Alan Quotes

Whatever you think and talk about paves the runway for what you will create.

The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.

Your soul isn't in your body; your body is in your soul!

When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Why don't you light that candle ?

The door you open to give love is the very one through which love arrives.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs.

I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

Everybody thinks theyll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find out that you cant.

Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin' against that blue sky? Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor or did you just sit down and cry?..

Roses are red Violets are blue Everything's possible Nothing is true.

People who are creative often will spend hours doing something and come out of their period of creation and not even notice that hours have passed. In that sense, they're able to time travel.

Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life.

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.

Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.

Nirvana is where you are, provided you don't object to it.

The people see that Wall Street is running our economic policy, that big oil is running our energy policy and the military industrial complex is determining our foreign policy.

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.

I have always said that the best feeling in the world is scoring a goal. Don't tell my missus that, but it is. When that ball hits the back of the net, it is fantastic.

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.

But I've a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town, When Spring trips north again this year, And I to my pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous.

I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

No matter what has happened, let today be new.

Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.

There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day.

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.

Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.

Love is stolen in the shadows of the night. Though it's wrong all along, it keeps going on as long as they keep it out of sight.

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.

Let's face it: It's difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.