A. R. Rahman
A. R. Rahman

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

Abdul Qadeer Khan
Abdul Qadeer Khan

I had no political background. That's why PM Bhutto gave me the responsibility of the nuclear programme, and we acquired nuclear capability in a span of mere six years, which was a great milestone.

Adam Rex
Adam Rex

After we got our first family car with a tape deck, my dad acquired exactly three cassette tapes: A 'Best of ABBA,' 'Private Heaven' by Sheena Easton, and the soundtrack to 'Xanadu.' I also unironically love 'Xanadu.'

Adi Godrej
Adi Godrej

We find it much better not to try and take the Godrej brand across, but use very strong brands we have acquired in different geographies and push them.

Adolf Loos
Adolf Loos

Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.

Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper

What Microsoft is really good at is endlessly iterating and revving - incrementally improving things that already exist - and those things that already exist are generally acquired from the outside.

Alan Zweibel
Alan Zweibel

Whether it's an innate ability or an acquired way of regarding the world around us, being labeled as funny can only be accepted as a compliment.

Albert Claude
Albert Claude

We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth.

Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell

My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.