Alinea is not the type of restaurant where you go if you're in a hurry. Really, it's about enjoying that three-hour block of time and... →
Grant Achatz
The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that -... →
Chinua Achebe
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's... →
The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
Dean Acheson
Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.
Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
Gary Ackerman
If you look at the great frauds of all time, Enron had that phantom trading floor. What Herbalife has is it has phantom or fictitious customers.
Bill Ackman
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a... →
Peter Ackroyd
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.
My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much... →