All Quotes

A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it will lead you on to see. Following up its logic in order to check its accuracy, you find confirmation or denial in the object itself or in your memory of it.
‐‐ John Berger

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.
‐‐ Mary Schmich

A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.
‐‐ Sargent Shriver

A line is a dot that went for a walk.
‐‐ Paul Klee

A linear accelerator has the advantage that no magnet is required and that its cost should not rise much more steeply than with the energy of the particles required.
‐‐ Ernest Walton

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
‐‐ Ferdinand de Saussure

A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.
‐‐ Jack Hanna

A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.
‐‐ Frans Lanting

A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.
‐‐ Salman Khan

A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.
‐‐ Chuck Jones

A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.
‐‐ Jacki Weaver

A lip brush is really helpful when applying a red lip because it makes the lines smoother. You can see a bumpy line from really far away.
‐‐ Gracie Gold

A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
‐‐ Donald Knuth

A-list stars go to Comic-Con to woo the nerd demographic.
‐‐ Jim Lee

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!
‐‐ Brian Lumley

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.
‐‐ John Barton

A little acting debut in Spin City, with Michael J. Fox, which opened up a whole new door for me.
‐‐ Heidi Klum

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
‐‐ Saadi

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.
‐‐ David Simon

A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson.
‐‐ James Longstreet

A little bit about my family: We didn't really come from much, and we didn't take family trips to California, so my first trip to California was actually my first day of school.
‐‐ Bresha Webb

A little bit of attention can go a long way.
‐‐ Nicholas D. Kristof

A little bit of gratuitous violence in a well-thought-out story is fine.
‐‐ Ray Wise

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
‐‐ Pope Francis

A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.
‐‐ Faith Hill

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.
‐‐ Al Hirt

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
‐‐ Elizabeth Gaskell

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.
‐‐ James Monroe

A little girl thought I was mean like my character on 'Zoey,' and I convinced her that 'Logan' is just a fake character and I am really a nice guy.
‐‐ Matthew Underwood

A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'
‐‐ Daniel Goleman

A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.
‐‐ Amanda Lindhout

A little humility never hurts.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
‐‐ Richard Steele

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
‐‐ Hector Hugh Munro

A little jewellery on a man is OK, although he should never wear too much. Every man should always have a great watch.
‐‐ Tamara Mellon

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
‐‐ Louisa May Alcott

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
‐‐ Khalil Gibran

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
‐‐ Frederick Douglass

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
‐‐ Bob Edwards

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
‐‐ Alexander Pope

A little light on the RPG elements but heavy on action, 'Mass Effect 2' was the game that created a world of characters that I actually cared about. When it came down to making those tough decisions during the final mission, I actually had to put the controller down and think about my choices.
‐‐ Rob Manuel

A little man often cast a long shadow.
‐‐ G. M. Trevelyan

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
‐‐ Donald Trump

A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline.
‐‐ Ron Jaworski

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard

A little more than 30 years ago, Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Pat Farrah and I got together and founded The Home Depot.
‐‐ Kenneth Langone

'A Little Nightmare Music' is the first show we created. It's about all the nightmares that can happen in the span of a concert. When things go wrong - when the lights go out or a cellphone rings - that's when an audience suddenly comes alive, wondering what's going to happen next. Things going wrong often leads to something good.
‐‐ Richard Hyung-ki Joo

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
‐‐ Roald Dahl