Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Rea

Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie.

Kenneth Grahame

Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.

Wendell Berry

Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.

Mae West

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

Don Kardong

An overzealous parent is just one example of the kind of Problem Mom or Dad who pops up at track meets, threatening to put a damper on the day.

Jean Anouilh

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Gary Hamel

An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

Mario Andretti

Anybody who can drive and doesn't come out of it a rich man is a fool.

Georg Brandes

Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me.

Sam Levenson

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

Agnes Martin

Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly

Alvin Toffler

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

David Chang

Any processed chicken from any place - I'll order it in a heartbeat. I'm very picky about my pork, though.

Action Bronson

Albanians, we tan well! I don't burn; I bake.

Ziggy Marley

Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.

Robert Goulet

Ali's daughter is fighting and Joe Frazier's daughter is fighting as well.

Stephen Rodrick

All backups take their cue from Elrod Hendricks, the patron saint of erstwhile catchers.

Blaise Pascal

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

Pat Riley

All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.

Lisa Gardner

All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do a novel, I have to talk to people who know things. And what keeps me in suspense is that I am a crime aficionado.

Melissa Etheridge

All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal.

Taye Diggs

All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs.

Byron Dorgan

All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity.

Nancy Gibbs

All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to be deeply loved yet left alone so they can try a new skill, new slang, new style, new flip-flops. So they can trip a few times, make mistakes, cross them out, try again, with no one keeping score.

Walter Payton

All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.

Bill Owens

All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction.

Ellen G. White

All the riches of the world are not of sufficient value to redeem one perishing soul.

F. Murray Abraham

All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

Mike Nichols

All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can't be taught. All the great actors can't talk about what they do, and they don't want to begin to talk about it. They just do it.

Ian Anderson

All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.

Natalie Wood

Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.

Grace Napolitano

Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.

Paul Bloom

Almost nobody believes anymore that infants are insensate blobs. It seems both mad and evil to deny experience and feeling to a laughing, gurgling creature.

Michael Sheen

A lot of children are interested in fairies, especially young girls, and Tinker Bell is the ueber-fairy. She's the pin-up girl of fairies. She's the ultimate fairy, but she's also got a mischievous spirit and she's very strong-willed. I think a lot of youngsters recognize themselves in Tinker Bell.

Joel Osteen

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

Sophie Turner

A lot of fans that recognize me go, 'I kind of hate you,' and I'm all, 'Cool, well, you've just made this sufficiently awkward.'

Adam Carolla

A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.

Theresa May

A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!

P. J. O'Rourke

A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.

Sally Schneider

A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.

Mark Wahlberg

A lot of people tend to chew up the scenery. I'm a firm believer in less is more, especially on the big screen.

Ron Chernow

A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.

Finn Wittrock

A lot of the stuff that's happening now, I can trace back to 'Death of a Salesman.' Francine Maisler, the casting director, saw 'Death of a Salesman' and called me in for 'Unbroken.' The casting director of 'Normal Heart' had seen 'Salesman' too. I look back on it now, and it's like one thing led to another; it was a chain reaction.

A. J. Liebling

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

Ellen Key

Altered social conditions may remove certain ailments and deformities in existing society. But the new and more beautiful society will not be formed exclusively - or even mainly - by improved conditions, but above all by more perfect human beings.

Ellsworth Huntington

Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects.

Niecy Nash

Although my marriage left me with three beautiful children, it also left me with a healthy dose of self-doubt, low self-esteem, and an extreme desire to be loved again. I was operating on empty, expecting to be paid in full.

Kevin Plank

Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.

Peter Jackson

Anything you can imagine, you can put on film.