KIM ALEXIS (MODEL) QUOTES

Don’t ever be afraid to step out and do something different.

~ Kim Alexis

I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.

~ Kim Alexis

We are all put in different positions for different reasons.

~ Kim Alexis

Don’t be scared of situations you get into that are bigger than you can possibly imagine.

~ Kim Alexis

DON ADAMS (COMEDIAN) QUOTES

But it also hindered me career-wise because I was typed. Nobody could picture me in any other type of role.

~ Don Adams quote

missed by that much!

~ Don Adams quote

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 quote

I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.

~ Don Adams quote

Right from the beginning, … he said, ‘You should do all your routines in that voice.’ And I said, ‘But I can’t stand that voice.’ And he said, ‘But it’s funny. It makes people laugh.

~ Don Adams quote

I like getting married, but I don’t like being married.

~ Don Adams quote

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 quote

I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot.

~ Don Adams quote

From the outside looking in, this team has the potential to win right away, … I can’t wait to get started. I will hit the round running. I will work very hard.

~ Don Adams quote

Oh, it’s a good bird.
~ Don Adams quote

I’ve been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That’s a joke, but not by much.

~ Don Adams quote

It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.

~ Don Adams quote

Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.

~ Don Adams quote

Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all.

~ Don Adams quote

HENRY BROOKS ADAMS (HISTORIAN) QUOTES

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

~ Henry Brooks Adams

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

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

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

~ Henry Brooks Adams

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

~ Henry Brooks Adams

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

~ Henry Brooks Adams

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

~ Henry Brooks Adams

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

~ Henry Brooks Adams

As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it’s a bore.

~ Henry Brooks Adams

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

~ Henry Brooks Adams

GOODMAN ACE (WRITER) QUOTES

I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn’t send one.

~ Goodman Ace quotes

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else’s.

~ Goodman Ace quotes

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 quotes

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else s.

~ Goodman Ace quotes

I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn’t send one

~ Goodman Ace quotes

STEVEN ADLER (MUSICIAN) QUOTES

I think we’re all saying the same thing, … We want effective checks and balances in the use of data.

~ Steven Adler

I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.

~ Steven Adler

I’m not gonna be a slave. I’m a rock n’ roller.

~ Steven Adler

This building will democratize dance by making it physically and financially accessible to all of Austin up to six days every week, instead of only five weekends a year. It will transform Ballet Austin and be the first anchor of the new downtown arts and entertainment district.

~ Steven Adler

However, downgrades are not inevitable.

~ Steven Adler

Everyone’s relying on the modelers because there’s no firm data.

~ Steven Adler

I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.

~ Steven Adler

CHINUA ACHEBE (WRITER) QUOTES

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

~ Chinua Achebe

To me, being an intellectual doesn’t mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

~ Chinua Achebe

If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.

~ Chinua Achebe

A proud heart can survive general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.

~ Chinua Achebe

It was like beginning life anew without the vigor and enthusiasm of youth, like learning to become left-handed in old age.

~ Chinua Achebe

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

A man’s life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.

~ Chinua Achebe

The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.

~ Chinua Achebe

MARCEL ACHARD (PLAYWRIGHT) QUOTES

Its 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

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

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

Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.

~ Marcel Achard

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

~ Marcel Achard

Women like silent men. They think they’re listening.

~ Marcel Achard

The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens.

~ Marcel Achard

LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE (POET) QUOTES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PETER ABELARD (PHILOSOPHER) QUOTES

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

~ Peter Abelard

The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.

~ Peter Abelard

Dubitanda quippe ad inquisitionem venimus; inquirendo veritatem percipimus.
By doubting we come to enquiry, and through enquiry we perceive truth.

~ Peter Abelard

The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning … For by doubting we come to inquiry, and by inquiry we arrive at truth.

~ Peter Abelard

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

F. MURRY ABRAHAM (ACTOR) QUOTES

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 Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

I really like to experiment. That’s the only way I can work. It’s instinctive.

~ F. Murray Abraham Quote

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