A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“After approximately two decades and several billion dollars....Among the various types of cancer that account for 78% of the incidence..the upward trend in survival rates has not exceeded a few %....a far gloomier picture than has been generally conveyed to a hopeful public by our leading cancer research institutions...A generally passive lay press has been the means of transmission.”
“After arriving in America, John and Adeline continued on their tour of American Universities, leaving their daughter Ursula in the New York City area, after her marriage to the present-day, award-winning author, Captain Hank Bracker. At the beginning of their tour of the United States, John and Adeline purchased a vintage “Ford Woodie Station Wagon,” which they drove across the North American continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. When they prepared for their return to South Africa, they had their “Woodie” loaded into the cargo hold of the SS African Moon and proudly took the car, south of the equator, with them. At that time “Classic American Cars” were quite prestigious in South Africa.”
“After Arthur sent me away for my own good, it' like my life switched from color to black and white--like the ending of The Wizard of Oz.”
Source: Wide Asleep
“After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room for specialists. But right now we don't.”
“After attacking the anti-war demonstrations, Order 8 followers proceeded to supply the names of so-called traitors to their employers, pressuring companies and government agencies to fire the anti-war elements burrowing within the system.
Dozens lost their jobs, most of them Palestinian citizens of Israel who had taken to Facebook to protest the army's actions in Gaza. When a postal employee posted a call for sending leftists to gas chambers, however, her government employer defended the statement on the grounds of free speech.”
Source: The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza
“After attending a banquet honoring the 1974 BYU team that won the Western AthleticConference and went to the Fiesta Bowl. It was the first of Edwards' 18 WAC champions and 21 bowl teams. That was the group of kids that totally changed the direction of my life and the direction of our football program. We started 0-3-1 and won seven or eight in a row. They were the first bowl team in school history. I hadn't really accomplished anything yet. To see all those guys reminded me where we've been. It was an emotional night.”
“After August 1958, the world continued to spin; but the world of my childhood had, indeed, come to an end.
Padma—did you have, when you were little, a world of your own? A tin orb on which were imprinted the continents and oceans and polar ice? Two cheap metal hemispheres, clamped together by a plastic stand? No, of course not; but I did.”
Source: Midnight’s Children
“After Auschwitz, I no longer cry at funerals.”
Source: Auschwitz and After
“After awhile size means nothing. It gets back to whether you're making 100% rate of return on 10k or 100 million dollars. It doesn't make any difference.”
“After awhile you could get used to anything.”
Source: The Stranger
“After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.”
Source: Killosophy
“After awhile, marriage gets a little stale and you're looking for something to scratch that a little.”
“After awhile, your, your cheap talk don't even cause me pain, so let your bullets fly like rain.”
“After Bajju delivered a few beaming salutations, we walked northward up the makeshift, winding path through protruding brush, not much but a few stones placed here and there for balance and leverage upon ascending or descending. Having advanced about hundred steps from the street below, a sharp left leads to Bajju’s property, which begins with his family’s miniature garden – at the time any signs of fertility were mangled by dried roots which flailed like wheat straw, but within the day Bajju’s children vehemently delivered blows with miniature hoes in preparation for transforming such a plot into a no-longer-neglected vegetable garden. A few steps through the produce, or preferably circumventing all of it by taking a few extra steps around the perimeter, leads to the sky-blue painted home. Twisting left, hundreds of miles of rolling hills and the occasional home peeps out, bound below by demarcated farming steppes. If you’re lucky on a clear day and twist to the right, the monstrous, perpetually snow-capped Chaukhamba mountain monopolizes the distance just fifteen miles toward the direction of Tibet in the north.”
Source: The Local School
“After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.”
Source: 63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read
“After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.”
“After becoming a member in 1973, Britain's attitude towards the European Community continued to be unenthusiastic. Although trade with Europe greatly increased, most British continued to feel that they had not had any economic benefit from Europe. This feeling was strengthened by the way in which Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher argued for a better financial deal for Britain in the Community's affairs. The way in which she fought won her some admiration in Britain, but also anger in many parts of Europe. She welcomed closer co-operation in the European Community but only if this did not mean any lessening of sovereignty. Many Europeans saw this as a contradiction.”
Source: An Illustrated History of Britain
“After becoming established as a surfboard manufacturer and surf film producer whose films were shown on TV, all of a sudden all the teachers and counselors who wanted nothing to do with my ass during school were wanting to kiss it. They'd be interviewed by a newspaper of magazine and their tone would change. 'Oh yes, I knew Greg Noll. He was in my class. Fine, upstanding young man.' What bullshit.”
“After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted to drugs, found Jesus, left Jesus, and put out a lot of swill.”
“After becoming pregnant, I had to makeover my pantry just a little to make the proper adjustments to support the baby. I've found some staples that will stick around after the baby is here, too.”
“After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex.”
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
“After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex. Of course, for some people it isn't work because they need the exercise and they've got the energy for the sex and the sex gives them even more energy. Some people get energy from sex and some people lose energy from sex. I have found that it's too much work. But if you have the time for it, and if you need that exercise-then you should do it.”
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
“After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't changed my style since.”
“After being apart from you, I lost myself, but believe me, I found a version of myself that no one could have imagined.”
Source: Sukoon
“After being at the top, I don't think I could play senior tournaments, because you know how good you were. I don't know if I would enjoy that, being half of what I was.”
“After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.”
“After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.”
“After being called cherubic and chubby, I'm rocking a bikini!”
“After being compared to Jay Leno for so long, you don't think of yourself in that way.”
“After being denied my earned disability benefits, I concluded that I had nothing to lose by speaking out about the illegal workplace activities I had observed during my career.”
“After being dry for a couple a weeks, three cocktails went down quicker than a boner in a busted rubber.”
Source: 100 Bullets, Vol. 5: The Counterfifth Detective
“After being expelled from Paradise, Adam and Eva got married.”
Source: The New Land
“After being expelled from Paradise, Adam and Eve got married.”
Source: The New Land
“After being harassed by a group of toxic police officers, I have always wondered how many others they were victimizing.”
“After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.”
Source: No Longer Human
“After being impaled by a javelin, while officiating- I'm doing fine now, just resting and hanging around.”
“After being in a gym, you're super hungry all the time because you're burning all these calories.”
“After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.”
“After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.”
“After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.”
“After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.”
“After being in the studio, I realized this is how I want to be. It just feels right.”
“After being let go from CBS and looking for a year for work, I will never catch myself complaining about being too busy.”
“After being loomed over and pressed menacingly against a wall, George had, while looking into those bloodshot eyes, truly feared for his life.”
Source: Wickham's Wife: A Back-story to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
“After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair.”
“After being on 'Oprah' for a couple of months, I got my first royalty check for $1,478,392.17. I will never forget it. At the height of my career, I made $3.3 million. Unbelievable. From welfare in the projects to $3.3 million.”
“After being on the court for six hours, being on TV is very glamorous and fun for me. But tennis is always going to be my priority. It's not going to be this thing when all of a sudden TV will get in the way of that.”
“After being on the road so much I want to spend more time with my family, who I hear are wonderful people.”
“After being out so long, I was more anxious to pitch than anything, just ready to get back into things. I can't imagine a better situation to test me against some pressure.”
“After being served with a notice, tenants sometimes try to avoid being served with the summons in the unlawful detainer action. Occasionally, they ask counsel's advice on whether to do so. Counsel should advise the tenant not to try and duck service for three reasons:
•The landlord is likely to catch the tenant at some time and effect service, despite the tenant's efforts to avoid service;
•The court might learn of the tenant's efforts to avoid service and, in ruling on various issues, may believe the tenant is a deadbeat; and
•If the landlord prevails in the unlawful detainer action and recovers costs, the tenant's actions will have probably increased the costs the tenant will be responsible to pay.”
Source: California Eviction Defense Manual