All Quotes

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
‐‐ Dylan Thomas

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
‐‐ Donald Knuth

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
‐‐ Naguib Mahfouz

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.
‐‐ Phaedrus

An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
‐‐ Alan Greenspan

An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly.
‐‐ Lisa Randall

An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.
‐‐ Joel Kinnaman

An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
‐‐ Ben Shahn

An amazing gift in a young child is, in some ways, an abnormality.
‐‐ Itzhak Perlman

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.
‐‐ Henry Wotton

An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.
‐‐ G. Willow Wilson

An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.
‐‐ Adam Schiff

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.
‐‐ Alexis de Tocqueville

An American champion, obviously being here in the states, is something that we all look at with the U.S. Open. But golf is played all over the world, and there are so many great golfers from other countries, and we're lucky enough that this is our home base to be able to play out of.
‐‐ Paula Creamer

An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales.
‐‐ Paul Watson

An American Idol is someone that has all the qualities that America thinks is positive, attractive and alluring.
‐‐ Mario Vazquez

An American Idol is someone who knows how to change people's lives through music.
‐‐ Anwar Robinson

An American may speak love with his lips; the Italian must say it with his eyes.
‐‐ Rudolph Valentino

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
‐‐ Charles Darwin

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
‐‐ Irving Babbitt

An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
‐‐ Zubin Mehta

An American parliamentary system with proportional representation wouldn't immediately or inexorably lead to a flourishing social democracy, but it would at least correct the overrepresentation of an ideological minority and cut down on intentional tactical economic sabotage.
‐‐ Alex Pareene

An American store is generally a very extensive apartment, handsomely decorated, the roof frequently supported on marble pillars. The owner or clerk is seen seated by his goods, absorbed in the morning paper - probably balancing himself on one leg of his chair, with a spittoon by his side.
‐‐ Isabella Bird

An American tragedy in which we all have played a part.
‐‐ Gerald R. Ford

An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid.
‐‐ Gary Miller

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.
‐‐ Jean-Marie Le Pen

An ancient Scythian nomad skeleton buried with an eagle was reportedly excavated near Aktobe Gorge, Kazakhstan. Ancient petroglyphs in the Altai region depict eagle hunters, and inscribed Chinese stone reliefs show eagles perched on the arms of hunters in tunics, trousers, and boots, identified as northern nomads (1st to 2nd century A.D.).
‐‐ Adrienne Mayor

An angel has no memory.
‐‐ Terry Southern

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.
‐‐ Leo Rosten

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.
‐‐ Edward Young

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
‐‐ Publilius Syrus

An angry generation will not bring peace to the world; I do believe that.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
‐‐ Publilius Syrus

An angry people cannot create anything that is not imbued with anger.
‐‐ John McAfee

An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.
‐‐ Bill Klem

An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.
‐‐ Peter Singer

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
‐‐ Martin Buber

An animal takes freely anything that it wishes: it commits no sin and is not held responsible for its action because it knows no better. But as soon as the idea of 'mine' and 'thine' has been imprinted upon our consciousness, then also the responsibility comes.
‐‐ Max Heindel

An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.
‐‐ Erwin Schrodinger

An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss.
‐‐ Daniel Pauly

An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance.
‐‐ Curt Gowdy

An answer is always a form of death.
‐‐ John Fowles

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
‐‐ Lao Tzu

An anthropologist will not excitedly report of a newly discovered tribe: 'They eat food! They breathe air! They use tools! They tell each other stories!' We humans forget how alike we are, living in a world that only reminds us of our differences.
‐‐ Eliezer Yudkowsky

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
‐‐ Felix Adler

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
‐‐ Steve Martin

An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.
‐‐ Adnan Pachachi

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
‐‐ Samuel Butler