All Quotes

Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.
‐‐ Homaro Cantu

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
‐‐ John Ray

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.
‐‐ Tommy Hilfiger

Algeria is not breaking up.
‐‐ Ahmed Ben Bella

Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us.
‐‐ Ahmed Ben Bella

Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.
‐‐ Clay Shirky

Ali always said I would be nothing without him. But what would he have been without me?
‐‐ Joe Frazier

Ali and I have become friends over the years. I was on a plane with him one time when he was the champion.
‐‐ Robert Goulet

Ali even told me in the ring, 'You can't beat me - I'm your Lord.' I just told him, 'Lord, you're in the wrong place tonight.'
‐‐ Joe Frazier

Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I hit Ali, the pain would take over and you would pass out.
‐‐ Ken Norton

Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

Ali's daughter is fighting and Joe Frazier's daughter is fighting as well.
‐‐ Robert Goulet

Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali

Ali vs. Stevenson would have served as a symbolic battle between the United States and Cuba, capitalism and communism: Castro's values instilled in his boxers pitted against the values of 'merchandise' boxers from the rest of the world.
‐‐ Brin-Jonathan Butler

Ali... we should have gone to see that movie. Malcolm X was another one.
‐‐ Cicely Tyson

Ali would not be Ali unless I had come along. Him and me had three fights.
‐‐ Joe Frazier

'Alias' was very action-packed. 'G.I. Joe' and 'Conan' were very action-packed. It's been established that I can do action, which is great, but now I may just want to make out with a really hot guy.
‐‐ Rachel Nichols

Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.
‐‐ Jack Ma

Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that I sent her a bunch of stamps by return mail. I have no idea what I was thinking. It was a star-struck impulse.
‐‐ Anne Lamott

'Alice in Wonderland' has been done a million times; why do it again? Nerve's answer is that Alice is Everyman and Everywoman, going through the stages of life.
‐‐ Kathe Koja

Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.
‐‐ Nell Freudenberger

Alice Munro is not only revered, she is cherished, her stories handled lovingly, turned over and over, gazed at and studied and breathed in with something approaching awe. She has never, over the years, written the way any of her contemporaries have.
‐‐ Cathleen Schine

Alice Oswald. With Hughes and Heaney gone, people are looking around for the best British and Irish poets. Oswald is one of our finest.
‐‐ Tobias Hill

Alice Roosevelt Longworth was only a few years older than my mother but outlived her by a decade, dying in 1980. From the time they met, in 1917, they were lifelong friends of sorts, though each was a bit wary of the other.
‐‐ Katharine Graham

'Alice' took over two years to make and took a great deal of planning, obviously much more than usual. We spent so much more time prepping the film, and that was unique for us.
‐‐ Jennifer Todd

Alicia Silverstone from 'Clueless' plays the role of the quintessential buttoned-up beauty who still knows how to throw down. She's intimidating from a distance but happy to befriend the new girl and show her the lay of the land.
‐‐ Lauren Kate

Alien abduction movies are always the scariest; no matter how cheesy they are, they still scare me for a week. I live by myself in my apartment, and I don't worry about intruders or robbery; I mostly worry about alien abduction or evil, mean ghosts.
‐‐ Claire Coffee

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.
‐‐ Jason Reitman

Alien Chutney is just what the name suggests it is. Its music that is so funny and quirky and weird that it feels entirely alien to the listener; yet, the content and the subject matter is so Indian and relatable, it's still chutney.
‐‐ Vir Das

'Alien' is a C film elevated to an A film, honestly, by it being well done and a great monster. If it hadn't had that great monster, even with a wonderful cast, it wouldn't have been as good, I don't think.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

'Alien' is a great movie. So is 'Close Encounters.' But I'm not the guy who goes out to the science-fiction festival. '2001's good.
‐‐ David Duchovny

'Alien' is a landmark. One of the really good science-fiction films.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster.
‐‐ Jackie Earle Haley

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
‐‐ R. D. Laing

Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can only be an expression of our humanity.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.
‐‐ Arthur Baer

Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
‐‐ Norman Mailer

Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

Alinea is not the type of restaurant where you go if you're in a hurry. Really, it's about enjoying that three-hour block of time and reflecting on the food, having great conversation with your dining companion.
‐‐ Grant Achatz

Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to 'Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.' That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer.
‐‐ Karl Rove

Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.
‐‐ Brad Paisley

Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her.
‐‐ Taryn Manning

Alistair made my goals feel more achievable. I remember him competing for Great Britain when he was 15, and he came back with his GB kit. I thought, 'Wow, I want a part of that.' Sportsmen can seem distant, like superheroes. Seeing my brother achieve that made me think I could, too.
‐‐ Jonathan Brownlee

All 50 states had the same national economy. And on virtually any measurement you wish to look at, Michigan has moved up and improved against the others.
‐‐ John Engler

All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'
‐‐ S. Ansky

All a lot of women see are dollar signs.
‐‐ Tony Dorsett

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
‐‐ Sophocles