Alan Quotes

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.

Great masters merit emulation, not worship.

True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.

life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

The wake doesn't drive the ship

It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter...13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours.

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

Start small and with your own money.

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.

Insanity is just a state of mind.

The richer we are, the longer we live. And the longer we live, the more expensive it is to take care of our diseases as we get older.

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to worry about the hatch, how to get in the sling, and so on.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.

The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

I'll continue to work to ensure that safety and I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the men and women who provide public safety in our city.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.

In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

I have a rendezvous with death... I will not fail that rendezvous

It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and creatively persuasive tapestry.

It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.

Then he said in his most excellent Mick impression, "Your powers are useless against Ninja Lords, O great zombie hunter! Surrender or feel the sting of the shuriken!

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

I owe my solitude to other people.

If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.

It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office

I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.

If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.

It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry

I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.

When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice.

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.