All Quotes

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
‐‐ Abigail Adams

A little over 5% of the world's population produces almost 29% of the world's goods and services.
‐‐ Stephen Covey

A little part of my life is built around ancient art.
‐‐ Michael Steinhardt

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.
‐‐ Allen Klein

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

A little prosperity and peace, or even a turn slightly for the better, can bring us feelings of self-sufficiency. We can feel quickly that we are in control of our lives, that the change for the better is our own doing, not that of a God who communicates to us through the still, small voice of the Spirit.
‐‐ Henry B. Eyring

A little recognition is not a bad thing because it means people appreciate your work. The only problem is when you can't walk down the street or have a meal without people looking at you. I want to be the one looking at people.
‐‐ Viggo Mortensen

A little secret about actors is that we never think we do a great job in auditions. We kind of just go in and do our work and leave sort of hoping for the best. It's an interesting dynamic - acting is such an interesting job. You never quite know how well you do.
‐‐ Sufe Bradshaw

A little secret - I'm the child of a shrink. I am; my mom's a shrink, and my father's a lawyer. So believe me, I analyze and negotiate. That is a huge amount of the director's work, especially when you're working with people who - such a variety.
‐‐ Adam Shankman

A little showbiz never hurt anyone.
‐‐ Peter Capaldi

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
‐‐ Eleanor Roosevelt

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
‐‐ Thomas Fuller

A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online.
‐‐ Joanne Harris

A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.
‐‐ Sylvia Plath

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
‐‐ John Ruskin

A little too wise, they say, do ne'er live long.
‐‐ Thomas Middleton

A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.
‐‐ Dick Cheney

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
‐‐ Thomas More

A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
‐‐ Mary Roberts Rinehart

A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or in my case, just a splash of baby powder. It's not any kind of heavy lifting.
‐‐ Ryan Reynolds

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.
‐‐ Richard McCabe

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts.
‐‐ Elvis Presley

A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.
‐‐ Chris Jericho

A 'live' show is either alive or not. Free speech is free or it is not. Viewers are free to use their remote or TiVo. Parents are responsible or they are not.
‐‐ Frank Pierson

A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.
‐‐ Theodore Roethke

A living art of teaching, one that rests on a true understanding of the human being, has a thread of strength running through it that stimulates individual students to participate so that it is not necessary to keep their attention through direct 'individualized' treatment.
‐‐ Rudolf Steiner

A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.
‐‐ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.
‐‐ Andrew O'Hagan

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
‐‐ Herbert Spencer

A living tree is a changing, sleeve shape, a wet, thin, bright green creature that survives in the thin layer between heartwood and bark. It stands waiting for light, which it catches in the close-woven sieves of its leaves.
‐‐ Alice Oswald

A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
‐‐ Abbey Lee Kershaw

A loach can't emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won't rise.
‐‐ Yoshihiko Noda

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
‐‐ Omar Khayyam

A loafer always has the correct time.
‐‐ Kin Hubbard

A local company has more accountability.
‐‐ Paul Hawken

A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.
‐‐ Sally Phillips

A local newspaper where we were filming in Boston called me the Justin Bieber of Canada. I don't think they realized Justin Bieber is from Canada. I hope someday I can just be the Liam James of Canada.
‐‐ Liam James

A location-aware tablet will let us use what's called geodesign to compose participatory, what-if scenarios onsite, using maps that several people can share - something we could always do with paper but that's been a challenge with digital maps in the field.
‐‐ Jack Dangermond

A locked-room problem lies at the heart of my new novel, 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone,' in which an RUC detective has to find out whether a publican's daughter who fell off a table in a bar that was locked from the inside was in fact murdered.
‐‐ Adrian McKinty

A log-in simulator is a program to trick some unknowing user into providing their user name and password.
‐‐ Kevin Mitnick

A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these different steps and tautologies. I approach novel writing that way. When I get to the end I have to go back and connect everything.
‐‐ Heidi Julavits

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.
‐‐ Edward Sapir

A logical extension of our work on glycogen was to investigate the formation of starch in plants.
‐‐ Luis Federico Leloir

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
‐‐ Chet Atkins

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
‐‐ Thomas Paine

A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.
‐‐ Dan Buettner

A long, hot bath is a real treat. But from a 'green' point of view, that's probably what it should be: an occasional treat.
‐‐ Sheherazade Goldsmith

A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
‐‐ Sam Kean