Allen Gregory Quotes

#1. The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.

Jonah Hill

#2. 'Allen Gregory' came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing around some ideas about me playing a 7-year-old. We thought that would be cool, because we couldn't do that in real life.

Jonah Hill

#3. A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

Samuel Johnson

#4. Home is a complex and resonant idea.

Gregory Allen Howard

#5. I know that as a writer I'm trying to, in some small way, return the gift that I got, and maybe provide a reader the kind of experience that has changed my life.

Gregory Allen Howard

#6. I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly unfolds itself in all its capacities.

Gregory Allen Howard

#7. Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs were all my teachers, each one passing through the lobby of the Chelsea Hotel, my new university.

Patti Smith

#8. It took a long time to get that film made. I went in for it almost right after or like maybe six or seven months after I had my son and actually auditioned for the Regina King part and they just were like, 'No, you're just - you just don't really seem the part.'

Nia Long

#9. She knew she was being unfair ... ; she knew she was acting like the most vulgar of women, the kind that is out to cause pain and knows how.

Milan Kundera

#10. Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.

Jessica Mitford

#11. I think all villains have something in common: they have something that they need or want very, very badly. The stakes are very high and they are not bound by moral codes or being ethical, so they can do anything and will do anything to get what they want.

Donna Murphy

#12. Sometimes I think of writing as becoming this antenna that picks up the vibrations all around me in order to find out how and where next I'll be steered.

Gregory Allen Howard

#13. Practicing art is a meditation; an artwork is an insight.

William Ash

#14. People say that it can't work, black and white. Here, we make it work every day. We still have our disagreements, of course, but before we reach for hate, always, always, we remember the Titans.

Gregory Allen Howard

#15. [Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#16. All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#17. Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens 'till parents stop clenching their fists around precious things and people, let go, & trust God!

Gary Patton

#18. The way I'm portrayed on the Internet is partly my doing, but it's partly the people that are presenting it so, you know, people come to know this strange version of a human. It can be pretty weird because people think I'm digging through dumpsters and smell like crap all the time.

Mac DeMarco

#19. Men are always for hire who like dirty work.

Robert A. Heinlein

#20. His overt wildness should have deterred her interest, but it had the opposite effect. She wanted something. To know him. To have some claim to him.

Harper St. George

#21. If her eyes had captured him; her smile enslaved him...

Gregory Allen

#22. Taking it as a whole, Mexico is a grand city, and, as Cortes truly said, its situation is marvellous.

Edward Burnett Tylor

#23. I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment.

Andrew Hill

#24. One of the things I prize most about being a writer is its license - you could even say injunction - to be curious, to follow anything anywhere and see where it might take you, how it can transform you, whether in content or form.

Gregory Allen Howard