All Quotes

An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.
‐‐ Lisa Kudrow

An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes.
‐‐ Debra Winger

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe

An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
‐‐ Nance O'Neil

An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent.
‐‐ Tom Lehrer

An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'
‐‐ Cate Blanchett

An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.
‐‐ Marian Seldes

An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.
‐‐ Billie Burke

An actual saga demands change, both in its characters and its world.
‐‐ Katharine Kerr

An actual understanding of our economy is that our economy most depends on our rate of innovation... It's not actually understood by most of the people running for office, but it's not in fact disputed.
‐‐ Chris Gabrieli

An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.
‐‐ Gary Hamel

An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's 'The Pallisers' has been axed by the BBC... I was also going to do Dickens' 'Dombey and Son' but they've asked me to do 'David Copperfield' instead.
‐‐ Andrew Davies

An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.
‐‐ David Nicholls

An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this.
‐‐ Hans Frank

An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.
‐‐ Marshall McLuhan

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.
‐‐ Andrew Greeley

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
‐‐ Pope Benedict XVI

An adult human can last 40 days without food, a week without any sleep, three days without water, but only five minutes without air. Yet nothing is more taken for granted than the air we breathe. However, not just any air will do - it must be exquisitely designed to meet our needs. Too little oxygen in the atmosphere will kill us, as will too much.
‐‐ Hugh Ross

An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful.
‐‐ Roberta Williams

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.
‐‐ Norma Shearer

An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.
‐‐ Louis de Bernieres

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
‐‐ Fred Allen

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
‐‐ Bette Davis

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
‐‐ John Updike

An African woman carries heavy loads anyway. That's how we are trained; we are brought up that nothing is unbearable. I use that now, positively. I use that now to have the thick skin that I have, and not fear, and move forward, and push; and push forward.
‐‐ Joyce Banda

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
‐‐ James A. Michener

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
‐‐ Raymond Chandler

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.
‐‐ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!
‐‐ Lionel Blue

An agenda is not a bad thing.
‐‐ Kathy Ireland

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
‐‐ Elton John

An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.
‐‐ Jane Seymour

An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.
‐‐ Allison Janney

An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she's too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn't stand hearing me any more!
‐‐ Marla Sokoloff

An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger.
‐‐ Lou Holtz

An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.
‐‐ Malcolm Gladwell

An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.
‐‐ Leon Panetta

An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal readers to discover them, will outlast him for a while.
‐‐ John Updike

An agreement cannot be the result of an imposition.
‐‐ Nestor Kirchner

An AIDS-free generation would mean that virtually no child is born with HIV; that, as those children grow up, their risk of becoming infected is far lower than it is today; and that those who become infected can access treatment to help prevent them from developing AIDS and from passing the virus on to others.
‐‐ Anthony Fauci

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
‐‐ Robert Louis Stevenson

An aircraft cabin is a place that seems to be nowhere, but I find it steeped in the place left behind and the place ahead.
‐‐ Romesh Gunesekera

An album, for me, is not just a commercial product. It's about presenting a world to people, for them to explore and enjoy. How they do that is up to them.
‐‐ Alison Goldfrapp

An album is a thing you take time out and go work on.
‐‐ Courtney Barnett

An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.
‐‐ Bat for Lashes

An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot... It just feels so like the end of a chapter when you finish one.
‐‐ Chet Faker

An album is like a child and after a while I was ready to give birth!
‐‐ Gloria Trevi

An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.
‐‐ Danny Aiello

An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.
‐‐ Sonia Sotomayor