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1. I’m involved in some action scenes, so they’ll train me for that. I’ll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character. – Aaliyah
2. It was always part of the plan to move into acting. – Aaliyah
3. It’s hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I’m long gone. – Aaliyah
4. It’s really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect. – Aaliyah
5. Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. – Aaliyah
6. Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me. – Aaliyah
7. The Matrix is top secret. There isn’t much that can be said right now. – Aaliyah
8. There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don’t discuss my private life. – Aaliyah
9. There are times I can’t even figure myself out. – Aaliyah
10. There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself. – Aaliyah
11. You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday. – Aaliyah
12. All I can do is leave it in God’s hands and hope that my fans feel where I’m coming from. – Aaliyah
13. If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it’s always cool. The kids are amazing. – Aaliyah
14. In film, you are a totally different person than in the video. – Aaliyah
15. I’m the interpreter. I’m the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that’s what I want to do. – Aaliyah
16. I’m a total performer. – Aaliyah
17. I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person. – Aaliyah
18. I think it’s important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don’t want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin. – Aaliyah
19. I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original. – Aaliyah
20. I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing. – Aaliyah
21. I know that people think I’m sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It’s wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing. – Aaliyah
22. I have the time needed to support the album and tour. – Aaliyah
23. I don’t want to abandon one work for the other, and I don’t think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them. – Aaliyah
24. I don’t think about my previous success. I’m happy that the work I’ve done has been very successful. – Aaliyah
25. I don’t feel I made any sacrifices at all. I’m doing my best to juggle. – Aaliyah
26. I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget. – Aaliyah
27. Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach. – Aaliyah
28. If I don’t think about it, it won’t drive me crazy. – Aaliyah
29. Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less. – Alvar Aalto
30. Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art. – Alvar Aalto
31. We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems. – Alvar Aalto
32. We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city. – Alvar Aalto
33. Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together. – Alvar Aalto
34. My wife bought an extra life insurance policy on me. – Willie Aames
35. I don’t think you need to go looking for the enemy. He’s going to look for you. – Willie Aames
36. I get scared to death when I see people who say they’ve found Jesus Christ, and they’re out there, and I wonder, who’s teaching them? Who’s mentoring them? – Willie Aames
37. I had never really pictured myself working in children’s ministries. I always figured I would be more comfortable with maybe teens or adult ministries. – Willie Aames
38. I realized there was very little in Hollywood I would ever feel comfortable doing. If I kept one foot there and one foot in my Christianity, I would never grow. – Willie Aames
39. I remember thinking, That’s what I need – and that hope was in Jesus Christ. – Willie Aames
40. I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love. – Willie Aames
41. I suppose what’s unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get. – Willie Aames
42. I tell kids that people will let them down and people will hurt them. But Jesus Christ will never let them down and never hurt them. – Willie Aames
43. I want kids to understand that strength doesn’t come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ. – Willie Aames
44. I’m cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I’m where God put me. – Willie Aames
45. God gives me the children’s ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It’s awesome. I don’t know where He’s gonna take it-but God is building this thing. – Willie Aames
46. It’s easy to be led astray when you’re so broken. People take advantage of you. – Willie Aames
47. My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn’t mean you’re supposed to be a celebrity now. – Willie Aames
48. God continues to work miracles in my life. – Willie Aames
49. There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don’t deserve that kind of grace. I don’t deserve that break. – Willie Aames
50. They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food. – Willie Aames
51. This is an exact replica of my chest. – Willie Aames
52. This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient. – Willie Aames
53. This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly. – Willie Aames
54. We produce programs that honor God and impact our world. – Willie Aames
55. We’re seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids. – Willie Aames
56. We’ve been called, and He has blessed. – Willie Aames
57. We’ve both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment. – Willie Aames
58. When you’re in that scene, you really wonder if this is all you’re ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside. – Willie Aames
59. If there’s comfort involved, it’s probably not for me. – Willie Aames
60. Pray for your mate. Ask God to soften your heart and show you ways to be a better spouse. – Willie Aames
61. Didn’t come up here to read. Came up here to hit. – Hank Aaron
62. You can only milk a cow so long, then you’re left holding the pail. – Hank Aaron
63. The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them. – Hank Aaron
64. The pitcher has got only a ball. I’ve got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting. – Hank Aaron
65. On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again. – Hank Aaron
66. My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. – Hank Aaron
67. It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. – Hank Aaron
68. I’m hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I’d be pulling for him. – Hank Aaron
69. I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That’s when you’ve got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing’s a joke to me. I don’t feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face. – Hank Aaron
70. I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you’re inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you’ve never seen before. If they do, I’m still looking for it. – Hank Aaron
71. I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn’t throw it past me, none of them. – Hank Aaron
72. I don’t see pitches down the middle anymore – not even in batting practice. – Hank Aaron
73. Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution. – Hank Aaron
74. I don’t feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat. – Hank Aaron
75. If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been ‘Catch Me In Two Days’. – Frank Abagnale
76. What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime. – Frank Abagnale
77. Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can’t stop looking at the pinstripes. – Frank Abagnale
78. Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic. – Nicola Abbagnano
79. I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war. – Abu Abbas
80. We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals. – Abu Abbas
81. There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom. – Mahmoud Abbas
82. We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave – so let us let them leave. – Mahmoud Abbas
83. We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard. – Mahmoud Abbas
84. We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority. – Mahmoud Abbas
85. We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation. – Mahmoud Abbas
86. We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967. – Mahmoud Abbas
87. We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. – Mahmoud Abbas
88. We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations. – Mahmoud Abbas
89. No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another. – Mahmoud Abbas
90. I can certainly put myself in Israel’s shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders. – Mahmoud Abbas
91. We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces. – Mahmoud Abbas
92. The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces. – Cleveland Abbe
93. True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions. – Cleveland Abbe
94. As a great man’s influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain. – Cleveland Abbe
95. I have started that which the country will not willingly let die. – Cleveland Abbe
96. It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth. – Cleveland Abbe
97. My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs. – Cleveland Abbe
98. Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. – Edward Abbey
99. Our ‘neoconservatives’ are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell. – Edward Abbey
100. One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork. – Edward Abbey
101. Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second. – Edward Abbey
102. Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. – Edward Abbey
103. Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,’ I says, ‘but don’t insult me poor bleedin’ country. – Edward Abbey
104. For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! – Edward Abbey
105. May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. – Edward Abbey
106. Grown men do not need leaders. – Edward Abbey
107. Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. – Edward Abbey
108. If the end does not justify the means – what can? – Edward Abbey
109. A drink a day keeps the shrink away. – Edward Abbey
110. A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. – Edward Abbey
111. Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. – Edward Abbey
112. The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. – Edward Abbey
113. Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing. – Edward Abbey
114. You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light. – Edward Abbey
115. Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. – Edward Abbey
116. When a man’s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. – Edward Abbey
117. Abolition of a woman’s right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State. – Edward Abbey
118. There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. – Edward Abbey
119. The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages – as if the savages weren’t dangerous enough already. – Edward Abbey
120. The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. – Edward Abbey
121. That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding. – Edward Abbey
122. Taxation: how the sheep are shorn. – Edward Abbey
123. Society is like a stew. If you don’t stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. – Edward Abbey
124. Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do. – Edward Abbey
125. Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. – Edward Abbey
126. What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse. – Edward Abbey
127. There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause. – Lynn Abbey
128. It’s been a long time since I’ve written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I’m hoping it’s like riding a bicycle. – Lynn Abbey
129. It’s possible to become so comfortable with one’s style and structure that one ceases to grow. – Lynn Abbey
130. My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history. – Lynn Abbey
131. Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured. – Lynn Abbey
132. No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge. – Lynn Abbey
133. Once you’ve invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story’s grown to around a half-million words and can’t be written as anything less than a trilogy. – Lynn Abbey
134. One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia. – Lynn Abbey
135. Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment. – Lynn Abbey
136. The money can be decent, but I really don’t recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong. – Lynn Abbey
137. I’m dense when it comes to discouragement. – Lynn Abbey
138. When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat. – Lynn Abbey
139. When I’m not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I’m not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I’m reading books about history, computers, or embroidery. – Lynn Abbey
140. That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me. – Lynn Abbey
141. I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I’ve never been able to sell. I’m known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre. – Lynn Abbey
142. A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. – Lynn Abbey
143. Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet. – Lynn Abbey
144. I’m one of those writers who, when writing, believes she’s god-and that she hasn’t bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books. – Lynn Abbey
145. For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. – Lynn Abbey
146. It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself. – Lynn Abbey
147. I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I’m dodging bullets and gasping for breath. – Lynn Abbey
148. I write sets of books, but I’ve also written a lot of orphans. – Lynn Abbey
149. I’m a writer first and an editor second… or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don’t claim to have all of them at my command. – Lynn Abbey
150. I’m always trolling for trivia. – Lynn Abbey
151. During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions. – Lynn Abbey
152. I’m not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published. – Lynn Abbey
153. I’ve read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium. – Lynn Abbey
154. Ideas aren’t magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down. – Lynn Abbey
155. If you write, one of the questions you’re always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer. – Lynn Abbey
156. Photography helps people to see. – Berenice Abbott
157. Does not the very word ‘creative’ mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act – rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life – not death. – Berenice Abbott
158. I didn’t decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it. – Berenice Abbott
159. Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. – Berenice Abbott
160. The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is. – Berenice Abbott
161. The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. – Berenice Abbott
162. There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own. – Berenice Abbott
163. Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. – Berenice Abbott
164. That’s why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody. – Bud Abbott
165. It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television? – Bud Abbott
166. Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who’s on first, What’s on second, I Don’t Know is on third. – Bud Abbott
167. Sitting at home the way I do, I’d just love the hear from people. It’d be a great help in passing the time. – Bud Abbott
168. They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can’t even get my head above water! – Bud Abbott
169. They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven’t seen any of them around lately. – Bud Abbott
170. Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can’t drive. – Bud Abbott
171. You never heard of a comedy team that didn’t fight, did you? – Bud Abbott
172. Once they get their hooks into you, you’re a dead pigeon. – Bud Abbott
173. You can’t defend the indefensible – anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical. – Diane Abbott
174. The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons. – Diane Abbott
175. My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable. – Diane Abbott
176. My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain. – Diane Abbott
177. Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue. – Diane Abbott
178. The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government. – Grace Abbott
179. I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic. – Grace Abbott
180. Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam. – Grace Abbott
181. The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school. – Grace Abbott
182. Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time. – Grace Abbott
183. Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause. – Jack Henry Abbott
184. That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life. – Jack Henry Abbott
185. The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run – will not try to escape. – Jack Henry Abbott
186. The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare. – Jack Henry Abbott
187. There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill. – Jack Henry Abbott
188. One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free. – Jack Henry Abbott
189. I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror. – Jack Henry Abbott
190. I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks. – Jack Henry Abbott
191. To be in prison so long, it’s difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there. – Jack Henry Abbott
192. When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life. – Jack Henry Abbott
193. Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice. – Jack Henry Abbott
194. When I’m forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it’s all I can do to refrain from attack. – Jack Henry Abbott
195. My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent. – Jack Henry Abbott
196. I’ve wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations – the atmospheric pressure, you might say – of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison. – Jack Henry Abbott
197. Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent – something like an infant – deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer. – Jack Henry Abbott
198. I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape. – Jack Henry Abbott
199. As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing. – Jack Henry Abbott
200. Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control. – Jack Henry Abbott
201. War is the science of destruction. – John Abbott
202. ‘How do you know so much about everything?’ was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ‘By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.’ – John Abbott
203. Every man’s ability may be strengthened or increased by culture. – John Abbott
204. It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity. – Lyman Abbott
205. The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest. – Lyman Abbott
206. The highest qualities of character… must be earned. – Lyman Abbott
207. Patience is passion tamed. – Lyman Abbott
208. I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow. – Lyman Abbott
209. I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them. – Lyman Abbott
210. Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. – Lyman Abbott
211. Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. – Lyman Abbott
212. A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained. – Lyman Abbott
213. Religion is not a conclusion of the reason. – Lyman Abbott
214. Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed. – Abdallah II
215. When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose. – Abdallah II
216. Earth’s dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation. – Abdallah II
217. Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered. – Abdallah II
218. The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands. – Abdallah II
219. In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes – a virtuous cycle of change. – Abdallah II
220. There are many talented people. – Paula Abdul
221. Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I’ve been writing songs for other artists. – Paula Abdul
222. If I decide to tour, I definitely would come to Washington, D.C. We’ll see. – Paula Abdul
223. If they’re singing about heartbreak, they’ve lived it. – Paula Abdul
224. Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted. – Paula Abdul
225. When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true. – Paula Abdul
226. I think it would be great if there were no age limit. – Paula Abdul
227. Virgin Records will probably release their own package sometime next year. – Paula Abdul
228. There is love there. And then there’s times when I can’t even stomach Simon. You don’t have to sit next to him. That’s all I have to say. – Paula Abdul
229. Keep the faith, don’t lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct. – Paula Abdul
230. The producers felt that 24 would be good for the audience, to really get to know who these 12 and 12 are. – Paula Abdul
231. The more auditions you go on, the more you will learn not to take it personally. – Paula Abdul
232. The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas. – Paula Abdul
233. Simon would not want to audition in front of Simon. – Paula Abdul
234. Simon drives me crazy. We are still arguing. – Paula Abdul
235. I’m working toward a CD that will have all of you dancing like crazy. – Paula Abdul
236. My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer. – Paula Abdul
237. When people expect me to go right, I’ll go left. I’m unpredictable. – Paula Abdul
238. Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer? – Paula Abdul
239. I am in Toronto, shooting a movie for NBC. – Paula Abdul
240. I’m happily single. – Paula Abdul
241. You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind. – Paula Abdul
242. I think a duet with Janet is a great idea. – Paula Abdul
243. I signed on with Disney to star and choreograph an original film. – Paula Abdul
244. I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me. – Paula Abdul
245. I can’t wait to be back on the dance floor. I feel really good about it. – Paula Abdul
246. For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help. – Paula Abdul
247. Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise. – Paula Abdul
248. Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with. – Paula Abdul
249. I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl. It was probably one of the most fun jobs I ever had. – Paula Abdul
250. Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him. – Paula Abdul
251. Any types of auditions will be posted in trade magazines. – Paula Abdul
252. American Idol has taken over my whole life. – Paula Abdul
253. America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training. – Paula Abdul
254. All you can do is the best you can do. – Paula Abdul
255. I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He’s from England, he’s angry and he’s got Mad Power Disease. – Paula Abdul
256. Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on. – Paula Abdul
257. I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history. – Paula Abdul
258. I’m grateful this ordeal is over, and I’m so looking forward to getting back to the job I love. – Paula Abdul
259. I’m not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
260. My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
261. I’m not going to disappear. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
262. I’m still my parent’s child, I’m still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
263. In athletics there’s always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you’re not cheating. I think that’s just a quirk of human nature. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
264. It’s hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
265. Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
266. My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
267. I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
268. I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
269. Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
270. I wanted to play baseball! – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
271. I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
272. I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
273. I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
274. I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
275. I think someone should explain to the child that it’s OK to make mistakes. That’s how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
276. I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
277. I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
278. My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn’t have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
279. I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
280. Your mind is what makes everything else work. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
281. I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
282. I hope to be involved in a successful movie script. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
283. I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
284. I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
285. I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
286. A team will always appreciate a great individual if he’s willing to sacrifice for the group. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
287. As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
288. As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
289. Black people don’t have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
290. Center is a very tough position to play. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
291. Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
292. Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
293. Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
294. I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
295. You can’t win unless you learn how to lose. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
296. I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
297. One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
298. I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
299. You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go… Don’t ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
300. You can’t win if you don’t play as a unit. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
301. When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
302. When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
303. When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That’s a terrible burden. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
304. The transition was difficult. It’s hard to stop something that you’ve enjoyed and that has been very rewarding. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
305. The game has basically not changed since I ended my career. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
306. The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
307. I didn’t really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
308. Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly? – King Abdullah II
309. The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. – Agha Hasan Abedi
310. The key to wisdom is this – constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. – Peter Abelard
311. It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth. – Peter Abelard
312. A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes. – Sam Abell
313. As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs. – Sam Abell
314. It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use. – Sam Abell
315. My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it. – Sam Abell
316. Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment – this very moment – to stay. – Sam Abell
317. If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. – Hal Abelson
318. If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music. – John Abercrombie
319. On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things. – John Abercrombie
320. I don’t remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. I had been on the road with Johnny and working gigs and playing a lot of the organ clubs. – John Abercrombie
321. Every time I listen back to solos of mine I’ll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can’t stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don’t think so much like that. – John Abercrombie
322. Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces. – John Abercrombie
323. You’re just sort of searching for this “thing” and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don’t. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you’re improvising, at least the way I play, I’m trying to follow my train of thought in a solo. – John Abercrombie
324. For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality. – Lascelles Abercrombie
325. The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else. – Lascelles Abercrombie
326. With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem. – Lascelles Abercrombie
327. Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. – Lascelles Abercrombie
328. There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man’s general destiny. – Lascelles Abercrombie
329. The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always. – Lascelles Abercrombie
330. The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. – Lascelles Abercrombie
331. The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read. – Lascelles Abercrombie
332. The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling. – Lascelles Abercrombie
333. The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time. – Lascelles Abercrombie
334. The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age. – Lascelles Abercrombie
335. By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made. – Lascelles Abercrombie
336. An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative. – Lascelles Abercrombie
337. It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers. – Lascelles Abercrombie
338. But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. – Lascelles Abercrombie
339. That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. – Lascelles Abercrombie
340. Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life. – Lascelles Abercrombie
341. If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. – Lascelles Abercrombie
342. It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual. – Lascelles Abercrombie
343. No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded. – Lascelles Abercrombie
344. Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind. – Lascelles Abercrombie
345. But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series – though not in exact repetition. – Lascelles Abercrombie
346. Land in Hawaii is money. What I’m talking about here is ceded land – land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood. – Neil Abercrombie
347. You’re talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year. – Neil Abercrombie
348. When there wasn’t any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset. – Neil Abercrombie
349. Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged. – Neil Abercrombie
350. There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the opportunity to live in Hawaii, and I set out at once to try to fit in. – Neil Abercrombie
351. So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who’s really going to administer this stuff. – Neil Abercrombie
352. Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all. – Neil Abercrombie
353. I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, “Why are we doing this? Why don’t the Hawaiians have control?” “Well, we have no mechanism to do it,” I was told. – Neil Abercrombie
354. A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state’s collecting lease money because all of a sudden “worthless” land now has an airport on it. – Neil Abercrombie
355. So there’s always been this clash between what is the public good – that which belongs to all of us in common – and what can be exploited for a private interest. – Neil Abercrombie
356. He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House. – Ralph Abernathy
357. I don’t know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future. – Ralph Abernathy
358. Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history. – Ralph Abernathy
359. Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain’t going to be turned around. – Ralph Abernathy
360. You may be assured that we won’t ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last. – Ralph Abernathy
361. Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time. – John Abizaid
362. Our forces will not be on the sidelines. – John Abizaid
363. It’s clear to me now that we’ve got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq. – John Abizaid
364. It’s also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the… as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America. – John Abizaid
365. Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable. – John Abizaid
366. Oh, the transition concerns me because as we move towards an important political event, it’s clear to me that the terrorists and insurgents will move as hard as they can to disrupt this process. – John Abizaid
367. So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there’ll be additional violence. – John Abizaid
368. Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them. – John Abizaid
369. In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself. – John Abizaid
370. We’ve got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government. – John Abizaid
371. Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can’t leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation. – John Abizaid
372. Well, the reports are correct that we’re conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are. – John Abizaid
373. You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation. – John Abizaid
374. We’ll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone. – John Abizaid
375. But clearly the fact that we’ve gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it’s not enough. – John Abizaid
376. And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly. – John Abizaid
377. As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it’s not just Zarqawi. – John Abizaid
378. I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes. – John Abizaid
379. But all that having been said, you can’t, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can’t be in all places at all times. – John Abizaid
380. I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country – but it’s controllable, it’s workable and it will lead to a much better future for these people. – John Abizaid
381. But I am satisfied that the information that we have that this is the work of Zarqawi, is accurate. – John Abizaid
382. But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity. – John Abizaid
383. But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country. – John Abizaid
384. Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time people talk and they tell us what they know. – John Abizaid
385. Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get… to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here. – John Abizaid
386. I think you also understand that one of the key things that’s got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people. – John Abizaid
387. Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody’s going to knock on your door and it’s going to be your last. – John Abizaid
388. But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages. – Edmond About
389. Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. – Edmond About
390. It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot. – Edmond About
391. I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger. – Edmond About
392. I fight fairly, and in good faith. – Edmond About
393. There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that’s exactly where they belong. Connery’s one. – F. Murray Abraham
394. I’m not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it. – F. Murray Abraham
395. Milos said, You’re my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn’t pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I’m busy painting my kitchen. – F. Murray Abraham
396. People desire power. I don’t know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace. – F. Murray Abraham
397. Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn’t answer the phone. – F. Murray Abraham
398. I’m just having a wonderful time. It’s an interesting thing that I’m very comfortable with this material and I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I did MacBeth. – F. Murray Abraham
399. The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel – that’s all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking. – F. Murray Abraham
400. If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers’ kids in there to fight and die. – F. Murray Abraham
401. There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That’s Sean Connery! I don’t know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way. – F. Murray Abraham
402. Whenever there were parties, I wasn’t invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance. – F. Murray Abraham
403. With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I’ve worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia. – F. Murray Abraham
404. With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer… they’ve got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words… What more can you ask for? – F. Murray Abraham
405. Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn’t do anything except just stand there. – F. Murray Abraham
406. The difficulty is capturing surprise on film. – F. Murray Abraham
407. I don’t want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it. – F. Murray Abraham
408. All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else. – F. Murray Abraham
409. Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don’t know if you’d call him a great actor, but he’s amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him. – F. Murray Abraham
410. Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri. – F. Murray Abraham
411. I acted my heart out. – F. Murray Abraham
412. I’m a very proud actor. – F. Murray Abraham
413. I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don’t want to see any more of that. – F. Murray Abraham
414. I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue. – F. Murray Abraham
415. I love parties. I love a good time. – F. Murray Abraham
416. I really like to experiment. That’s the only way I can work. It’s instinctive. – F. Murray Abraham
417. I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that. – F. Murray Abraham
418. I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely. – F. Murray Abraham
419. I’d like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I’ll go with him. I can’t think of anything better than to die in place ‘s just beginning their lives. – F. Murray Abraham
420. I’d like President Bush to think maybe there’s another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam. – F. Murray Abraham
421. As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow. – F. Murray Abraham
422. A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work. – Karl Abraham
423. I always wondered what hearing one’s own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least. – Spencer Abraham
424. Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so. – Spencer Abraham
425. The issues and challenges surrounding nuclear non-proliferation are continuously evolving. They’ve changed dramatically at several junctures in recent memory. – Spencer Abraham
426. There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made. – Spencer Abraham
427. Thousands across America are glued to their web cast to hear this. And actually, I’ve never met one human being who said that they had seen one of those. – Spencer Abraham
428. Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps. – Peter Abrahams
429. You can’t walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values. – Peter Abrahams
430. Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man. – Peter Abrahams
431. With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books. – Peter Abrahams
432. To get where you want to go you can’t only do what you like. – Peter Abrahams
433. Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career. – Jack Abramoff
434. You can’t beat somebody with nobody. – Jack Abramoff
435. Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused. – Jack Abramoff
436. They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business. – Jack Abramoff
437. In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man. – Jack Abramoff
438. If I read the articles about me, and I didn’t know me, I would think I was Satan. – Jack Abramoff
439. I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying. – Jack Abramoff
440. I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses. – Jack Abramoff
441. As a result, I’ve been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend. – Jack Abramoff
442. This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns. This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about protection of tribal assets. – Jack Abramoff
443. If my life was a song it would be ‘Who Let The Dogs Out’. – Casey Abrams
444. There’s got to be a backbone, there’s got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it’s always got to be fresh so it doesn’t bore me, and I always want to go out on edge. – Casey Abrams
445. My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen – I love all of them. I love singing to them because they’re all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz. – Casey Abrams
446. You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they’ve never heard. – Casey Abrams
447. If you’re a good singer, you’re going to make anything sound good. – Casey Abrams
448. I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that’s one of my fun things. – Casey Abrams
449. I love listening to Radio Head’s ‘Everything in its Right Place’ because it’s all major chords, it makes you feel really good. It’s soothing, it’s got a beautiful voice, crazy textures. When I’m down I listen to that song and it really makes me feel good. – Casey Abrams
450. I hope America sees I am a goofy guy andI’m kind a crazy, I hope they see that I am a musician aswell, that I have music all around my body – I’m just exfoliating music, and I just hope America sees that. – Casey Abrams
451. I had no idea I could make it this far. And the fact that they told me I made it this far and that America is going to vote for me, I freaked out. – Casey Abrams
452. I’m a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I’ll just drive him around and start singin’. – Casey Abrams
453. In my spare time I like watching TV, laying on the couch, just chillin’. – Casey Abrams
454. When eating an elephant take one bite at a time. – Creighton Abrams
455. You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening. – Creighton Abrams
456. Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career. – Dan Abrams
457. You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host. – Dan Abrams
458. They can say I have an opinion about something. – Dan Abrams
459. Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most. – Dan Abrams
460. Some people think I’m a total moron and I would hope most people think I’m very good at what I do. – Dan Abrams
461. I’m not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we’re talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance. – Dan Abrams
462. I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal. – Dan Abrams
463. I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I’m awful. – Dan Abrams
464. But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people. – Dan Abrams
465. I think by laying it out for the viewer I’m avoiding the issue of bias. – Dan Abrams
466. I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about. – Elliott Abrams
467. There isn’t any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what’s going on in Nicaragua. – Elliott Abrams
468. The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail? – Floyd Abrams
469. There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important. – Floyd Abrams
470. This is going right to the police. So, it’s a very dangerous precedent. – Floyd Abrams
471. Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle. – Floyd Abrams
472. CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court. – Floyd Abrams
473. CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there’s a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn’t work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he’s a journalist and not a police agent. – Floyd Abrams
474. Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather. – Floyd Abrams
475. I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there. – Floyd Abrams
476. I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn’t really have enough of that. – Floyd Abrams
477. I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can’t say that’s the norm. – Floyd Abrams
478. I mean the idea of this is that it’s a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it’s not really a CBS correspondent. – Floyd Abrams
479. I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn’t have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it. – Floyd Abrams
480. I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed. – Floyd Abrams
481. I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same. – Floyd Abrams
482. I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in. – Floyd Abrams
483. I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York. – Floyd Abrams
484. No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win. – Floyd Abrams
485. When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law – most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America – is really within living memory. – Floyd Abrams
486. The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them. – Floyd Abrams
487. I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down. – Floyd Abrams
488. So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are. – Floyd Abrams
489. My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case. – Floyd Abrams
490. It’s not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball. – Floyd Abrams
491. It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on. – Floyd Abrams
492. It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public’s right to know. – Floyd Abrams
493. It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And that’s why so many states recognize this. – Floyd Abrams
494. It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they’re not the only players in this game. – Floyd Abrams
495. If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don’t think there’s any doubt but that people won’t talk. And, therefore, the public won’t learn. – Floyd Abrams
496. I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 – in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam – that is probably the most important case. – Floyd Abrams
497. I try to do that in this book without preaching – to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody. – Floyd Abrams
498. The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again. – Floyd Abrams
499. John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student. – M. H. Abrams
500. When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can’t complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it’s had an effect and will continue to have an effect. – M. H. Abrams
501. When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. – M. H. Abrams
502. We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background. – M. H. Abrams
503. We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. – M. H. Abrams
504. The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. – M. H. Abrams
505. Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions. – M. H. Abrams
506. If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. – M. H. Abrams
507. If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false. – M. H. Abrams
508. Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading. – M. H. Abrams
509. The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives. – M. H. Abrams
510. It’s amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable. – M. H. Abrams
511. They’ve got us surrounded again, the poor bastards. – Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
512. While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it. – Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
513. It is never very crowded at the front. – Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
514. I’m a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn’t like to play myself. – Victoria Abril
515. Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! – Victoria Abril
516. My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons. – Victoria Abril
517. I’d heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami. – Victoria Abril
518. My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them. – Victoria Abril
519. I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun. – Victoria Abril
520. On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing. – Victoria Abril
521. My first vocation was dance. – Victoria Abril
522. I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing. – Victoria Abril
523. I really wanted to work and become independent. – Victoria Abril
524. I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel. – Victoria Abril
525. For most of my career, I’ve played roles that were written for other actresses. – Victoria Abril
526. Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me. – Victoria Abril
527. Acting is the work of two people-it’s only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director. – Victoria Abril
528. The actress they’d hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn’t like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked. – Victoria Abril
529. Psychiatrists don’t solve anything from one day to the next. – Victoria Abril
530. I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill. – Victoria Abril
531. The director had come to Madrid to court me. – Victoria Abril
532. The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting. – Victoria Abril
533. The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle. – Victoria Abril
534. There’s nothing more human than two people making love. – Victoria Abril
535. When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family. – Victoria Abril
536. When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture. – Victoria Abril
537. You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. – Victoria Abril
538. People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries. – Victoria Abril
539. I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee. – Bella Abzug
540. We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room. – Bella Abzug
541. The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. – Bella Abzug
542. I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. – Bella Abzug
543. All of the men on my staff can type. – Bella Abzug
544. The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened. – Bella Abzug
545. A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death. – Lucius Accius
546. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. – Lucius Accius
547. Let them hate so long as they fear. – Lucius Accius
548. The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else’s. – Goodman Ace
549. I keep reading between the lies. – Goodman Ace
550. TV – a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium – we call it a medium because nothing’s well done. – Goodman Ace
551. Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating. – Goodman Ace
552. I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn’t send one. – Goodman Ace
553. Politics makes estranged bedfellows. – Goodman Ace
554. Home wasn’t built in a day. – Jane Sherwood Ace
555. Time wounds all heels. – Jane Sherwood Ace
556. The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money. – Marcel Achard
557. When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. – Marcel Achard
558. The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. – Marcel Achard
559. It’s risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early. – Marcel Achard
560. Women like silent men. They think they’re listening. – Marcel Achard
561. The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. – Chinua Achebe
562. When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool. – Chinua Achebe
563. When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see. – Chinua Achebe
564. A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself. – Chinua Achebe
565. They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit. – Chinua Achebe
566. The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity – that it’s this or maybe that – you have just one large statement; it is this. – Chinua Achebe
567. The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. – Chinua Achebe
568. People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories. – Chinua Achebe
569. One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. – Chinua Achebe
570. Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be. – Chinua Achebe
571. Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again. – Chinua Achebe
572. Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. – Chinua Achebe
573. Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world. – Chinua Achebe
574. The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president. – Dean Acheson
575. No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. – Dean Acheson
576. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. – Dean Acheson
577. The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. – Dean Acheson
578. The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one’s attention from the problem. – Dean Acheson
579. Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. – Dean Acheson
580. The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. – Dean Acheson
581. I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office. – Dean Acheson
582. Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. – Dean Acheson
583. The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office. – Dean Acheson
584. Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. – Dean Acheson
585. If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past. – Dean Acheson
586. I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. – Dean Acheson
587. Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. – Dean Acheson
588. Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed. – Dean Acheson
589. Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. – Dean Acheson
590. A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. – Dean Acheson
591. We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation. – Dean Acheson
592. It is worse than immoral, it’s a mistake. – Dean Acheson
593. I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don’t get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists. – Kathy Acker
594. Traveling around I don’t think people are that horrible, I think they just don’t know. – Kathy Acker
595. I write it to get it out of me. I don’t write it to remember it. – Kathy Acker
596. I’m very staid compared to my students, actually. – Kathy Acker
597. On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we’re free and easy, and actually we’re far more moralistic than any other society I’ve ever lived in. – Kathy Acker
598. One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out. – Kathy Acker
599. Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating. – Kathy Acker
600. That’s what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing. – Kathy Acker
601. I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can’t be seen fully. It’s sorta internal censorship. We censor each other. – Kathy Acker
602. There’s a backlash against womyn that’s really bad right now. – Kathy Acker
603. I understand that when people read my books that there’s something there – but I don’t identify with it. – Kathy Acker
604. We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways – you know minor ways and major ways – like what you’ve just encountered which isn’t censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way. – Kathy Acker
605. We’ve been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things. – Kathy Acker
606. Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive. – Kathy Acker
607. Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing. – Kathy Acker
608. Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I’m grateful when you use it. – Kathy Acker
609. You can do whatever you want with my work. – Kathy Acker
610. You know I’ve had work banned. – Kathy Acker
611. The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it’s really the talk for those who have. – Kathy Acker
612. But I still don’t have a clear idea of what my voice is. – Kathy Acker
613. I wasn’t really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them. – Kathy Acker
614. And I’m working at trying to find a kind of language where I won’t be so easily modulated by expectation. – Kathy Acker
615. I’m really fascinated and you know I’ve been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way. – Kathy Acker
616. But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men. – Kathy Acker
617. I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible. – Kathy Acker
618. First of all, writing at best – certainly fiction writing – more and more I think is magic. – Kathy Acker
619. I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff. – Kathy Acker
620. I mean, once work’s out there it’s meant to be used. – Kathy Acker
621. I mean, they censor your work when they’re scared of it. – Kathy Acker
622. I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I’m not so censored when I use dream material. – Kathy Acker
623. I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist? – Kathy Acker
624. I think it’s really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever. – Kathy Acker
625. And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool. – Kathy Acker
626. I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. – Diane Ackerman
627. It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. – Diane Ackerman
628. Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. – Diane Ackerman
629. Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. – Diane Ackerman
630. Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight. – Diane Ackerman
631. Success produces success, just as money produces money. – Diane Ackerman
632. A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. – Diane Ackerman
633. Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. – Diane Ackerman
634. I don’t want to be a passenger in my own life. – Diane Ackerman
635. We live on the leash of our senses. – Diane Ackerman
636. I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family. – Gary Ackerman
637. I’m in favor of immigration but we also need rules. – Gary Ackerman
638. If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk. – Gary Ackerman
639. India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it. – Gary Ackerman
640. No, you can’t call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote. – Gary Ackerman
641. Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in. – Gary Ackerman
642. We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there’s a bunch of us. – Gary Ackerman
643. We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here. – Gary Ackerman
644. I am always fascinated by India. – Gary Ackerman
645. I used to be scared of uncertainty; now I get a high out of it. – Jensen Ackles
646. I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me. – Jensen Ackles
647. I love the smell of shampoo on a girl’s hair. You can walk past someone and be like, ‘Wow, you took a shower this morning, didn’t you? Because you smell lovely!’ – Jensen Ackles
648. The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, ‘I can’t think of anything to give you, but here’s a new suitcase.’ Afterward, I was like, ‘What were you thinking, idiot?’ – Jensen Ackles
649. I was in preschool and a girl actually kissed me on the cheek. I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know what it meant, so I instantly grabbed her face and kissed her on the lips. And, then I got suspended. – Jensen Ackles
650. I’m from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western. – Jensen Ackles
651. I’m into a casual-dressing girl: blue jeans and a tank top is super sexy. But the sexiest thing on a girl – when I see it I’m like, oh my God – is these little tight boxers. Don’t get me wrong, g-strings are fine, but those cover a little, to where it’s just enough. – Jensen Ackles
652. I’m not Mr. Debonair Suave. I’m just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. That doesn’t sound very hot to me. – Jensen Ackles
653. My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn’t something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job. – Jensen Ackles
654. There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl’s sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things. – Jensen Ackles
655. When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school. – Jensen Ackles
656. When we started, we knew the show was going to be hit or miss, and we needed to find a core audience to really make us survive. And I think we’ve been able to do that. – Jensen Ackles
657. I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I’m in, I can take the reins and go. It’s just the initial approach I’m really bad at. – Jensen Ackles
658. What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it’s all about life experiences, and I’m very grateful that acting allows me so many interesting and fulfilling ones. – Jensen Ackles
659. Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue. – Peter Ackroyd
660. The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time. – Harold Acton
661. So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. – Harold Acton
662. History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong. – John Acton
663. The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. – John Acton
664. The greatest men, you can quote for everything. – John Acton
665. The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. – John Acton
666. Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. – John Acton
667. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. – John Acton
668. Liberty is the prevention of control by others. – John Acton
669. If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation. – John Acton
670. Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country. – John Acton
671. By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion. – John Acton
672. By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead. – John Acton
673. Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will. – John Acton
674. Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. – Lord Acton
675. Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites. – Lord Acton
676. Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. – Lord Acton
677. History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. – Lord Acton
678. I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. – Lord Acton
679. If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. – Lord Acton
680. Learn as much by writing as by reading. – Lord Acton
681. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. – Lord Acton
682. Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. – Lord Acton
683. Machiavelli’s teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. – Lord Acton
684. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. – Lord Acton
685. And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. – Lord Acton
686. Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. – Lord Acton
687. A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. – Lord Acton
688. Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. – Lord Acton
689. Socialism means slavery. – Lord Acton
690. The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. – Lord Acton
691. The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks. – Lord Acton
692. The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. – Lord Acton
693. The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority. – Lord Acton
694. The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. – Lord Acton
695. The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future. – Lord Acton
696. There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. – Lord Acton
697. There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. – Lord Acton
698. There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye. – Lord Acton
699. To be able to look back upon one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice. – Lord Acton
700. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. – Lord Acton
701. Don’t be a blueprint. Be an original. – Roy Acuff
702. I don’t owe one man one cent. Anywhere. – Roy Acuff
703. Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place. – Roy Acuff
704. The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee. – Roy Acuff
705. The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. – John Adair
706. I’ve done made a deal with the devil. He said he’s going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won’t put all the fires out. – Red Adair
707. I’ve got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I’m always going to the cemetery. – Red Adair
708. If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. – Red Adair
709. It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody’s face when you’re finished and packing, it’s the best smile in the world; and there’s nobody hurt, and the well’s under control. – Red Adair
710. Misery’s fine – as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to. – Arthur Adamov
711. Things always happen in series. – Arthur Adamov
712. Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all. – Arthur Adamov
713. The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis. – Arthur Adamov
714. Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. – Abigail Adams
715. I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic. – Abigail Adams
716. A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world. – Abigail Adams
717. Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. – Abigail Adams
718. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. – Abigail Adams
719. Great necessities call out great virtues. – Abigail Adams
720. I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe. – Abigail Adams
721. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation. – Abigail Adams
722. If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. – Abigail Adams
723. Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. – Abigail Adams
724. Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. – Abigail Adams
725. We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. – Abigail Adams
726. I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’ – Abigail Adams
727. In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area but an insatiable appetite for a sound bite. – Alvin Adams
728. Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog’s life isn’t going to kill someone for gold teeth. – Alvin Adams
729. My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens. – Alvin Adams
730. I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission. – Alvin Adams
731. Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure. – Alvin Adams
732. Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help. – Alvin Adams
733. Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear. – Alvin Adams
734. I didn’t get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who’ve inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster. – Amy Adams
735. Most of the time it’s the parents who recognise me. They try to tell their kids, ‘Look, it’s Giselle,’ and I say, ‘No, no, no, don’t ruin this for them,’ because I’m usually standing there with my hair sideways and no make-up on. And the kid is saying, ‘That is not Giselle. No way. That is some worn-out girl who really needs a bath.’ – Amy Adams
736. I’m pretty Sicilian if I’ve been crossed. I don’t seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me – ever. – Amy Adams
737. When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde! – Amy Adams
738. My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean? – Amy Adams
739. I’m one of seven kids. That’ll keep your ego in check. – Amy Adams
740. I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways. – Amy Adams
741. I think a lot of times we don’t pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled. – Amy Adams
742. I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who’s 5ft 8in, so high heels help me even out the discrepancy. – Amy Adams
743. I always had a larger view. I’m interested in real life – my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards. – Amy Adams
744. How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers. – Amy Adams
745. As an actress people always tease me like: if there’s anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it. – Amy Adams
746. I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I’m a big shoe girl. – Amy Adams
747. Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. – Ansel Adams
748. I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can! – Ansel Adams
749. Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment. – Ansel Adams
750. It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators. – Ansel Adams
751. It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. – Ansel Adams
752. Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter. – Ansel Adams
753. In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice. – Ansel Adams
754. A good photograph is knowing where to stand. – Ansel Adams
755. There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. – Ansel Adams
756. These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago… I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me. – Ansel Adams
757. When I’m ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without. – Ansel Adams
758. Some photographers take reality… and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. – Ansel Adams
759. Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. – Ansel Adams
760. Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. – Ansel Adams
761. Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. – Ansel Adams
762. A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into. – Ansel Adams
763. Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. – Ansel Adams
764. When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. – Ansel Adams
765. The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. – Ansel Adams
766. A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. – Ansel Adams
767. We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium. – Ansel Adams
768. In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. – Ansel Adams
769. Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. – Ansel Adams
770. To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. – Ansel Adams
771. No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. – Ansel Adams
772. Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. – Ansel Adams
773. You don’t take a photograph, you make it. – Ansel Adams
774. The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score, and the print the performance. – Ansel Adams
775. Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. – Ansel Adams
776. The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit. – Ansel Adams
777. A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. – Ansel Adams
778. There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. – Ansel Adams
779. There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. – Ansel Adams
780. There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. – Ansel Adams
781. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. – Brooks Adams
782. Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. – Brooks Adams
783. The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand. – Brooks Adams
784. I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I’d seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it. – Bryan Adams
785. Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don’t, there are consequences you’ll have to deal with later in life. – Bryan Adams
786. I only write music for myself, I don’t try and appeal to anyone else. – Bryan Adams
787. I always knew I’d be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn’t know if I’d be successful at it, but I knew I’d be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star. – Bryan Adams
788. There’s a saying, ‘It’s easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.’ I’m going through that right now. – Bryan Adams
789. We can’t live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones. – Charles Adams
790. Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down. – Charles Adams
791. No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. – Charles Kendall Adams
792. No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him. – Charles Kendall Adams
793. In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner’s heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished. – Charles Kendall Adams
794. I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn’t until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again. – Don Adams
795. Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all. – Don Adams
796. Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental. – Don Adams
797. I’ve been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That’s a joke, but not by much. – Don Adams
798. I am a quick study – I can memorize a script in an hour – but I can’t remember a name three seconds. I’ve even forgotten my wife’s name on occasion. – Don Adams
799. I like getting married, but I don’t like being married. – Don Adams
800. I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand. – Don Adams
801. It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it. – Don Adams
802. I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it. – Douglas Adams
803. The mere thought hadn’t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. – Douglas Adams
804. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened. – Douglas Adams
805. This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. – Douglas Adams
806. The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. – Douglas Adams
807. Life is wasted on the living. – Douglas Adams
808. The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. – Douglas Adams
809. The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. – Douglas Adams
810. The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate. – Douglas Adams
811. The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees. – Douglas Adams
812. Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the drug store, but that’s just peanuts to space. – Douglas Adams
813. I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? – Douglas Adams
814. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. – Douglas Adams
815. It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. – Douglas Adams
816. Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? – Douglas Adams
817. In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. – Douglas Adams
818. In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground. – Douglas Adams
819. If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ’em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves. – Douglas Adams
820. It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry ‘I could have thought of that’ is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn’t, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too. – Douglas Adams
821. I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons. – Douglas Adams
822. It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. – Douglas Adams
823. I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. – Douglas Adams
824. Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. – Douglas Adams
825. I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. – Douglas Adams
826. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. – Douglas Adams
827. He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. – Douglas Adams
828. He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife. – Douglas Adams
829. For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. – Douglas Adams
830. If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. – Douglas Adams
831. Time is bunk. – Douglas Adams
832. To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. – Douglas Adams
833. We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem. – Douglas Adams
834. You live and learn. At any rate, you live. – Douglas Adams
835. A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. – Douglas Adams
836. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. – Douglas Adams
837. Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. – Douglas Adams
838. You aren’t going to leave me alone are you? – Edie Adams
839. All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle. – Edie Adams
840. Well, we could tell them that we’re here on an archeological expedition. – Edie Adams
841. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel. – Frank Adams
842. We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations. – Franklin P. Adams
843. Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. – Franklin P. Adams
844. Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. – Franklin P. Adams
845. I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. – Franklin P. Adams
846. There must be a day or two in a man’s life when he is the precise age for something important. – Franklin P. Adams
847. Too much truth is uncouth. – Franklin P. Adams
848. The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. – Franklin P. Adams
849. Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year. – Franklin P. Adams
850. Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute. – Franklin P. Adams
851. There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. – Franklin P. Adams
852. Christmas is over and Business is Business. – Franklin P. Adams
853. Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. – Franklin P. Adams
854. The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time. – Franklin P. Adams
855. You do not know what you can miss before you try. – Franklin Pierce Adams
856. Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. – Franklin Pierce Adams
857. What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you. – George Matthew Adams
858. A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation… is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. – George Matthew Adams
859. There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don’t care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause. – George Matthew Adams
860. There is no such thing as a ‘self-made’ man. We are made up of thousands of others. – George Matthew Adams
861. We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves. – George Matthew Adams
862. Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I’m talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I’ve hugged trees in every part of this little island. – Gerry Adams
863. The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally. – Gerry Adams
864. We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence. – Gerry Adams
865. We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works. – Gerry Adams
866. When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity. – Gerry Adams
867. Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems. – Gerry Adams
868. Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment. – Gerry Adams
869. At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means. – Gerry Adams
870. Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa. – Gerry Adams
871. Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives. – Gerry Adams
872. Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future. – Gerry Adams
873. The catalyst for much of this change is the growing support for republicanism. – Gerry Adams
874. The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever. – Gerry Adams
875. The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin. – Gerry Adams
876. The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership. – Gerry Adams
877. The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which would see all outstanding matters dealt with and the Good Friday Agreement implemented in full. – Gerry Adams
878. But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda – no-one else is going to do that. – Gerry Adams
879. Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open. – Gerry Adams
880. One man’s transparency is another’s humiliation. – Gerry Adams
881. Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war. – Gerry Adams
882. It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo. – Gerry Adams
883. In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north. – Gerry Adams
884. In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic. – Gerry Adams
885. Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice. – Gerry Adams
886. For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms. – Gerry Adams
887. But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example. – Gerry Adams
888. The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union. – Gerry Adams
889. Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit. – Henry Adams
890. No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. – Henry Adams
891. The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled. – Henry Adams
892. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. – Henry Adams
893. I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. – Henry Adams
894. Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God. – Henry Adams
895. The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand. – Henry B. Adams
896. Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile. – Henry B. Adams
897. Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything. – Henry B. Adams
898. We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. – Henry B. Adams
899. Politics are a very unsatisfactory game. – Henry B. Adams
900. Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. – Henry B. Adams
901. Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic. – Henry B. Adams
902. Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts. – Henry B. Adams
903. Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. – Henry B. Adams
904. Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. – Henry B. Adams
905. The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. – Henry B. Adams
906. The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies. – Henry B. Adams
907. The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing. – Henry B. Adams
908. The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. – Henry B. Adams
909. The proper study of mankind is woman. – Henry B. Adams
910. The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. – Henry B. Adams
911. There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. – Henry B. Adams
912. They know enough who know how to learn. – Henry B. Adams
913. One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. – Henry B. Adams
914. Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. – Henry B. Adams
915. Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius. – Henry B. Adams
916. Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. – Henry B. Adams
917. No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. – Henry B. Adams
918. A friend in power is a friend lost. – Henry B. Adams
919. A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops. – Henry B. Adams
920. Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. – Henry B. Adams
921. Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. – Henry B. Adams
922. All experience is an arch, to build upon. – Henry B. Adams
923. Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. – Henry B. Adams
924. At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter. – Henry B. Adams
925. Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. – Henry B. Adams
926. Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. – Henry B. Adams
927. No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. – Henry B. Adams
928. American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. – Henry B. Adams
929. Morality is a private and costly luxury. – Henry B. Adams
930. Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. – Henry B. Adams
931. It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own. – Henry B. Adams
932. It is always good men who do the most harm in the world. – Henry B. Adams
933. Intimates are predestined. – Henry B. Adams
934. He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. – Henry B. Adams
935. Friends are born, not made. – Henry B. Adams
936. No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. – Henry B. Adams
937. Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned. – Henry Brooks Adams
938. Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants. – Henry Brooks Adams
939. Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. – Henry Brooks Adams
940. Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds. – Henry Brooks Adams
941. Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. – Henry Brooks Adams
942. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible. – Henry Brooks Adams
943. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. – Henry Brooks Adams
944. A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest. – Henry Brooks Adams
945. I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. – Henry Brooks Adams
946. I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics. – Henry Brooks Adams
947. Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men. – Herbert Baxter Adams
948. I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago. – Jack Adams
949. We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby. – Jack Adams
950. We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles. – Jack Adams
951. The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4. – Jack Adams
952. The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale. – Jack Adams
953. Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack. – Jack Adams
954. On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor. – Jack Adams
955. My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did. – Jack Adams
956. My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches. – Jack Adams
957. Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported. – Jack Adams
958. If it’s free, it’s advice; if you pay for it, it’s counseling; if you can use either one, it’s a miracle. – Jack Adams
959. I received my parents’ permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941. – Jack Adams
960. Everybody knew that I could type pretty well. – Jack Adams
961. Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral’s stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate. – Jack Adams
962. After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor. – Jack Adams
963. A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class. – Jack Adams
964. I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton. – Jack Adams
965. You could tell that America was gearing up for war. – Jack Adams
966. In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies. – Jack Adams
967. Chicago’s buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her. – Jack Adams
968. Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth. – James Randolph Adams
969. The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people. – James Randolph Adams
970. Millions of dollars’ worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader’s intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult. – James Randolph Adams
971. If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising. – James Randolph Adams
972. Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture – and forget that merchandise must be sold. – James Randolph Adams
973. There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. – James Truslow Adams
974. The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. – James Truslow Adams
975. Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline. – James Truslow Adams
976. The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry. – James Truslow Adams
977. Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it. – James Truslow Adams
978. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact. – James Truslow Adams
979. There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us. – James Truslow Adams
980. Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. – Joey Adams
981. The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win. – Joey Adams
982. Smack your child every day. If you don’t know why – he does. – Joey Adams
983. People are still willing to do an honest day’s work. The trouble is they want a week’s pay for it. – Joey Adams
984. Marriage is give and take. You’d better give it to her or she’ll take it anyway. – Joey Adams
985. If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business. – Joey Adams
986. If it weren’t for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn’t get any exercise at all. – Joey Adams
987. Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. – Joey Adams
988. A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. – Joey Adams
989. Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. ‘Get up early, work late – and strike oil.’ – Joey Adams
990. A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. – Joey Lauren Adams
991. I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry… just make me feel alive. – Joey Lauren Adams
992. Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. – John Adams
993. I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. – John Adams
994. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. – John Adams
995. In politics the middle way is none at all. – John Adams
996. The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that… and all the glory of it. – John Adams
997. I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate. – John Adams
998. I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman. – John Adams
999. I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. – John Adams
1000. Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. – John Adams