Alan Quotes

Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.

A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar?

It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.

My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

The sound of the rain needs no translation.

I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.

I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.

Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic.

But rules cannot substitute for character.

This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.

You can't make love without art.

I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.

The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.

Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.

What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me.

The Iraq War is largely about oil.

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.

The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.

Sustainability is a set of conditions and trends in a given system that can continue indefinitely

The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.

There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

I'm a lot less serious than people think, it's probably because the way my face is put together.

Dreams - Language in a dream is unspoken but understood. Words get in the way.

Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don't bother doing the job.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

In very subtle ways, how we regard ourselves and others continually changes us into something new.

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.

I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.

Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.

You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.