Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Smith

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

Adam Levine

I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.

Adam McKay

I've gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.

Adam McKay

As for movies, what's great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.

Adam McKay

The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.

Adam Kluger

The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive,

Ad Reinhardt

My paintings are the last paintings one can make.

Ada Lovelace

Indeed we may consider the engine as the material and mechanical representative of analysis, and that our actual working powers in this department of human study will be enabled more effectually than heretofore to keep pace with our theoretical knowledge of its principles and laws, through the complete control which the engine gives us over the executive manipulation of algebraical and numerical symbols.

Abraham Cowley

The monster London laugh at me.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law. And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.

Abraham Maslow

Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.

Abraham Lincoln

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Abraham Lincoln

The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.

Abraham Lincoln

No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.

Abraham Lincoln

I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.

Abraham Lincoln

I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.

We've briefed a top barrister in constitutional law and we're ready to go.

We've been working since the late '80s to get 49 widened. This will be an uphill battle.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state.

Aleksandar Hemon

Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it doesn't seem that bad.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There are defendants whom the judges are afraid of.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

What a force is laughter.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.

Aleister Crowley

There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT!

Aleister Crowley

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

Aleister Crowley

Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle

Alberto Moravia

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

Alberto Manguel

Deadlines comes as a surprise....superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping.

Alberto Manguel

As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.

Albert Einstein

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.

Albert Einstein

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Albert Einstein

One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem,above all other sciences,is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable,while those of all other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts.