Alvin Day Quotes

#1. Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen that I was missing out on the nearness of God all along. In becoming preoccupied with the why, I was missing the who.

Margaret Feinberg

#2. It would be a mistake to assume that the present day educational system is unchanging. On the contrary, it is undergoing rapid change. But much of this change is no more than an attempt to refine the existent machinery, making it ever more efficient in pursuit of obsolete goals.

Alvin Toffler

#3. It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.

Arthur Rimbaud

#4. There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.

Margaret Atwood

#5. It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living.

Casey Stengel

#6. I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.

Alvin Lee

#7. What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the truth are closely allied and movies are sheer magic ... when they work, it's, well, it's glorious.

John Huston

#8. The lives of those who tidy thoroughly and completely, in a single shot, are without exception dramatically altered.

Marie Kondo

#9. In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary.

Ayn Rand

#10. For Chips, like some old sea captain, still measured time by the signals of the past ...

James Hilton

#11. My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.

Alvin Adams

#12. Alvin didn't cry, didn't curse, didn't holler ... He was too far gone to roar on that day or even to crack. Only I did ... Only I cracked, alone, later in the one place in our house where I knew I could go to be apart from the living and all that they cannot not do.

Philip Roth

#13. But I feel overwhelmed with the everyday things that insist on my attention. And under-whelmed.

Bill Callahan

#14. Profanity enjoyed sexual congress with profanity in this hail storm of the vile, the tautological and the physically ridiculous.

Tim Robson

#15. My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day my father brought home Big Bill Broonzy, and there he was sitting in our living room playing, and blues was in my heart from the time I was 12 years old.

Alvin Lee

#16. I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.

Jim Butcher

#17. To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner.

George A. Sheehan

#18. Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.

Gordon Livingston

#19. I love my films. I have stacks and stacks of DVDs. I put 'Last of the Mohicans' on the other day with Daniel Day-Lewis. It hurts me to say it because he's a Millwall fan, but I think he's fantastic.

Alvin Martin