A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“An authentic friend does not need to receive a daily, weekly, monthly, or even a yearly call.”
“An authentic friend understands that friendship is an ever-evolving relationship bound to be complicated, but commonly comprised of mutual respect.”
“An authentic life does not require anyone else's approval for your creative choices.”
“An authentic life facing reality without mental equivocation is the simplest type of life.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.”
“An authentic person is one who is an unobstructed channel between what they 'Will', what they do, and how they live: one who listens to an inner voice and then works, lives, and plays accordingly.”
“An authentic quote never becomes outdated and irrelevant to its context.”
“An authentic response to who God is and what He's done...What we do is useful to the extent that it provides an ability for our community to voice things back to God. If it's unsuccessful in that, then it's just self-indulgence.”
“An authentic spirituality does not cater to culture; it calls culture to accountability.”
“An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and of sacred polyphony.”
“An authentically empowered person is humble. This does not mean the false humility of one who stoops to be with those who are below him or her. It is the inclusiveness of one who responds to the beauty of each soul. ... It is the harmlessness of one who treasures, honours and reveres life in all its forms.”
Source: The Seat of the Soul
“An authentically eucharistic Church is a missionary Church... Truly, nothing is more beautiful than to know Christ and to make him known to others.”
“An authentically powered person lives in love. Love is the energy of the soul. Love is what heals the personality. There is nothing that cannot be healed by love. There is nothing but love.”
“An author accepting language's invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively--even if with much dread--in ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.”
“An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.”
Source: Enemies of Promise
“An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.”
“An author cannot be a tool that can be programmed and kept under control. An author must be free — with a human mind and a soul.”
Source: THE RIGHT OF AUTHORS TO USE AI FREELY: Why AI Is a Tool, Not an Author
“An author departs; he does not die.”
“An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in science writes with confidence that most readers will share his sense of concern and indignation. Sounding the call to action-convincing people that change is not only necessary, but actually possible-is more problematic. In protecting animals from cruelty, it is always just one step from the mainstream to the fringe. To condemn the wrong is obvious, to suggest its abolition radical.”
Source: Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
“An author frequently chooses solemn or overwhelming subjects to write about; he is so impressed at writing about Life and Death that he does not notice that he is saying nothing of the slightest importance about either.”
“An author has a gift that is leant to others. seek not to teach; - entertain!”
“An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.”
“An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.”
“An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.”
“An author is an expert in the written word. The author must make a choice; to either trust and support the filmmaker’s approach, or not have a film made at all.”
Source: Author Straight Talk
“An Author is forced by his Life's misery,to Live or Die in his Dreams,for every sad verse he writes,by breaking his Heart's Melodious strings, in need of sympathy.”
“An author is like a baker; it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.”
Source: The Indicator
“An author is like a jeweller, with words as their gemstones and imagination the precious metals.”
“An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.”
“An author is similar to an actor. They play many characters in their lives—photographer, nurse, dancer, doctor, writer, etc. As an author, you have to learn your craft, know each and every element to become that character you’re writing about to be able to live and breathe what they do.”
“An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if the book gets published and lots of people get to read it, or if you make just one copy and you share that book with one friend.”
“An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.”
“An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.”
Source: The Bertrams
“An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart.”
Source: Writing with Pictures: How to Write and Illustrate Children's Books
“An author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty.”
“An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out on paper.”
Source: Leave Her to Heaven
“An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money.”
Source: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
“An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.”
“An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.”
Source: The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson
“An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.”
“An author’s great day is releasing your book into the world like a butterfly and having a reviewer come upon it and say…oh, that’s lovely!”
“An author’s operating charter is to unearth embedded symbols that reflect complementary and inconsistent relationships of our collective assemblage, combine harmonizing and contradictory conceptions that motivate us, and delve larger truths out of variable and erratic elements of human nature.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that the world has frequent and urgent need of his thoughts and will rather change the manner in which he expresses them than do without the things expressed.”
“An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.”
Source: Christian Reflections
“An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.”
“An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.”
Source: The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)
“An author who composes while walking, on the other hand, is free from such bonds; his thought is not the slave of other volumes, not swollen with verifications, nor weighted with the thought of others. It contains no explanation owed to anyone: just thought, judgement, decision. It is thought born of a movement, an impulse. In it we can feel the body’s elasticity, the rhythm of a dance. It retains and expresses the energy, the springiness of the body. Here is thought about the thing itself, without the scrambling, the fogginess, the barriers, the customs clearances of culture and tradition. The result will not be long and meticulous exegesis, but thoughts that are light and profound. That is really the challenge: the lighter a thought, the more it rises, and becomes profound by rising – vertiginously – above the thick marshes of conviction, opinion, established thought. While books conceived in the library are on the contrary superficial and heavy. They remain on the level of recopying.”
Source: A Philosophy of Walking
“An author who does not support his or her characters does not deserve the support of readers. EVER!”
“An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful thrill he feels himself.”
Source: What I Have Gathered
“An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.”