All Quotes

The Academy Awards were basically created by the industry to promote pictures. They weren't really to acknowledge the performances. Then it became sort of this a great popularity contest and now, it's an incredible show and it's seen all over the world.
‐‐ James Cromwell

The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.
‐‐ Georg Solti

The Academy is paranoid about its image.
‐‐ Roger Ebert

The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.
‐‐ Martin Henderson

The accent in England can change literally from street to street, and people have this sort of feudal tribalism whereby you can identify somebody's provenance by their voice.
‐‐ Rupert Friend

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.
‐‐ Rem Koolhaas

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
‐‐ Sting

The acceptance of 'Quantico' so far has been really great. At the moment, I'm just straddling two continents far away from each other, with very active careers in both!
‐‐ Priyanka Chopra

The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.
‐‐ John Henrik Clarke

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

The acceptance to Harvard was more of trophy than a real possibility to me. I would have been miserable.
‐‐ Reggie Lee

The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
‐‐ Pat Brown

The accession to power in Pyongyang of Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong Il and grandson of Kim Il Sung, is a unique achievement in world politics.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.
‐‐ Morgan Freeman

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
‐‐ Chauncey Wright

The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it also means I can't take my foot off the gas pedal.
‐‐ Mickey Rourke

The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.
‐‐ Cory Doctorow

The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.
‐‐ Nicole Krauss

The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job.
‐‐ John Frankenheimer

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
‐‐ Bess Myerson

The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user.
‐‐ Mitch Kapor

The accomplishments in college and even in the pros are more in my mind because you constantly see Duke on TV during basketball season. You constantly see the NBA.
‐‐ Grant Hill

The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
‐‐ George F. Kennan

The accountability of state legislators is so much more than federal legislators.
‐‐ Rob Woodall

The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.
‐‐ Friedrich St. Florian

The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.
‐‐ Ramez Naam

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.
‐‐ Michael Gove

The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals.
‐‐ Edward Blake

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.
‐‐ Charles Babbage

'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not only of poor and immigrant workers but of their young children in factories and mills - and as the consequence of race hatred in the aftermath of the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
‐‐ Patricia Hewitt

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
‐‐ Vince Lombardi

The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

The achievements we forge in this place and in our nation will not be those of one person or one party.
‐‐ Paul Martin

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
‐‐ Benjamin Jowett

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.
‐‐ Arthur Erickson

The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice.
‐‐ Lee Kuan Yew

The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
‐‐ Ben Okri

The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
‐‐ Thomas a Kempis

The acne thing was bad. The shoulders, the face, my voice changed. I had a period every other week.
‐‐ Kelli White

The acquisition of an accurate and easy conversation, of some skill in music, and in pure and healthful diversions, are of great benefit in fitting one for social intercourse, in which one of the greatest sources of pleasure is found.
‐‐ Joseph P. Bradley

The acquisition of knowledge need not be like listening to the Gregorian chant.
‐‐ John McLaughlin

The acronym ISIS stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. But increasingly, we see that it's not limited there. We see it in Egypt. We see it in Libya. We see it in Afghanistan.
‐‐ Tom Cotton

The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.
‐‐ Jack Bowman

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.
‐‐ Merle Shain