All Quotes

'Adult Swim' on the Cartoon Network is unbelievable. And 'South Park' continues to do great stuff. And 'Family Guy' and the various other Seth MacFarlane projects are amazing.
‐‐ Matt Groening

Adult Swim's philosophy is, 'Put it on the air and if it works, great. If it doesn't, take it down and try again.' It's a refreshing way to do TV, I think.
‐‐ Eric Wareheim

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

Adultery is the ultimate deal-breaker for me. I would rather be alone than in a relationship that doesn't honor me.
‐‐ Garcelle Beauvais

Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.
‐‐ Allan Sherman

Adulthood is hell.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft

Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I don't feel everybody can connect to.
‐‐ John Darnielle

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
‐‐ Thomas Szasz

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.
‐‐ Paula Poundstone

Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
‐‐ Gary Paulsen

Adults are obsolete children.
‐‐ Dr. Seuss

Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.
‐‐ Ann Voskamp

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
‐‐ Elias Canetti

Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no longer think they can make the world a better place. That can make them rather boring, I suppose.
‐‐ Nina Bawden

Adults need to live in a society that is economically social, governmentally democratic, and culturally free.
‐‐ Rudolf Steiner

Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.
‐‐ Alison Gopnik

Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense of them. When I was a child, I thought about everything in the universe.
‐‐ T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

Adults spend $500 billion on games and leisure activity each year, and some adults lament that kids get $15 billion for toys.
‐‐ Brian Sutton-Smith

Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'different' will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why.
‐‐ Alexandra Robbins

Adults under threat feel like children.
‐‐ Martha Beck

Adults, who outnumber kids four or five to one, are in charge. We wield the resources, run the world, and completely thwart kids' creativity.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

Adults will not necessarily laugh at the same thing as their children.
‐‐ Richard C. Armitage

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
‐‐ Khalil Gibran

Advancement and promotion in Mystic Masonry is not dependent on favor; it cannot be given till it has been earned and the candidate has stored in himself the power to rise, any more than a pistol can be fired till it has been loaded.
‐‐ Max Heindel

Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.
‐‐ Gary Ryan Blair

Advancements in technology have become so commonplace that sometimes we forget to stop and think about how incredible it is that a girl on her laptop in Texas can see photos and cell phone video in real time that a young college student has posted of a rally he's at in Iran.
‐‐ Rosalind Wiseman

Advances don't fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn't really mean anything to me. If a lot of money came my way, I'm certainly not going to say no. But it hasn't come my way as yet, and I'm not heartbroken.
‐‐ Upamanyu Chatterjee

Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.
‐‐ Alan Dean Foster

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.
‐‐ Julie Bishop

Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality.
‐‐ John Hutton

Advances in technology and the Internet have dramatically changed the way we communicate, live, and work.
‐‐ Suzan DelBene

Advances in technology have opened up possibilities in the cultural realm throughout history. I'm intrigued by developments in technology - as an artist it gives me a new palette to explore.
‐‐ Janet Echelman

Advances in technology - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For instance, our interconnected world depends on elaborate networks: electric power grids, air traffic control, international finance, just-in-time delivery, and so forth.
‐‐ Martin Rees

Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.
‐‐ Christopher Bond

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.
‐‐ Rupert Murdoch

Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables.
‐‐ Dean Karnazes

Adventure games are all about details - if you happen to take this one object and use it with this other object, in a really weird place, at a weird time. If you happen to write a really funny dialogue line for that, even if it didn't solve the puzzle, people will appreciate that.
‐‐ Tim Schafer

Adventure is just bad planning.
‐‐ Roald Amundsen

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
‐‐ George Eliot

Adventure is worthwhile.
‐‐ Aesop

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
‐‐ Amelia Earhart

Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
‐‐ Bear Grylls

Adventure travel existed before I started, I just didn't know it.
‐‐ Tim Cahill

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
‐‐ Adam Smith

Adventure without risk is Disneyland.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

Adventures are to the adventurous.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
‐‐ Edmund Hillary

Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self.
‐‐ Michael Dirda

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
‐‐ Philip Emeagwali

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.
‐‐ Scott Hamilton