All Quotes

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
‐‐ Madalyn Murray O'Hair

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
‐‐ Francis Thompson

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
‐‐ James Buchan

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
‐‐ Dwight D. Eisenhower

An atheist is someone who thinks (but doesn't believe) that nothing created everything.
‐‐ Ray Comfort

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
‐‐ Simone Weil

An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in.
‐‐ Carl Lewis

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
‐‐ Emil Zatopek

An athlete gets paid a lot of money. And someone who is after that, a thief, a mugger or someone who steals from people, they are taking a chance with the law that if they get caught, they are going to jail or face some other problem. In my case, you are going to get shot.
‐‐ Luke Scott

An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.
‐‐ Cathy Rigby

An athlete may not know what they're putting in their body.
‐‐ Genzebe Dibaba

An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.
‐‐ Major Taylor

An athlete's diet is a complicated thing.
‐‐ Chuck Norris

An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.
‐‐ Alberto Salazar

An athletic man, or whatever you want to call him, will only look good in a very classic suit, a pair of classic jeans, athletic clothes or simply naked. Forget fashion. This is not going to happen, unless you want to look like a Chippendales dancer in designer clothes.
‐‐ Hedi Slimane

An attack on the scale of Sept. 11 would rock the markets and the economy.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
‐‐ Garrett Hardin

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

An attempt by the Mongols to introduce paper money in Persia in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries flopped because no one would accept it. The public had no confidence in the paper money despite the awesomely coercive decrees that always marked Mongol rule.
‐‐ Murray Rothbard

An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in.
‐‐ John J. Sirica

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.
‐‐ Daniel Keys Moran

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
‐‐ E. F. Schumacher

An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.
‐‐ Jack White

An audience can be like a pack of wolves.
‐‐ Paul Mooney

An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.
‐‐ Captain Beefheart

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein

An audience is going to be able to find a little bit of Dorothy in themselves and relate to this woman.: roles like Dorothy Day are so rare in Hollywood.
‐‐ Moira Kelly

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
‐‐ Billy Wilder

An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.
‐‐ Desi Arnaz

An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.
‐‐ Peter Maxwell Davies

An audience who watches my shows knows who I am, knows that right when they think I'm going to make a joke, I'm going to blow something up, or during the worst peril, I'm going to have someone give someone a kiss - it's just going to happen.
‐‐ Joss Whedon

An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.
‐‐ Elliott Carter

An Australian girl size 12 and a Swedish girl size 12 are completely different, just because of the way they're formed. It's becoming this worldwide movement because people are getting it. We all have two different parents; we're not supposed to look the same. It's ridiculous.
‐‐ Hayley Hasselhoff

An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.
‐‐ Sarah Ban Breathnach

An author departs, he does not die.
‐‐ Dinah Maria Mulock

An author entices the readers with their words, and it is painful for them to even lose a sentence. But films and books are two different mediums and should be dealt differently. What works in a book might not work for a film. When I saw 'Anna Karenina' on screen, I didn't like it at all, whereas 'The Godfather' was legendary.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
‐‐ Charles de Montesquieu

An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if the book gets published and lots of people get to read it, or if you make just one copy and you share that book with one friend.
‐‐ Jarrett J. Krosoczka

An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.
‐‐ Tony Hillerman

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
‐‐ Anthony Trollope

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
‐‐ F. Scott Fitzgerald

An author's ability to bring a marketing synopsis to the table - along with a great manuscript - makes a difference in what books get picked up. This is true for both fiction and nonfiction titles. You need to show your publisher what you've got in your marketing arsenal.
‐‐ M. J. Rose

An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.
‐‐ Lion Feuchtwanger

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
‐‐ Roald Dahl

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.
‐‐ Richard Hell

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
‐‐ Quentin Crisp

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.
‐‐ Boris Becker