Alan's Quotes

#1. Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were.

Johnny Rivers

#2. Lawrence concluded that Alan's penis scheme must have finally found a taker.

Neal Stephenson

#3. Fortunately for Alan's sake, Frank preferred beauty over age so I had no need to defend my territory.

Nicole Castle

#4. I shook Alan's hand and the feeling just grew stronger. It was a bit frustrating. Like when you're looking for what to say and it's on the tip of your tongue, but no matter how hard you try, it just keeps eluding you.

Pamela Alvarado

#5. Still smiling she carried the TV through the doorway; then she gave it the strongest heave she could manage ... When it hit Alan's oversized brick barbecue and the glass front of the TV smashed, Leslie didn't think she'd ever heard a more satisfying sound.

Jude Deveraux

#6. Dawson, she knew, had saved Alan's life- but in the end, he'd saved Jared's as well. And for her that meant ... everything. 'I gave you the best of me,' he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd done exactly that.

Nicholas Sparks

#7. Michel de Lisle, Bishop of Salubre, who was a disciple and co-worker of Blessed Alan's in the re-establishment of the Holy Rosary said that the Angelic Salutation is the remedy for all ills that we suffer as long as we say it devoutly in honor of Our Lady.

St. Louis De Montfort

#8. After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.

Alan Light

#9. Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, acting in and directing 'M*A*S*H'; he used to commute between the set and home because he didn't want to disrupt his kids' schooling.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

#10. I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator.

Alan Furst

#11. Captain Phasma. Remember me?" He moved his weapon slightly. "Here's my blaster, ya still wanna inspect it?" Phasma held on to her dignity. "Yes, I remember you. FN-2187." Finn shook his head curtly. "Not anymore. My name is Finn. A real name for a real person. And I'm in charge now.

Alan Dean Foster

#12. I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would still be reluctance on the part of the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish secular democracy.

Alan Dershowitz

#13. I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.

Alan Ball

#14. Above all, in order to gain respect, you need to be true to yourself. There is no point in trying to be brutal if it's not in your nature; there is no point in trying to be suave and sophisticated if it doesn't come naturally.

Alan Sugar

#15. You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.

Alan Cumming

#16. T's really an encouragement of discipleship, it looks like anything else that we're offering to anyone else, any other person struggling with any other issue in their life. It's about pursuing a relationship with Christ.

Alan Chambers

#17. Blood is drawn! I am impressed-though my hell-spawned powers will heal it! Besides ... next to giving pain my favourite sport's to feel it.

Alan Grant

#18. But, Eminem ... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat.

Alan Vega

#19. The shamanic realm is to get you out of the word set. For skeptics, that's impossible, and they just can't see that and it just makes no sense.

Fred Alan Wolf

#20. And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.

Alan Blinder

#21. There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.

Alan Hirsch

#22. As a teenager I was very clear that I wasn't in the church just to toe the line, but I saw there was a capacity within Christianity and the bible not to fall into line but to question the status quo, that's what kept me in the church. I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.

Alan Green

#23. If you enjoy sticking a straw in a dog's ear, don't sit next to the pooch with a milkshake.

Alan Rogers

#24. I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the biggest influence on me writing was Punk. There was the idea that you could do something by simply doing it.

Neil Gaiman

#25. A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very comforting. There are others that are appalled by it.

Alan Moore

#26. I'm as old as I am, and I don't try to hide it. It's not a big deal.

Alan Arkin

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

Alan Patricof

#28. In their last four Blackburn have lost 3-0, 3-1, 5-3 and 3-2. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that's 12 goals conceded

Alan Brazil

#29. Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

Alan Price

#30. In country and R&B, there's much more of that division between writers and performers, and that's where you see more of those [crossover] songs, but you don't get a lot of that coming out of the more pop and rock side of things.

Alan Light

#31. In heaven's name be a man, sir! Your pitiful whining sickens me!

Alan Moore

#32. Long live the elite rower's motto:'early to bed, early to rise, never meet the regular guys.'

Brad Alan Lewis

#33. The Government's first priority on coming to office was to secure long-term economic stability and put an end to the damaging cycle of boom and bust.

Alan Johnson

#34. When I was a young man, King Francois of France greatly admired my bare buttocks. I have that information only by hearsay, of course, because my buttocks were in the king's chateau of Chambord while I was here in Italy.

Alan Fisk

#35. I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.

Alan Rickman

#36. If you know what you're looking for, that's all you'll get - what's previously known. But when you're open to what's possible, you get something new - that's creativity.

Alan Alda

#37. You're in for it this time,' she said. 'Father's been looking for you all afternoon, He's just got off the telephone with Constable Linnet, in the village. I must say he seemed rather dissapointed to hear that they hadn't fished your soggy little corpse out of the duck pond.

Alan Bradley

#38. You can learn from a glance at anyone's library, not what they are, but what they wish to be.

Alan Bradley

#39. I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.

Alan Moore

#40. I really enjoyed multicamera comedy. You film in front of a live audience, and it's kind of the best of both worlds. It's like doing a one-act play every week, but if you screw your lines up, you get to do it over.

Alan Ruck

#41. The dedication of Don Winslow's novel 'The Cartel' is nearly two pages long: a list of journalists who were either murdered or 'disappeared' in Mexico between 2004 and 2012 - the period covered in this hugely hypnotic new thriller.

Alan Cheuse

#42. Please don't worry. It's a psychological complaint, common amongst ex-librarians. You see, she thinks she's a coffee table edition ...

Alan Moore

#43. I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

Alan Garner

#44. I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.

Alan Furst

#45. It's raining in Washington tonight. Plump, warm summer rain that covers the sidewalks with leopard spots. Downtown, elderly ladies carry their houseplants out to set them on the fire-escapes, as if they were infirm relatives or Boy Kings. I like that.

Alan Moore

#46. None of the books were in alphabetical order, which made it necessary to cock my head sideways to read each one of the spines. By the end of the third shelf I began to realize why librarians were sometimes able to achieve such pinnacle levels of crankiness: It's because they're in agony.

Alan Bradley

#47. A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Alan Ayckbourn

#48. It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.

Alan Hansen

#49. I'm not against the government. I'm against this ever-expanding government that doesn't know its limits. And that's how I see the role of the attorney general, as someone in an office that can protect you and defend the Constitution and defend state sovereignty and our individual liberty.

Alan Wilson

#50. For every discouragement has been allowed to come to us in order that through it we may be cast in utter helplessness at the Saviour's feet.

Alan Redpath

#51. the reason we are so focused on time management as opposed to energy management is because it's easier.

Alan Watkins

#52. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.

Alan Moore

#53. The projector's beam lay warm on Walt's neck, and he knew they'd all been plucked from danger and love, from another time, another place, and set back into this dark, sticky-floored theater, in the heart of nothing much that mattered.

Alan Heathcock

#54. We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

Alan Perlis

#55. I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.

Alan Ball

#56. I like people thinking I'm an asshole. Being an asshole is my life's vocation; I'm a goddamned asshole professional.

James Alan Gardner

#57. In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

Alan Clark

#58. Relax now. That's the beauty of war. Utter subservience to one's leaders absolves a soldier of the consequences of her actions.

Alan Campbell

#59. Like the name of a cartoon Belgian detective said in a Scottish accent, it's 10:10.'11 It

Alan Partridge

#60. I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on.

Alan Moore

#61. I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

Alan Rickman

#62. It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

Alan Bennett

#63. You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time, just try to do music that you like and you are proud of and not just whatever you think it's going to take to get you on the radio.

Alan Jackson

#64. Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.

Alan Bennett

#65. He's a moody creature,isn't he?" she said to the bird. Auntie Em gave one impatient squawk, the extent of her vocabulary.
"Sounds like she got up on the wrong side of the perch," Alan commented.
"Oh,no.She's in a good mood if she says anything.

Nora Roberts

#66. The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.

Alan Watts

#67. But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life.
-Damien

Alan Brennert

#68. One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

Alan Bean

#69. Please, don't go. It's lonely. There's a hole in my head as big as the world and it's so very lonely ...

Alan Moore

#70. Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you ... Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations.

Alan Moore

#71. Don't get me wrong, I like NASCAR and shopping at Nordstrom's, but discipleship is intrinsic as a lifestyle."

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#72. The purpose of prayer is not to change God's mind, which always knows your wholeness and your deservingness. The purpose of prayer is to change your mind so you can see through the eyes of God.

Alan Cohen

#73. The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation ... , the more elusive it becomes ... It is like trying to clutch water in one's hands - the harder one grips, the faster it slips through one's fingers.

Alan Watts

#74. When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.

Alan Dershowitz

#75. The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

Alan Dershowitz

#76. Let's find out what everyone is doing, And then stop everyone from doing it.

Alan Patrick Herbert

#77. The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money ... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Alan Watts

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

Alan Jackson

#79. He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.

Alan K. Simpson

#80. I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant source of discomfort, because you're dealing with incredible moral ambiguity, and you've been cast into a role which is not enviable.

Alan Dershowitz

#81. I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

Alan Rickman

#82. To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

Alan Paton

#83. One man's constant is another man's variable.

Alan Perlis

#84. I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul.

Alan Ball

#85. It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alan Alda

#86. All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.

Alan Moore

#87. It's not about worthiness, it's about willingness.

R. Alan Woods

#88. If one could see an infinite distance, they would observe the back of their head. That is Einstein's theory in a nut-shell.

R. Alan Woods

#89. We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around, but it's not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It's almost like there's too much choice.

Alan Palomo

#90. Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.

Alan King

#91. I definitely knew how to fly. That's something you don't forget. One spaceship is pretty much like another when it comes to flying.

Alan Tudyk

#92. I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.

Alan Arkin

#93. Every celebrity case I've been involved in - I've been involved in a great many - the one thing you can be sure of is they don't get the same justice as everybody else. It could be worse, it could be better, it's never the same.

Alan Dershowitz

#94. It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.

Alan Pardew

#95. Today, religion is systematized, formalized group worship. It's packaged. We don't live the divine any longer, we only hear or read about it.

Alan Joshua

#96. I remembered that Beethoven's symphonies had sometimes been given names ... they should have call [the Fifth] the Vampire, because it simply refused to lie down and die.

Alan Bradley

#97. There is an ability to move and transform things. I think each human being has that power, and it's often one that we are willing to relinquish to others.

Fred Alan Wolf

#98. When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar, you start reverting back to that state of mind where you're having conversations with yourself, and that's where the weirdest and most honest ideas come from.

Alan Palomo

#99. It's actually safe to create a universe in your basement.

Alan Guth

#100. It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.

Alan Hirsch