Alan Quotes

I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.

I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.

I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the link between magic and writing. I think that they are profoundly connected.

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

If we can come up with all sorts of imaginative ways in which people die, then I really don't see what the problem is with coming up with imaginative ways in which people can procreate.

So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.

I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with the world.

He's passing the ball like Idi Amin.

He hit that one like an arrow

Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.

To change your mind under the direction of the wisdom of the heart is a brush stroke on the masterpiece you are delivering to the world.

If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.

It's almost like he has Dr. Who's Tardis because he always turns up on time. (on Teddy Sheringham)

I would renounce, therefore, the attempt to create heaven on earth, and focus instead on reducing the hell.

I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future.

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.

Miles and miles and miles.

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

Revisit your past only to recognize how far you have come.

The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs. ... It´s us. Only us.

No one will ever forget that night, and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me.

There's no leaving Edinburgh, No shifting it around: it stays with you, always.

Edinburgh is an experience A city of enormous gifts Whose streets sing of history Whose cobbles tell tales.

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

The more you recognize the immense good within you, the more you magnetize immense good around you.

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.

What you go through is nothing compared to who you are.

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.

The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to walk along that. Don't worry, I won't get drunk and fall in.

Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever.

Abundance is not a situation- it is an attitude.

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.

There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.

I know you're all saying I can go to the moon but I can't find Pasadena.

I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.

If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.

Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.