Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alma Gluck

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

Anne Rivers Siddons

I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes.

Anne Robinson

I'm not going to marry a third time. It is just not necessary.

Anne Robinson

Teachers are the worst. Just shameless about kicking off their rivals.

Anne Roiphe

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.

Anne Sexton

I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

Anne Sexton

the trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards ...

Anne Sexton

Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes.

Anne Rice

It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.

Anne Rice

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

Anne Rice

So until we meet again, I am thinking of you always; I love you; I wish you were here...in my arms.

Anne Rice

But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I'm not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is in fact immoral.

Anne Rice

I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

Anne Rice

It is very disturbing to see people use Christianity and the Bible to support a certain political agenda, especially when one cannot connect that agenda with the authentic teachings of Christ.

Anna Freud

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

Anna Howard Shaw

Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.

Anna Held

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing.

Anna Friel

My whole family is quite petite, so I have good genes on my side. But I find it quite tiresome that we have to keep talking about sizes and how much weight we can lose.

Anna Faris

I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted.

Anna Faris

Especially in the world of comedy, it feels like you have to be proactive, in terms of pitching and trying to sell and being a part of the creation of the stuff that you do.

Anna Deavere Smith

I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. It's the very moment that they have to dig deeper than the surface to find words, and at the same time, it's a moment when they want to communicate very badly. They're digging deep and projecting out at the same time.

Anna Deavere Smith

I have never been in a violent movie or television show.

Anna Deavere Smith

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

Anna Deavere Smith

I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.

Anna Deavere Smith

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

Anita Desai

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.

Anita Brookner

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

Andrew Tobias

Having no national system of catastrophic health insurance, we have, through the courts, managed to patch together pieces of a not very satisfactory one.

Andrew Shue

Try to have as diverse group of friends as possible and don't get into the the clique scenario.

Andrew Shue

I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.

Andrew Sullivan

I think a blog to live really has to be probably four or five times a day.

Andrew Sullivan

In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech codes on everyone else, your ability to argue coherently - let alone entertainingly - inevitably wanes.

Andrew Solomon

I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.