A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Anybody can be a hellene, by his heart, his mind, his spirit.”
“Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth.”
Source: Barfly: the continuing saga of Henry Chinaski
“anybody can be a princess. all you have todo is have the right parents. it's no harder than being born Paris Hilton, for God's sake. at least you remember to put on underwear in the morning, i'm assuming”
Source: Royal Scandal
“Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.”
“Anybody can be a role model, anybody can.”
“Anybody can be a runner. We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport.”
“Anybody can be a vessel of hope and inspiration. The only thing it requires of you is a changed mindset to be the light and a mission to engage, empower and offer selfless compassion to others in our society.”
“Anybody can be ambitious.”
“Anybody can be anybody, he told himself as he eased his body down onto Devin’s, the blunt pain of a beautiful pleasure wedging him open.”
Source: The Coming Storm
“Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them.”
Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
“Anybody can be fit. But you have to be patient. Give your body some time to adjust.”
“Anybody can be gifted because anybody can be a gift to others.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did.”
“Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.”
“Anybody can be good when things are going good, but a real player steps up when things are going bad.”
“Anybody can be happy when things are going well, and I've learned that. But when things aren't going well it draws out the inner warrior in us to radiate that and bring whatever happiness we can to the situation.”
“Anybody can be heard. Anyone can express their truths. And communication is possible without the confines of the body.”
“Anybody can be hurt. This is boxing.”
“Anybody can be nobody; but it takes a man to be somebody.”
“Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.”
“Anybody can be Prince Charming one day a year, with the dinner and the flowers and all that. But you know what impresses me? When a guy can do that NO days a year.”
“Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.”
Source: The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career
“Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits - we're all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless.”
“Anybody can become a widow. There aren't any special qualifications. It happens in less time than it takes to draw a breath. It doesn't require the planning, for example, that it takes to become a wife or a mother or any of the other ritual roles of womanhood.”
“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.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“Anybody can become anything”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Anybody can breathe. Therefore anybody can practice yoga.”
Source: The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice
“Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?”
“Anybody can call me Jamie, and you have to watch it when you call me James. Then there's going to be a problem.”
“Anybody can change, but they have to want to change.”
Source: What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
“Anybody can claim to be a member of the ALF when rescuing animals, destroying "tools of torture" (such as research equipment) or financially depleting a corporation that abuses animals.”
“Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.”
“Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.”
Source: Felix Frankfurter on the Supreme Court: extrajudicial essays on the Court and the Constitution
“Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever.”
“Anybody can develop a certain amount of talent at something. However, the supremely talented - the superstars - are people who have married a gift of brain wiring to those thousands of hours of practice, usually in favorable circumstances.”
“Anybody can die, everything is fleeting, and you've just got to make sure that you catch up on what you can catch up on.”
“Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.”
“Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.”
“Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.”
“Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.”
“Anybody can do anything with enough time and money.”
“Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.”
“Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.”
“Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.”
Source: Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living
“Anybody can do their best, but we are helped by the Spirit of God to do better than our best.”
“Anybody can draw courage from a hundred people, but when a hundred people draw courage from you, that's greatness.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“Anybody can fail.”
Source: It Ain't Just The Size
“Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel.”
Source: Harvest of Stars
“Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temperature felt, and all the quality of it. Most people cannot do it. If they can do it, they may never be successful in a pecuniary sense, but that ability is at the bottom of writing, I am sure.”
“Anybody can get bigheaded once they know the seat cannot be pulled out from under them.”