I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.

- Alan Rickman

Memory narrativises itself.

- Aleksandar Hemon

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

- Art Buchwald

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

- Anish Kapoor

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

- Anthony Burgess

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

- Amelia Earhart

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

- Alvin Toffler

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

- Alexis Carrel

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

- A. C. Benson

I've been a Fellow in a number of companies: Xerox, Apple, Disney, HP. There are certain similarities because all the Fellows programs were derived from IBM's, which itself was derived from the MIT 'Institute Professor' program.

- Alan Kay

Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.

- Al Franken

Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself.

- Al Franken

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

- Aeschylus

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

- Abraham Maslow

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

- Abraham Maslow

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

- Abraham Lincoln

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

- Abraham Lincoln

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam