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“A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.”
“A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.”
“A playwright, especially a playwright whose work deals very directly with an audience, perhaps he should pay some attention to the nature of the audience response - not necessarily to learn anything about his craft, but as often as not merely to find out about the temper of the time, what is being tolerated, what is being permitted.”
Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.”
Source: The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller
“A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.”
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
“A plea for wisdom in fasting was offered by President Joseph F. Smith, who cautioned that “there is such a thing as overdoing. A man may fast and pray till he kills himself; and there isn’t any necessity for it; nor wisdom in it. … The Lord can hear a simple prayer, offered in faith, in half a dozen words, and he will recognize fasting that may not continue more than twenty-four hours, just as readily and as effectually as He will answer a prayer of a thousand words and fasting for a month. … The Lord will accept that which is enough, with a good deal more pleasure and satisfaction than that which is too much and unnecessary.”
Source: Accomplishing the Impossible: What God Does, What We Can Do
“A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer.”
Source: The Art of Eating
“A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and is transmitted to the latest posterity. But a system, whether physical or metaphysical, commonly owes its success to its novelty; and is no sooner canvassed with impartiality than its weakness is discovered.”
Source: The History of England, vol. 1~6, Completed: Revision of Great Book
“A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.”
“A pleasant companion reduces the length of the journey.”
“A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.”
Source: The Bertrams: A Novel
“A Pleasant moment can only be enjoyed while reading a good book.”
“A pleasant morning. Saw my classmates Gardner, and Wheeler. Wheeler dined, spent the afternoon, and drank Tea with me. Supped at Major Gardiners, and engag'd to keep School at Bristol, provided Worcester People, at their ensuing March meeting, should change this into a moving School, not otherwise. Major Greene this Evening fell into some conversation with me about the Divinity and Satisfaction of Jesus Christ. All the Argument he advanced was, 'that a mere creature, or finite Being, could not make Satisfaction to infinite justice, for any Crimes,' and that 'these things are very mysterious.'
(Thus mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.)
[Diary entry, February 13 1756]”
Source: Diary and Autobiography of John Adams (Adams Papers)
“A pleasant natural environment is a good - a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever, we want it. If we want something, we should pay for it, with our labor or our cash. We shouldn't beg it, steal it, sit around wishing for it, or euchre the government into taking it by force.”
Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty
“A pleasant traveling companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. Each day is the scholar of yesterday.”
“A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.”
“A pleasantly situated hotel close to the sea, and chalets by the water's edge where one breakfasted. Clientele well-to-do, and although I count myself no snob I cannot abide paper bags and orange peel. ("Not After Midnight")”
Source: Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories
“A pleasing countenance is no light advantage.”
“A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage.
[Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]”
“A pleasing face is no small advantage.”
“A pleasing paradox — The more frequently we contemplate our death, the less dominant its effect in our lives becomes. Like King Mithridates, who used to take small amounts of various poisons to render himself invulnerable to them, so can we diminish the looming shadow of our certain death by welcoming small doses of it – the thought of it- in our daily mental pattern. Paradoxically, it makes life more intense, more valuable, more satisfying.”
“A pleasing personality helps you win friends and influence people. Add character to that formula, and keep those friends and maintain that influence.”
Source: Inspiration from the Top
“A pleasurable woman could cause more harm than miserable one.”
“A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hman, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... what you call remembrance is the last part of pleasure.”
Source: Out of the Silent Planet
“A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.”
Source: Out of the Silent Planet
“A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid for in advance; false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.”
“A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing.”
“A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“A pleasure moved through me with the sounds of our collective hums. Having traveled thousands of miles to feel my body again -- the vibration of our chants, the touch of her hand, the knowing that our pleasure is our power -- I finally leaned into this wild love.”
Source: Freedom and Feminism: Breaking The Rules. Telling The Truth To Freedom.
“A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.”
“A plebiscite to a man is like a hawk to a meek mouse ; without it, one would not function.”
“A pledge of hope, a pledge of patience, We are victims of our own contradiction, Renew the orgasm of ignorance, And follow the promise of peace…”
Source: Narcissistic Romanticism
“A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.”
Source: Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections
“A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him.”
Source: Down and Out in Paris and London
“A plot begins when somebody has something to hide.”
“a plot hole is there for us, whenever we aren't looking, for us to fall in and claw at the dark”
Source: peluda
“A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.”
“A plot is two dogs and one bone.”
Source: Secrets of successful fiction
“A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.”
“A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.”
Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818
“A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.”
“A plumber's opinion about the universe is way inferior than that of a physicist, but that doesn't make the plumber inferior to a physicist. Likewise, a physicist's opinion about plumbing is way inferior to that of a plumber, but that doesn't make the physicist an inferior being. The problem is, the society uses profession as the measure of the person, while in reality, the only way to measure a person is through his or her behavior with other people. No one is inferior to no one. All humans are equal, but not everyone has the mental capacity to decide what's best for harmony and progress of a people.”
Source: The Constitution of The United Peoples of Earth
“A po-lice gimme a reference. He tell me I better get my ass gainfully employ...”
Source: A Confederacy of Dunces
“A poca gente quiero de verdad, y de muy pocos tengo buen concepto. Cuanto más conozco el mundo, más me desagrada, y el tiempo me confirma mi creencia en la inconsistencia del carácter humano y en lo poco que se puede uno fiar de las apariencias de bondad o inteligencia".”
“A POCKET-SIZED GIRL
He keeps me in his pocket
for a rainy day;
he swears I'm not an object
as he yo-yo's me away.
A friend is what we'll call it,
but my friend, he does not know,
each time it rains I love him—
so to his pocket, I must go.
He thinks he's being clever,
but I am not a fool;
his love ain't worth a penny,
so to my heart I must be cruel.”
“A poco a poco lui intrecciò i propri pensieri con quelli di lei. Le prestava libri, le dava delle idee, divideva la vita intellettuale con lei, mentre ascoltava tutto.”
Source: Dubliners
“A poco que vivimos hemos palpado ya los confines de nuestra prisión. Treinta años cuando más tardamos en reconocer los límites dentro de los cuales van a moverse nuestras posibilidades. Tomamos posesión de lo real, que es como haber medido los metros de una cadena prendida en nuestros pies. Entonces decimos: «¿Esto es la vida? ¿Nada más que esto? ¿Un ciclo concluso que se repite, siempre idéntico?» He aquí una hora peligrosa para todo hombre.”
Source: Meditations on Quixote
“A podium is something you walk up to, you say what you want to say and when you're finished, you leave.”
“A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.”
Source: how to save your own life
“A poem and a song are like cucumber and zucchini. They look alike so much but are quite different.”