Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.

Alexander Volkanovski
Alexander Volkanovski

Everyone knows my style - I jam my hips in, jam their head into the mat and punch their head through the canvas.

Alexandra Petri
Alexandra Petri

Wilde is an invaluable acquaintance. Often, in situations where I am required to appear witty, I simply steal large chunks from his works and attempt to pass them off as my own with minor modifications.

Alfred Sisley
Alfred Sisley

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

Algernon Blackwood
Algernon Blackwood

His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.

Alice Foote MacDougall
Alice Foote MacDougall

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

Alice Hastings Bradley
Alice Hastings Bradley

My secret world had been invaded, and the attractive figure of Tiptree - he did strike several people as attractive - was revealed as nothing but an old lady in Virginia.

Alice Lowe
Alice Lowe

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

Chris Gabrieli
Chris Gabrieli

Time is a resource, much like money or autonomy, which can be invaluable or can be squandered.