Alan Alda
Alan Alda

I love oatmeal. To me, it's not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the steel-cut Irish kind - the kind that pops in your mouth when you bite into it in little glorious bursts like a sort of gummy champagne.

Alan Alda
Alan Alda

What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognise their names and faces but know almost nothing else about them?

Alan Davies
Alan Davies

The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary.

Alan Garner
Alan Garner

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

Alan Hansen
Alan Hansen

Potentially he could be. He scored the goal four years ago in France against Argentina that was extraordinary.

Albert Bandura
Albert Bandura

Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.

Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi

I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Nowadays, a critic has to watch 700, 800 films a year, and I know through experience, being a juror in prestigious film festivals where supposedly the best films are arriving, from twenty films maybe you see two that are good, one that is so-so, and one that is extraordinary. And the other sixteen are terrible.

Alex Chiu
Alex Chiu

I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary.

Alex Flinn
Alex Flinn

I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.