All Quotes

An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.
‐‐ Queen Victoria

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
‐‐ Jean Anouilh

An ugly woman with an ugly gun is a terrible thing.
‐‐ Ross MacDonald

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.
‐‐ Tony Hoare

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.
‐‐ Robyn Hitchcock

An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.
‐‐ Humphrey Lyttelton

An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.
‐‐ Sting

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day.
‐‐ Edward Grey

An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.
‐‐ Octavio Paz

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
‐‐ David Attenborough

An unemployed court jester is nobody's fool.
‐‐ Kevin Hart

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
‐‐ Jose Ortega y Gasset

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.
‐‐ Jon Meacham

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
‐‐ Aldous Huxley

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.
‐‐ Paul D. Boyer

An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while still in school. I was just seventeen years old then. Winning that competition was the turning point of my life. That's how I got into modeling and later started acting.
‐‐ Bipasha Basu

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
‐‐ Honore de Balzac

An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child.
‐‐ Joni Mitchell

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
‐‐ John Ruskin

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.
‐‐ Arthur Smith

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

An unjust peace is better than a just war.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

An unlimited future. Isn't that what America is all about?
‐‐ Sher Valenzuela

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
‐‐ Daniel Webster

An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by.
‐‐ Ian MacKaye

An unmarried adult who cannot navigate the welfare system has no choice but to work, but a married working parent is constantly evaluating the relative merits of staying home with the kids versus bringing home that second paycheck.
‐‐ Philip Greenspun

'An Unquiet Mind' wasn't hard to write in terms of the actual writing of it.
‐‐ Kay Redfield Jamison

An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.
‐‐ Octavio Paz

An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.
‐‐ Matt Taibbi

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.
‐‐ Charles Stanley

An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
‐‐ Andrew Lang

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne

An unused life is an early death.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
‐‐ Gary Hamel

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.
‐‐ Jane Smiley

An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.
‐‐ John Searle

Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.
‐‐ Bill Toomey

Anaheim is not like Los Angeles, where there are more people and more paparazzi. You don't have that in Anaheim. It's more laid-back.
‐‐ Albert Pujols

Analog components don't 'scale' as well as digital components, but integrating them into relatively mature 28 nm platforms will accelerate the connection of everything from watches, personal healthcare, and home appliances to automotive, transportation, agriculture, manufacturing, and industrial controls.
‐‐ Henry Samueli

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.
‐‐ John Lydon

Analog is more beautiful than digital, really, but we go for comfort.
‐‐ Anton Corbijn

Analog sounds so much better. I frankly can't listen to digital audio for more than a few hours without really starting to hate what I'm listening to. Even decent 24-bit digital resolution really irritates me after a while.
‐‐ Tom Scholz

Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.
‐‐ Peter Bart

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
‐‐ Henry Miller

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
‐‐ Sigmund Freud

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
‐‐ Hedy Lamarr

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?
‐‐ David Byrne