A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Although I studied, I have never been taught paintingbecause I possess in my psychological makeup a peculiarity that resents any outside interference.”
“Although I think it is wonderful to have the whole world of music available in something that small and to have it conveyed with such fidelity almost straight into the brain, I think the technology is also a danger.”
“Although I think the word "pleasure" is unknown to you. More precisely, its practical meaning". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion”
“Although I too often see myself as powerless, the fact is the New Year is what I make it. And whatever I make it is what it makes me.”
“Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“Although I try / to hold the single thought / of Buddha's teaching in my heart, / I cannot help but hear / the many crickets' voices calling as well.”
“Although I use myself in my videos, I really see myself as a character. When I look at myself, when I sit and edit, I never think, "That's me." I think, "This is a character, and how do I edit this to tell a story?"”
“Although I usually think I know what I'm going to be writing about, what I'm going to say, most of the time it doesn't happen that way at all. At some point I get misled down a garden path, I get surprised by an idea that I hadn't anticipated getting, which is a little bit like being in a laboratory.”
“Although I've endured many struggles in life, I have always tried to stay positive and keep the mindset that this has to be teaching me something.”
“Although I voted against the initial resolution approving the war in Iraq, I have consistently voted to support our troops with much-needed armor and supplies.”
“Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.”
“Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant.”
“Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.”
Source: Magical Thinking
“Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they were never writing in the style or the form that I was interested in.”
“Although I was also aware that in a workplace context, people could become bad sorts as and when the situation required, so maybe it was more accurate to say he wasn't always a bad sort.”
Source: There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
“Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.”
“Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has the right to subpoena your conscience.”
“Although I was calm as a child, I had this restlessness about me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.”
“Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.”
Source: Anchorwoman
“Although I was first drawn to math and science by the certainty they promised, today I find the unanswered questions and the unexpected connections at least as attractive.”
Source: Warped passages: unravelling the universe's hidden dimensions
“Although I was four years at the University [of Wisconsin], I did not take the regular course of studies, but instead picked out what I thought would be most useful to me, particularly chemistry, which opened a new world, mathematics and physics, a little Greek and Latin, botany and and geology. I was far from satisfied with what I had learned, and should have stayed longer.”
Source: Essential Muir
“Although I was her pupil,
Even I reproach Myrtis
of the crystalline voice.
She was a mere woman poet,
yet she challenged Pindar.”
“Although I was in the cold water and my teeth were chattering, I could feel perspiration running down my forehead as visions of failure swan around in my head. Although I was not the first, I felt that I was the first and would celebrate when I’d accomplished my goal. My focus was on reaching the other side of the Solent.”
Source: Psycho Steve
“Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.”
“Although I was once sharply critical of the argument to design, I have since come to see that, when correctly formatted, this argument constitutes a persuasive case for the existence of God.”
“Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can remember.”
“Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.”
Source: Prairie Tale: A Memoir
“Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely. Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time. I’ve always lived with that knowledge rooted in my being: perhaps that’s why Yuichi’s way of reacting to things seemed natural to me”
Source: Kitchen
“Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.”
Source: Three plays
“Although I was simply what today would be called a "mule" - the bottom of the food chain in the drug biz - the federal system treated me from beginning to end like a major criminal, and I still don't know why, other than that in those days, 6.5 ounces of heroin was a big load. Ludicrous by today's standards, when coke, heroin, and weed are shipped across the border by the ton.”
“Although I was so big, and so rough in many ways, loved hunting, fighting, horseback riding, I loved the piano above everything else...The mountain man's obsession is to get a glimpse of the sea.”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“Although I was too young to understand the theory of universal (that's to say male) guilt, I was old enough to know which sex suffered migraine and which sex caused it.”
Source: Redback
“Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.”
“Although I wasn't there to bear witness, I imagine Lot's wife scanned the masses for her children. Perhaps she sought out the curves of their mouths and the shapes of their faces, trying to memorize her children, grown now. She looked back as I and any strong, loving mother would have done.”
Source: Dogwood Blues
“Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.”
“Although I wasnt able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like.”
“Although I went to college as a youth, I never considered it necessary to steep oneself in academic learning, in order to learn how to think. I welcome a fair and square, open and above-board fight on any subject, including this, but I despise a man who sneaks around under a cloak or cover of any society or clique to strike his blows.”
“Although I will deeply miss the talented team at SCEA and the passion demonstrated every day by our fans, I'm very excited about starting the next chapter of my career. I want to thank the employees, partners, and customers for their tireless commitment to the PlayStation brand and, of course, to our fans who have pushed us to new heights of innovation and entertainment over the past two decades. I leave PlayStation in a position of considerable strength and the future will only get brighter for PlayStation Nation.”
“Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the surroundings I write about are American, but the soul, which makes me write, is Armenian. This means I am an Armenian writer and deeply love the honor of being a part of the family of Armenian wrtiters.”
“Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.”
“Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. I'm very interested in studying cultures and social issues, but as an academic I don't think I would have been too successful.”
“Although I'd always wanted children, it was such an opposite thing to being a singer.”
“Although I'd first seen Senator Hart in Aspen, Colorado, at a New Year's Day party in 1987, we hadn't talked.”
“Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.”
“Although I'm a comedian, I'm also an amateur survivalist.”
“Although I'm a huge fan of Ben Kweller, I don't think I'd cover one of his songs, simply because there's just so much of my own stuff I wanna do.”
“Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm.”
“Although I'm a Scot, I'd be proud to be called a Scouser.”
“Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith, I have to find out for myself.”
“Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.”