Alexandra Adornetto
Alexandra Adornetto

Because characters are your creations, you are the one who ultimately gets to decide their fate.

Alexandra Petri
Alexandra Petri

Pleasure reading has long been an American ideal - generations of schoolchildren have headed home for the summer toting recreational reading lists. But try to pitch it to a group of non-readers, and they quickly become suspicious.

Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg

I recommend for any basic course on the Beat Generation to familiarize yourself with 'The Idiot,' Prince Myshkin. He was Dostoyevsky's idea of the most beautiful human being he could imagine, the creation of a saint in literature.

Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men.

Amit Shah
Amit Shah

My image is the creation of media.

Amity Shlaes
Amity Shlaes

To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one great factor that affects all three: the long-term solvency of a bond company called the U.S. government.

Amy Poehler
Amy Poehler

Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation,' and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. 'SNL' was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what you're talking about.

Ana Patricia Botin
Ana Patricia Botin

Profit, wealth creation, competition - these are not dirty words but the lifeblood of a dynamic economy.

Chloe Madeley
Chloe Madeley

My favourite restaurants serve long lists of pizza and pasta creations that I fantasise over almost daily.