If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.

- Anne Sullivan

I like it when stories are left open.

- Alan Rickman

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

- Anatole France

Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.

- Anne Lamott

As soon as I left school at 16, I worked in a factory making aircraft components.

- Anton du Beke

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

- Audrey Hepburn

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

- Anton Chekhov

If the media isn't slanted toward the Left, why is everyone so worried about my affiliation with Glenn Beck but not with Alec Baldwin?

- Adam Carolla

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

- Annie Lennox

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.

- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

My generation has left the globe in a mess.

- Anthony Horowitz

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

- Ambrose Bierce

Fame should be left to the film stars.

- Alexander McQueen

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

- Abraham Lincoln

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You look at how many years you have left, and you start to think: 'How many more films do I have in me?'

- Alexander Payne

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

- Anne Frank

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

- Anais Nin

My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.

- Alton Brown