Top 100 Alison's Quotes
#1. Every morning for, I don't know how long, I came over to Alison's [McGhee] house and we sat in her office and wrote the stories "out loud" together. We yelled at each other and made each other laugh. It was a lot of fun.
Kate DiCamillo
#2. Alison's grandfather told her,'To err is human, to forgive divine
Diane Griffith
#3. And Alison's leaning gently on my arm, her wild bouquet of orchid-red curls tickling into my neck.
Ben H. Winters
#4. Alison's mum has had a lot of plastic surgery and she wears fake eyelashes the size of hairbrushes. She looks sort of like a person but not really, like someone explained to aliens what a person is and they did their best to make one of their own.
Tana French
#5. Diane Harper had been sneakily copying, and was making a nurse costume, too, but being Diane, it turned out looking more like a Playboy Bunny without the ears. Alison's, however, was beautiful.
Robin Klein
#6. I started running outside when I was at 'Biggest Loser.' Then I got runner's knee, and thought I was never going to be able to shake it. When I overcame that and ran the L.A. Marathon, it was such an amazing thing, and now running is such a part of my routine.
Alison Sweeney
#7. Speak to me, fair maid!
Speak and do not go!
What sorrows have your eyes inlaid
With such black woe?
My dam is buried deep
Dark are my father's halls
And carrion fowl and wolves now keep
Their ruined walls
From: The Lay of Andomian and Beruldh
Alison Croggon
#8. I think Twitter is such a cool thing because it really is a direct line to the fans and for fans back to you, and it's such a new thing. I think in the past there's been usually fan mail and that's really good, but Twitter, it gets an immediate response.
Alison Brie
#9. So what's the verdict?" Kayla asked. "Can I act, or am I just a bimbo who got hired because I look good
in lingerie?"
"Is that a trick question?" Sean grinned. "Because I'm pretty sure you look good in lingerie.
Alison Packard
#10. Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now.
Alison Bechdel
#11. It's interesting when something's written about you, and there's comments after.
Alison Stewart
#12. When we're writing anything, we're bearing witness to the time we live in and how it's different from any other time in history.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#13. A lot of times students will come up to me and say, "Well, I can't write because I don't know what I think about such-and-such." And I say, "That's why you have to write." You don't wait until you know, because then who cares - it's static.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#14. I get along great with my family. My parents are really proud of me and my brother, who's a chef here in New York. I don't see my parents often, but they're very supportive, especially as I get older.
Alison Mosshart
#15. Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.
Brad Paisley
#16. Everyone on staff seemed to realize that _Chips Ahoy!_ was like the chest acne of children's television, best covered up in the hope of growing out of it soon.
Alison Umminger
#17. There's a lot more historical baggage to deal with as a wife than as a partner.
Alison Pill
#18. Your opinion is not influenced by anyone when you're alone at a matinee. It's just you and the movie.
Alison Brie
#19. All we have is
the present. The present's perfect, young
grasshopper, because we're breathing,
moving, laughing, crying, and are
surprised when we finally meet someone
we connect with. Stop living in the past
and wasting your present. You need to
tell Noah how you feel.
Alison G. Bailey
#20. I save my dreams and hopes for my kids. When I'm making a wish under a bridge or tunnel, it's always for them.
Alison Sweeney
#21. We have stay-in date nights where we make a plan to watch certain TV shows together. 'Survivor,' for example, is our favorite show. And I make a healthy dinner and we sit down and it's our date. I love it.
Alison Sweeney
#22. I'm a working mom, not a professional athlete, but I am a runner and that's a special club.
Alison Sweeney
#23. There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.
Alison Goldfrapp
#24. Before my mom decided she was a lesbian, I thought lesbians were all these really nice, earthy, crunchy, let's smother you with our twenty extra pounds of lady love and fight the power people.
Alison Umminger
#25. You lose a child and you do understand each other's grief at first, but if you get out of step with each other, it's all over. Suddenly each of you is alone.
Alison Bruce
#26. He comes out in shorts and the same V-neck shirt. One of his legs from just below the knee is a prosthesis. It's made of a dark metal and has swirling, jagged patterns on it. I feel like I should have known this, but I've only seen him in pants because it's winter. "Sorry,
Alison Evans
#27. When I'm in the U.S. Senate, I will fiercely oppose the president's attack on Kentucky's coal industry, because protecting our jobs will be my No. 1 priority.
Alison Lundergan Grimes
#28. But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and perfect.
Alison Lohman
#29. Lava oozed up from the centre of the crater like blood from a wound. As the flaming lava touched the water it hissed and groaned. She feared she would be boiled alive.
Alison Cooklin
#30. Nothing is ever truly gone ...
Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment that is not is ours. We are condemned to an endless present, and we can never go back-the source of all our joy, and all our sorrow.
-Hem at Zelika's grave
Alison Croggon
#31. [Phoebe Broome] 'Well,' she said at last. 'You've now met my father. At his worst.'
[Lord Vladimir] 'Being myself widely considered my family's most difficult member, I would not presume to comment.'
'That is ... gentlemanly of you.
Alison Sinclair
#32. There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.
Alison Goodman
#33. I eat a lot of fruit after I run. I find that hydrates me better than just drinking water. I have fruit already cut up for after a run, so when I'm done I can chow on cantaloupe or watermelon. It's so satisfying, and that probably keeps me from being too hungry for other things.
Alison Sweeney
#34. I think with all records, it's the starting out that is the difficult stage.
Alison Moyet
#35. I'd like to take more pictures of real celebrities. It would be fabulous to photograph Brad Pitt. He's so good-looking and just such a star.
Alison Jackson
#36. I think some women try to make you feel you're not all female because you haven't given birth. There are a lot of prejudices. Some women think women who have animals are deeply sad, because what they really want is a child. Mind you, there's probably an element of truth in that.
Alison Goldfrapp
#37. Since mediaeval times, the King had been seen as two bodies in one: a mortal entity and "the King's person," representing unending royal authority; monarchs therefore referred to themselves in the plural form as "we.
Alison Weir
#38. Autonomy is the capacity to act on principles that are one's own and one will exercise this capacity by means of a process of rational reflection on these principles. Autonomy is thought to be necessary for attributing political responsibility.
Alison Assiter
#39. Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.
Alison Krauss
#40. Sometimes I try to figure out why I always push things to talk about the really dark stuff in interviews, and I just think it's healing - for the listener, and for the guest.
Alison Rosen
#41. I recommend that people try new stuff or take new fitness classes all the time. It's important to mix up your routine, not only for your body, but also for your mental state.
Alison Sweeney
#42. A lot of my albums that I've done, a lot of the songs have been the first take. It's before you mess with it too much - you can take away all the spontaneity and the emotion of something by trying to make it sound perfect.
Alison Elliott
#44. She'd make them wish they were never Alison DiLaurentis's friends in the first place. She didn't know how, and she didn't know when, but at least she had one person she could count on to help her carry it out. Together, they were going to make it happen.
Even if it killed her.
Sara Shepard
#45. There are times, like after a long day of work, when the thought of an easy drive-through is enticing. But then I remember how crappy I felt when I ate fast food in the past, and it inspires me to head to the grocery store or my local farmer's market and whip up an easy but healthier option.
Alison Sweeney
#46. When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the same roof. So anything creative is interesting to me.
Alison Mosshart
#47. It's not your fault there is evil in the world Cadvan to Maerad
Alison Croggon
#48. I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to say I wanted men to read the strip even though there weren't any men in it, so they'd be forced to identify with the women.
Alison Bechdel
#49. Making a self can be like writing, and now I think writing can be like home: a space you make that you dwell in and roam through for hours every day, a space that's absolutely yours.
Jane Alison
#50. Alison,' said Kirk. 'She's new. Hey, want a space?' He nudged out one of the empty chairs with his foot.
'Space,' echoed Sanjay.
'The final frontier,' said Kirk helpfully. 'Or a place to sit, whatever. You gonna join us?
R. J. Anderson
#51. PROLOGUE 7TH SEPTEMBER 1874 It's the music that wakes Alison. She opens her eyes and is instantly alert, with only one thought in her mind: They are in the garden again.
Danny Weston
#52. If life's journey was intended to be easy, we would have been given directions. However, since we have no road map, we must climb the highest mountain and forge the deepest streams with love in our souls, in the hope that our own journey will give us peace within...
Virginia Alison
#53. You've always been my girl and always will be. No one will ever take me away from you, Tweet. You're my heart and soul and that's never going to change, no matter what you say.
Alison G. Bailey
#54. I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.
Alison Krauss
#55. Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.
Alison McGhee
#56. You know what? It's a great conversation starter, right? You meet friends that way. Sometimes it's a good thing. And then other times, I guess, the person is just a little too ... then you kind of like want to back away. It depends on the person, you know?
Alison Lohman
#57. It's impossible to make a record when you're ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can't make decisions. It all sounds terrible.
Alison Krauss
#58. I think it's important to be honest with yourself about what you want and it's important to be honest with your partner about what you need.
Alison Brie
#59. Every day, it's a different country, different time zone. If you asked me where home was, I've never felt like I've had that. My idea of comfort is to leave a place. Two weeks is sort of my max.
Alison Mosshart
#60. 'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I say it? - history!
Alison Weir
#61. I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more.
Alison Bechdel
#62. But unlike Lachlan and Alison, my demons aren't self-induced. My demons are fate's way of telling me I won't escape unscathed.
Kaitlyn Oruska
#63. I would say my favorite was just the beginning of the movie like doing all the rehearsal stuff. It's been amazing to see the rest of it happen but it happens so piecemeal. And Edgar sort of has the whole movie edited in his head already, so we're just sort of matching to what he has.
Alison Pill
#64. I once got my stiletto caught in my horse's tail on stage and went flying into the audience. It was a mental gig, so I think the crowd thought it was part of the show.
Alison Goldfrapp
#65. Looks can be deceiving. You can't always tell what's going on inside a person from outside. People put on a brave face when they're trying to get over heartbreak, but that doesn't mean they have.
Alison G. Bailey
#66. I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.
Alison Bechdel
#67. It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.
Alison Gopnik
#68. I guess the first big name I worked with was Sissy Spacek, and that was really interesting just because she's so incredible and I learned so much from just watching her. But she's also so unassuming that I loved working with her. It wasn't like working with a star, it was Sissy. Not a big deal.
Alison Pill
#69. She had become the demon, only too much, and too fast. I had an incredible urge to knock her on her ass, take her down a few notches. Turning her just got higher on the priority scale. That's if I didn't kill her first.
L.J. Kentowski
#70. Just as there can be a hole in these narratives, a memoir can be as much about what's forgotten as what's remembered.
Jane Alison
#71. I think we choose gear by the way that it looks. We choose lots of things by the way that it looks. I don't like bands that look like roadies. I don't like when I can't tell who's the guitar tech and who's the guitar player.
Alison Mosshart
#72. For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.
Alison Lohman
#73. At six o'clok the young King's terrible sufferings finally ended. After his eyes had closed for the last time, the tempeste raged on. Later, superstitious folk claimed that Henry himself had sent it, and had risen from his grave in anger at the subversion of his will.
Alison Weir
#74. The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall.
Alison Krauss
#75. It's always difficult to see yourself as other people do, but I'm realistic about my appearance. I wasn't born with one of those pretty, pretty faces, so I've never been absorbed with the way I look. I just try to make the most of what I've got.
Alison Jackson
#76. All of my art is suitcase-sized. I always paint in mediums that dry pretty quickly because I've got to throw them in my suitcase and go. And I have so much because of that, because it's what I've always done to pass the time, and I like it.
Alison Mosshart
#77. We watch a lot of Discovery Channel, shows like 'The Biggest Loser' and even 'Amazing Race.' You learn a lot about the world, it's fun and nobody's interested in beating anybody down. And then the opposite: I'm a huge fan of 'Survivor.'
Alison Sweeney
#78. It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.
Alison Jackson
#79. I had this thing about not giving too much of myself away, so I thought, if I sang lyrics, that's giving too much away. You know, I really didn't want to give myself away.
Alison Goldfrapp
#80. We know what makes babies smart and happy and thrive. It's having human beings who are dedicated to caring for them - human beings who are well supported, not stressed out and not poor.
Alison Gopnik
#81. If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.
Alison Gopnik
#82. Kids don't eat fast. They take their time; they talk and laugh. Sometimes it's really annoying, because you're like, 'Come on, it's bedtime!' But try it: You'll fill up before you know it, because it takes 20 minutes for your brain to know your stomach is full.
Alison Sweeney
#83. I laughed. 'It's a cellar Phil, calling it your recording studio does not make that sentence any less creepy.
Alison Davis
#84. My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more influenced by English R&B Blues Shouting. I'm closer to Led Zeppelin as a vocalist than to Ella Fitzgerald. It was torture dealing with major labels.
Alison Moyet
#85. You wanna do a lot of backstory for your character - as an actor, you wanna research that. But on the show, it's fun to remain in that naive place as you go along, and be able to continue to discover things about your character as the writers come up with them.
Alison Brie
#86. Yazoo is the name of an old blues label and also a town in America. I like it because it doesn't mean a thing, it has no immediate connotations. That's what I hate about so many names today - they're so obviously fashionable.
Alison Moyet
#87. It's hard to act in a corset. Your breath gets cut off. You're squashed.
Alison Elliott
#88. Finding the perfect lookalike to work with is crucial and a lengthy process. We have our regulars, but we also use social media all the time to find people. It's amazing who you can unearth on Twitter.
Alison Jackson
#89. Biology textbooks tell you the opposite action of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. One produces cold, blue-white anger, the other flushed apoplexy. Roy's was the pink sort. He was a big blonde man, with Viking bristle to eyebrows and mustache.
Alison Jolly
#90. There's only one sun," Alison said with feeling. "It's always the same, but it's always the best. Do you know what I mean?
Christopher Pike
#91. I suppose we carry photographs now, but I think it's rather wonderful that people used to carry drawings and watercolours. I wish people did that more often.
Alison Jackson
#92. So you know that all living things share the same energy source and that every action that humans do to nature will affect everything on this planet.
Alison Cooklin
#93. Burning her husband's bed was a mistake. Alison could see that now.
Margaret Mallory
#94. It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.
Alison Bechdel
#95. Many forgotten things live still in children's tales.
Alison Croggon
#96. I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about the outward signs of whatever's happening - you have the end result. Whereas in a novel you get a buildup of the whys and wherefores, and you're let into the backstory.
Alison Pill
#97. Ted Danson is amazing. He's incredible.
Alison Brie
#98. My private life ... Nobody should care. I think it's weird.
Alison Lohman
#99. It's so hard to pick a 'single.' I always want it to be whatever my favorite tune is, but often the record company and the person whose job it is to take it to radio have different ideas.
Alison Goldfrapp
#100. My idea of hell is a girlfriend ringing up and saying, 'Let's go shopping and have cocktails.' I'd rather play cards.
Alison Moyet
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