Adwoa Aboah
Adwoa Aboah

I never would have dreamt in a million years that I would have young girls coming up to me at Glastonbury or on the streets of L.A., New York, London, and telling me how much GurlsTalk or seeing my picture in a magazine means to them, as a woman of colour.

Ahmed Zewail
Ahmed Zewail

A femtosecond is comparable to one second in 32 million years. It is like watching a 32-million-year movie to see one second.

Al Gore
Al Gore

The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going.

Alan Alda
Alan Alda

When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000?

Alan Vega
Alan Vega

Usually I'm the one who does the covers. And I just said, man, it would be nice to see what somebody else could do, outside of this thing. A fresher look. And I never, in a million years, would have come up with this. Believe me!

Aleister Black
Aleister Black

Never in a million years did I think some kid from Amsterdam would be in a position not only would he be in the Money in the Bank and a fan favorite, but be informed and led by people like Paul Heyman.

Alex Shoumatoff
Alex Shoumatoff

Most of the Amazon basin is as flat as a pancake and laced with extravagantly meandering waterways. One school of thought holds that more than 145 million years ago, when Africa and South America were joined, the Amazon's main stem was connected to the Niger River and actually flowed in the opposite direction, toward the Pacific Ocean.

Alex Shoumatoff
Alex Shoumatoff

Nature got it right with the cranes. They have been around since the Eocene, which ended 34 million years ago.

Alexander Payne
Alexander Payne

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.

Alistair Brownlee
Alistair Brownlee

London 2012 was superb. It was the best triathlon experience in a million years.