#way

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. ↗

— Mary Astell

#life #life is too short #matters #short #span

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself. ↗

— Mary Astell

#always #another #expects #himself #his

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that. ↗

— Chet Atkins

#apprenticeship #formula #give #i #logical

There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and you speak English that you're bound to understand and like everything that we do. And of course you don't. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#age-old #always #america #because #being

I keep getting these people at my shows who only know me from television. I can always tell when they're, like, emotionally flinching when I start doing my jokes. ↗

— Dave Attell

#doing #emotionally #flinching #getting #i

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could. ↗

— John James Audubon

#best way #birds #could #day #gave

I've always loved movies, art and clothes. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#art #clothes #i #loved #movies

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#enter #good #hemingway #his #into

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#been #beginning #could #driven #first

I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#colour #different #eye #had #hair