A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt

On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.

Aaron Dessner
Aaron Dessner

Sometimes my brother and I - we're twins, and sometimes we joke that we're like a two-headed monster. We can be hard to deal with because we don't break ranks; we stick together.

Aaron Staton
Aaron Staton

I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.

AB de Villiers
AB de Villiers

It will never be much fun until a Proteas team finally goes out and wins one of these ICC limited-overs tournaments. That will happen one day.

Abdullah II of Jordan
Abdullah II of Jordan

When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.

Adam Davidson
Adam Davidson

The economy works best when better ideas win out over worse ideas, harder work wins out over less work, when it's a fair fight in the marketplace.

Adam McKay
Adam McKay

Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.

Adam Petty
Adam Petty

Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.

Adam Rapp
Adam Rapp

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter. And the rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic, and the best idea wins.

Adam Vinatieri
Adam Vinatieri

Eleven wins is hard to come by.