I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.

- A. J. Jacobs

Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.

- Alonzo Church

The transitions from metallic to critical behavior and from critical to insulating behavior have been induced with a magnetic field, and from insulating to critical and then to metallic behavior with increasing external pressure.

- Alan J. Heeger

This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.

- Aaron Klug

If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.

- Amanda Burton

As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

I have to go with the approach I had in Triple-A. I need to take a lot of those fastballs I am seeing to left field. Also must gear up for the changeup and take them up the middle.

- Anthony Rizzo

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

- Althea Gibson

Doing these parts is not fun. It's challenging, but no fun. It's creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field.

- Alec Baldwin

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

- Aasif Mandvi

I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.

- Abby Wambach

Track and field is tougher physically, but golf is tougher mentally.

- Ashton Eaton

I do the whole 10-event thing, but at the end of the day, it's still track and field.

- Ashton Eaton

I actually like indoor track and field more than outdoor.

- Ashton Eaton

Michel Gondry's 'Green Hornet' was another franchise flick that felt like it came out of left field - I thought in a good way, but most audiences disagreed.

- Annalee Newitz

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

- Alan Perlis

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

- Annie Dillard

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

- Alanis Morissette