Top 100 Alvin's Quotes
#1. Alvin's the coach. We must be the Clippers. And I must be Olowokandi. Nooooo!
Shaquille O'Neal
#2. That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.
Alvin Lee
#3. Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
Alvin Ailey
#4. It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.
Alvin Ailey
#5. Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
Alvin Toffler
#6. 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
#7. The fear of God makes a hero; the fear of man makes a coward.
Alvin C. York
#8. 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
#9. Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.
Alvin Dark
#10. 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
#11. 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
#13. Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
Alvin Toffler
#14. I have not stopped water when it should run. I have not made a cutting in a canal of running water.
Alvin A. Bullock
#15. 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
#16. Sir Alex, Mourinho, Wenger - none of them could have done
a better job at Wigan than Steve Bruce ...
Alvin Martin
#17. Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.
Alvin Toffler
#18. 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
#19. I danced growing up. I had two friends of mine that, actually, one of them wound up dancing with Alvin Ailey.
Lisa Ann Walter
#20. So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.
Alvin Lee
#21. I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.
Alvin Langdon Coburn
#22. 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
#23. To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.
Alvin Ailey
#24. Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
Alvin Toffler
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.
Alvin Ailey
#28. Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth.
Alvin Adams
#29. The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.
Alvin Toffler
#30. I write and record all the time; it's my hobby and my passion.
Alvin Lee
#31. Life tol'ably queer. You think you've got a grip on it, then you open your hands and you find there's nothing in them.
Alvin C. York
#32. I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.
Alvin Lee
#33. They knew that it was not their faith that validated Christ's resurrection, as many of today's modern theologians teach and preach, but that it was his physical resurrection that validated their faith.
Alvin J. Schmidt
#34. I'm not conscious of the speed ... it's not my motive ... my motive is displaying a voice through the fingerboard ... it can get to the point where I don't have control over what I am playing ... I never end the gig until I can't sing anymore
Alvin Lee
#35. I strongly encourage listening to the radio to hear something you haven't heard before. It's a very healthy thing to do. It's strange: unless you reload your iPods every couple of weeks, you're listening to and recycling the same music all of the time. I'm serious. Listen to your radio station.
Alvin Lee
#36. No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough.
Alvin Ailey
#37. 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
#38. It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.
Alvin Lee
#39. When you're doing kidney transplants, you have to find out who can exchange kidneys with whom, doing blood tests to make sure it's true. You can't just work on the preliminary data. Then you have to organize the logistics.
Alvin E. Roth
#40. Love is the greatest religion that ever was or ever will be.
Alvin Conway
#41. I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.
Alvin Lee
#42. Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove or establish their conclusion.
Alvin Plantinga
#43. I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.
Alvin Martin
#44. Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it.
Alvin E. Roth
#45. The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.
Alvin Ailey
#46. My solos are more tastefully conceived now. But I still get going in places. It's just that I build up to it now. I don't race off on a solo. I take my time.
Alvin Lee
#47. 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
#48. They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don't think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it's the only way they can get any work.
Alvin Lee
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.
Alvin Toffler
#52. 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
#53. We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.
Alvin Ailey
#54. There is not one iota of history as we know it in the entire Bible!
Alvin Boyd Kuhn
#55. Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
Alvin Toffler
#56. Arsene Wenger uses the FA Cup to bleed his youngsters
Alvin Martin
#57. A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.
Alvin Dark
#58. 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
#59. Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways
Alvin Toffler
#60. Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.
Alvin Plantinga
#61. The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.
Alvin Toffler
#62. In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.
Alvin Dark
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.
Alvin Ailey
#68. Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them.
Orson Scott Card
#69. The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'
Alvin Dark
#70. Steve Bruce is like a cat on hot tin bricks.
Alvin Martin
#71. 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
#72. The hardest part of growing old is remembering what it was like when you were young. Alvin in The Straight Story (movie)
Dan Carruthers
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work.
Alvin Ailey
#76. 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
#78. Brian Laws has lifted his team out of precocious waters
Alvin Martin
#79. 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
#80. In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.
Alvin Ailey
#81. If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable.
Alvin Plantinga
#82. There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
Alvin Toffler
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
- Chinese proverb
Alvin Toffler
#88. 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
#89. Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
Alvin Toffler
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. The great growling engine of change - technology.
Alvin Toffler
#93. A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
Alvin Toffler
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. The string connecting everything real and abstract in the universe is entangled in a thought and knotted in an idea.
Alvin Conway
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