A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“a really good play is ambiguous - which is exactly why it endures. Every succeeding generation develops theories about it. The play's words provide very little clue. On the contrary, words are notoriously imprecise and open to every kind of interpretation, so you must search.”
“A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.”
“A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined character.”
Source: Conversations with Norman Mailer
“A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.”
“A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.”
“A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.”
Source: American ideals
“A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.”
“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.”
“A really hard laugh is like sex-one of the ultimate diversions of existence.”
“A really humbling experience that we've had was touring on Post-Nothing, was having people come up to us and tell that story about Post-Nothing. Especially as the tour went on, people saying, "I listened to your album when it first came out and I listened to it every day for the summer of 2009. That was my album for that summer; that was my album for this time in my life." When somebody tells you that, it's a pretty amazing feeling, and very humbling.”
“A really important and underestimated part of recovery is allowing yourself to fall apart without rushing in to fix it.”
“A really important part of competition is coming back, trying to do it better the second time than you did the first.”
“A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.”
“A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.”
“A really intelligent nation might be held together by far stronger forces than are derived from the purely gregarious instincts. A nation need not be a mob of slaves, clinging to one another through fear, and for the most part incapable of self-government, and begging to be led; but it might consist of vigorous self-reliant men, knit to one another by innumerable ties, into a strong, tense, and elastic organisation.”
“A really interesting and happy time was when I first went to Florence as a student and studied Italian. I was living in a pensione on an allowance of £40 a month, which was princely. I did a lot of work and enjoyed myself immensely.”
“A really large percentage of kids from Duke go to work on Wall Street, and they make a lot of money, but they're almost slaves to their jobs, working crazy hours. Their job totally dominates their lives, and most of them aren't happy. So many of my friends are going down that path. I even thought about it for a second, like "Should I be doing that?" But I just pursued my dreams instead, and I always tell people to do that. Now I make more money than they do, and I'm doing what I love.”
“A really malicious letter should be read once only and destroyed, or best of all not read at all. These things lodge in the mind.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“A really religious person has no theology. Yes, he has the experience, he has the truth, he has that luminosity, but he has no theology.”
“A really spiritual person will live life as an art, will create a deep harmony between the body and the consciousness. And this is the greatest art there is. His life will be a joy to see. And he will be fragrant, for the sheer reason that there is no split in his being. The very unity makes him organic; the wound of division is healed.”
“A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.”
“A really sublime moment is that when the last ray of light breaks in upon the soul, and marshals into a single group all the scattered disconnected truths there. There is such a vast difference between the moment which follows, and the moment which precedes this one, between what we were before, and what we are after, that the word grace has been invented to convey the idea of this magic stroke, of this light from on high.”
“A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.”
Source: An Ideal Husband: Second Edition, Revised
“A really wise man is feminine, receptive, passive. That's why Buddha looks so feminine. That quality of passiveness, that quality of receptivity... He is just a receptacle. He reflects life: he allows life to reflect in him, to be reflected through him. He sings the song that existence wants to sing through him. He has no ideas of his own; he does not hinder.”
“A Realtor is an old fashioned Real Estate man with a neck tie. A Real Estate man sold you what you wanted, a Realtor sells you what you don't need. A Real Estate man showed you what you could raise on the land, a Realtor tells you what you can build on it.”
Source: How to be funny
“A realtor told me there was a guy that would not work with people if they did not make an offer after the first day of showing homes.”
“A reason.
Because you almost make an empty and cold part of me feel full and warm, you make me think it’s possible to leave old hurt behind and heal this wound, and that has nothing to do with your abilities as a field medic or doctor in training, I thought to myself. Because you’re genuinely nice to look at and be with.
“You wouldn’t believe me if I told you,” I told her.”
“A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.”
Source: Conversations with Ray Bradbury
“A reason that the past is so hated by the young is that there is no way to be entirely free of it.”
“A reason to get up each day and work towards something meaningful is what dreams are all about.”
Source: Big Voice Within
“A reason to have computers understand natural language is that it's an extremely effective way of communicating. What I came to realize is that the success of the communication depends on the real intelligence on the part of the listener, and that there are many other ways of communicating with a computer that can be more effective, given that it doesn't have the intelligence.”
“A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify its crops to suit the earth”
Source: More Scenes from the Rural Life
“A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog.”
“A reasonable being might think that he and I could find some common ground; have a cup of coffee and compare our Passengers, exchange trade talk and chitchat about dismemberment techniques. But no: Doakes wanted me dead. And I found it difficult to share his point of view.”
Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter
“A reasonable being should ask himself why - if chemicals can enter into plants, and plants be taken up into animals, and animals be taken into man - why man himself, who is the peak of visible creation, should be denied the privilege of being assimilated into a higher power? The rose has no right to say that there is no life above it and neither has man, who has a vast capacity and unconquerable yearning for eternal life and truth and love.”
Source: Go to Heaven: A Spiritual Road Map to Eternity
“A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.”
“A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable.”
“A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of outraged human nature, it must satisfy criteria which are not purely economic.”
“A reasonable fine is such as the law will judge to be so . . . but what a reasonable fine is, and who shall be the judge of it, the law has established no rule.”
“A reasonable man adjusts himself to the world. An unreasonable man expects the world to adjust itself to him. Therefore all progress is made by unreasonable people.”
“A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.”
“A reasonable man protects his family. He provides and promotes values that grant them sustainability. The shared laughter, the whispered secrets, and the warmth of family are what he prays for daily.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“A reasonable probability is the only certainty.”
“A reasonable scale of probability-what is likely-forbids believing a whole range of imaginative possibilities, even though we do not know anything for sure.”
“A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.”
Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition
“A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil.”
Source: Killosophy
“A rebel! How glorious the name sounds when applied to a woman. Oh, rebellious woman, to you the world looks in hope. Upon you has fallen the glorious task of bringing liberty to the earth and all the inhabitants thereof.”
“A rebel is a nonconformist who is constantly saying no, and I'm not that. I'm a conformist and I believe in progress, and you can't make much progress by saying no all the time. A rebel is destructive. I know I have something constructive to offer.”
“A rebel is someone who does not conform to the expectations of others: Do not confirm to what the past expects of you, to what the ex expects of you, and definitely not to what fear expects of you.”
Source: I Can't Believe I Dated Him: The Art of Knowing When to Break Up, When to Stay Single and When You've Met the One