A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A pack is greater than a wolf.”
“A pack of five dogs, as variable in size and shape as humans, trotted in a veering path toward the two men; they sniffed and growled and nipped at one another, then broke into a lope down the street, with the smallest mutt in the lead.”
Source: Performance Anomalies
“A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass.”
“A pack of lemmings looks like a group of rugged individualists compared with Wall Street when it gets a concept in its teeth.”
“A package of 35 improvements to typical industrial motor systems can save around 50% of their metered energy…with a simple payback under 16 months.”
“A pad traje. Čovek oseća da pada, prvo napred a zatim nauznak, i to tako brzo da misao ne može ni da ga stigne, a kamoli da pomogne i spase. Ništa, samo padanje. Po celom telu ga tuku oštre, tvrde stepenice, sklapaju se i rasklapaju oko njega kao rebra neke velike kamene lepeze u pokretu. Još je jedno vreme mogao da broji udarce, dok ga jedan ne pogodi u teme. Dockan je. Nema više nikog. I poslednja sijalica ugasnu. Učini mu se da vidi čitave piramide od stolica okrenutih nogama uvis. Ali i toga odmah nestade. Ništa. Ceo čovek se ispuni gluvim, bezimenim i vekovečnim mrakom potpune nesvesti.”
Source: Znakovi: sabrana djela Ive Andrića
“A paedophile is someone whose sexual attraction towards children their own age did not grow with them.”
Source: N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
“A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.”
“A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are records of enquiries into the nature of the universe.”
“A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.”
“A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of Poe's will impress upon the mind a more vivid notion of powerful and correct description and narration than will ten dry chapters of a bulky textbook.”
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“A page of good prose remains invincible.”
“A page of history is worth a pound of logic.”
“A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.”
“A page, turning, is a wing lifted with no twin, and therefore no flight. And yet we are moved.”
Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“A page-turning story with a sophisticated plot not to be missed.”
Source: Transnational threats: Blending law enforcement and military strategies
“A page turns. Destiny continues to walk.”
“A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.”
“A pain-filled life could be justified when balanced by everlasting joys yet to come. Daily devotion and loyalty to the celestial firm seemed a fair trade for eternal returns.”
Source: POST QUANTUM REALITY: Simple Answers to the Toughest Questions in Science and Religion
“A pain free, active lifestyle is not only possible, but it is the way you should expect to feel and live, no matter your age, no matter your previous experience.”
“A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”
Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“A pain understood is a scar.”
“A painful existence
Leaving family as a custom
And spending the rest of adult life
Chasing hopelessly poor versions as a regret
- Dating”
“A painful situation arrives in your Life simply because it was meant to. It is never because your “energies are negative” or that you are being “punished for past sins”. Your pain is here to teach you Life lessons. Which is why extraordinary pain is a sign of grace, of a great teacher arriving in your Life to transform you, to make you resilient, wise and happy!”
“A painful time in our life is what I call a healing crisis. We are letting go of something old and opening to something new.”
“A painless lesson is one without any meaning, one who does not sacrifice anything cannot achieve anything.”
Source: Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1
“A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.”
“A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty.”
“A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty. And man needs spiritual expression and nourishing. It's why even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. Man needs music, literature, and painting-all those oases of perfection that make up art-to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.”
“A painted surface is a real, living form.”
“A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.”
Source: Reasons of the heart
“A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.”
“A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it.”
“A painter is a choreographer of space.”
“A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.”
“A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something.”
“A painter is someone who wipes the windowpane between the world and us with light, with a rag made of light, soaked in silence.”
“A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by the look of coloured slurries on the palette.”
Source: What Painting Is
“A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.”
“A painter like Picasso, who runs through many periods and phases, ends up by saying all those things which are on the tip of the tongue of the age to say, and finally sterilizes the originality of his contemporaries and juniors.”
Source: The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society
“A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.”
“A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind.”
Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds
“A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an imitator of the works of other painters. This appears more humiliating, but is equally true; and no man can be an artist, whatever he may suppose, upon any other terms.”
Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds
“A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.”
Source: Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre
“A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.”
“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
“A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.”
“A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.”
Source: Picasso and his art
“A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.”
Source: A life on film
“a painter
seeks your true image,
the writer
will expose your soul...”