All Quotes

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
‐‐ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!
‐‐ James Boswell

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
‐‐ August Strindberg

What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.
‐‐ Stephen Jay Gould

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

What an unappealing responsibility that is to lumber any prospective lover with: the need to be a saviour, not simply an equal partner.
‐‐ Mariella Frostrup

What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness!
‐‐ Elizabeth Bibesco

What Andrew Cuomo said is, truly, a scandal. It's a scandal if he actually thinks it - that those who hold conservative views on abortion, gun rights and marriage are extreme, anathema and have no place in the state.
‐‐ Peggy Noonan

What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?
‐‐ Marquis De Custine

What annoys me about it is that your fate is always in somebody else's hands. It's always up to somebody else to decide whether or not they want you in their show and so the majority of actors have to play out a waiting game. The constant fear is that it could all end tomorrow.
‐‐ Peter Capaldi

What annoys people is the idea that somebody has everything, and they're allowed to get away with anything. It's the sense of entitlement that gets up people's noses.
‐‐ Douglas Booth

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.
‐‐ Billie Joe Armstrong

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.
‐‐ Andre Gide

What any manager will try to bring to a company first and foremost is an energy and commitment to the business. To try and really roll your sleeves up.
‐‐ James Murdoch

What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.
‐‐ Hanya Yanagihara

What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself.
‐‐ David Coverdale

What appealed to me about 'The Loved Ones' script was that it had this really theatrical element to it. I thought that the scope of this character is so broad, and there is so much fun to be had playing a crazy teenage loner. It was a great way to explore the delusions a mind can create.
‐‐ Robin McLeavy

What appeals to me about an American music directorship is the involvement of the conductor with the orchestra and the community. I think that's a fantastic thing. In Europe, being principal conductor means merely that you're the person who does most of the concerts. For me, that simply isn't enough.
‐‐ Jeffrey Tate

What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold.
‐‐ Tommy Lee Jones

What appeared to the earlier physicists to be the constant quantity of heat is nothing more than the whole motive power of the motion of heat, which remains constant so long as it is not transformed into other forms of work, or results afresh from them.
‐‐ Hermann von Helmholtz

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
‐‐ Patrick Kavanagh

What appears on the page comes out of your experience, and no-one is going to see it in quite the same way - so, that being so, you're already doing something in a thoroughly individual and idiosyncratic way anyway.
‐‐ Ronald Frame

What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow.
‐‐ Franz Marc

What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.
‐‐ Robert H. Schuller

What Apple did for technology is brilliant, but they didn't do nothin' for our economy.
‐‐ George Lois

What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes.
‐‐ Robert Reich

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
‐‐ Bliss Carman

What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.
‐‐ Jack Kevorkian

What are individuals in wars today? Expendable commodities, dead or alive.
‐‐ Joanne Liu

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
‐‐ Christopher Marlowe

What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?
‐‐ Margaret Carlson

What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.
‐‐ Geraldine Ferraro

What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.
‐‐ Joan Rivers

What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.
‐‐ Lady Gregory

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?
‐‐ Thomas Wentworth Higginson

What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.
‐‐ Louis D. Brandeis

What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of kick to the curb.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

What are the chances there is a God, really?
‐‐ Sarah Silverman

What are the crumple zones on scooters? The helmet is the only crumple zone I can think of.
‐‐ Ratan Tata

What are the Democrats, the party of Jim Matheson, telling them? The message of the Democrats is that the Amercian dream is over. 'The government is all you have. Give up your dreams, and the government will save you, the government will heal you, the government will be your hope and change.' We know here in Utah, none of that is true.
‐‐ Mia Love

What are the implications of a China that may be on nuclear parity with the United States?
‐‐ Charles Bass

What are the odds that a nuclear emergency like the one at Fukushima Dai-ichi could happen in the central or eastern United States? They'd have to be astronomical, right?
‐‐ Bill Dedman

What are the physical sensations you associate with hunger? For most people, these sensations include stomach grumbling, headaches, light-headedness, irritability, fatigue and inability to focus.
‐‐ Joel Fuhrman

What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
‐‐ Erica Jong

What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.
‐‐ Oriana Fallaci

What are the two biggest things online? Selfies and emojis. We're combining them. Instead of sending some character that means nothing with a hat - what if it was your face doing something? Me-moji.
‐‐ Howie Mandel

What are they going to do to me that they haven't done already? They took away my entire past. They took away my entire future. What's left for them to take?
‐‐ Robert Blake

What are we blaming? Is this Vietnam? We made a movie, it didn't make much money. I'm gonna be really happy if somebody watches it in 10 years' time and really enjoys it.
‐‐ Kevin Costner

What are we Democrats fighting for? We are not fighting for salvation and going to heaven. But we are fighting for Medicaid, Medicare, health care, education, jobs, helping old folks.
‐‐ Charles B. Rangel