All Quotes

Abusive relationships go on and on. You're in it for so long that it can almost be impossible to see it for what it is. That just becomes your life. We get used to and adapt.
‐‐ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

AC/DC, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper - I learned stories of all these guys. That's when I fell in love with Queen, which is one of my favorite bands of all time... I started paying attention to what made music good. I started paying attention to why I liked it.
‐‐ Rico Love

AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a little on each album, but it still works.
‐‐ Joe Perry

AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell' is the greatest meshing of vocal, guitar, and content I've ever heard. That's what I aspire to.
‐‐ Bonnie Raitt

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.
‐‐ Paul Giamatti

Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.
‐‐ Caroline Knapp

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow.
‐‐ Simon Sinek

Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to the principles of science.
‐‐ Ben Stein

Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

Academic scientists aren't generally interested in books for the public. So when one comes out, the authors can't expect much praise from scientists. My goal both as a singer and an instructor is to educate through provocation and entertainment.
‐‐ Greg Graffin

Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.
‐‐ Richard Wall

Academic success depends on research and publications.
‐‐ Philip Zimbardo

Academically, I was never that interested. I skipped classes. My biggest dream was to have a coffee shop, but I had no idea how to get the money to do that.
‐‐ Daniel Espinosa

Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.'
‐‐ Evan Sayet

Academics are becoming much more entrepreneurial these days.
‐‐ Chris Toumazou

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.
‐‐ David Crystal

Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
‐‐ Jeanette Winterson

Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.
‐‐ James E. Rogers

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.
‐‐ John Lithgow

Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

Academy Awards don't really solve anything.
‐‐ Richard LaGravenese

Acadia was founded in 1916 by Woodrow Wilson as the first Eastern national park, aided by rich men, often with middle initials, the 'rusticators,' as they were known then, the first of our wealthy out-of-state visitors.
‐‐ Alexander Chee

Accelerated depreciation helps companies bring forward capital-intensive investments by reducing payback time. It's not a hand out. Companies still have to pay the tax, but they simply get to defer it.
‐‐ Anthony Pratt

Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics.
‐‐ Terry Riley

Accents are always difficult in their way, but as long as you're not throwing an audience off with it, then that's all it should be.
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn

Accents are very easy for me. With me, it's clothing and makeup and hair and all that stuff that inform how the character moves and feels.
‐‐ Toks Olagundoye

Accents are very sexy. American girls who speak French are very attractive to a Frenchman. Anything exotic or different is attractive.
‐‐ Gilles Marini

Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing!
‐‐ Emily Mortimer

Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.
‐‐ Jeremy Renner

Accents. I'm very good with accents. I'm exceedingly good.
‐‐ Theodore Bikel

Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.
‐‐ Arthur C. Nielsen

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
‐‐ Henry A. Kissinger

Accept loss forever.
‐‐ Jack Kerouac

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
‐‐ Les Brown

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
‐‐ Joyce Brothers

Accept that the moment you buy your latest iPad, iPhone, tablet, app or game it will be promptly followed by a vastly improved and sleeker looking version.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
‐‐ George S. Patton

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
‐‐ Peter Drucker

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
‐‐ Marcus Aurelius

Accept what you did do, and live with it.
‐‐ Peter Hook

Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
‐‐ Randy Jackson

Accept yourself and expect more from yourself.
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
‐‐ Maxwell Maltz

Accept yourself, love yourself.
‐‐ Chanel Iman

Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live.
‐‐ Jane Siberry