Quotes and Sayings about Son
"In film, you are a totally different person than in the video."
- Aaliyah
(Related: Film)
"I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person."
- Aaliyah
(Related: People, Want)
"This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly."
- Willie Aames
(Related: Family, Life)
"Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic."
- Nicola Abbagnano
(Related: Fallibility, Logic, Reason)
"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Experience, Science, Thought, Logic, Reason)
"Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death."
- Berenice Abbott
(Related: Death, Life, Positive, Act, Living, Photography, Song, Word)
"Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause."
- Jack Henry Abbott
(Related: Cause, Effect, Illness, Paranoia, Prison, Reason, Reform, School)
"That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life."
- Jack Henry Abbott
(Related: Life, Day, Prison)
"To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there."
- Jack Henry Abbott
(Related: Prison)
"When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack."
- Jack Henry Abbott
(Related: Circumstances)
"I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison."
- Jack Henry Abbott
(Related: American, Pressure, Prison, Sensations)
"The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest."
- Lyman Abbott
(Related: Man, Reason, Rest)
"Religion is not a conclusion of the reason."
- Lyman Abbott
(Related: Religion, Reason)
"Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Artists, Jobs, Pretty, Songs, Writing)
"The more auditions you go on, the more you will learn not to take it personally."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Will)
"Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Equality, Trying)
"I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: professionals)
"Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Achievement)
"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders."
- Hal Abelson
(Related: Giants)
"The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Age, Poetry, Reason)
"And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Experience, Key, Network)
"With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Son, Act, First, Russia)
"A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work."
- Karl Abraham
(Related: Work)
"If my life was a song it would be 'Who Let The Dogs Out'."
- Casey Abrams
(Related: Life, Dogs, Song)
"I love listening to Radio Head's 'Everything in its Right Place' because it's all major chords, it makes you feel really good. It's soothing, it's got a beautiful voice, crazy textures. When I'm down I listen to that song and it really makes me feel good."
- Casey Abrams
(Related: Love, Listening, Right, Song, Voice)
"Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career."
- Dan Abrams
(Related: Career)
"We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background."
- M. H. Abrams
(Related: Ability, Environment, Military, Sound, Tests, Voice)
"My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Father, Sons)
"The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: President, State)
"No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: History, Thought, People, Enemies, Freedom)
"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Time, Day, Future)
"The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: First)
"The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Attention, Ego, Man, Public)
"Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Negotiation, Sense)
"The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured."
- Dean Acheson
"I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Office, Public, Will)
"Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Military, Self, Washington)
"The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Mistake, Office)
"Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Sense)
"If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Art, Past, Present)
"I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Father, Example)
"Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role."
- Dean Acheson
"Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed."
- Dean Acheson
"Always remember that the future comes one day at a time."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Time, Day, Future)
"A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Writer)
"We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Cooperation, Nations, United)
"It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Mistake)
"One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Power, Country, Right)
"A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Fool)
"I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic."
- Abigail Adams
(Related: Intelligence)
"Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues."
- Abigail Adams
(Related: Wisdom, Experience, Leisure, Retirement)
"When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde!"
- Amy Adams
(Related: Nature, Time, Being, First, Hair, Personality)
"My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?"
- Amy Adams
(Related: Work, Job)
"There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now."
- Bryan Adams
(Related: Now, Right, Saying, Songs)
"I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Tax)
"The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled."
- Henry Adams
(Related: Life, Wealth, Infinite, Summer)
"Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Power, Effect, Poison)
"Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth."
- James Randolph Adams
(Related: Business, Advertising, Earth, Man, Reason)
"The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it."
- John Adams
(Related: Effect, Independence, Glory)
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
- John Adams
(Related: Politics, War, Liberty, Mathematics, May, Philosophy, Sons, Study)
"Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason."
- Samuel Adams
(Related: Feelings, Mankind, Reason)
"There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Problems)
"You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Life, People, Fact)
"Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary."
- Will Adams
(Related: Art, Being, Geometry, Grace, Mathematics, Now, Reason, Understanding)
"So I departed and was free from imprisonment."
- Will Adams
(Related: Imprisonment)
"Faith is a continuation of reason."
- William Adams
(Related: Faith, Reason)
"Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?"
- Joy Adamson
(Related: Responsibility)
"I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from."
- Robert Adamson
(Related: Poets, Pretty)
"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."
- Robert Adamson
(Related: Poets, World)
"It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden."
- Robert Adamson
"There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas."
- Robert Adamson
(Related: Poetry, Example, Poems)
"Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that."
- Robert Adamson
(Related: Poetry, Writing, Years)
"Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess."
- Robert Adamson
(Related: Poetry, Books, Living, Pretty, Writing)
"He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they?"
- Robert Adamson
(Related: Encouraging, Poets, State, Visit, Writing)
"To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Amusement, Man, Pleasure)
"To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Faith, Atheism, Measure)
"To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Nature, Glory, Man)
"That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?"
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Father, Man, Misery, Motive, Will)
"The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Life, Immortality, Lies, Mind, Mystery, Word)
"Jesters do often prove prophets."
- Joseph Addison
"Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Friend, Nothing, Talking, Thinking)
"To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Morality, Authority, Fact, Obvious, Religious)
"Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week."
- Joseph Addison
"The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Death, People, Fear)
"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Life, Friendship, Enjoyment)
"The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Life, Man, Question, Will, Yield)
"The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Culture, Day, Lies, Mind)
"The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: First, Hunger, Lust)
"The post of honour is a private station."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Post)
"Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Happiness, Virtue, Enemy, Suspicion, Will)
"The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Fortune, Humility, Youth)
"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Happiness, Life, Love, Hope)
"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Sight)
"The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Knowledge, Man, Nothing)
"The woman that deliberates is lost."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Woman)
"Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Criticism, Defense, Obscurity)
"There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Being)
"There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Nature, Lady)
"There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Business, Nothing)
"There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Beauty, Soul, Nothing)
"There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Advice, Nothing)
"Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Love, Constancy, Courtship)
"The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Nature, Age, Stars, Sun, Years, Youth)
"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Genius, Books, Mankind, Posterity)
"Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Nature, Life, Calamity, Grief, Humanity, Treatment)
"Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Men, Genius, Learning, Pearls, Want)
"If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Experience, Life, Brother, Genius, Friend, Hope, Perseverance, Caution, Succeed)
"If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Heart, Laughter, Man, May, Mirth)
"If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Life, Dream, Hope, Act, Shadow)
"I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Despair, Will)
"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Being, Garden, Songs, Value)
"I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.""
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Man, Sense, Words)
"He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Comfort, Day, Honor, May, Old, Years)
"Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Wonder)
"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Imagination, Soul, Idea, Curiosity, Pleasure)
"It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Age, Censure, Folly, Man, Persecution, Weakness, World)
"Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Health, Body, Cheerfulness, Mind)
"It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Imperfection, Quiet)
"Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Honor)
"Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Wisdom, Men, Animals, Lies, Sons)
"An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Absurdity, Man, Talking, Will)
"Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Writing)
"Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Admiration, Passion)
"A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Wedding, Advice, Clothes, Woman)
"A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Observation, World, Worth, Writer)
"A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Man)
"A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Truth, Virtue, Man)
"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Talent, Eloquence, Man, Modesty)
"A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Man, Mind, World)
"A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Blessings, Day, Influence)
"Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Courage, Constitution, Duty, Man, Sense)
"Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Power, Man, Mind, Nothing)
"We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Posterity)
"What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Country, Pity)
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Education, Soul, Sculpture)
"Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Affliction, Prosperity)
"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Age, Men, Forget, Old)
"With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: People)
"When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Men, Circumstances, Enemies)
"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Life, Flowers, Humanity, Smiles, Trifles)
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Body, Exercise, Mind, Reading)
"Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Life, Living, Reading)
"Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: People, Wishes)
"Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!"
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Greatness, Country, Heaven, Man, Wrath)
"One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Life, Care, Laughter, Pleasure)
"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Friendship, Happiness, Conversation, Enjoyment, First, Self)
"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Music, Being, Nonsense, Nothing)
"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Legal, Authority, Oppression)
"Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!"
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Love, Pain, Treasure)
"Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Nature, Human nature, Inconsistency, Temper, Weakness)
"Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Music, Heaven)
"Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Virtue, Modesty)
"Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Cheerfulness, Clouds, Mind, Mirth, Serenity)
"Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Merit)
"Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Change, Men, Nature, Climate, Common sense, Fool, Man, May)
"The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Nature, Truth, Breeding, Gain, Praise, Sense)
"Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Force, Justice, Violence)
"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Blessings, Disappointments, Patience)
"One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach."
- George Ade
(Related: Ivy, Man, Poison)
"If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'."
- Naima Adedapo
(Related: Life, Song)
"Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire."
- Sheldon Adelson
(Related: Intention, Planning)
"I've already figured out when I'm going to be No. 2 and No. 1."
- Sheldon Adelson
"I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?"
- Sheldon Adelson
(Related: Business, Change)
"I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions."
- Sheldon Adelson
"If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell."
- Sheldon Adelson
(Related: Family, Company, Interest)
"Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat."
- Konrad Adenauer
"I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Time)
"It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Danger, Protection)
"In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Love, Promises)
"I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good."
- Hasil Adkins
(Related: People, Pretty, Songs, Trying)
"It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with."
- Trace Adkins
(Related: Now, Songs)
"People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records."
- Trace Adkins
(Related: Experience, People, Song)
"A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Superiority)
"It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Measure, Wishes)
"I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Choice, Interest, Man, Woman)
"Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Joy)
"It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Lust, Pleasure, Sexuality, Want)
"No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document."
- Renata Adler
"One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap."
- Stella Adler
(Related: Imagination, Scientists)
"The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Burden, Credit, Name)
"Therefore, I think that in the celebration of the 50 years of the present reign, there must be research on the changes that the country has undergone, and in the future, it could be used as a lesson for our future actions."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: Actions, Country, Future, Present, Research, Years)
"A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: Society, Goodness, Will)
"Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards."
- Aeschines
(Related: Constitution, Democracy, Laws, Protection, State, Suspicion)
"For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Happiness, Heart, Burden, Disease, Hatred, Poison, Sorrow)
"In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Trust, Heart, Friend, Poison)
"It is always in season for old men to learn."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Men, Old)
"Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating."
- Ben Affleck
(Related: Dating, Rumors)
"When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I'm doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it's so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time."
- Ben Affleck
(Related: Time, Job)
"If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call."
- Ben Affleck
(Related: First)
"They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judgmental. There's nothing wrong with horror movies. I enjoy watching them. The main reason I turn a part down is if I think I won't be good."
- Casey Affleck
(Related: Movies, Hate, Horror, Nothing, Reason, Talking, Wrong)
"Well, I actually tell my son that I don't have any hair because he asked me the same question that I gave it to him when he was born, so he actually still believes that. He's five years old."
- Andre Agassi
(Related: Son, Hair, Old, Question, Years)
"Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act."
- James Agate
(Related: Management, Act, Fact, Theatre)
"The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap."
- Spiro T. Agnew
(Related: Past)
"I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it."
- Shmuel Y. Agnon
(Related: Father, First, Longing, Old, Song, Years)
"Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people."
- Shmuel Y. Agnon
(Related: Love, People, Desire, Privilege)
"The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital."
- Shmuel Y. Agnon
(Related: Home, Books, Fate, Fire, Heaven, Night, Songs)
"I hope I presented what I felt the woman seemed to be about, but I couldn't give any reason as to why she remained in the relationship other than that their relationship was very special."
- Jenny Agutter
(Related: Hope, Reason, Woman)
"For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights."
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
(Related: Countries, Rights, Observation, Reason, Relationships, Respect)
"My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer."
- Danny Aiello
(Related: Mother, Father, Influence)
"An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me."
- Danny Aiello
(Related: Singing)
"If I stunk for some reason, you can always blame it on the character."
- Danny Aiello
(Related: Character, Blame, Reason)
"I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth."
- Danny Aiello
(Related: Wife, Truth, Hell, Sons, Word)
"My entire family were Democrats all our lives. But because how furious I was about the previous administration, I turned in my card to become a Republican. I did not want to be known as a Democrat under that person's regime."
- Danny Aiello
(Related: Family, Democrats, Republican, Want)
"You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you."
- Clay Aiken
(Related: Love)
"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."
- Leo Aikman
"Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: Reason)
"Nothing personal; I just don't have people over."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: People, Nothing)
"You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older."
- Anouk Aimee
(Related: Beauty)
"I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war."
- Daniel Akaka
(Related: War, Decisions, Iraq, Past, states, United, Will)
"I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'"
- Malin Akerman
(Related: American, First, Months, Past, Play, Song)
"Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free."
- Anna Akhmatova
(Related: Children, Songs, Word)
"Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person."
- Todd Akin
(Related: Fact, Information, May, Now)
"Just dying should not be a reason for taxes."
- Todd Akin
(Related: Dying, Reason, Taxes)
"Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me."
- Moustapha Akkad
(Related: Religion, Truth, Islam, Muslim, Being, Duty, Obligation)
"I knew Scotty was going to win. At the beginning of the episode, I was like, 'Scotty, are you ready to win?'. I knew he was going to in my heart. I accepted it. I couldn't pick a more perfect person to get second place to. He's my best friend."
- Lauren Alaina
(Related: Heart, Friend, Beginning)
"For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous."
- Carlos Alazraqui
(Related: Character, Being)
"I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles."
- Damon Albarn
(Related: Giving, Songs, Titles)
"Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly."
- Edward Albee
"The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it."
- Edward Albee
"Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality."
- Edward Albee
(Related: People, Character, Personality)
"I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see."
- Josef Albers
(Related: Time)
"On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level."
- Edward Albert
(Related: Forgiveness, Survival, Understanding)
"Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment."
- Steve Albini
(Related: Wisdom, Doubt, Reason)
"A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences."
- Steve Albini
(Related: Trust, Reason, Will)
"Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Success)
"Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Experience, Books, Observation)
"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
"Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Dreams, Senses)
"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Friends, World)
"Our ideals are our better selves."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Ideals)
"First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: First, Man, Will)
"Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Strength, Weakness)
"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Delight, Expectation, Profit)
"The less routine the more life."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Life, Routine)
"Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Life, Thought, Man, Sense, Thinking)
"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Ignorance)
"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Age, Heart, Old)
"We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Heaven)
"Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Home, Mother)
"While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Company, May, Old, Years)
"Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Key, Mind)
"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Mankind)
"Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Family, Society, Children, Paradise)
"A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Students)
"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Business, Government, Corruption)
"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Eyes, Influence, Self, Spirit, Will)
"Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Conversation, Debate)
"Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged."
- Louisa May Alcott
(Related: Faith, Mother, Son)
"I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger."
- Alan Alda
(Related: Anger, People)
"It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that."
- Alan Alda
(Related: People, World)
"There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education."
- Buzz Aldrin
(Related: Education, Health, Life, Choices, Comfort, Investment, Responsibility)
"The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling."
- Christopher Alexander
(Related: Life, Nature, Feeling)
"I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny."
- Jason Alexander
(Related: Funny, Character, Pain)
"You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island."
- Jason Alexander
(Related: Time)
"Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey."
- Jason Alexander
"We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season."
- Jason Alexander
"The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny."
- Jason Alexander
(Related: Funny, Humor, Sense)
"The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work."
- Jason Alexander
(Related: Work, Job, Pleasure, Years)
"I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy."
- Jason Alexander
(Related: Work)
"I still don't know much about directing a movie."
- Jason Alexander
"But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker."
- Jason Alexander
(Related: Heart, Grandparents)
"But I didn't know much about directing a movie."
- Jason Alexander
"The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in."
- Jason Alexander
(Related: Life, Actors, Manners, Play)
"Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Perception, May)
"You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Appetite, Desire, Personality, Self)
"I entered into Dawson's Creek to do a couple of episodes. They weren't sure about my role in the beginning, but then the chemistry kind of worked."
- Sasha Alexander
(Related: Beginning)
"Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes."
- Sasha Alexander
(Related: Experience, Work, First)
"The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward."
- Shana Alexander
(Related: Love, First)
"When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband."
- Shana Alexander
(Related: HusbPeople, Eyes, Law)
"I am a better running back every time I step on the field. I try to get better each game, each summer, each season."
- Shaun Alexander
(Related: Time, Running, Summer)
"We are all put in different positions for different reasons."
- Kim Alexis
"I am just a person who is human, down to earth enjoying life... whatever god blesses you with. Enjoying life for me is just normal."
- Mohamed Al-Fayed
(Related: Life, God, Earth)
"There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago."
- Hannes Alfven
(Related: Time, Doubt, Infinite, Myth, Reason, Universe, Years)
"A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason."
- William R. Alger
(Related: Sympathy, Reason)
"Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason."
- William R. Alger
(Related: Men, Reason, Want, Wrath)
"I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday."
- Nelson Algren
"Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring."
- Nelson Algren
(Related: Chicago, October, Spring)
"Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity."
- Nelson Algren
(Related: Legal, Challenge, Conscience, Humanity, Literature)
"Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own."
- Nelson Algren
(Related: Mom, Cards, Man, Play, Sleep, Woman)
"The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man."
- Nelson Algren
(Related: Man, Necessity, Responsibility, Writer)
"The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible."
- Nelson Algren
(Related: Love, Man, Meaning, Risk, Today, Unworthy)
"Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose."
- Nelson Algren
(Related: Chicago, Woman)
"I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary."
- Samuel Alito
(Related: Ability, Congress, Reason)
"The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties."
- Lucille Roybal Allard
(Related: Work, Law)
"The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges."
- Wayne Allard
(Related: Successful, Country, Example, Military, Mission, Training, Will, Zone)
"All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse."
- William Albert Allard
(Related: Eyes, Personality)
"Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money."
- Iyad Allawi
(Related: Money, Countries, Name, Public)
"If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger."
- Jim Allchin
(Related: Time, Reason, Smile, Waste)
"When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God."
- Charles L. Allen
(Related: God)
"You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?"
- Debbie Allen
(Related: First, Talking)
"As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them."
- Debbie Allen
(Related: Reason)
"While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith."
- Ethan Allen
(Related: Nature, Interest, Law, Order, Reason, Tyranny, Will)
"Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason."
- Ethan Allen
(Related: Reason)
"I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars."
- Fred Allen
(Related: Will)
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized."
- Fred Allen
(Related: Life, Being, Celebrity)
"During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk."
- Fred Allen
(Related: Men, Talk, Today)
"Wilson thought in terms of the whole world; Harding was for America first. And, finally, whereas Wilson wanted America to exert itself nobly, Harding wanted to give it a rest."
- Frederick Lewis Allen
(Related: Thought, America, First, Rest, World)
"The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous."
- George Allen
(Related: Idea, Force)
"Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality."
- Gracie Allen
(Related: Work, Charm, Force, Integrity, May, Personality, Today, Want)
"A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era."
- Ivan Allen
(Related: Being, Civil rights)
"The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs."
- James Lane Allen
(Related: Life, Beliefs, Will)
"I'm going to be a great film star. That is, if booze and sex don't get me first."
- Jay Presson Allen
(Related: Sex, Film, First)
"Going in, I knew I wasn't one of the top ones, because I didn't even make the pre-season All-American team. That shows you what people thought of me right there, so I knew I had to go to work."
- Marcus Allen
(Related: Work, Thought, People, Right)
"Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and practices, and are able to interpret his wishes regarding the structure and staffing of the new Administration."
- Richard V. Allen
(Related: Effort, Leaders, President, Will, Wishes)
"The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process."
- Richard V. Allen
(Related: Law, Responsibility)
"The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards."
- Richard V. Allen
(Related: Policy, Successful, Choice)
"The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President."
- Richard V. Allen
(Related: Leader, Management, Objectives, President, Will)
"I think all of those things, but certainly the booze really brought out the really unreasonable side of me, and I just didn't want to revisit that place again."
- Rick Allen
(Related: Want)
"I think my perception of my own life is different and the fact that Lauren and myself are together. I've never felt this free or happy and so that permeates onto my onstage persona and to my working environment."
- Rick Allen
(Related: Life, Perception, Environment, Fact)
"Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like the enemy."
- Rick Allen
(Related: Heart, Enemy, Songs, Thinking)
"And more importantly, I wouldn't be the person I am today, I wouldn't be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasn't for the accident."
- Rick Allen
(Related: Accident, May, Now, Today)
"At the end of the day, they're happy if you do the obvious songs towards the end of the set and you've got to try and make yourself happy by doing certain songs at the front end of the set."
- Rick Allen
(Related: Day, End, Obvious, Songs)
"Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him."
- Roland Allen
(Related: Love, Arguments, Beliefs, Help, Proof, Zeal)
"Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience."
- Roland Allen
(Related: Experience, Life, Men, People, Church, Difficulties, Living, Needs, Sharing, Trials, Understanding)
"Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison."
- Tim Allen
(Related: Men, Women, Work, Children, Choice, Choices, Job, Now, Prison)
"My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance."
- Tim Allen
(Related: Men, Mom, Care, Reason)
"If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job."
- Woody Allen
(Related: Job)
"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."
- Woody Allen
(Related: Money, Financial, Poverty)
"The reason I went for Jenny Craig is I thought, Maybe I'm not the only one who has stupid reasons for getting fat."
- Kirstie Alley
(Related: Thought, Reason)
"Look for someone who has a complete life without you in it. If you have a person you don't need for anything, that's ideal. You're just together because you really want to be."
- Kirstie Alley
(Related: Life, Want)
"I believe that behind both the person who weighs 400 pounds and the one who weighs 85 there is a lot of baggage, and it has nothing to do with their bodies."
- Kirstie Alley
(Related: Nothing)
"I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat."
- Kirstie Alley
(Related: Attitude, Care)
"God gave us intestines for a reason. I'm not keen on surgery. It's too extreme. All it took was one of those plastic surgery shows to see how violent it is."
- Kirstie Alley
(Related: God, Extreme, Reason)
"For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression."
- Kirstie Alley
(Related: People, Act, Depression, Reason)
"She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away."
- William Allingham
(Related: Heart, Song)
"Your best penalty killer is your goalie."
- Dave Allison
"If we remain humble and hungry, we can win."
- Dave Allison
"Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside."
- Dorothy Allison
(Related: Class, Gender, Race, Sexuality)
"Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me."
- Dorothy Allison
(Related: World)
"Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning."
- Dorothy Allison
(Related: Truth, Fiction, Lies, Meaning)
"I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them."
- Dorothy Allison
(Related: Love, People, Responsibility, Right, Students, Will)
"I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement."
- Dorothy Allison
(Related: Women)
"One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt."
- Dorothy Allison
(Related: Class, Contempt)
"When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels."
- Dorothy Allison
(Related: Romance, Sister, Books, Growing up, Horror)
"Change, when it comes, cracks everything open."
- Dorothy Allison
(Related: Change, Open)
"Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years."
- Ian Allison
(Related: Talking, Years)
"Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally."
- Ian Allison
(Related: Sea)
"I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday."
- Luther Allison
(Related: Waiting)
"But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job."
- Luther Allison
(Related: Job)
"I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues."
- Luther Allison
(Related: Play, Want)
"I had the qualifications, but I was not chosen."
- Luther Allison
"I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect."
- Luther Allison
(Related: Opportunity, Chance, Respect)
"I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company."
- Luther Allison
(Related: Music, People, Management, Company, Name, Now)
"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."
- Luther Allison
(Related: Musicians)
"I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that."
- Luther Allison
(Related: Positive)
"But my big thing was always the blues."
- Luther Allison
"I want to play in a place people want to hear me."
- Luther Allison
(Related: People, Play, Want)
"But you know, I still had a dream of being able to go back home and tour."
- Luther Allison
(Related: Home, Dream, Being)
"In the blues, it just takes so long for us to get recognized."
- Luther Allison
"In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side."
- Luther Allison
(Related: Chicago, states)
"Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit."
- Luther Allison
(Related: Being)
"So I cut out all the drinkin' and hangin' out and stuff like that early on."
- Luther Allison
"The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues."
- Luther Allison
(Related: Jazz)
"We played the same thing in Europe we played in the States."
- Luther Allison
(Related: Europe, states)
"Well, I first started going to Europe in the late '70s."
- Luther Allison
(Related: Europe, First)
"Well, I've had to deal with everything in my life... leavin' the family, learnin' what not and what to do."
- Luther Allison
(Related: Family, Life)
"What I want to do, is play music for somebody who believe in me."
- Luther Allison
(Related: Music, Play, Want)
"When I got to Chicago I had to find my way."
- Luther Allison
(Related: Chicago)
"I want people to recognize Luther Allison when I play."
- Luther Allison
(Related: People, Play, Want)
"But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?"
- Luther Allison
(Related: Opportunity, Popular)
"But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about."
- Luther Allison
"I focused on how these people became how they were."
- Luther Allison
(Related: People)
"Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it."
- Luther Allison
"Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues."
- Luther Allison
(Related: People, Play)
"And I can do the rock clubs if I have to."
- Luther Allison
"But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch."
- Luther Allison
(Related: Self)
"There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Time, End, Fun)
"The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Time, Jazz)
"The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me."
- Mose Allison
"Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Composers)
"I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Music, Jazz, Job, Night, Play)
"I just have a lot off different influences."
- Mose Allison
"I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known."
- Mose Allison
(Related: People)
"I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Idea)
"My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Jazz)
"I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Living)
"Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Problems, Traveling)
"I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Time)
"So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts."
- Mose Allison
"I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain."
- Mose Allison
"Pizza Express has been a real godsend for me. I've been working there for several years, six weeks a year. You can go to work every night and play. It's a nice little club. It's just about the right size for me, about 150 people."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Work, People, Night, Play, Right, Years)
"It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Fun)
"I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Music, Idea, Pretty, Want, Years)
"I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Work, Pretty)
"I'm playin' the music I like."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Music)
"I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Music, Years)
"I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Ideas, Songs)
"I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me."
- Mose Allison
(Related: People, Effect)
"I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Old, Songs, Years)
"There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Jokes)
"But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Pretty)
"I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Being, London, Play)
"I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Crowds, Years)
"At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone."
- Mose Allison
(Related: People)
"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Invention, Jazz, Personality)
"And Lennie Tristano I like a lot, I still like him."
- Mose Allison
"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Jazz)
"I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire."
- Mose Allison
"Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more."
- Eric Allman
(Related: Time, Work, Company, Founding)
"I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa."
- Gregg Allman
(Related: People, First, Songs)
"I got tired of playing other people's songs."
- Gregg Allman
(Related: People, Songs)
"At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time."
- Gregg Allman
(Related: Time, Thought, First, Guitar, Song, Tribute)
"Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now."
- Chris Van Allsburg
(Related: Change, Formula, Now, Pretty, Reason)
"For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies."
- June Allyson
(Related: Life, Time, Babies, First)
"The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me."
- June Allyson
(Related: Music)
"The first day I arrived, they told me to go home and get rid of that cold."
- June Allyson
(Related: Home, Day, First)
"So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting."
- June Allyson
(Related: Music, Friend, Husbands, Study, Talk, Wives)
"It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played."
- June Allyson
(Related: First)
"I'm not a career woman."
- June Allyson
(Related: Career, Woman)
"I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies."
- June Allyson
(Related: Home, Babies)
"I don't like to fight."
- June Allyson
(Related: Fight)
"Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert."
- June Allyson
(Related: Music, Wealth, Excitement, Film, Fun)
"I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I dont' know whether they were for television or not. You know how little I know about cameras."
- June Allyson
(Related: Television)
"Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why."
- Pedro Almodovar
(Related: Women, Problems, Reason, Talk, Want)
"Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process."
- Marc Almond
(Related: Music, Idea, Russia, Songs)
"For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar."
- Marc Almond
(Related: Guitar, Old, Play, Song, Songs)
"That's what I like to do, I like to make songs."
- Marc Almond
(Related: Songs)
"My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way."
- Marc Almond
(Related: Songs, Want)
"I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million."
- Herb Alpert
(Related: Business, Old, Sense)
"Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It's something I will always do."
- Herb Alpert
(Related: Music, Musicians, Songs, Will)
"I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store."
- Herb Alpert
(Related: Car, Selling, Artist, Song)
"We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly."
- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
(Related: History, Americans, Night, Poison, Soldiers, Will)
"I'm the kind of person who just can't wait to get on a train and not know where I'm going. I definitely want to live life to the fullest. And that's the type of man I'm attracted to - somebody with that spontaneous spirit."
- Summer Altice
(Related: Life, Man, Spirit, Want)
"I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants."
- Sidney Altman
(Related: Son, Poor)
"I don't really trust a sane person."
- Lyle Alzado
(Related: Trust)
"And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story."
- Christiane Amanpour
"In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development."
- B. R. Ambedkar
(Related: Development, Hinduism, Conscience, Reason, Thinking)
"Having my son, I mean, I feel already that it makes me a better actress. Just the feeling and the love that expands in my being is more than I ever thought possible."
- Lauren Ambrose
(Related: Love, Son, Thought, Being, Feeling)
"Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death."
- Stephen Ambrose
(Related: Death, Washington)
"Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends."
- Stephen Ambrose
(Related: Friends, Washington)
"Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men."
- Stephen Ambrose
(Related: Men, Country, State)
"Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist."
- Stephen Ambrose
"Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will."
- Stephen Ambrose
(Related: Power, Man, Will, World)
"Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job."
- Stephen Ambrose
(Related: Government, Job, Party, Vietnam)
"In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place."
- Stephen Ambrose
(Related: Women, America, Approval)
"I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson."
- Stephen Ambrose
(Related: Thought, Nixon, President)
"I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to."
- Alejandro Amenabar
(Related: Change, Actors, Talk, Want)
"I didn't write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said."
- Jeff Ament
(Related: Song, Talking)
"That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world."
- Jeff Ament
(Related: Reason, World)
"The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for."
- Aldrich Ames
(Related: Feeling, Names)
"To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that."
- Aldrich Ames
(Related: People, Burden, states, United)
"You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation."
- Aldrich Ames
(Related: Desperation, Man)
"Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task."
- Aldrich Ames
(Related: Trust, Credit)
"Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust."
- Aldrich Ames
(Related: Trust, Betrayal)
"The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature."
- William Ames
(Related: Nature, Father, Son, Property)
"This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties."
- William Ames
(Related: God, Being)
"Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships."
- Barbara Amiel
(Related: Help, Right, Today)
"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."
- Barbara Amiel
(Related: People, Revolution, Historians, Will)
"So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Being, Living, Self)
"Order is a great person's need and their true well being."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Being, Order)
"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Art, Music, Soul, Interest, Key, Song, Teaching, Will)
"That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends."
- A. R. Ammons
(Related: Change, Poetry, Friends, Today)
"Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same."
- A. R. Ammons
(Related: Time, Health, Thoughts, Day, Events, Moods, Sight)
"I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning."
- A. R. Ammons
(Related: Purpose, Man, Past, Reason)
"Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing."
- A. R. Ammons
"I can't take a well-tanned person seriously."
- Cleveland Amory
"Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs."
- Tori Amos
(Related: Songs)
"There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't."
- Tori Amos
(Related: Trying)
"I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely."
- Tori Amos
(Related: Lonely)
"A Cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter."
- Morey Amsterdam
"If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it."
- Namie Amuro
(Related: Song)
"Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change."
- Namie Amuro
(Related: Change, Life, Work)
"Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Work, Living)
"I've gotten my butt kicked by the best. Jet Li beat me up the best, but Steven Segal can still kick a good butt. It's a different kind of kicking, though."
- Anthony Anderson
"Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Time, Opportunity, Will)
"Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown."
- Anthony Anderson
"I ain't got nothing. I've got this watch, and these shoes, and that's about it."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Nothing)
"I provide a little comic relief."
- Anthony Anderson
"I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Family, Funny)
"I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Talent, School, University)
"I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Funny, Actor)
"You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Business, Actors, Jobs, Want)
"You say you're a comedian, you always have to be on guard."
- Anthony Anderson
"Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That's the only fight I'm in."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Fight, Sky)
"Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Opportunity, Actor, Old, Training, Years)
"They gave us the freedom just to play and have fun."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Freedom, Fun, Play)
"There isn't a switch that I turn on. I'm an actor. This is what I do."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Actor)
"Some of these guys... I've worked with Ice Cube, I think he's an immensely talented rapper and actor."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Actor)
"Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond."
- Anthony Anderson
"Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Actor, Film, First)
"My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Wife, Strength)
"My choices were never wrong."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Choices, Wrong)
"Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Fun, Hollywood, Want)
"If they respect the craft and what we're doing and they bring something to the table and they work hard, I don't care what you do as your side job or as your day job."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Work, Care, Day, Job, Respect)
"More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent."
- Anthony Anderson
"If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Art, Talent, Respect)
"It's a remake of a film called Inferno Affairs. It's a Hong Kong film, and if we come anywhere close to what they did in the original, we're going to have a hot property on our hands, because Inferno Affairs is a great piece."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Film, Property)
"It's just a matter of me opening up the page and whatever is written on the page, that's what I'm here to do."
- Anthony Anderson
"It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Funny, Action, Trying)
"Comedy is second nature for me."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Nature, Comedy)
"Leo couldn't deliver Mr. Martin Scorsese his Oscar with 'The Aviator', but I will go on record to say I will do so in 'The Departed'."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Martin, Will)
"I've worked with some actors who can't act."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Act, Actors)
"You take the quote from Sam Jackson about how he'll never work with a rapper, and I can understand where he's coming from because he says rappers can't act."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Work, Act)
"What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on."
- Benny Anderson
(Related: Building, Day, Worth)
"If we thought it would improve our relationship, we would get married tomorrow, but as it is, nearly 7 years after we got engaged, we are content to wait."
- Benny Anderson
(Related: Thought, Content, Tomorrow, Years)
"The situation in America is when it starts moving there, all the bands from England move over to America and work from there, so that they're available all the time for everyone that wants them in person."
- Benny Anderson
(Related: Time, Work, America, England)
"We simply write the kind of music we enjoy most and hope that our audience will enjoy it too."
- Benny Anderson
(Related: Music, Hope, Will)
"Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful."
- Beth Anderson
(Related: Food, Living, Wine)
"Women's music is underrepresented."
- Beth Anderson
(Related: Music, Women)
"I threw myself into this artform because photography had given me a new sense of mission and identity."
- Bob Anderson
(Related: Identity, Mission, Photography, Sense)
"The crowd paid little or no respect to every player out there tonight."
- Bob Anderson
(Related: Respect)
"There's nothing so rewarding as to make people realize they are worthwhile in this world."
- Bob Anderson
(Related: People, Nothing, World)
"We don't want to miss anybody or slight anybody."
- Bob Anderson
(Related: Want)
"You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line."
- Bob Anderson
(Related: Manager, Opportunity)
"I guess when you have that one monster season, it's good because you're recognized. If it weren't for that season, not as many people would know about my career. But it also kind of diminishes what I did in other years."
- Brady Anderson
(Related: People, Career, Years)
"When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier."
- Brady Anderson
(Related: Ability)
"I know what I did and how I accomplished it. I am proud of it and know that it was done with integrity."
- Brady Anderson
(Related: Integrity)
"It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise."
- Brady Anderson
(Related: Funny, Health, People, Battle)
"Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method."
- Carl D. Anderson
(Related: Importance, Information)
"Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge."
- Carl D. Anderson
(Related: Negative, Positive, Majority)
"Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden."
- Carl D. Anderson
(Related: Home, Heart)
"Observe which side resorts to the most vociferous name-calling and you are likely to have identified the side with the weaker argument and they know it."
- Charles R. Anderson
(Related: Argument, Name)
"Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity."
- Chris Anderson
(Related: Abundance, Force, Right, World)
"And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years."
- Chris Anderson
(Related: Change, Technology, First, Now, Radical, Years)
"And this is one way to do technology forecasting; get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn."
- Chris Anderson
(Related: Technology, Sense)
"And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right - they were just wrong in time."
- Chris Anderson
(Related: Time, Adoption, Advertising, Internet, Right, Wrong)
"The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration."
- Chris Anderson
(Related: Technology, Successful, First, Will)
"The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party."
- Clive Anderson
(Related: Elections, Liberal, Party)
"You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers."
- Clive Anderson
(Related: Successful, Famous)
"The well-cared-for woman is a parasite, and the woman who must work is a slave."
- Cora Anderson
(Related: Work, Woman)
"Dennis Conner is Pete Rose in deck shoes."
- Dave Anderson
"Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century."
- Dave Anderson
(Related: Sunset)
"Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy."
- Dave Anderson
(Related: Americans, Understanding)
"It desirable to add one or two facts bearing on the domestic political aspects of the problem."
- Dillon Anderson
(Related: Facts)
"When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work."
- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
(Related: Work, Father, Opposition)
"I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often."
- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
(Related: Time, Pretty, Will)
"My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety."
- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
(Related: Home, Death, Mother, Life, Anxiety, Being, Duty, Letters, Living, Pain, Post, Relatives)
"I think some people found the production took away from the actual songs, which I can understand."
- Emma Anderson
(Related: People, Production, Songs)
"No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know."
- Emma Anderson
(Related: Life, History, Practice)
"We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going."
- Emma Anderson
(Related: Press)
"The worst thing is always thinking of titles for records, with some reason behind them, and she just came out with the word, which she thought was a good word, a hard word, and since then we've sort of attached loads of meaning to it."
- Emma Anderson
(Related: Thought, Meaning, Reason, Thinking, Titles, Word)
"The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not."
- Eric Anderson
(Related: Government, Efficiency, Profit)
"For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth."
- Eric Anderson
(Related: Time, History, Company, Countries, First, Mission, Moon, Will, World, Youth)
"We support President Truman's civil rights program."
- Eugenie Anderson
(Related: Civil rights, President, Support)
"It is difficult sharing and capturing so many years of memories and the people behind the words-and even though that guest book can speak volumes, in between, the pages remain so silent."
- Eugenie Anderson
(Related: People, Guest, Memories, Sharing, Words, Years)
"I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: History, Science, Geography, Regret)
"At the beginning Scully was much more sceptical than she is now."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Beginning, Now)
"Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Time, Work, Friend, Being, Empowerment, Feeling, Nothing, Service)
"I am more spontaneous than my character."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Character)
"I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: People, Reason)
"I can goof around with other people right up to when we shoot."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: People, Right)
"I didn't pay as much attention in school as I would have liked to."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Attention, School)
"I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Being, Quiet)
"I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Change, Life, People, Regret, Relationships, Want)
"I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Change, Opportunity, Hope, Day, Reading)
"I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Living, Meditation, Yoga)
"I think she definitely has. I think, um, her and Mulder's relationship has become more equal. And, I think she has become stronger and more independent over the seasons."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Seasons)
"I think we're tremendously different than the series, if they were to tune in to the series after seeing the movie they might be disappointed. That there was, you know, that they might have some kind of adverse reaction."
- Gillian Anderson
"I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Life, Time, Lies, Want)
"I was a good liar as a child."
- Gillian Anderson
"In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Dad, Time, College, Jobs, Parents, School)
"In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she's now much stronger. In the beginning she wanted to believe she was strong but sometimes she faltered."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Time, People, Beginning, Now, Opinion)
"It's so funny, because right now I'm very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, I'm probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Funny, Now, Right)
"Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Action, Perseverance, Mind)
"Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Fact, Luxury)
"My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Life, People, Belief, Reincarnation)
"Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Obvious, Reality)
"The first time, where Fox Mulder and Scully met, she stands up for herself. She stands right there and gives it to him and that was extremely attractive."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Time, First, Right)
"To re-live these characters would be wonderful, because I know when the show ends it will be huge mourning process."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Mourning, Will)
"When the show's not around any more, it's going to be hard not to have her in my life."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Life)
"After I did nine years of a television series, I didn't want to do anything really that involved going to a set and being in front of a camera for quite a while. And when I did start to want to do things, I wanted to focus more on film."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Being, Film, Focus, Television, Want, Years)
"You know, it's a big version of an episode, which I think is necessary at this point because we're drawing in people who not only people who have seen the show before and are devoted to it, but people who have never seen it before."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: People)
"When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live."
- Greg Anderson
(Related: Dreams, Love, Goals, Completion, Deep, Meaning, Needs)
"We have thousands of patients and family members who are dealing with dual devastation, cancer and the hurricane."
- Greg Anderson
(Related: Family, Cancer)
"Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention."
- Greg Anderson
(Related: Change, Happiness, Attention, Focus)
"Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to."
- Greg Anderson
(Related: Experience, Life, Love, Wisdom, Creativity, Wellness, Day, Expectations, Worth)
"Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!"
- Greg Anderson
(Related: Change, Experience, Power, Positive, Choice)
"Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it."
- Greg Anderson
(Related: Focus, Journey, Joy)
"Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg."
- Hans Christian Anderson
(Related: Being)
"Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Anderson
(Related: Freedom, Living)
"I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does."
- Harry Anderson
(Related: Now)
"There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy."
- Harry Anderson
(Related: Perception, Hollywood)
"The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch."
- Harry Anderson
(Related: Challenge, Workers)
"Is now the time to legalize prostitution?"
- Harry Anderson
(Related: Time, Now, Prostitution)
"We treated all of the dead with dignity."
- Harry Anderson
(Related: Dignity)
"Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying."
- Harry Anderson
(Related: Fool, Stars, Trying)
"But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore."
- Harry Anderson
"I'm certainly no victim in this. I don't want to come off as a sad sack; I pissed a lot of people off."
- Harry Anderson
(Related: People, Want)
"I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here."
- Harry Anderson
(Related: Hollywood)
"Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday."
- Ian Anderson
(Related: Life, Fight, Lies, Waiting)
"A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children."
- Ian Anderson
(Related: Money, Music, Children)
"I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton."
- Ian Anderson
(Related: Being, Mind)
"If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim."
- Ian Anderson
(Related: Christ, Today)
"It's only the giving that makes you what you are."
- Ian Anderson
(Related: Giving)
"Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim."
- Ian Anderson
"The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark."
- Jack Anderson
(Related: Business, Government)
"That's a great team we lost to. It just wasn't our day."
- Jack Anderson
(Related: Day)
"I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident."
- Jack Anderson
(Related: People, Accident, Hurt, Light, Order)
"The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist."
- Jack Anderson
"It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to."
- Jack Anderson
(Related: Government, Father, Employees, Public, Right)
"No I haven't and all I can say is that if it's cost $600,000, I hope we get $600,000 worth of value out of it."
- John Anderson
(Related: Hope, Value, Worth)
"Well they have an input into policy but in the end governments are elected to put together policy but the good thing about the Wentworth Group is that you know you've got 11 pretty capable people with a lot of good ideas."
- John Anderson
(Related: People, Policy, Ideas, End, Pretty)
"Well if you were asking my personal opinion on that I think the answer can only be yes but it was missed. Much as I know I'm responsible for a lot of things, I can't wear any responsibility for that."
- John Anderson
(Related: Opinion, Responsibility)
"Yes, yes, no one denies, for example, that you're going to be able to fix the Murray through the Living Murray process without money, no one denies that."
- John Anderson
(Related: Money, Example, Living)
"We made certain that there were decent transitional arrangements to get us to where we wanted to go. The same principle will have to apply here or we won't get there."
- John Anderson
(Related: Will)
"We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time."
- John Anderson
(Related: Time, Trust, Chance, Confidence, Right)
"They've got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system."
- John Anderson
(Related: Health, Future)
"People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That's easily overlooked."
- John Anderson
(Related: People, Forget, Jobs, Production)
"Look there are going to be, there are already adjustment processes in place but the point is that you'll actually make them work and get satisfactory outcomes if there's decent burden sharing along the way. If there's, if you like a proper transitional assistance."
- John Anderson
(Related: Work, Burden, Sharing)
"I can't think of any more important issue. If we get this right, we'll not only preserve our landscape for future generations we'll be able to generate I think more investment and more job opportunities in the inland and we sure as hell need those jobs."
- John Anderson
(Related: Future, Generations, Hell, Investment, Job, Jobs, Right)
"But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it."
- John Anderson
(Related: Design, Environmental, Time, End, Now, Objectives)
"I don't know that I can give a definitive answer to that, I can only say that if we create the right climate those who are producing those products will have the opportunity to move into a higher value product if changes are needed if we get this right."
- John Anderson
(Related: Opportunity, Climate, Right, Value, Will)
"I don't know the taxpayer has perhaps much of an understanding of just how much wealth has been and is being and can be created that flows through the economy and just how many jobs depend upon it."
- John Anderson
(Related: Wealth, Being, Economy, Jobs, Understanding)
"I'm not being evasive but I am saying I'm not a scientist and I'm not directly involved in the consultation however the science must be sound, it must be agreed and the consultation must be of a high quality or no one will have any confidence in the process."
- John Anderson
(Related: Science, Quality, Being, Confidence, Saying, Sound, Will)
"If we get it right, there need not be losers."
- John Anderson
(Related: Right)
"It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental outcomes, you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource."
- John Anderson
(Related: Environmental, Wealth, Chance, Will)
"I love X-Games music."
- Jon Anderson
(Related: Love, Music)
"I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport."
- Jon Anderson
(Related: Life, Moments)
"I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops."
- Jon Anderson
(Related: Sound, Want)
"I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991."
- Jon Lee Anderson
(Related: Power, Right)
"I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason."
- Jon Lee Anderson
(Related: Americans, Reason, Sense)
"Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will."
- Jon Lee Anderson
(Related: Life, War, America, Will)
"The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before."
- Jon Lee Anderson
(Related: Force, Medicine, Mercy, Occupation, states, United)
"I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life observations."
- Judith Anderson
(Related: Life)
"There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart."
- Judith Anderson
(Related: Life, Heart, Man, Nothing, Woman)
"All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides."
- Judith Anderson
(Related: Nature, Work, Environment, Living, Spirit)
"Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Language, Meaning, Years)
"Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?"
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Memory)
"If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: People, Insects, Race)
"We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: First)
"In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: People, Evil, Mind, Running, Sense)
"It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Imagination, Ideas, Waiting)
"My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Dad, Life, Mom, President, Writer)
"My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Income, Writing)
"We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Science, Fiction, Football, Talk, Wine, Writers)
"One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Fact, May, Universe)
"If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Time, Death, Successful, Books, Self, Silly, Writing)
"Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they will just do it first and get all the patents."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Government, First, President, Research, Will)
"Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Letters, Words)
"The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Projects)
"The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: People, Policy, Decisions, Talking)
"There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Romance, Literature)
"I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Job, Now, Years)
"Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Space)
"Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too."
- Kevin J. Anderson
"If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Family, Love, People)
"I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Communication, Talking, Writing)
"Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: People, Hope, Americans, Columbus, Country, Ocean, Want)
"Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Will)
"I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Positive)
"I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Time, Books)
"I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Job, Jobs, Research, Restaurants, Writer)
"I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Work)
"I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Want)
"I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Time, War, History)
"I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Money, Books)
"I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: First, Old, Years)
"I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Now, Titles)
"I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Travel, Idea, Successful, Innovation, Space)
"I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Home, Science, Time, Work, Day, Fiction, Night, Reading, Research)
"Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Science, Time, Fiction)
"I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Politics, Science, Books, Court, Fantasy, Kings, Sense)
"Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Art, Performance, Joy, Words)
"People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: People, Beginning, End, Regret, Word)
"People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: People, Corporate, Despair, Suffering, Wonder)
"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Paradise, Now, Right)
"One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: World)
"My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Car, Work, Company, Fashion, Questions, Trying)
"My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: People, Decision, Job)
"It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Work, Variety)
"Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Life, Power)
"The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Performance)
"My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Dream)
"The fewer expectations you have, the better."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Expectations)
"I hate zoos."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Hate)
"The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Hate, Talk)
"The problem with prototypes is they don't always work."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Work)
"You can do great things with low-tech stuff."
- Laurie Anderson
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Architecture, Music, Dancing, Writing)
"Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Art, Thinking, Want, Writers)
"Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Reality, Will)
"The world is a strange and wonderful place."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: World)
"It's good to take a longer view and think, What would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?"
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Limitations)
"You can do bigger and bigger things. For what?"
- Laurie Anderson
"When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!"
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Love, Mom, Force, Justice)
"A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Power, Work, Technology, states, United)
"If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: End, Moon)
"Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Life, Will)
"I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Compliments, Forget)
"At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Art, School, Theater, Thinking)
"As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Artist)
"A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Life, Idea, Electricity, English, Word, Words)
"A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Artists, Production, Style)
"I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Books, Children, First, Mystery, Words)
"I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Pretty)
"I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Sex, People, Dance, Teenage)
"I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky."
- Laurie Anderson
"I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Money, Art)
"As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: America)
"I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Goal, Behavior, Trying)
"I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Books)
"I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring."
- Laurie Anderson
"I'm a real workaholic."
- Laurie Anderson
"I think women are excellent social critics."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Women)
"I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Work, Artists, Will)
"I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: People, Washington)
"I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Work, Artist)
"I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Artist, First, Woman)
"Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem."
- Lindsay Anderson
(Related: Art, Experience)
"You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Smoking)
"My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Sister)
"We have so much lung capacity that we don't even notice a problem until we are in our 40s."
- Loni Anderson
"Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Body)
"They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that they take to get the right photo."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Right, Road)
"There's nothing glamorous about being dead."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Being, Nothing)
"There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Life, Quality, Cure)
"Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Smoking)
"My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Mom, Fire, First, Smoking)
"My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Mom, Fashion, Memory, Wine, Woman)
"You're rejected 10 to 20 times for every part you are going to get."
- Loni Anderson
"When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Women, Vanity, Weight)
"Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: People, Nothing, Will)
"Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: First)
"The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Life, Theater)
"My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Sister, Son, Daughter, Now, School)
"Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Smoking)
"In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Movies, Romantic)
"It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: People, Will)
"Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Smoking)
"Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Acting, Rejection)
"My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?"
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Mother, Daughter, Hair, Saying)
"If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Government, Today)
"I am the odd man out in the family."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Family, Man)
"My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Dad, Parents, Smoking)
"I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Cancer, Disease)
"I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Daughter, College)
"I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Acting, Kids, Profession, Reality, School, Students, Talk)
"I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Time, Acting, Theater)
"Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test."
- Loni Anderson
"I do know the Spelling family. I worked for Aaron Spelling when I was a brunette. I've known them since Tori was a little girl."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Family, Spelling)
"As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Play)
"I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Education, Health, Awareness, Disease)
"I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Education, University)
"I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people."
- Louie Anderson
(Related: People, Actions, Excuses, Hurt, Responsibility)
"Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better relate, understand, and communicate with our families and loved ones. Dr. Phil recommended reading my new book."
- Louie Anderson
(Related: Caring, Reading)
"I have a very warm spot in my heart for Vegas."
- Louie Anderson
(Related: Heart)
"I started a big part of my career in Vegas."
- Louie Anderson
(Related: Career)
"I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated."
- Louie Anderson
(Related: Famous, Forget)
"I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed."
- Louie Anderson
(Related: Home, People, Act, Bed, Want)
"Minnesotans really think they run the whole world, I love that."
- Louie Anderson
(Related: Love, World)
"We all think we're going to get out of debt."
- Louie Anderson
(Related: Debt)
"We were on welfare when we were kids. Thanks for reminding me of that."
- Louie Anderson
(Related: Kids, Welfare)
"You have to be funny about it and honest about it. You can't leave yourself out of that mix. You have to be honest enough to say, I'm that messed-up one in the family."
- Louie Anderson
(Related: Family, Funny)
"I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit."
- Louie Anderson
(Related: Money)
"A real estate closer. Oh, what's that? I'm a real estate opener. What is a real estate closer? You mean at the end where you've got to sign all those papers?"
- Louie Anderson
(Related: End)
"I'm an American before any party preference."
- Lynn Anderson
(Related: American, Party)
"I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration."
- Margaret Anderson
(Related: Inspiration, Law, Nothing, Want)
"I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten."
- Margaret Anderson
(Related: Ideas, Vision, Grief, Struggle)
"My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years."
- Margaret Anderson
(Related: Enemy, Reality, Years)
"Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too."
- Margaret Anderson
(Related: Life, Thought)
"It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane."
- Margaret Anderson
(Related: American, Writer)
"Intellectuals are too sentimental for me."
- Margaret Anderson
(Related: Intellectuals)
"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person."
- Margaret Anderson
(Related: Love, Romantic, Want)
"Self-preservation is the first responsibility."
- Margaret Anderson
(Related: First, Responsibility, Self)
"I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country."
- Margaret Anderson
(Related: Country)
"Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman."
- Marian Anderson
(Related: Fear, Disease, Logic, Man)
"A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy."
- Marian Anderson
(Related: God, Grace)
"As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might."
- Marian Anderson
"I forgave the DAR many years ago. You lose a lot of time hating people."
- Marian Anderson
(Related: Time, People, Years)
"I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country."
- Marian Anderson
(Related: People, Belief, Country, Future)
"I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in ming that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow."
- Marian Anderson
(Related: Nature, Impression, Mission, Will)
"When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether."
- Marian Anderson
(Related: Dreams, Ideals)
"When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black. I don't want them to see that my face is white. I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless."
- Marian Anderson
(Related: Soul, Want)
"There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you."
- Marian Anderson
(Related: First, Right, Waiting)
"The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow."
- Marian Anderson
(Related: Open, Word)
"Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating."
- Marian Anderson
(Related: Hair, Prejudice)
"Prayer begins where human capacity ends."
- Marian Anderson
(Related: Prayer)
"Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it."
- Marian Anderson
(Related: Leadership, Needs, Understanding)
"You lose a lot of time, hating people."
- Marian Anderson
(Related: Time, People)
"None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath."
- Marian Anderson
(Related: Nature, Quality, Character, Fact, Skin)
"There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime."
- Maxwell Anderson
(Related: Age, Men)
"This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it."
- Maxwell Anderson
(Related: Liberty, Will)
"If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right."
- Maxwell Anderson
(Related: Art, Heart, May, Practice, Right, Will)
"He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods."
- Maxwell Anderson
(Related: Men, God, Gods)
"The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero."
- Maxwell Anderson
(Related: Play, Spiritual, Tragedy)
"It's a great view from here. I'm having the time of my life."
- Michael P. Anderson
(Related: Life, Time)
"Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature."
- Michael P. Anderson
(Related: Music, Growing up, Interest, Kids, Literature, Writing)
"It looks like the future's really bright."
- Michael P. Anderson
(Related: Future)
"Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into."
- Michael P. Anderson
(Related: Science, Attention)
"There are just hundreds of people that have inspired and influenced me in a number of different ways. First of all, you can't forget your parents and all they've done to help you to get here."
- Michael P. Anderson
(Related: People, First, Forget, Help, Parents)
"If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun."
- Michael P. Anderson
(Related: Force, Fun, Sound, Variety, Want)
"When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on."
- Michael P. Anderson
(Related: Flying)
"I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force."
- Michael P. Anderson
(Related: Airplanes, Astronomy, Aviation, Force, Interest, Physics, University, Washington)
"Fortunately, I got called down to NASA for an interview. And one thing led to the next, and one day I got that call. I've been here about seven years now and am really enjoying it."
- Michael P. Anderson
(Related: Day, Now, Years)
"As you look back at your life, there are just a million different things that have happened, just in the right way, to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know, someone has all that under control."
- Michael P. Anderson
(Related: Dreams, Life, Control, Right)
"It's going to take a certain man for me to ever get involved with, because he'll have to realize I don't have two children, I have three. Tommy is always going to always be a part of my life."
- Pamela Anderson
(Related: Life, Children, Man)
"There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life."
- Pamela Anderson
(Related: Life, Dress, Symbol)
"There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked."
- Pamela Anderson
"The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol."
- Pamela Anderson
(Related: Cruelty, Kentucky, Monument, State)
"Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful."
- Pamela Anderson
(Related: Life, Moments, Talking)
"People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross."
- Pamela Anderson
(Related: People, Rain)
"My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy."
- Pamela Anderson
(Related: Work, Buying, Relaxation, Shops, Therapy)
"It's great being blonde - with such low expectations it's easy to impress."
- Pamela Anderson
(Related: Being, Expectations)
"It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people."
- Pamela Anderson
(Related: People, Expectations)
"If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick."
- Pamela Anderson
(Related: People)
"I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room."
- Pamela Anderson
(Related: Television)
"I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday. If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out."
- Pamela Anderson
(Related: Present, Yesterday)
"I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid."
- Pamela Anderson
"And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business."
- Pamela Anderson
(Related: Business)
"I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to."
- Pamela Anderson
(Related: Mother, Children)
"Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time."
- Pamela Anderson
(Related: Love, Time, Sickness)
"No, really. Just do it. You have some kind of weird reasons that are okay."
- Paul Thomas Anderson
"Clinton used to like to get out of the White House a lot. He would take night trips to McDonald's, and stuff like that. I think he wanted to get out of the house."
- Paul Thomas Anderson
(Related: Night)
"I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day."
- Paul Thomas Anderson
(Related: Happiness, American, Day, Pride, Sense, World)
"I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will."
- Paul Thomas Anderson
(Related: Time, Will)
"I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play."
- Philip Warren Anderson
(Related: Architecture, Art, Admiration, Culture, Existence, Play)
"An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937."
- Philip Warren Anderson
(Related: Father, Impression, EnglEurope)
"Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors."
- Philip Warren Anderson
(Related: Father, Brother)
"The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me."
- Philip Warren Anderson
(Related: Years)
"I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science."
- Philip Warren Anderson
(Related: Science)
"My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests."
- Philip Warren Anderson
(Related: Work, Consequences)
"One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course."
- Philip Warren Anderson
(Related: Science, Society)
"The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe."
- Philip Warren Anderson
(Related: Ability, Laws, Universe)
"The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts."
- Philip Warren Anderson
(Related: Interest)
"The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult."
- Philip Warren Anderson
(Related: Fact, First, Months)
"The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands."
- Philip Warren Anderson
(Related: Opportunity, Public)
"The prize seemed to change my professional life very little."
- Philip Warren Anderson
(Related: Change, Life)
"What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for."
- Poul Anderson
(Related: Books, Force, Trying)
"We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?"
- Poul Anderson
"In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program."
- Poul Anderson
(Related: Harvest, Machine, Personality, Stars, Will)
"I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated."
- Poul Anderson
(Related: Right)
"I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science."
- Poul Anderson
(Related: Science, First, Harvest, Obvious, Stars, Writing)
"Nothing. We're all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we're dealing with, there's usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that's floating around."
- Richard Dean Anderson
(Related: Nature, Attitude, Friends, Light, Nothing)
"We're loosely calling it The River Project, but hopefully the pieces that we put together will be educational pieces that will throw some light on the situation as to what kind of jeopardy may be surrounding our great rivers."
- Richard Dean Anderson
(Related: Jeopardy, Light, May, Project, Rivers, Will)
"They are a fairly aggressive conservation organization that was started to protect the great whales particularly, but in general all marine life around the world. So those are the people I'm trying to attach my name to."
- Richard Dean Anderson
(Related: Life, People, Conservation, Name, Trying, World)
"There's editing, and scripts to read and edit, and casting, and all the elements of production that just sort of take up the normal downtime that you would have as an actor. So there's not a lot of that for me."
- Richard Dean Anderson
(Related: Actor, Production)
"That was fun to play. There were some nice special effects coupled with some really nice moments with child and wife. I also was able to age to about 100 years in 'Brief Candle.'"
- Richard Dean Anderson
(Related: Age, Wife, Fun, Moments, Play, Years)
"So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience."
- Richard Dean Anderson
(Related: Experience, Travel, Purpose, Past, Rivers, Running)
"You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to."
- Richard Dean Anderson
(Related: Character, Credibility, Will)
"Oh, who am I trying to kid? It's a madhouse. The minute those cameras go off, things just explode, everyone is just at each other in one way or another, in closets or cat fights here and there. It's nuts. You know, I can't be a part of it."
- Richard Dean Anderson
(Related: Trying)
"I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls."
- Richard Dean Anderson
(Related: Boys, Girls, Now, Recreation, Years)
"Dogs are my favorite people."
- Richard Dean Anderson
(Related: People, Dogs, Favorite)
"But my answer to that question would have to be, aside from the obvious, which is the people and the relationships that you garner over a long period of time but the catering. The catering. They're the best. So it's the food."
- Richard Dean Anderson
(Related: Food, Time, People, Obvious, Question, Relationships)
"Being away from her is torturous and I'd much prefer to be with her. So I just try to get out of here as soon as I can. I make sure I do my job real well and fast."
- Richard Dean Anderson
(Related: Being, Job)
"Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work."
- Richard Dean Anderson
(Related: Work, Change, Father, Baby, Being, Living, Reason, Want)
"As far as the future for the Showtime episodes that have already aired, we are sold into syndication so we'll be appearing primarily on the Fox syndicated networks and then eventually the SCI FI Channel. So, we'll be around for a while."
- Richard Dean Anderson
(Related: Future)
"Shanks and I tend to have a lot of fun. And, oh, any of The Simpsons' episodes are my favorites too."
- Richard Dean Anderson
(Related: Fun)
"I've been working with them for a couple years and a couple of projects. Essentially Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is the chief litigator for this corporation, this Alliance, and their job is to prosecute corporate polluters of the great bodies of water in North America."
- Richard Dean Anderson
(Related: Alliance, America, Corporate, Job, Projects, Water, Years)
"I expect we will become more demanding as citizens."
- Robert Anderson
(Related: Will)
"In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage."
- Robert Anderson
(Related: Marriage, Divorce, Old)
"The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play."
- Robert Anderson
(Related: Heart, Conviction, Man, Measure, Mission, Passion, Play, Will)
"I am a lover and have not found my thing to love."
- Sherwood Anderson
(Related: Love)
"I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them."
- Sherwood Anderson
(Related: Work, Love, Envy, Horses)
"Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified."
- Sherwood Anderson
(Related: Christ, World)
"That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful."
- Sherwood Anderson
(Related: Truth, Thoughts, Beginning, Man, World)
"My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work."
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: Work, Idea, Giving)
"You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it's not as much fun."
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: God, Fun)
"We're the best team in baseball, but not by much."
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: Baseball)
"They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real."
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: Fantasy, First, World)
"The players make the manager, it's never the other way."
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: Manager)
"The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules."
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: Manager, Respect, Rules)
"The only reason I'm coming out here tomorrow is the schedule says I have to."
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: Reason, Tomorrow)
"The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia."
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: Baseball)
"Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field."
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: Success, Limits)
"Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut."
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: Play)
"People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it."
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: People, Faults, Future, Living, Past, Present)
"Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year."
- Sparky Anderson
"It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them."
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: Fans, Lying)
"If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing."
- Sparky Anderson
"I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain."
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: People, Right)
"I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that."
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: Education, School)
"I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench."
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: Want)
"I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?"
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: Manager, Boston)
"Good seasons start with good beginnings."
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: Beginnings, Seasons)
"Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet."
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: Baseball)
"Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings."
- Sparky Anderson
"A baseball manager is a necessary evil."
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: Manager, Baseball, Evil)
"Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success."
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: Success, Manager, Baseball, Mind, Right)
"Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."
- Walter Anderson
(Related: First, Risk)
"We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy."
- Walter Anderson
(Related: Love, Trust, Joy)
"Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself."
- Walter Anderson
(Related: Life, Quality, Character, Gravity, Loss, Pain, Sadness, Treasure)
"Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured."
- Walter Anderson
"I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life."
- Walter Anderson
(Related: Life, Attitude, May)
"I'd never heard anything about this at all."
- Wes Anderson
"One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor."
- Wes Anderson
(Related: Actor)
"The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed."
- Wes Anderson
"And Hackman had really choked up when he was telling it. It was very moving."
- Wes Anderson
"Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture."
- Tadao Ando
(Related: Architecture, Connection, Reason)
"Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life."
- Carl Andre
(Related: Life, Time, Art, Work, Artist)
"Elvis and I continued to be friends, and I saw him once or twice a year. But he was a troubled person."
- Ursula Andress
(Related: Friends)
"On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Women)
"I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Work, Money, Authority, Woman)
"The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post."
- Leonid Andreyev
(Related: Death, War, Loss, Post, Reason)
"I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside."
- Victoria de los Angeles
(Related: Ladies, Imitation, Tradition, Traditions)
"Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality."
- Victoria de los Angeles
(Related: Music, Communication, Personality, Voice)
"Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer."
- Barbara de Angelis
(Related: Consciousness, Delight)
"If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself."
- Barbara de Angelis
(Related: Time, Energy, Giving, Will)
"My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Life, Dance, Song)
"The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Love, Trust, Women, Revolution, Necessity, Sadness)
"I believe that every person is born with talent."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Talent)
"I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Compassion, Water, Will)
"You know, I am mainstream America, and it really doesn't matter what party you're in. When you call your children and you say 'How are you?' - and what you are really asking is, 'Do you still have your job? And are you able to make the mortgage payment?', That resonates across the state, not across party lines."
- Sharron Angle
(Related: America, Children, Job, Party, State)
"People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin."
- Sharron Angle
(Related: People, Conservative, Washington, Words)
"There are no regrets in life, just lessons."
- Jennifer Aniston
(Related: Life)
"If somebody ever wished to be me for a day, they'd be the most pissed-off person once they got here. They would be, like, in hell."
- Jennifer Aniston
(Related: Day, Hell)
"I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes."
- Paul Anka
(Related: Songs)
"I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs."
- Paul Anka
(Related: Talent, Songs, Teenage)
"If I look at it, it's about being able to get lost in New York, to explore the city, to have more personal stories about New York, although some could also take place in Paris."
- Keren Ann
(Related: Being, Paris)
"When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words."
- Keren Ann
(Related: Songs, State, Trying, Words)
"Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in."
- Keren Ann
(Related: Talent, People, Songs, Writing, Years)
"It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs."
- Keren Ann
(Related: Fiction, Moods, Songs)
"I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons."
- Kojo Annan
(Related: Nations, Obvious, Play, United)
"My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality."
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
(Related: American, Film, Fire, Personality, Production, Quest, Style)
"My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg."
- Walter Annenberg
(Related: Success, Son, Being)
"You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change."
- Francesca Annis
(Related: Change, Love, Life, Needs, Will)
"The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part."
- Francesca Annis
(Related: Experience, Acting, Play)
"I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks."
- Francesca Annis
(Related: People)
"Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private."
- Francesca Annis
(Related: Wife)
"Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it."
- Jean Anouilh
(Related: Hope, Reason, Tragedy)
"We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down."
- Jean Anouilh
(Related: Fear, Poison, Shipwreck)
"People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence."
- Katharine Anthony
(Related: Life, People, Achievement, Independence)
"Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time."
- Katharine Anthony
(Related: Time, Right)
"When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour."
- Piers Anthony
"One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need."
- Piers Anthony
(Related: Reason, Writer)
"I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty."
- David Antin
(Related: Feeling, Liberty)
"While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song."
- David Antin
(Related: Poetry, Music, Song, Speech)
"A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars."
- David Antin
(Related: Lie, Man, Myth, Name)
"For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting."
- David Antin
(Related: Literary, Song)
"I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton."
- David Antin
(Related: Thought, Thinking)
"The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school."
- Mary Antin
(Related: Contentment, Pride, Public, School)
"The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them."
- Mary Antin
(Related: Food, Father, Cooking, First, Printing, Variety)
"I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: People, Care)
"I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Job, Play, Songs)
"I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Time, Songs)
"I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Song)
"I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Development, Corruption, Want)
"Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears."
- Fiona Apple
"She wasn't as naive and innocent as she was in the first season."
- Shiri Appleby
(Related: First)
"I think another problem people have is they are always searching for that high, and they don't realize they can get that same high with that same person again."
- Christina Applegate
(Related: People)
"One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do."
- Michael Apted
(Related: Movies, Soul, Sense)
"If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Death, Power, Heresy, Reason)
"Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Reason, Salvation)
"Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Care, Community, Law, Nothing, Reason)
"The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: God, Sin)
"Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Care, Community, Law, Reason)
"Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Men, Reason, Sense)
"Reason in man is rather like God in the world."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: God, Man, Reason, World)
"Beware of the person of one book."
- Thomas Aquinas
"Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Church, Will)
"National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services."
- Corazon Aquino
(Related: Government, Criticism, Leaders, Media)
"It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship."
- Corazon Aquino
(Related: Power, Democracy, Dictatorship, Freedom, Light)
"There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses."
- Louis Aragon
(Related: Error, Flowers, Reason, Senses)
"O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself."
- Louis Aragon
(Related: Dreams, Now, Reason, State, Waking)
"Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?"
- Louis Aragon
(Related: Knowledge, Reason, Sense)
"Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work."
- Louis Aragon
(Related: Imagination, Men, Work, Fear, Ideas, Control, Error, Reason, Senses)
"When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought."
- Sergio Aragones
(Related: Work, Thought, Grief, Sadness)
"I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes."
- Sergio Aragones
(Related: Day, Jokes, Reason, Years)
"The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening."
- Sergio Aragones
(Related: Love, Reason, Will)
"After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't... I remember all the songs, but it wasn't because I was into them, you know what I mean?"
- Tom Araya
(Related: Music, Songs)
"I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song."
- Tom Araya
(Related: Listening, Name, Song)
"I would have to work on the song and figure out how they wanted the song done, because they're such high-intensity songs. We figure that out first, then I go back and listen to it and go over and rehearse stuff with it and try to get a feel for the words."
- Tom Araya
(Related: Work, First, Song, Songs, Words)
"If it were bad songs, yeah, I'd speak up, but they're not bad songs."
- Tom Araya
(Related: Songs)
"Sometimes I'll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren't clicking. And when they do come to me, I'm in the middle of that same verse!"
- Tom Araya
(Related: Song)
"That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar."
- Tom Araya
(Related: Guitar, Learning, Play, Songs)
"Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel."
- Jeffrey Archer
(Related: Life, Challenge, Diaries, Prison)
"Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment."
- Jeffrey Archer
(Related: Hope, Prison, Punishment, Years)
"I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison."
- Jeffrey Archer
(Related: Attitude, Prison)
"And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life."
- Jeffrey Archer
(Related: Life, Time, Day, Forget, Now, Past, Prison, Wonder, Years)
"But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot."
- Jeffrey Archer
(Related: Mistakes, Prison, Regret, Remarkable, Years)
"But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education."
- Jeffrey Archer
(Related: Education, Diaries, End, Prison)
"Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate."
- Jeffrey Archer
(Related: People, Prison, Today)
"I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison."
- Jeffrey Archer
(Related: First, Prison, Words)
"I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write."
- Mary Archer
(Related: Time, Prison, Will, Writer)
"When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Film, Mind)
"When money comes into play then that's all it's about wanting money, who's making the most who can get the most, me, me me... and in the end it screws up the person and the sport."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Money, End, Play)
"Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Boxing, Today)
"Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level."
- Francis Arinze
(Related: Character, Man, Satisfaction)
"Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war."
- Aristophanes
(Related: Men, War, Building, Cities, Enemies, Friends, Sense, Ships)
"The law is reason, free from passion."
- Aristotle
(Related: Law, Passion, Reason)
"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons."
- Aristotle
"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."
- Aristotle
(Related: Beauty)
"We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time."
- Aristotle
(Related: Time, Man, Praise, Right)
"Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it."
- Aristotle
(Related: Wisdom, Being, Choice, Excellence, Lying, Man, Reason, State)
"For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all."
- Aristotle
(Related: Nature, Soul, Day, Eyes, Reason)
"Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim."
- Aristotle
(Related: Art, Thought, Action, Choice, Reason)
"Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."
- Aristotle
(Related: Power, Time, Purpose, Right)
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."
- Aristotle
(Related: Nature, Habit, Actions, Chance, Desire, Passion, Reason)
"He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature."
- Aristotle
(Related: Nature, Reason)
"Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy."
- Aristotle
(Related: Men, Envy, Jealousy)
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."
- Aristotle
(Related: Government, Equality, Thought, Democracy, Liberty, Will)
"I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to "ER" were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case."
- Adam Arkin
(Related: Comparisons, Environment, Resentment)
"We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off."
- Adam Arkin
(Related: People, Fear, Reason, Want)
"But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in."
- Roone Arledge
(Related: People, Boxing, Hell, News, Reason, World)
"One of the reasons why when Elvis dies or the Son of Sam is captured ABC News' ratings go up is because people who don't normally watch news are watching then. The question is, do you want to attract people who don't watch network news or fight over the people who do?"
- Roone Arledge
(Related: Son, People, Fight, Network, News, Question, Want)
"Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality."
- Michael Arlen
(Related: Existence, Reality)
"You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas."
- Joan Armatrading
(Related: Women, People, Famous)
"Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song."
- Joan Armatrading
(Related: Day, Right, Song)
"One of them would definitely be the Nelson Mandela gig, when I played the tribute song for him. He was up and dancing, and he really enjoyed it. It was a really lovely occasion."
- Joan Armatrading
(Related: Dancing, Song, Tribute)
"My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs."
- Joan Armatrading
(Related: Mother, Songs, Writing)
"I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
(Related: Being, Want)
"Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague."
- John Armstrong
(Related: Music, Grief, Joy, Pain, Poison)
"Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings."
- Karen Armstrong
(Related: Religion, Now)
"A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing."
- Lance Armstrong
(Related: People)
"Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down."
- Lance Armstrong
(Related: Thought, Illness, Rejection)
"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song."
- Louis Armstrong
(Related: Music, Folk, Song)
"Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived."
- Desi Arnaz
"Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body."
- Johann Arndt
(Related: God, Soul, Fear, Body, Man, May, Poison)
"I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order."
- Will Arnett
(Related: First, Order)
"All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention."
- Rudolf Arnheim
(Related: Intuition, Invention, Observation, Thinking)
"This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship."
- Eddy Arnold
(Related: Songs)
"Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison."
- Edwin Arnold
(Related: Man, Prison)
"Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away."
- Matthew Arnold
(Related: Nature, Control, Man, Mind, Play, Sons, Wind)
"Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament."
- Thomas Arnold
(Related: Son, Earth, Mind, Stars, Sun)
"As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it."
- Darren Aronofsky
(Related: Mind, Theater)
"These wrestlers aren't organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There's a lot of drama there."
- Darren Aronofsky
(Related: Drama, Garden, Running, Today, Years)
"I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with."
- Darren Aronofsky
(Related: Death, End, Passion, Trying, Want)
"If you ask any person on this crew what they think of Hugh Jackman they'll admit they've never seen anything like it. I'll give him an emotional note and he'll hit it every time."
- Darren Aronofsky
(Related: Time)
"This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss."
- Gerard Arpey
(Related: Family, Friendship, Loss, Support, Will)
"Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with."
- Patricia Arquette
(Related: Life, Marriage, Thinking, Want)
"Criticize the act, not the person."
- Mary Kay Ash
(Related: Act)
"No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important."
- Mary Kay Ash
(Related: Time)
"Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life."
- Mary Kay Ash
(Related: Life, Sales, Succeed, Will)
"Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate."
- John Ashcroft
(Related: Ownership, Weapons)
"A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Decisions)
"Well, for the reasons I mention above, although I am not sure the live shows were really so brilliant - but nobody could hear much so perhaps it did not matter! It was certainly a very exciting time for us all."
- Peter Asher
(Related: Time)
"The fact is, it was a big show. We were a part of that show. Everybody watches for different reasons. There were some people who were tuning in that day to see what was going on with other characters."
- Matthew Ashford
(Related: People, Day, Fact)
"In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes."
- Elizabeth Ashley
(Related: Romance)
"His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do."
- Maurice Ashley
(Related: Heart, Positive, Opinion, Prison, Tenacity)
"I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example."
- Maurice Ashley
(Related: Example, Talking, Years)
"We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season."
- William Henry Ashley
(Related: Day, Past)
"Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels."
- William Henry Ashley
(Related: War, Danger, Diligence, Duty, Now)
"Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality."
- Shawn Ashmore
(Related: Attitude, Personality, Reflection, Style)
"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
- Isaac Asimov
(Related: Reason)
"I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books."
- Isaac Asimov
(Related: Books, Immortality)
"1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too."
- Leon Askin
(Related: Art, Science, Parents, Reason, Titles)
"What I will learn over the years will be of benefit and interest to me personally but, as far as the program is concerned, I'm the mouthpiece of the viewers as well."
- Michael Aspel
(Related: Interest, Will, Years)
"When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like."
- Julian Assange
(Related: Being, Day, Prison, Reading)
"We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are legitimate secrets - you know, your records with your doctor; that's a legitimate secret. But we deal with whistleblowers that are coming forward that are really sort of well motivated."
- Julian Assange
(Related: Information, Secrets)
"As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000."
- Julian Assange
(Related: Time, Media, Prison)
"To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself."
- Mary Astell
(Related: Rest, Vice)
"The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes."
- Mary Astell
(Related: Wisdom, Love, Father, Son, God, Dignity, Eyes)
"Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private."
- Mary Astell
(Related: Principles, Public, Reason)
"The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it."
- Mary Astell
(Related: Design, Government, Truth, Lie, Consideration, Light, Rhetoric, Right)
"If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.'"
- Mary Astell
(Related: Women, God, Nothing, Reason)
"There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason."
- John Astin
(Related: Development, Deep, Enemy, Intuition, Reason, World)
"Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy."
- John Astin
(Related: Performance, Struggle, Want)
"I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually become victorious, even if it's later in life."
- John Astin
(Related: Life)
"United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?"
- John Astin
(Related: Idea, Artists, Songs, United)
"I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate."
- Nancy Astor
(Related: Sons)
"One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time."
- Nancy Astor
(Related: Time, Reason)
"I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism."
- Christopher Atkins
"I've been a scuba diver since I was 16 and I think that was one of the reasons they chose me."
- Christopher Atkins
"I think that if a person wants to remain vegetarian, they're just going to have to go hungry."
- Robert Atkins
"Mel Gibson was lovely. He was on the edge of both scenes that I had with Danny Glover."
- Tom Atkins
"People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know."
- Brooks Atkinson
(Related: People, Responsibility, Thinking)
"It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge."
- Brooks Atkinson
(Related: Men, Poetry, Education, Knowledge, College, Thinking, Years)
"The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one."
- Brooks Atkinson
(Related: Life, Growth, Illusion)
"In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them."
- Brooks Atkinson
(Related: Age, Time, Thought, People, Myth, Old)
"Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy."
- Brooks Atkinson
"Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go."
- Brooks Atkinson
(Related: God, Past)