A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“An hour saved at the non-bottleneck is a mirage.”
“An hour seldom passed in which she didn’t either sneeze, pick her nose, or wipe a bogie onto her snot-encrusted sleeve. But she had such a lovely colour. That pink glow which comes with the flu used to engulf her like an aura. It suited her. She always looked so damn effervescent.”
Source: The Little Voice
“An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man.”
Source: The way: 364 adventures in daily living
“An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.”
“An hour to one person might be way more than like a week to somebody else.”
“An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.”
Source: Virgil: the Eclogues
“An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.”
Source: Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First
“An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.”
Source: War in Heaven
“An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.”
“An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.”
“An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.”
Source: The Return
“An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return”
“An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.”
Source: Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland
“An humble man without learning, but filled with the Holy Spirit, is more powerful than the most nobly-born profound scholar without that inspiration. He who is educated by the Divine Spirit can, in his time, lead others to receive the same Spirit.”
“An humble soul looks upon Christ's righteousness as his only crown.”
Source: The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed
“AN HUNGRY MAN IS ALWAYS AN ANGRY MAN”
“An ‘I don’t care’ attitude is a reflection of a feeble minded individual with a personality disorder; one who literally denies themselves of the very thing they hold dear to their heart.”
“An I had but one penny in the world, thou shouldst have it to buy gingerbread.”
Source: Love's Labour's Lost
“An I mo chridhe, I mo ghraidh. - In Iona that is my heart's desire, Iona that is my love.”
“An I must drink sour ale, I must, but never have I yielded me to man before, and that without wound or mark upon my body. Nor, when I bethink me, will I yield now.”
“An Ice Age is coming and I welcome it as much-needed changing. I see no solution to our ruination of earth except for a drastic reduction of the human population.”
“An ice-cold Martini is like the first sip of water for a desert strandee — nectar from the Gods; a warm one is a human rights violation and tastes more like Bear Grylls' regular drink of choice”
Source: CO Specs: Recipes & Histories of Classic Cocktails
“An iceberg is water striving to be land; a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky; it is grounded in flight, the earth mutated--nearly--into air, and become, in the true sense, exalted. Long before she ever encountered the mountain, Allie was aware of its brooding presence in her soul.”
Source: The Satanic Verses
“An Icelandic mayor goes on an anti-elf rant which gets him in trouble.”
“An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?”
“An icy gust of air rose from the open doors. Blackness. I cannot be locked in blackness. I cannot!
And finally he screamed. He couldn't hold it back any longer. He screamed, the terrible cry begun before he was pushed forward, before he felt himself topple from the threshold, before he realized he was plunging down and down into the blackness, into the nothingness...”
Source: Taltos
“An icy slither ran up my core as I stared at my right hand, its tremors Richter scale violent. Was this my demon-killing ability? Destined to be some supernatural whore luring hell spawn into back alleys for deadly rub and tugs?”
Source: The Unlikeable Demon Hunter
“An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis.”
Source: Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded
“An idea becomes great when it becomes tangible.”
“An idea blended with common sense is logic.”
Source: Quantraz
“An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust.”
Source: The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimké
“An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.”
“An idea can be greater than the Sun, because with an intelligent idea, man can discover the way to create another sun! Idea is the greatest power in this universe!”
“An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!”
“An idea can only become a reality once it is broken down into organized, actionable elements.”
“An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.”
“An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.”
“An idea discovered is much better possessed.”
“An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.”
Source: Tragic Sense of Life
“An idea doesn't count if you can't use it”
“An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.”
Source: The Cardturner
“An idea fell like a seed and over the next weeks it went on growing like a fig vine lush and conquering twining round her old beliefs and covering them in new growth until they were as invisible as a tiger in a thicket and just as deadly.”
Source: Lips Touch: Three Times
“An idea for a story can be anything. The sky is not the limit, the limit is beyond it.”
“An idea gains value when you take action to bring it to life.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players. Daffy Duck is to a Buck Rogers story what John McEnroe was to tennis. Personality. That is the key, the drum, the fife. Forget the plot.”
“An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.”
“An idea in the head is like a rock in the shoe; I just can't wait to get it out.”
“An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.”
“An idea is a feat of association.”
“An idea is a gift, a finished project is turning that gift into a book by making yourself write even when you don't want to. There is no such thing as a block of time to write. You have to carve time from a busy day. Elaine L. Orr”