Alan Quotes

Faith is two empty hands held open to receive all of the Lord

The 'you' who you think you are does not exist.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.

I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! Let's have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.

It was Kovacs who said "Mother" then, muffled under latex. It was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again.

I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

All roads lead to Johannesburg.

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

THINK before you speak. Is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind?

One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

I have no patience at all.

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

Newcastle fans never cease to amaze me. If there was a trophy for best supporters this lot would win it hands down every year.

Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love

We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!

The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.

Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.

The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.

Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.

Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.

Christ is the very epitome of innocence, and without the blood of Christ, shed on Calvary, God's plan of salvation would not have been fulfilled.

The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.

I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.

There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness

John Cross is feeling very boyish about Arsenal's chances

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

I am a very lucky person, and the harder I work, the luckier I seem to be.