Aamir Khan
Aamir Khan

When I am shooting a film, then everything goes soft focus. My family also complains that I don't give them time.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Aaron Taylor-Johnson

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

Adam Riess
Adam Riess

One of the most exciting things about dark energy is that it seems to live at the very nexus of two of our most successful theories of physics: quantum mechanics, which explains the physics of the small, and Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, which explains the physics of the large, including gravity.

Adeo Ressi
Adeo Ressi

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

Adlai Stevenson I
Adlai Stevenson I

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

Adriano Zumbo
Adriano Zumbo

I was born in the Chinese year of the rooster, so maybe that explains my affinity with chickens.

Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

Alexandra Robbins
Alexandra Robbins

Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'different' will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why.

Alexis Tsipras
Alexis Tsipras

What, ultimately, is Greece if it is not the people who live in this country? It's not the mountains and the plains.

Alison Gopnik
Alison Gopnik

A theory not only explains the world we see, it lets us imagine other worlds, and, even more significantly, lets us act to create those worlds. Developing everyday theories, like scientific theories, has allowed human beings to change the world.