All Quotes

Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.
‐‐ James C. Maxwell

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.
‐‐ Richard Thompson

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.
‐‐ Julie Burchill

Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough.
‐‐ Norman Granz

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.
‐‐ James Weldon Johnson

Amtrak is extremely important to the economy of Southern Illinois and I will continue to work with state and local leaders and my colleagues in Congress to secure the necessary funding to maintain full service.
‐‐ Jerry Costello

Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country.
‐‐ Tim Bishop

Amuse-bouches are an opportunity to push boundaries.
‐‐ Daniel Humm

Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.
‐‐ John Ortberg

'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.
‐‐ John Ortberg

Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton and the Obama girls all had to change schools.
‐‐ Susan Ford

'Amy' is somewhere in the middle of authorized and unauthorized.
‐‐ Asif Kapadia

Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph - when they speak, everyone listens. Because they're freaking hilarious.
‐‐ Casey Wilson

Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction, studio and independent, broadcast and cable, theatre, and web so our slate is really diverse.
‐‐ Meredith Vieira

Amy Sedaris makes me laugh harder than anybody.
‐‐ Andy Cohen

Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller are examples of poets, I think.
‐‐ Jools Holland

Amy Winehouse was not a person I ever met, and I can't say that I am overly conversant in all of her music. I do have her albums, and years ago, when I first heard her sing, I thought she was extraordinary. The tone of her voice, her phrasing, her raw appearance - these qualities were extremely captivating to me.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people, like the Chekhov story 'The Lady With the Little Dog.'
‐‐ Claire Messud

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
‐‐ Joseph Pulitzer

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
‐‐ Henri Bergson

An absolutely different and distinctive character.
‐‐ George Edmund Street

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.
‐‐ Irwin Shaw

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
‐‐ Thomas More

An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes.
‐‐ Hernan Cortes

An abused childhood affects the entire life... It affects every facet of the life.
‐‐ Vanity

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.
‐‐ Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.
‐‐ Toni Collette

An accent like mine and a face like mine, I think a lot of the time it's easy for casting directors to just stick me in as a bad boy, but 'Being Human' took a risk on me - bless 'em - and I'm not that bad boy no more.
‐‐ Michael Socha

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.
‐‐ Annie Besant

An achilles, if it doesn't heal right, there could be a danger of not playing again.
‐‐ Kevin Pietersen

An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified.
‐‐ Chris Cornell

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.
‐‐ Thomas Babington Macaulay

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
‐‐ Red Auerbach

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
‐‐ Maurice Maeterlinck

An act of unilateral nuclear disarmament by a European power would have a much more lasting impact than all the sanctions under consideration. Sanctions, as we know from the example of Iraq, always affect the least powerful citizens the most.
‐‐ Tariq Ali

An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.
‐‐ Jeremy Irons

An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their cameras.
‐‐ Donnie Yen

An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.
‐‐ Lion Feuchtwanger

An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony and is, ultimately, quite boring.
‐‐ Shane Black

An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a gradual bringing together of all the separate threads of the plot. To see all of it coming together slowly is very rewarding for the audience.
‐‐ Shane Black

An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.
‐‐ Jasmine Guy

An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it's almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can sure try.
‐‐ Joanne Woodward

An actor always goes to the safe side.
‐‐ Chloe Grace Moretz

An actor can be as talented as another, but if he doesn't stick to what the director's intentions are, it all falls down. I adore working with actors.
‐‐ Nicholas Ray

An actor can change himself to fit a part, whereas a personality has to change the part to fit himself. The personality has to say it his own way.
‐‐ Dale Robertson

An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
‐‐ Malcolm McDowell

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
‐‐ Billy Wilder

An actor equals, sometimes, an entitled baby. People take care of things for me, and they pay greater attention to things than I was ever capable of doing. But in the last few years, I have learned a great deal more about taking care of things. I pay my own bills now.
‐‐ Christian Slater