A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience. To think of a plot that is, as Aristotle says, surprising and yet inevitable, is a lot, lot, lot of work.”
“Anyone can write male sexist fiction. Anyone can write feminist propaganda. I hope to avoid both, and to entertain you while I'm doing it.”
Source: Sword and Sorceress
“Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.”
“Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.”
“Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others; they're called authors. Then there are some who can write better than authors; they're called artists.”
Source: The City of Dreaming Books
“Anyone capable of love is capable of being saved.”
“Anyone causing you pain is hurting themselves.”
“Anyone claiming certainty about life, truth, creation, or purpose of the Universe, is either ignorant or unfit to comprehend the implications of the presented dilemmas.”
Source: The Unfinished Book About Who We Are
“Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.”
“Anyone could become a star, but everyone must be a human being.”
“Anyone could father a child. But a good parent puts his child's needs before his own. A parent should be selfless not selfish.”
Source: Playboy Pilot
“Anyone could identify with the human aspect of the characters.”
“Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.”
“Anyone could see half her heart was missing.”
Source: Radar Girls
“Anyone could see it all coming and no one could possibly stop it and that was the beautiful thing. Friday night was open wide and writ in stone”
Source: The Fortress of Solitude
“Anyone could see that this woman is living a nightmare. Except that she goes through her daily life wide awake, knowing that she could make a mistake at any moment.”
“Anyone could tell Perry didn't want to talk. Griffin himself wasn't a boy who talked a lot; he did much more thinking than talking. Maybe Perry was a thinking kind of boy too.”
Source: Perry Angel's Suitcase
“Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.”
“Anyone desperate enough for suicide... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.”
“Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.”
“Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.”
“Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.”
“Anyone else asks how I’m doing I’ll say okay, and that wil be bullshit. It’s true, but it’ll stil be bullshit.”
Source: Death Magic
“Anyone else feel like that? Like your life's a big act. Like you're trying to be a man when you're just a scared kid, trying to keep under control when you really want to scream, cry, maybe hit someone. Ever feel like you're breathing underwater, and you have to stop because you're gulping in too much fluid?”
Source: Breathing Underwater
“Anyone else feel like that? Like your life's a big act. Like you're trying to be a man when you're just a scared kid, trying to keep under control when you really want to scream, cry, or maybe hit someone. Ever feel like you're breathing underwater and you have to stop because you're gulping in too much fluid.”
“Anyone else find it funny that Bernie Madoff's last name is a homophone of 'made-off'?”
Source: Write like no one is reading
“Anyone else would have probably stayed put---or at least looked deeply uncomfortable, but Frank seemed like he was taking this in stride, like helping to reunite friends was just a normal thing he did.”
Source: Since You've Been Gone
“Anyone engaging in illegal financial transactions will be caught and persecuted.”
“Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.”
“Anyone even remotely suspect was interrogated, because interrogation is by far the most effective method of speedily banishing inappropriate thoughts from the mind.”
“Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.”
Source: The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture
“Anyone ever teach you to run away from danger ” “Don’t be stupid Ellis.” I open the door. “That’s where all the fun is.”
“Anyone ever tell you you should be a lawyer? (Otto) Only Bill when we argue. Besides, I like killing bloodsuckers too much to ever be one of them. Tabitha Deveraux. Pleased to meet you. (Tabitha)”
“Anyone ever tell you you're an incredible kisser?”
Source: Silence
“Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.”
“Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in communications on a scale perhaps comparable to the invention of the Gutenberg press.”
Source: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion
“Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that his monks strain the water they drink lest they inadvertently cause the death of any micro-organisms - could never believe that he would be indifferent to the sufferings of domestic animals caused by their slaughter of food”
Source: To Cherish All Life: A Buddhist Case for Becoming Vegetarian
“Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.”
“Anyone forced to accept a worldview which they entirely rejected was not part of a democracy but, rather, a tyranny. They were being held hostage by their ideological opponents. They were not free citizens. They inevitably saw the elected government as an enemy, not as the body sworn to represent and uphold their interests. When the one-nation democratic ideal – with the government serving the entire nation – was replaced by a two-nation democracy, whereby a government did not serve the nation but only its own supporters and own base, thus alienating those that didn’t support it and rendering them the enemy, it had ceased to be a democracy. Partisan government was a dictatorship by one part of the nation over the other part, not a reflection of democracy, and not any kind of consensual system. Everyone not represented by the government had the right to seek its overthrow. Such a government did not represent the general will of the people, the only means for it to be regarded as legitimate, but instead represented the particular will of one partisan group of the people, committed to an extremist ideology abhorrent to its opponents. To save America from dictatorship, to save democracy, AOC said that it was necessary to divide America into two houses, liberal and conservative, and each would then go its own way, free forever of the oppression of the other. She stressed over and over again that if the gap between liberals and conservatives were small, if it were easy to switch between the two positions, then democracy could function. However, once conservatives and liberals became fanatical ideological enemies, with virtually no one ever likely to swap sides, then democracy was unworkable.”
Source: The 2044 War Between Texas and California: How AOC Became the World Leader
“Anyone found not enjoying themselves will be shot.”
Source: Fatherland
“Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that.”
“Anyone from my past I'm interested in, I've already stalked their homes. I like to go outside.”
“Anyone got X-ray visión?I asked, trying to smile. Where is Superman when you need him?”
“Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians.”
Source: A. Álvarez, Roy Fuller, Anthony Thwaite
“Anyone has outside influences. They are the results of the cosmic roll of the dice: this person is born Aragon the Ranger, this person is born a prisoner in North Korea, this person is born Carlos the Dwarf. Some of these things are out of our control, but that doesn't mean that they can't be changed. A character, just like a person in real life, is a summation of her actions and feelings. Our actions and emotions are not performed against nothing, they do not arise from dust, we are in constant friction, and/or flow with our surroundings.”
“Anyone has the ability, if they choose, to move to the higher end of the state of mind they are in. From that higher end, they can generate another state of mind.”
“Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netters art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.”
“Anyone having trouble sleeping I have a full proof plan. HAVE A BABY. I bet then you could sleep with your eyes wide open.”
“Anyone I may have used should feel happy that they even had a use. It's better than being useless.”
“Anyone I think who - that would go through a cancer ward and would see the result of what smoking does, would never, ever think of smoking is sexy again.”