Alan Quotes

More data is not always the answer.

Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.

I was rather a goody-goody as a child... It was only later on I discovered that you could be naughty and get away with it.

Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.

...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.

To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.

I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.

The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.

There is nothing like practice.

I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.

Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.

Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.

Wembley way is beginning to blacked with people in terms of red and blue

You just write about things that happen.

Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.

You think a lot of people get to be big stars and get a little crazy, but most of the ones I've ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I've enjoyed that.

I've always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you've got to have a tour to support that.

As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don't see that it would be worth retiring.

I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.

It's a scary word, 'cancer.'

I think I've always approached making albums pretty much the same way. I'm just looking for a mixture of songs and topics that aren't the same thing over and over.

I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.

He's written some great songs. I thought that "Blues Man" was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.

I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that.

I've had several working-man songs that I like.

I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.

My mother kept asking me, "When are you going to do a gospel album?" And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.

If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.

The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.

I could have danced all night!

An Englishmans way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

Thank heaven for little girls! For little girls get bigger every day.

A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.

The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it.

We need people like me in the Labour party.

Rumors of coal's demise may have been greatly exaggerated.

Too much philosophy makes men mad.

I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again. I'm an Alan Simpson Republican.

People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal. There are three days that are really slow for restaurants - Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.

Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.

The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet

A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.

A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.