A Quotations
Matching Results for A:
Robert A. HeinleinA generation which ignores history has no past — and no future. Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ...
A. A. Milne
"If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only ... Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the morning, ...
Albert Einstein Quotes
A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future. ... How does it happen that a properly endowed natural scientist comes to concern ...
James A. Garfield
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. ... A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. "Elements of Success, ...
L.A. Confidential (film)
Confidential is a 1997 film directed by Curtis Hanson based on the 1990 crime ... You touch her again, I'll have you violated on a kiddie raper beef. ...
George Washington
Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that ... To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff. ...
A Clockwork Orange (film)
A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 film about a violent gang of teenagers in a futuristic ... This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence. ...
A Clockwork Orange
This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultraviolence. ... ( This was said while listening to a violin concerto by Geoffrey Plautus, played ...
It's a Wonderful Life
Offers quotes from George Baily and other characters in the holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life, including "Now you listen to me. I don't want any plastics and I don't want any ground floors. And I don't want to get married ever to anyone!..."
The A Team
These men promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the ... Now if I were a crook, like you, and I wanted a million of your dollars, I'd sit down and ...
R. A. Lafferty
It is a loved face, but now it is covered with the webs of tired spiders. ... It did not prove a point, since all points had long ago been proven. ...
Yes, Minister
[There is a government building with a reinforced concrete basement in case of a nuclear war. ... [It is 2 a.m, and Hacker has just made a phone call to a sleepy Sir Humphrey. ...
Stranger in a Strange Land
He is an intelligent creature with the genes and ancestry of a man, but he is not a man... ONCE UPON A TIME when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith. ...
About a Boy (film)
About a Boy is a 2002 film about a cynical, immature young man who is taught how to act like a grown-up by a little boy. Directed by Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz. ...
Robert E. Lee
I think it however a greater evil to the white man than to the black ... Still, a Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which ...
's List of Misquotations
Elision of the subordinate conjunction in the final sentence turned an evaluation into a declaration that nice people are doomed to failure. ...
Thomas Edison
I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. ... Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I'll show you a failure. ...
Baruch Spinoza
that God is eminently triangular, while a circle would say that the divine nature is eminently circular... If a circle be defined as a figure, such that all straight lines ...
Friedrich Hayek
We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage. ... It is a construction of theorists, deriving from certain tendencies ...
Joshua A. Norton
At the pre-emptory request of a large majority of the citizens of these United States, I, Joshua Norton... At the pre-emptory request of a large majority of the citizens of ...
James A. Michener
I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself. ...
John A. Macdonald
A British subject I was born — a British subject I will die. ... A British subject I was born — a British subject I will die. With my utmost effort, with my latest breath, ...
Three Days of the Condor
Three Days of the Condor is a 1975 film about a bookish CIA researcher who finds all his ... And a car will slow beside you, and a door will open, and someone you know, ...
A Knight's Tale
[In a letter to Jocelyn] My dearest Jocelyn, It is strange to think, I haven't seen you since a month. I have seen the new moon, but not you. ...
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
A.I. is a 2001 science-fiction film about a highly advanced robotic boy who longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother. ...
Network (film)
Network is a 1976 film about a TV network that cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for its own profit. ...
Mitch Hedberg
Quotes by the late comedian Mitch Hedberg.
A Beautiful Mind (film)
A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 film starring Russell Crowe about the life of John Forbes Nash, ... There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad your tie is. ...
A Christmas Story
A Christmas Story is a 1983 film, set in the 1940s, about a boy who has to convince his ... Now, I had heard that word at least ten times a day from my old man. ...
Babylon A.D
it all sounds great until the day you find yourself confronted by a choice. ... If she's carrying a virus, I'll kill her myself and burn the body ...
Chester A. Arthur
There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. ... The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining. ...
John Stuart Mill
A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares ... A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give ...
Che Guevara
If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine. ... Statement in an interview with a reporter for the London Daily Worker (November 1962), as ...
Without a Paddle
Without a Paddle is a 2004 film about three men going on a camping trip. ... [A laser dot from Dennis' rifle is pinpointing on Tom's forehead just before dodging a rifle shot] ...
Abraham Lincoln
There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. ... Notes on a law lecture (1850) The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his ...
Hamlet
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a revenge tragedy by William Shakespeare, and is one of his most well-known and oft-quoted plays. ...
Charles Dickens
Wherever religion is resorted to as a strong drink, and as an escape from the dull, ... It was a maxim with Mr. Brass that the habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue ...
Margaret Fuller
It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor. ...
A. P. Herbert
A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. ... The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose. ...
Ayn Rand
Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. ... A building has integrity, just like a man, and just as seldom. ...
Harper Lee
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. ... you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. ...
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. ... We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. ... A fellow of mediocre talent will remain a mediocrity, whether he travels or not; ...
M*A*S*H (TV series)
Based on the 20th Century-Fox film M*A*S*H (an acronym for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital), a big hit of 1970 which was based in turn on the book ...
C. A. R. Hoare
[About Algol 60] Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors. ...
Albus Dumbledore
It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution" ... "There is a room in the Department of Mysteries,... that is kept locked at all times. ...
|
[Hide]▼
A / ˈ eɪ / (named a, plural aes) is the first letter and a vowel in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is similar to the Ancient Greek letter Alpha, from which it derives.
[Hide]▲