A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A plastic man really, actually no man at all.”
“A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug.”
Source: The soul of a cat: and other stories
“A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.”
“A plate of food has to have balance. For example, a mild fish like skate mustnt be overwhelmed by the side dishes. They should have personality and color, but they also have to be subtle.”
“A plate of fried pork livers and two shots of yellow rice wine. And warm up the wine for me.”
Source: Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
“A plate of roast duck, steamed dumplings, spicy noodles with beef gravy, pickled cucumbers, stewed tongue and eggs if you have them, cold please, and sticky rice pearls, too,' Ai Ling said, before the server girl could open her mouth. "I don't know what he wants." Ai Ling nodded toward Chen Yong.
'I'm not sure I have enough coins to order anything more,' he said, laughing.”
Source: Silver Phoenix
“A platform is a raised, level surface on which people or things can stand. A platform business works in just that way: it allows users—producers and consumers of goods, services, and content— to create, communicate, and consume value through the platform. Amazon, Apple’s App Store, eBay, Airbnb, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pay- Pal, YouTube, Uber, Wikipedia, Instagram, etsy, Twitter, Snapchat, Hotel Tonight, Salesforce, Kickstarter, and Alibaba are all platform businesses. While these businesses have done many impressive things, the most relevant to us is that they have created an oppor- tunity for anyone, even those with limited means, to share their thoughts, ideas, creativity, and creations with millions of people at a low cost.
Today, if you create a product or have an idea, you can sell that product or share that idea with a substantial audience quickly and cost-effectively through these platforms. Not only that, but the platforms arguably give more power to individuals than corporations since they’re so efficient at identifying ulterior motives or lack of authenticity. The communities on these platforms, many of whom are millennials, know when they’re being sold to rather than shared with, and quickly eliminate those users from their con- sciousness (a/k/a their social media feeds).
Now, smaller organizations and less prosperous individuals are able to sell to or share their products, services, or content with more targeted demographics of people. That’s exactly what the modern consumer desires: a more personalized, connected experience. For example, a Brooklyn handbag designer can sell her handbags to a select group of customers through one of the multitude of fashion or shopping platforms and create an ongoing dialogue with her audience through a communication platform such as Instagram. Or an independent filmmaker from Los Angeles can create a short film using a GoPro and the editing software on their Mac and then instantly share it with countless people through one of a dozen video platforms and get direct feedback. Or an author can write a book and sell it directly from his or her website and social channels to anyone who’s excited about it. The reaction to standardization and globalization has been enabled by these platforms. Customers can get what they want, from whomever they want, whenever they want it. It’s a revised and personalized version of globalization that allows us to maintain and enhance the cultural connections that create the meaning we crave in our lives.”
Source: The Age of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential
“A platform is something a candidate stands for and the voters fall for.”
“A platform without the Holy Spirit is like land without a spring. If we gain our Promise Land without Living Water, it will become desolate.”
“A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.”
“A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.”
“A plausible rumor / Seems a lot more believable / Than the truth itself.”
“A play for me never really takes on an aspect of reality until it has left the dryair of the study and begins to sniff the musty breezes of a bare stage.”
“A play gets on Broadway by fluke. And you don't even start out with that ambition. When I do a play, the intention is just to put it up somewhere.”
“A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.”
Source: In search of theater
“A play is a painting that moves. Instead of it holding still, and you are looking at it, you hold still and it scrolls by.”
“A play is a parenthesis that contains all the material you think has to be contained for the action of the play. Where do you end that? Where the characters seem to come to a pause... where they seem to want to stop - rather like, I would think, the construction of a piece of music.”
Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.”
“A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.”
“A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.”
Source: The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller
“A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.”
“A play is never finished. You'll find out how much I mean that when you read my Last Will and Testament.”
“A play presents a self-enclosed little world for the audience to examine. It's an opportunity to look objectively at a group of people, to assess them, to react to them, and to measure oneself against them, to ask 'Am I like that?'”
“A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.”
“A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.”
Source: Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness: Essays, A Play, Two Poems and a Prayer
“A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.”
“A play that works well and is done quite a lot - I've never done the math - but it's probably more remunerative than a movie.”
“A play visibly represents pure existing.”
Source: The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume T
“A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret, you have to distort toward a symbolic construction of what happened, and as that distortion takes place, you begin to leave out and overemphasize and consequently deliver up life as a unity rather than as a chaos, and any such attempt, the more intense it is, the more poetic it becomes.”
“A play's got to be a dramatic event, not a lyrical event. It's not music, it's not poetry, it's not dance, it's not narrative - it's dramaticit's about conflict. It's about forces coming together.”
“A playboy only plays his play.”
“A player can sometimes afford the luxury of an inaccurate move, or even a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without necessarily obtaining a lost position. In the endgame ... an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.”
“A player cannot be part of the training camp experience as a rookie unless he is signed to a contract.”
“A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.”
“A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.”
“A player has no use for an agent. None.”
“A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.”
Source: The American Chess-player's Handbook: Teaching the Rudiments of the Game, and Giving an Analysis of All the Recognised Openings : Exemplified by Appropriate Games Actually Played by Morphy, Harrwitz, Anderssen, Staunton, Paulsen, Montgomery, Meek and Others : from the Work of Staunton
“A player may lose in the beginning of the match, may fail too but at the end he will be the one holding the best experience to start it all over again and win the match next time.”
“A player must be able to skate, have hockey sense, be able to shoot, but not necessarily be able to score.”
“A player should never be selfish and should always contribute to team's victory.”
“A player who conjugates a verb in the first person singular cannot be part of the squad, he has to conjugate the verb in the first person plural. We. We want to conquer. We are going to conquer. Using the word I when you're in a group makes things complicated.”
“A player who conjugates a verb in the first-person singular cannot be part of the squad. He has to conjugate the verb in the first-person plural. We.”
“A player who dives and wins a penalty in Portugal, or Spain or Italy is considered clever, experienced, cunning, someone who understands the game. In England a player who wins a penalty like that is a cheat.”
“A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.”
“A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group - that's teamwork.”
“A player you can buy in 24 hours, believe me. That's not a problem”
“A player's character is a crucial factor I look into before committing to signing them. They also need to show a willingness to learn, regardless of age and experience; that's very important to me.”
“A player's effectiveness is directly related to his ability to be right there, doing that thing, in the moment. He can't be worrying about the past or the future or the crowd or some other extraneous event. He must be able to respond in the here and now.”
“A playful mind is inquisitive, and learning is fun. If you indulge your natural curiosity and retain a sense of fun in new experience, I think you'll find it functions as a sort of shock absorber for the bumpy road ahead.”
“A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.”
Source: Conversations with Edward Albee