A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
“A good novelist loves all of his characters, he lives in them, even in those who commit or must commit terrible acts.”
“A good nude photograph can be erotic, but certainly not sentimental or pornographic.”
“A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.”
“A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.”
“A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.”
“A good old rodeo never hurt anyone.”
“A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.”
“A good one iron shot is about as easy to come by as an understanding wife.”
Source: Dead Solid Perfect
“A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.”
Source: I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon
“A good opportunity is seldom presented, and is easily lost.”
“A good or great performance is like peeling an onion; in every scene you reveal another layer, something the audience hasn't seen until then. They stay involved because they are constantly learning about and discovering the character they are watching. They can't take you for granted and it keeps them hooked.”
“A good orator is pointed and impassioned.”
“A good orator must be a good listener”
“A good organization is like a box of crayons. You need different colors of the spectrum, but all the crayons should fit in the box.”
“A good organizer is a social arsonist who goes around setting people on fire.”
“A good organizer is key to anyone with a busy social life.”
“A good orgasm was in the details.”
Source: Stirring Attraction
“a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.”
Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia
“A good page turner is a blessing, a bad one a curse.”
Source: Am I Too Loud? Memoirs of an Accompanist
“A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.”
Source: The Art of Leonardo Da Vinci
“A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.”
Source: Leonardo Da Vinci: 1452-1519
“A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.”
“A good painter needs only three colours: black, white and red.”
“A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.”
“A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.”
“A good parent gives their child roots and wings.”
“A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?”
Source: The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume I: The Early Writings
“A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.”
“A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.”
“A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers”
“A good part of the physical attraction [between the hero and heroine of a romance novel] comes to life during these exchanges as well, since language creates a meeting of the minds. I have long thought that these lines of dialogue carve out the lines of the central love relationship. The dialogue between the hero and heroine creates the central shape of the story. It is the verbal sculpture.”
“a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.”
“A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those sort of flowery films. But I think it's a nice change of pace-I don't know how long it'll go for. There will always be the Merchant-Ivory/Kenneth Branagh movies, but there's something else now-really, it's always been there but the Americans getting to see it makes all the difference.”
“A good party is one that is designed to entertain and bond friends. The bad parties I've been to are the ones that are held to impress other people.”
“A good party is where you enjoy good people, and they taste even better with Champagne.”
“A good party man puts his party above himself and his country above his party.”
“A good pastor knows how to trust people and how to give them authority to fulfill all kinds of tasks. He tries to make himself unnoticed and unnecessary. Don’t be indispensable!”
“A good pay-master starts not at assurances.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“A good peace, a solid peace, a peace in which communities can flourish, can only be built when we ask ourselves and each other to be more than just good, and better than just strong. And a good life, a meaningful life, a life in which we can enjoy the world and live with purpose, can only be built if we do more than live for ourselves.”
“A good performance assessment gives you the hard facts you'll need to provide specific, useful feedback that your employee can act on.”
Source: Maximizing Organizational Performance: A Guide to Effective Performance Coaching
“A good person always find the goodness in a bad person.”
“A good person always seeks good in others.”
“A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.”
“A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.”
“A good person has no religion, he is simply a good person who treats everyone well.”
“A good person helps their friends—but a great person helps their enemies.”
Source: The Girl And The Silver Mark
“A good person is not born with enemies, he is born among enemies.”
“A good person is one who follows the Ten Commandments and the golden rule. There is plenty of precedent in history to guide us and we probably evolved to be sensitive to Bible-Golden Rule situations. But the dilemmas faced by a worker - a journalist, an architect, an auditor - or by a citizen (what position to take on stem cell research, whether to run for office, what is the proper balance between taxation and social nets) - are not questions that can be answered by traditional texts or precedents.”
“A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.”