#pre

One thing I've been doing since I was a little kid and that's score touchdowns so if somebody needs somebody to get in the red zone and do some work, I could probably still do that pretty well. ↗

— Shaun Alexander

#body needs #could #doing #get #i

I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#average #equal #i #i think #identification

I'm pretty tough. ↗

— Gloria Allred

#pretty #tough

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#also #believed #children #desire #disappears

An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#collects #espionage #finished #finished product #gets

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#banner #dishes #feel #i #lousy

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#appreciate #change #clarity #gradual #here

I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger. ↗

— Tori Amos

#finding #i #industry #newer #preoccupation

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself. ↗

— Tori Amos

#different ways #exploring #had #i #keep

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done. ↗

— David Amram

#anything #appreciated #architect #carpenter #composer