#all

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#been #call #god #ignorance #premature

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. ↗

— Fred Astaire

#considered #enough #go #higher #make

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it. ↗

— Mary Astell

#although #been #determined #either #folly

I kind of peak at how far I can push my body, and then I run out of determination for the habit and start easing off. It's really just a lack of focus and discipline. ↗

— Sean Astin

#determination #discipline #easing #far #focus

In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#commercials #explain #good #his #job

We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#certainly #challenging #english #faded #five

Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious. ↗

— David Attenborough

#birds #feed #group #inhabit #kingdom

I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them. ↗

— David Attenborough

#come #country #creature #dawn #dusk

Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#character #costumes #does #establish #first

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#among #been #cast #creatures #destiny