A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.”
“A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.”
“A typical guy who buys organic food doesn't really buy it in order to be healthy; he buys it to regain a kind of solidarity as the one who really cares about nature. He buys a certain ideological stance.”
“A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.”
“A typical job interview is a conversation between two liars.”
“A typical master. Right to the end, he didn’t give me a chance to get a word in edgeways. Which is a pity, because at that last moment I’d have liked to tell him what I thought of him. Mind you, since in that split second we were, to all intents and purposes, one and the same, I rather think he knew anyway.”
Source: Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate
“A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and intellectual curiosity, and not by a wish to benefit society, nevertheless, mathematics as a whole does benefit society.”
“A typical modern Puritan, she was able to believe in sin without believing in God. In fact, she felt there was something soft and sinful about believing in God. She rejected such indulgence like an indecent proposal.”
Source: And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
“A typical National World Weekly would tell the world how Jesus' face was seen on a Big Mac bun bought by someone from Des Moines, with an artist's impression of the bun; how Elvis Presley was recently sighted working in a Burger Lord in Des Moines; how listening to Elvis records cured a Des Moines housewife's cancer; how the spate of werewolves infesting the Midwest are the offspring of noble pioneer women raped by Bigfoot; and that Elvis was taken by Space Aliens in 1976 because he was too good for this world. Remarkably, one of these stories is indeed true.”
“A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.”
Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.”
Source: The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope
“A typical rapist is a recidivist.”
“A typical response when starting a change journey and engaging organisational leaders, it is not us, it is the employees below me that have the problem with change and improvement”
“A typical software project can present more opportunities to learn from mistakes than some people get in a lifetime.”
Source: Rapid Development
“a typical student tries to impress the recruiter with the skill or theory he or she knows best, without realising the need of the recruiter. As a result, unknowingly they end up giving the message ‘I do not know what you need’ and hence get rejected”
Source: WHAT WON’T GET YOU YOUR DREAM JOB : STORY OF A JOB HUNT
“A typical tech toy. High-end this year, everywhere next year, nowhere after that until the antiquarians revival.”
Source: Komarr
“A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.”
“a typical value stream map has three key components: information flow, work flow, and a timeline.”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.”
“A typical vice of American politics the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia
“A typical weeknight when he was home like this: 1. Sit down and try to do homework. 2. Get interrupted by Jeffrey: “Please play with me!” 3. Ignore brother, try to do homework. 4. Get interrupted by Jeffrey: “Come ON, Steven! I’m BORED!” 5. Beg Jeffrey for five minutes of peace. 6. Get begged for five minutes of play: “Steven, you never, ever play with me—ever!” 7. Move entire homework operations center to different room. 8. Repeat steps #1-7 as directed by small drugged maniac.”
Source: Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
“A typical wine writer was once described as someone with a typewriter who was looking for his name in print, a free lunch, and a way to write off his wine cellar. It's a dated view. Wine writers now use computers.”
“A typical workday for me is getting up at about 5:00, 5:15 in the morning, getting some coffee or tea as quickly as possible, and then getting to my desk. And ideally, I'll start writing around 5:30, 5:45, and I'll write for three, four hours, and then I'll take a break, and read over what I write. Maybe about lunchtime, I'll go exercise or get out into the day. Then I'll either read over what I wrote the day before and quit work around 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon and spend some time with my kids.”
“A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless.”
Source: The Four Loves
“A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.”
Source: Essays in Humanism
“A tyrant does not remain in the world; But the curse on him abides forever!”
“A tyrant, in the future, is about to retire and turn over the 3 or so planets he controls to a younger aspirant. The young wife of the tyrant, however, wishes control to go to her, and to prove to her husband what a dreadful leader the aspirant would make. All time-travel experiments have failed, but there is a theoretical possibility that alternate presents could be reached. Instigated by the tyrant's wife, a research crew begins the job. MEANWHILE, the aspirant has let no grass grow beneath his feet; he responds to Project Alternate by hiring one of Earth's larges industrial corporations to build a fake alternate world, in which he rules, and all is wonderful. Now comes the tour de force. The tyrant's young wife learns about the construction of a fake alternate world. Her response: she engages a team of clever experts—along the lines of that in MISSION IMPOSSIBLE—to worm their way into the fake alternate world and plant fake fakes there, which will give it all away when the tyrant is brought to visit it. All seems clear at this point. The aspirant is having a fake alternate world being made; the tyrant's wife is busily subverting it. But—aha! Everyone's scheme is brought down in a great crash when a real alternate present is reached. The tyrant sets out to visit it—naturally. But it bears no relation at all to their own world. It is a 'board-game' world, with squares and the possibility of moving from one square to the next. Each square is a sort of alternate world on its own; the squares differ that much from one another in tone, structure, mood, color, with the characters themselves altering to fit into the Geist of each square. On one square, for example, all food tastes marvelous. On the next square, milk is a deadly poison. And so on. Ultimately, the characters discover the nature of this world: each square represents a particular mushroom, and that of a poisonous mushroom is a poisonous micro-world . . . the morel square, of course, being nearly on a level with heaven.”
Source: The Selected Letters, 1938-1971
“A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.”
Source: Difference and Repetition
“A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.”
Source: The Portable William Blake
“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.”
“A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”
Source: The Republic and Other Works
“A tyrst with destiny - A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom”
“A türelem éppen olyan félelmetes fegyver, mint a harag. Sőt, félelmetesebb, mert kevesebb ember rendelkezik vele.”
Source: The Heroes
“A U. S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and fears, where the only public consensus a boy must surrender to is the acknowledged primacy of straight-line pursuing this flat and short-sighted idea of personal happiness.”
“A U.N. study claims the happiest country in the world is Switzerland. When asked why they're so happy, Swiss people couldn't answer because their hands were counting money and their mouths were full of chocolate.”
“A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not backed by gold or silver.”
“A U.S. Senator should have the same right as a member of the Knesset...to disagree with any government when its actions may not be in the United States' interest.”
“A UI designer's superpower is the ability to make a button look like it's been pressed without actually pressing it.”
Source: Pixel Land: A detailed guide on how to design a functional User Interface, even your grandma could use it!
“A un alma infeliz, maltratada por la adversidad, le pedimos que se calme cuando oímos sus lamentos. Pero si padeciéramos un dolor como el suyo, nos lamentaríamos tanto o más que ella.”
Source: The Comedy of Errors
“A un certo punto aveva incrociato i suoi occhi nello specchio.
«Ti prego, dimmi cosa vedi!» Aveva esclamato, senza riuscire a trattenersi.
«Beh, vedo un bellissimo ragazzo alto e biondo…»
Celine lo aveva fulminato con un’occhiataccia.”
Source: Il mondo che non vedi
“A un certo punto c'è stato un cambio netto, le ambulanze non portavano più la gente perché l'ospedale era pieno e si era detto alle persone di rimanere a casa. Il 118 ricoverava solo quelli che avevano livelli di desaturazione nel sangue molto importanti, quindi da noi arrivavano già allo stremo, spesso non recuperabili e molti morivano direttamente nel pronto soccorso, già poche ore dopo che li avevamo presi in carico.”
Source: Mai più eroi in corsia. Cosa ha insegnato il coronavirus al SSN
“A un certo punto non meglio identificato, l'America è diventata un gigantesco centro commerciale con una nazione accanto.”
“A un pedazo de su jardín se irán los trozos de arena cenicienta que se volvieron sus ojos claros, su voz, su memoria, su pasión desesperada por la vida y por los hijos de su esposo Carlos, los hijos que nos hemos reunido hoy en la tarde, a pensar bajo qué árbol los pondremos.”
Source: La emoción de las cosas
“A un tratto lui ricambiò lo sguardo e la fissò, come se la stesse studiando. Poi, i suoi occhi acquistarono una strana sicurezza. "Sei tu". E di colpo, tutto cambiò. Fu come se il cuore le fosse uscito prepotentemente dal petto; era come se quel blu magnetico avesse attirato l'anima della ragazza, ora sospesa a galleggiare tra i loro due corpi.”
Source: Eleinda - Una leggenda dal futuro
“A una chica la han echado hoy de la piscina. A inge Hachmann. Nos han dicho que no podemos nadar con mestizas, que es poco higiénico. Una mestiza, Werner. ¿No somos nosotro stamibén mestizos? ¿La mitad de nuestra madre y la otra mitad de nuestro padre?”
Source: All the Light We Cannot See
“A Uncorn isn't for page twenty-seven, it's for eternity.”
Source: The Well of Lost Plots
“A unicorn is a donkey from the future”
“A unicorn is just a horse with a point of view”
“A unicorn stepped onto the path.
Kiela gasped.
Caz breathed, "Whoa."
It was like moonlit water, so bright that tears sprang into Kiela's eyes as she looked at it. Shaped like a dreamer's idea of a horse, the unicorn was slender and graceful--- closer to a line drawing than an in-the-flesh creature. Its neck curved like a wave, with its mane as the sea foam. The longer Kiela looked at it, the more she saw that it wasn't as white as the moon, it was iridescent, like mother-of-pearl, with purples and reds and blues that swirled through its silvery white hide. Its horn was a slender spiral of gold.
It regarded them with ocean-blue eyes.”
Source: The Spellshop