Alan Quotes

If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.

I don't make enemies, it's just I'm not afraid to speak my mind, which can sometimes mean people don't like what I am saying

Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty.

Good design is serious business.

The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out.

I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing

I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve

Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.

If I had my way, I'd do all my entertaining on the front steps

And I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths about that world, and that my job is to discover some of them.

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.

I was never trained for anything

I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.

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

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

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

I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else

I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn't been completely candid in describing the facts or the law.

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

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

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.

Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.

Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.

You've made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.

Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.

Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.

The best answer to bad speech is good speech

A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.

Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.

We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless.

I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?

The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.'

That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.

Everyone shares the same fate.

You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you.

It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.

I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.

But then southern hemisphere teams are more skilful than their northern hemisphere counterparts, which means games can be easier to referee.

We usually don't look. We overlook.