‐ Paula Broadwell
A few months post-baby is not the easiest time to pull out your best yoga poses.
‐‐ Mary Elizabeth Ellis
A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific.
‐‐ Nick Mancuso
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
‐‐ Alexis Carrel
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.
‐‐ David Brainerd
A few of the world's most famous non-American novelists have large followings in the United States, among them Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Guenter Grass, who were both popular even before winning the Nobel.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer
A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded.
‐‐ Bruce Dickinson
A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of guys in their forties it is very difficult.
‐‐ John Newcombe
A few people have tried to make me see that my writing isn't quite their thing by saying to me: 'What about realism?' To which my general response is, 'What about it?' However, I wouldn't be at all surprised if one of my favorite writers, Marilynne Robinson, was to say something similar if asked 'What about the fantastic?'
‐‐ Helen Oyeyemi
A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead.
‐‐ Shawn Amos
A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.
‐‐ James Wolfe
A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia.
‐‐ Ezra Stiles
A few small changes in your DNA can turn your eyes blue, make you lactose intolerant or put some curl in your hair.
‐‐ Anne Wojcicki
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
‐‐ Plutarch
A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples - in particular the United States of America - fought so that we Germans could live in liberty. That we should never forget.
‐‐ Horst Koehler
A few words about Sarah Palin: She is one of the most fascinating women I have ever met. She crackles with energy like a live electrical wire and on first meeting gets about three inches from your face.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon
A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.
‐‐ Ismail Merchant
A few years after 'Melrose Place,' when the luster of 'Melrose Place' wore off and what was left was just the stink, and I was just doing bad TV movies, that was a personal low point. I felt I needed to stop doing those, and I did.
‐‐ Grant Show
A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.
‐‐ Boris Becker
A few years ago, I actually did come up with a mocking sort of epitaph for myself. It's this: 'Here lies Robert Silverberg. He spent most of his life in the future. Now he's in the past.'
‐‐ Robert Silverberg
A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore
A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.
‐‐ Rick Moranis
A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.
‐‐ FKA twigs
A few years ago, I got to a point where I realised that the only way you can tell someone's age is how they live their life. The candles on the cake mean absolutely nothing.
‐‐ Rob Lowe
A few years ago, I lost 30 pounds, and people still wanted to criticize. And honestly, I'm happy with myself if I'm a little heavier.
‐‐ Khloe Kardashian
A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight.
‐‐ Etta James
A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.
‐‐ Rachel Bilson
A few years ago, I was trying to buy a piece of land next to a house I had in Newfoundland. I discovered that the plot had been owned by a family, and the son had gone off to World War I and been killed. It began to interest me: What would have happened on that land if the son had lived, had brought up his own family there?
‐‐ Michael Winter
A few years ago, if you had told me I'd be moving back to Glasgow I'd have said, 'No way'. But it's changed. It's much more vibrant, bohemian. But I'm 35 and I've become a bit of a homebody, I don't really go out much. Same in New York. My home could be anywhere but I love Glasgow.
‐‐ Kelly Macdonald
A few years ago in Chicago, I rented an office, and I went there every day. For the most part I do work at home in an ugly room.
‐‐ Jeffrey Eugenides