All Quotes

A friend of mine works for Autism Speaks. It's an amazing cause that is making a real difference in the lives of so many people.
‐‐ Adrienne Bailon

A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said, 'Oh, my friend Gillian read it and really loved it.' She goes, 'Gillian Jacobs, you mean: Britta Perry, feminist icon?'
‐‐ Gillian Jacobs

A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.
‐‐ Ben Affleck

A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.
‐‐ Marion Zimmer Bradley

A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe

A friend once asked me what comedy was. That floored me. What is comedy? I don't know. Does anybody? Can you define it? All I know is that I learned how to get laughs, and that's all I know about it. You have to learn what people will laugh at, then proceed accordingly.
‐‐ Stan Laurel

A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!
‐‐ Sonia Johnson

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
‐‐ Robert Hall

A friend suggested that I get a job at a children's book store so I could meet kids and read books, and that turned out to be the single best bit of advice I've ever gotten.
‐‐ Brian Selznick

A friend to all is a friend to none.
‐‐ Aristotle

A friend told me about a Nike competition, where they give you one minute to do tricks with a basketball. I wasn't going to go, but they were giving away free sneakers. I ended up coming in second place.
‐‐ Ramon Rodriguez

A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.
‐‐ Ted Allen

A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
‐‐ Gustave Flaubert

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
‐‐ Khalil Gibran

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
‐‐ George Ade

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest.
‐‐ Erma Bombeck

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.
‐‐ George Dennison Prentice

A friendship between Germany and Israel didn't always seem natural.
‐‐ Reuven Rivlin

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
‐‐ Pam Brown

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
‐‐ John D. Rockefeller

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
‐‐ Thomas Moore

A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing.
‐‐ Chris Barber

A frustration I have is that a lot of people increasingly seem to equate an advertising business model with somehow being out of alignment with your customers. I think it's the most ridiculous concept.
‐‐ Mark Zuckerberg

A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door.
‐‐ Joan Lunden

A full accounting of adoption as an option would not underestimate its emotional challenges - the grief and loss for birth mothers, the uncertainties for adoptive parents operating under a patchwork of state laws.
‐‐ Nina Easton

A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.
‐‐ George Soros

A full beard looks cool.
‐‐ Richard C. Armitage

A full mind is an empty bat.
‐‐ Branch Rickey

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
‐‐ Bill Griffith

A full understanding of what happens in our everyday lives needs to take into account what happened at the Big Bang. And not only is that intrinsically interesting and just kind of cool to think about, but it's also a mystery that is not given much attention by working scientists; it's a little bit underappreciated.
‐‐ Sean M. Carroll

A fully positive relationship between Christians and Jews is one that would elide all differences.
‐‐ David Novak

A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.
‐‐ Jay Griffiths

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
‐‐ Chinua Achebe

A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?'
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.
‐‐ Brad Henry

A fundamental lesson on being fired: Never lie about it. People will know what you're saying is a cover-up for how you really feel - embarrassed, discouraged, and afraid.
‐‐ Mika Brzezinski

A fundamental premise in cancer therapy is trying to identify how the metabolism of cancer cells differs from normal tissue. When differences are identified, it often paves the way for treatments that will disrupt the cancer's metabolism while sparing normal tissue.
‐‐ David Perlmutter

A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
‐‐ Jimmy Carter

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
‐‐ Irvin S. Cobb

A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster than the book can get out the door.
‐‐ Edward M. Lerner

A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.
‐‐ Pierre Salinger

A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.
‐‐ Adlai Stevenson

A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
‐‐ Barbara Corcoran

A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations.
‐‐ Fredric Jameson

A future at Wal-Mart may sound a less-than-stellar prospect, but it's a whole lot better than no future at all.
‐‐ Charles Platt