Alan Quotes

because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.

There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.

The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.

And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.

And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.

The secret now is to be disciplined. It's so easy to get carried away with things valued on the hereafter.

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

Christian music has taken a turn towards worship music, which has turned into a lot of bands and those types of sounds. That's great. God is using that stuff and it's great.

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.

The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.

I am the character you are not supposed to like.

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

Don't be caught up in your outer world. Pay greater attention to your inner world

But, in the end, we editors just pass through. We all know that you, the readers, are the real carriers of the flame.

I still get butterflies when England are playing.

But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.

I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.

Naming celestial objects is usually done by astronomers and professionals. Other people who are interested in space never get the opportunity to do that kind of thing.

It's strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons

Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.

I got on a high believing everything I would produce was going to sell at the rate I wanted.

Money is all right but once you have it you learn it's not the be all and end all.

I'm an Englishman. What more can I say?

People think cruises are for old folk, but they are amazing, as you get to see so many places, and you're never stuck as you're docked in a different port every day.

We're all responsible. I'm the leader, the captain of the ship, and I have to take responsibility.

It was great. We knew we were going back when we finished the movie. It was such a big movie [Star Wars].

C-3PO is flappable [in Star Wars]. [Kaytoo is] very unflappable compared to C-3PO, who is just flapping all over the place.

People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn't sing, so I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one who started it all.

You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem.

We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness.

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.

But we must not suffer over the suffering.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead?

Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are.

Chaos is always losing, but never defeated

You can't have something without nothing.

What would you do if money was no object?

When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, "I am all this!" There is simply all this.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates.