Top 100 Alvin Quotes
#1. 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
#2. The hardest part of growing old is remembering what it was like when you were young. Alvin in The Straight Story (movie)
Dan Carruthers
#3. Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them.
Orson Scott Card
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. I danced growing up. I had two friends of mine that, actually, one of them wound up dancing with Alvin Ailey.
Lisa Ann Walter
#9. 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
#10. Maybe I should go back to teaching school about crazy people instead of being one. (Jim Alvin)
Patricia Briggs
#11. 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
#12. When it appeared that even the most passive-aggressive attempts would not work, Charlie resorted to the ultimate Beta Male Attack, which was to tolerate Alvin and Mohammed's presence, but to resent the hell out of them and drop snide remarks whenever he had the chance.
Christopher Moore
#13. 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
#14. I was used to dancing, but only when someone told you what to do. So in the nightclub I was all over the place, I combined everything. Street dance, modern dance, a bit of jazz and ballet, I was Twyla Tharp, I was Alvin Ailey, I was Michael Jackson. I didn't care, I was free.
Madonna Ciccone
#15. Alvin's the coach. We must be the Clippers. And I must be Olowokandi. Nooooo!
Shaquille O'Neal
#16. All my life I've been fascinated by the precipice in all of us. When you come to it, you either choose to fall or you don't
Alvin Ailey
Kathy Petrakis
#17. I never found a place where I wanted to live more than Alvin (Texas).
Nolan Ryan
#18. I wanted to be an Ailey dancer. I would watch Alvin Ailey videos over and over, and I'd picture myself doing that. I was obsessed with it.
Robert Battle
#19. I liked him as a bloke, and I like a lot of their songs. I like "Girls On Film," and I can't pretend otherwise. I don't have hatred for different forms of music, in fact I've got a great deal of love and openness to everything done by anybody. Christ, I have to: I've got two Alvin Stardust albums.
John Lydon
#20. Boy - before intense anxiety had crushed his chances for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and sent him into the awful mental decline in which he'd been made a vampire.
Anne Rice
#21. I'm born originally in Toronto, and I have what I call my 'Fame' story. I took a Greyhound bus and went to Alvin Ailey and received Dunham, Horton, Graham technique there, but I could never take my eyes off of Balanchine doing 'Nutcracker'; to me he's the best who ever did it.
Laurieann Gibson
#22. The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.
Orson Scott Card
#23. Alvin was an explorer, and all explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.
Arthur C. Clarke
#24. Alvin Plantinga is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last century.
Alvin Plantinga
#25. LOST 2 Irish Hellhounds. Very black, like bear. Huge, like bear. Answer to Alvin and Mohammed. Like to eat everything. Like bear! REWARD!
Christopher Moore
#26. You've got to think about the big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. - Alvin Toffler
David Allen
#27. Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don't put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.
Orson Scott Card
#29. 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
#30. But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work.
Alvin Ailey
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. Steve Bruce is like a cat on hot tin bricks.
Alvin Martin
#34. The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'
Alvin Dark
#35. If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.
Alvin Ailey
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.
Alvin Dark
#41. The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.
Alvin Toffler
#42. Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.
Alvin Plantinga
#43. Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways
Alvin Toffler
#44. 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
#45. A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.
Alvin Dark
#46. Arsene Wenger uses the FA Cup to bleed his youngsters
Alvin Martin
#47. Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
Alvin Toffler
#48. There is not one iota of history as we know it in the entire Bible!
Alvin Boyd Kuhn
#49. We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.
Alvin Ailey
#50. 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
#51. The string connecting everything real and abstract in the universe is entangled in a thought and knotted in an idea.
Alvin Conway
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
Alvin Toffler
#58. The great growling engine of change - technology.
Alvin Toffler
#59. 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
#61. 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
#62. A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
- Chinese proverb
Alvin Toffler
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
Alvin Toffler
#66. If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable.
Alvin Plantinga
#67. In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.
Alvin Ailey
#68. 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
#69. Brian Laws has lifted his team out of precocious waters
Alvin Martin
#70. Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
Alvin Toffler
#71. Love is the greatest religion that ever was or ever will be.
Alvin Conway
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
Alvin Toffler
#75. To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.
Alvin Ailey
#76. 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
#77. I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.
Alvin Langdon Coburn
#78. So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.
Alvin Lee
#79. 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
#80. Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.
Alvin Toffler
#81. Sir Alex, Mourinho, Wenger - none of them could have done
a better job at Wigan than Steve Bruce ...
Alvin Martin
#82. 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
#83. I have not stopped water when it should run. I have not made a cutting in a canal of running water.
Alvin A. Bullock
#84. Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
Alvin Toffler
#86. 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
#87. Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.
Alvin Dark
#88. 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
#89. The fear of God makes a hero; the fear of man makes a coward.
Alvin C. York
#90. 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
#91. Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
Alvin Toffler
#92. It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.
Alvin Ailey
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
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