Alan Quotes

Malta is the only country in the world where the local delicacy is the bread.

Belgium's not a hotpot of international football

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

I didn't really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer.

We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.

I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Note to Self - Thoughts design my energy! My thoughts WILL design the energy that moves me!

...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

I've always juggled a lot of projects because at least half the projects you do get shelved. So you have to do a lot of things in order for things to move forward.

That was never a penalty in a million planets.

Hard work does not go unnoticed, and someday the rewards will follow.

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.

Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don't try and mean it. Nor prayers. The liturgy is best treated and read as if it's someone announcing the departure of trains.

Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

I'm no good with words but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.

if you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.

That's where I'm comfortable - playing a jackass on the scene, rolling in with my pocket watch and my buffoon hairdo, with my shoes.

Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.

Well time has a way of throwing it all in your face. The past, she is haunted, the future is laced.

Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?

You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.

Churches and trains they all look the same to me now they shoot you some place while we ache to come home somehow.

There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.

Gardening is, apart from having children, the most rewarding thing in life

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.

There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.

Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

...My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you?

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind.

I enjoy putting my mind into different situations rather than my body.

If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't.

Being a personality is not the same thing as having a personality.

Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.

Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules!