Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.

- Alan Shepard

I make an enormous amount of salads, but my salads are like meals. They're amazing. I like going down to the farmers' market and looking to see whatever you can find, because you can put anything in a salad.

- Andie MacDowell

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

- Amy Winehouse

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

- Amelia Barr

I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball.

- Allen Iverson

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

- Alicia Keys

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

- Alice Walker

If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen.

- Alice Cooper

It's a big flash of all these things and whatever you take out of that statement's one statement, one mind, one statement, one act, one show, and all the songs are one.

- Alice Cooper

As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.

- Alanis Morissette

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

- A. A. Milne

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

- Alan Kay

Whatever you tax, you get less of.

- Alan Greenspan

I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.

- Al Franken

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

- Agatha Christie

First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.

- Adam McKay

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.

- Ada Lovelace

I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.

- Action Bronson

Whatever you are, be a good one.

- Abraham Lincoln

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

- Abraham Lincoln