We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

- Aristotle

I didn't ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards.

- Anurag Kashyap

When did 'Ask not what your country can do for you' become 'Ask only what your country will give you'?

- Allen West

Whenever I want to know how to cook something, I can't ask one chef - I have to ask six.

- Alice Waters

'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.

- Adam Driver

Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.

- Abbas Kiarostami

If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.

- Abbas Kiarostami

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

- Ayn Rand

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Never ask for small loans.

- Aristotle Onassis

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

People ask, 'Should I call you Sir Hopkins?' But I say, 'No. Call me Tony,' because it's too much of a lift-up.

- Anthony Hopkins

People ask me so many questions.

- Annie Lennox

People ask my mother whether she had any idea that I'd be CEO of a company some day, and she would say, 'Absolutely not. Totally out of the realm of possibility.' There was certainly nothing that would have been very predictable in my upbringing.

- Anne M. Mulcahy

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

- Angelina Jolie

We needed 40 years to overcome East Germany. Sometimes in history, one has to be prepared for the long haul and not ask after four months if it still makes sense to keep up our demands.

- Angela Merkel

When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.

- Andy Rooney

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

- Ambrose Bierce

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

- Albert Einstein

The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

- Alan Rickman