Quotations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
- Daniel Boorstin quotes
A bestseller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
- Logan Pearsall Smith quotes
A better statistician than myself will tell you that Reyes has scored once every 58 minutes he has been on the pitch this season.
- John Motson quotes
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
- Douglas Macarthur quotes
A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.
- Maggie Gyllenhaal quotes
A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
- Suze Orman quotes
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
- Thomas Jefferson quotes
A billion here and a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.
- Everett Dirksen quotes
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
- Lou Holtz quotes
A bird, music and food.
[desert island items]
- Michael Johnson quotes
A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for you and is good for your skin.
- Liz Hurley quotes
A bit spastico [joking about himself, on BBC Radio 2]
- Mark Lamarr quotes
A bitter drug oft brings relief
- Ovid quotes
A blend of continuity and change which is a difficult balancing act to strike in politics [on what GB will bring to the leadership of the Labour party]
- Liam Byrne quotes
A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.
- Samuel Butler quotes
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword
- Robert Burton quotes
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part
- Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes
A body to die for... I think she would be a terrible lay [on Caprice]
- John McCririck quotes
A bomb under the west car park at Twickenham on an international day would end fascism in England for a generation.
- Philip Toynbee quotes
A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage
- Anna Brownell Jameson quotes
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
- Umberto Eco quotes
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.
- Charles Baudelaire quotes
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
- Henry Ward Beecher quotes
A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.
- Norman Cousins quotes
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
- Carl Sandburg quotes
A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
- Henry Brooke quotes
A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
- Rupert Brooke quotes
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
- Charles Lamb quotes
A book should be an ice-axe to break the frozen sea within us
- Franz Kafka quotes
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
- Thomas Love Peacock quotes
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
- Clifton Fadiman quotes
A boxer makes a comeback for two reasons: either he's broke or he needs the money.
- Alan Minter quotes
A boy is better unborn than untaught
- George Gascoigne quotes
A brave mind is always impregnable.
- Jeremy Collier quotes
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
- Henry David Thoreau quotes
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever
- Jessamyn West quotes
A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain
- Ovid quotes
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
- George Bernard Shaw quotes
A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying "long time no see".
- Phyllis Battelle quotes
A buck in the hand is worth two on the books.
- David Farber quotes
