A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Anyone who wish to become a genius must seek for the process and not the final product. Forget about the shortcuts and take the longest road. The future and all the prizes shall be yours!”
“Anyone who wishes to be proud must be proud only in your gender that you were born with without transgressing the gender of others.”
Source: Resistance To Intolerance
“Anyone who wishes to combine domestic responsibilities and paid employment with the least stress and most enjoyment might start by pondering this paradox: the first step to better functioning is to stop blaming herself for not functioning well enough.”
Source: Juggling: The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families
“Anyone who wishes to imply superiority in their particular line of work is apt to style themselves an artist. The imperatives of fitness display allow us to understand the passion with which people debate whether something is or is not an art. A claim that one's work is art is a claim for sexual and social status.”
Source: The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
“Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the players have castled on opposite sides.”
Source: The Art of the Middle Game
“Anyone who wonders if a Christian can sin is ignorant about sin's enslaving nature.”
Source: Romans 1-7 for You
“Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready for someone to say, 'Your time is up.'”
“Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It's a miracle, it is magic.”
“Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter's quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows.”
“Anyone who would argue that this third-generatio n MDX is an SUV might as well belong to the Flat Earth Society. The 2014 Acura MDX is the perfect expression of the modern car - capable, spacious, and friendly to drive.”
“Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feels when confronted with existing school systems.”
Source: The Century of the Child
“Anyone who would ever think of using any other Realtor would be making an enormous mistake. Goodwin & Thyne Properties is the best real estate company with the best and smartest real estate agents and the best people to do business with!”
“Anyone who would laugh at a recital is probably some sort of lunatic anyway. I mean, only a sick, twisted mind could be that rude and ignorant.”
“Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.”
Source: Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change
“Anyone who would understand the Reagan victory of 1980 and the movement that eliminated the Soviet Union and revitalized America must read-indeed must study-Craig Shirley's brilliant, comprehensive work.”
“Anyone who would wear all white like that clearly has issues”
Source: Days of Blood & Starlight
“Anyone who would willingly ride a bicycle through the frenzied streets of New York City could only have an I.Q. in the low double digits. That, or a death wish.”
Source: In Limbo
“anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural selection, will be quite unable to discuss the subject competently.”
“Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.”
Source: Anchorwoman
“Anyone who writes an autobiography is either a twat or broke.”
Source: Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
“Anyone who writes an autobiography is either a twat or broke. I’m a bit of both.”
Source: Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
“Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.”
“Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth.... Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words and they backhand them across the net.”
“Anyone who writes is too precious to lose.”
“Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.”
“anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a need to write a play.”
“Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man.”
“Anyone who's 71 years old would look ridiculous singing rock.”
“Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: Is it good? Does it give pleasure?”
“Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in.”
“Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.”
“Anyone who's been a heavy drinker and heavy smoker and has the good future to survive that and give it up knows what a very different kind of daily existence one has. I was smoking a couple of packs of cigarettes a day. And I was drinking heavily on tours.”
“Anyone who's been poor and gets rich is stalked by guilt and fear. Guilt because you know it isn't fair, that life hasn't changed for everyone”
Source: Revolution
“Anyone who's ever filed a tax return or visited the Department of Motor Vehicles understands that government does two things well: spend our money and waste our time.”
“Anyone who's ever had the misfortune of seeing me interact with house pets knows I have a wickedly strong paternal instinct bordering on the maternal.”
“Anyone who's ever tried to tangle with a teddy bear cholla knows there's a whole lot more bear than teddy to it.”
Source: The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted
“Anyone who's ever worked with Meryl Streep always says the same thing: can that woman act! And what's with all the Hitler memorabilia?”
“Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.”
“Anyone who's grown up or lived on the Jersey Shore knows the place is unique.”
“Anyone who's had a shower and hasn't ingested illegal narcotics within a couple of days stands out on a bench in the courthouse.”
Source: Judgment Calls
“Anyone who's had a tattoo knows once you get your first one, as you're walking out the door, you're planning the next.”
“Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands.”
“Anyone who's lived has lost somebody.”
“Anyone who's lived their life to the fullest extent has a scandal buried somewhere.”
“Anyone who's lived with companion cats or dogs knows that they are unique individuals with their own personalities. I think animals' secret to getting along is that they are not burdened by an ego.”
“Anyone who's lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to try to remember the person before the diagnosis happened, because they really do change - as anyone would change.”
“Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.”
“Anyone who's making a huge impact or speaking out about what they believe in or who's brave enough to be themselves is a superhero to me.”
“Anyone who's never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn't know what pleasure is.”
“Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere.”