Alvin Quotes

#1. You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

Alvin Toffler

#2. But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work.

Alvin Ailey

#3. What's important is the work that you're doing, not the country that you're in. I would much rather be in a play at the Royal Court than in Los Angeles making 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.'

James Corden

#4. Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.

Alvin Langdon Coburn

#5. The hardest part of growing old is remembering what it was like when you were young. Alvin in The Straight Story (movie)

Dan Carruthers

#6. 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

#7. Steve Bruce is like a cat on hot tin bricks.

Alvin Martin

#8. The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'

Alvin Dark

#9. Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them.

Orson Scott Card

#10. If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.

Alvin Ailey

#11. The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.

Alvin Toffler

#12. Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd.

Alvin Toffler

#13. There was still no likelihood that we could make a living from dance. We were doing it because we loved it ... We realized how full we felt; we were surrounded by music and dancing and joy.

Alvin Ailey

#14. All living things must grow or they will die. Adaptation to change is a characteristic of all living systems. Thus, all living things must grow, adapt, evolve, or die. Evolution is nature's creative way of pushing living organisms to higher degrees of complexity. We adapt up, not compromise down.

Alvin Conway

#15. In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.

Alvin Dark

#16. The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.

Alvin Toffler

#17. Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.

Alvin Plantinga

#18. Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways

Alvin Toffler

#19. There is one domain in which untruth is insupportable, that field of the human soul's endeavor of which Truth is the very substance and being, - religion

Alvin Boyd Kuhn

#20. A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.

Alvin Dark

#21. Arsene Wenger uses the FA Cup to bleed his youngsters

Alvin Martin

#22. Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.

Alvin Toffler

#23. There is not one iota of history as we know it in the entire Bible!

Alvin Boyd Kuhn

#24. We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.

Alvin Ailey

#25. 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

#26. The string connecting everything real and abstract in the universe is entangled in a thought and knotted in an idea.

Alvin Conway

#27. I really like working. I can't think of a job I didn't like. I was in an Alvin and the Chipmunks movie, which is not my idea of folk art; but I really enjoyed making it, and everyone was really nice.

Jenny Slate

#28. I moved to Harvard in 1998, and in 2000 the first kidney exchange in the United States was done at a hospital nearby. I started to think, 'Gee, there might be a way where I could help organize it, make it easier for people to find kidneys.'

Alvin E. Roth

#29. Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

Alvin Dark

#30. I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.

Alvin Adams

#31. Strangely enough, I wasn't into fast guitarists. I preferred Peter Green's subtle touch. I saw him with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers at the Marquee Club in London and was very impressed. He was the only guitarist I've ever seen to turn the volume control on his guitar down during a solo.

Alvin Lee

#32. My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Ralph Willis, Lonnie Johnson, Brownie McGhee and the three Kings, B.B., Albert and Freddie. Jazz-wise, I listened to Django, Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery.

Alvin Lee

#33. A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.

Alvin Toffler

#34. The great growling engine of change - technology.

Alvin Toffler

#35. The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird.

Alvin Lee

#36. He was as needy as she was. Alvin Finch only wanted to be needed. Loved. And absent of either, he resorted to deflecting his pain by killing. Just like a teenager might resort to deflecting the pain of rejection by cutting. People did a lot of crazy things to be wanted.

Ted Dekker

#37. Never in history has distance meant less.

Alvin Toffler

#38. My aim in photography is always to convey a mood and not to impart local information. This is not an easy matter, for the camera if left to its own devices will simply impart local information to the exclusiveness of everything else.

Alvin Langdon Coburn

#39. A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
- Chinese proverb

Alvin Toffler

#40. When the clock struck twelve, you dropped whatever you were doing and you went and ate your lunch. You had to have your priorities straight, and Alvin Hobbs figured his priorities were as straight as an arrow. Hunting

Scott Langrel

#41. I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows of the crowd. You can see the faces of the first hundred people, but then it becomes a blur as the crowds disappear over the hill.

Alvin Lee

#42. My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer; she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn't even think about becoming an actress.

Sanaa Lathan

#43. It is my hope that photography may fall in line with all the other arts and with her infinite possibilities, do things strange and more fascinating than the most fantastic dreams.

Alvin Langdon Coburn

#44. There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.

Alvin Toffler

#45. If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable.

Alvin Plantinga

#46. In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.

Alvin Ailey

#47. Maybe we could think of science as being like a nuclear chain reaction in which people and ideas bounce off each other, and if critical mass is reached, a new field is formed.

Alvin E. Roth

#48. Brian Laws has lifted his team out of precocious waters

Alvin Martin

#49. Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

Alvin Toffler

#50. Love is the greatest religion that ever was or ever will be.

Alvin Conway

#51. We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on things like a poet, string quartets, and then a rock band! It was kinda cool!

Alvin Lee

#52. That's the beauty of creativity. It comes from the ether. I like to think, sometimes, it's like I haven't written it, it's more like I just reached up and grabbed it from somewhere. That song, 'Song of the Red Rock Mountain,' is one of them. I recorded it and thought, 'Where did that come from?'

Alvin Lee

#53. Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Alvin Toffler

#54. To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.

Alvin Ailey

#55. There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.

Alvin Dark

#56. I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.

Alvin Langdon Coburn

#57. So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.

Alvin Lee

#58. I danced growing up. I had two friends of mine that, actually, one of them wound up dancing with Alvin Ailey.

Lisa Ann Walter

#59. The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

Alvin Toffler

#60. Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

Alvin Toffler

#61. Sir Alex, Mourinho, Wenger - none of them could have done
a better job at Wigan than Steve Bruce ...

Alvin Martin

#62. Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.

Alvin Ailey

#63. I have not stopped water when it should run. I have not made a cutting in a canal of running water.

Alvin A. Bullock

#64. Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.

Alvin Toffler

#65. A temperate fire never boils the water.

Alvin Conway

#66. As long as there are dancers around who love to dance, there will be an Alvin Ailey American Dance Company. We miss him so much, but he's alive as soon as you see a dancer hit the stage.

Judith Jamison

#67. The only country in which it is legal to buy and sell kidneys from living donor/sellers is the Islamic Republic of Iran. Legal markets were permitted there after the need for kidneys spiked during the Iran-Iraq War.

Alvin E. Roth

#68. Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.

Alvin Dark

#69. It wasn't until the movie came out that it all changed for us. Some people say it was the start of Ten Years After, but in another way, it was the beginning of the end.

Alvin Lee

#70. The fear of God makes a hero; the fear of man makes a coward.

Alvin C. York

#71. I had orders to report to Brigadier General Lindsey, and he said to me, "Well, York, I hear you have captured the whole damned German army." And I told him I only had 132.

Alvin C. York

#72. Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

Alvin Toffler

#73. It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.

Alvin Ailey

#74. Market design is about understanding the details of markets in sufficient detail so that we can help fix them when they are broken.

Alvin E. Roth

#75. Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

Alvin Ailey

#76. My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.

Alvin Toffler

#77. The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

Alvin Toffler

#78. Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.

Alvin Plantinga

#79. 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

#80. To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.

Alvin Toffler

#81. Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

Alvin Toffler

#82. That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.

Alvin Lee

#83. Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

Alvin Ailey

#84. Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.

Alvin Toffler

#85. If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.

Alvin Toffler

#86. The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.

Alvin Dark

#87. I make solutions that nobody wants to problems that don't exist.

Alvin Lustig

#88. I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.

Alvin Ailey

#89. I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig.

Alvin Lee

#90. Maybe I should go back to teaching school about crazy people instead of being one. (Jim Alvin)

Patricia Briggs

#91. Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.

Alvin Toffler

#92. My Ph.D. is in operations research. I was interested in making things work better and using mathematics to help do that. So operations research is what I studied as an undergraduate and graduate student.

Alvin E. Roth

#93. Money is a never-ending problem.

Alvin Ailey

#94. Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't oke enough holes to drain it dry.

Alvin Price

#95. If just a tiny fraction of the sums spent on scientific and technological research and innovation were devoted to labs for designing and testing new organizational and institutional structures, we might have a much broader range of options to head off the looming implosion.

Alvin Toffler

#96. A library is a hospital for the mind. - Anonymous

Alvin Toffler

#97. An artist is a man who tries to express the inexpressible.

Alvin Langdon Coburn

#98. In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again.

Alvin Toffler

#99. You cannot get a new economy without a new society.

Alvin Toffler

#100. Hiccup followed him carefully ... and fell over again.
"BRAVO!" clapped Alvin, to Hiccup's surprise.
"But I fell over again" said Hiccup.
"But with such STYLE," said Alvin. "You can't teach that, it's in the blood.

Cressida Cowell