Alan Quotes

If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.

To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.

Among some of the youngsters, I think reality TV has installed that culture into them and inspired a few of them into wanting to be 'TV celebrities.

Big guys like you and me aren't allowed to whine.

It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.

Know what you value, be willing to take a risk, and lead from the heart - lead from what you believe in.

As you become more proficient, fewer people can offer you advice, although in truth, that's when you need it the most because the stakes just keep getting higher and higher.

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.

I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are.

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.

As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.

It doesn't matter is you call it 'Obama-care' or 'Elvis Presley care' or 'I-don't-care care.' It cannot sustain itself in its present form.

Fresno is an All America city and deserves real, honest, strong leadership and I pledge to the people of Fresno to be that kind of leader.

You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.

Change is the hallmark of nature. Nothing remains the same.

My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

Any noun can be verbed.

I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.

I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.

The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.

You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.

I won't eat in a place that has suits of armor.

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.

I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.

Here's Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn't look much taller than that

My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.

When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.

I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.

Deliberate choices are the only sacred things in the universe. Everything else is just hydrogen.

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.

All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

I believe that the sphere of service, your career, the plan which God has mapped out for you and prepared for you, is the greatest agency in His hands to conform You to His character and to His will.

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

What we are is much more important to Him than what we do for Him. We mean far more to God than the work we do.

Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's a belief that someone holds.

Christ would not vote for Barack Obama because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved.

What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.

I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

At times they don't like you to kick them and they feel you're not allowed to kick them.

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.

I've covered a lot of the British countryside and the UK from top to bottom and side to side. It's such a pity more people don't appreciate what's on their doorstep.

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

On film you put all your energies into a single glance.