Quotes About Alan

#1. Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.

Alan Furst

#2. There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

Alan Ball

#3. We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.

Alan Alda

#4. After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.

Alan Light

#5. When you finally give up striving, you will be left with what you have been striving for.

Alan Cohen

#6. Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, acting in and directing 'M*A*S*H'; he used to commute between the set and home because he didn't want to disrupt his kids' schooling.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

#7. Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.

Alan Jay Lerner

#8. I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator.

Alan Furst

#9. Like the ski resort of girls looking for husbands and husbands looking for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem.

Alan McKay

#10. Rawls, the back-up running back (Tank wrenched his leg out of socket, which I didn't know was possible).

Alan Janney

#11. Captain Phasma. Remember me?" He moved his weapon slightly. "Here's my blaster, ya still wanna inspect it?" Phasma held on to her dignity. "Yes, I remember you. FN-2187." Finn shook his head curtly. "Not anymore. My name is Finn. A real name for a real person. And I'm in charge now.

Alan Dean Foster

#12. You're one of them de Luce girls over from Buckshaw. I'd rec'nize them cold blue eyes anywhere.

Alan Bradley

#13. If you want to be your best, spend a lot of time exploring what is more than enough. Push yourself until the bar is lying immobile across your chest. Push yourself right off the edge of your capacity.

Brad Alan Lewis

#14. One of the major problems with China is that its innovation is largely borrowed technology.

Alan Greenspan

#15. Since 1948 I have spent every single day thinking how the economic and political worlds have changed.

Alan Greenspan

#16. As I say, the Animals had a particular concept of themselves as a band. There was an anarchic spirit in it, which was being flattened by commercial designs, attitudes, and needs.

Alan Price

#17. I'm passionate about the issues that I care about, and I'm a really good listener.

Alan Lowenthal

#18. The bottom line is that we cannot sit idle as unparalleled rules and regulations significantly restrict our rights and ability to care for our families.

Alan Wilson

#19. It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.

Alan Alda

#20. Investing money is the process of committing resources in a strategic way to accomplish a specific objective.

Alan Gotthardt

#21. I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.

Alan Garner

#22. If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.

Alan Sillitoe

#23. I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

Alan Parker

#24. I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would still be reluctance on the part of the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish secular democracy.

Alan Dershowitz

#25. Alan McCluskey
Despair is an ugly thing when it refuses hope.

Alan McCluskey

#26. Paradox as it may seem, we likewise find life meaningful only when we have seen that it is without purpose, and know the "mystery of the universe" only when we are convinced that we know nothing about it at all.

Alan W. Watts

#27. To understand that, we have to begin to imagine what a universe would be like if there wasn't anything in it called Mind. If that was the case, according to quantum physics now, then every possibility would also come into existence as every other possibility.

Fred Alan Wolf

#28. If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.

Alan Gorrie

#29. I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Alan Bennett

#30. I have had interviews and got close to taking a managerial job. I would consider going back into football.

Alan Shearer

#31. Something within me is waking from long sleep, and I want to live and move again. Some zest is returning to me, some immense gratefulness for those who love me, some strong wish to love them also. I am full of thanks for life. I have not told myself to be thankful. I am just so.

Alan Paton

#32. Leaning forward in the chair, Harley squeezed out a controlled fart, so no one could hear it. This damn reception area was like a echo chamber. If he weren't careful, it could reverberate around the hall like a shotgun blast.

Alan Kinross

#33. I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.

Alan Ball

#34. You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.

Alan Furst

#35. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.

Alan Alda

#36. Oh, Alan Ryves," she said. "You're such a fantastic liar. You are the smoothest con man of them all.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#37. We're a nation of sheep. If you go out and look up at the sky, people around you will start looking up at the sky.

Alan Abel

#38. Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.

Alan Sugar

#39. Above all, in order to gain respect, you need to be true to yourself. There is no point in trying to be brutal if it's not in your nature; there is no point in trying to be suave and sophisticated if it doesn't come naturally.

Alan Sugar

#40. The walls in front of us are not there to keep us from achieving our desire. They are there to see how bad we want what we desire.

Bruce Alan Jensen

#41. You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

Alan Furst

#42. You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.

Alan Cumming

#43. The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.

Alan Kay

#44. One word can change your life forever.
I love you
I hate you
Think about it

Alan Macmillan Orr

#45. Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.

Alan Cumming

#46. Teach yourself freedom with the same zeal that the world has taught you limits.

Alan Cohen

#47. Those who recognize their innocence do not expect, receive, or accept punishment from any outside source.

Alan Cohen

#48. Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

David Alan Grier

#49. T's really an encouragement of discipleship, it looks like anything else that we're offering to anyone else, any other person struggling with any other issue in their life. It's about pursuing a relationship with Christ.

Alan Chambers

#50. Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Alan W. Watts

#51. I am not looking for a friend; if I want a friend I'd buy a dog.

Alan Sugar

#52. As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun.

Alan Cohen

#53. Somewhere between what the lens depicts and what the caption interprets, a mental picture intervenes, a cultural ideology defining what and how to see, what to recognize as significant.

Alan Trachtenberg

#54. Blood is drawn! I am impressed-though my hell-spawned powers will heal it! Besides ... next to giving pain my favourite sport's to feel it.

Alan Grant

#55. Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.

Alan Dershowitz

#56. If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.

Alan Bennett

#57. Filmmakers, they tell me they want to make movies. I say, 'Good, go out, buy a $500 camera, get some friends and make a movie. Don't go to Hollywood. Stay wherever you are.'

Alan Arkin

#58. A clear picture of that which God wants for us is rarely clearly articulated".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#59. But, Eminem ... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat.

Alan Vega

#60. I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

Alan Bennett

#61. The shamanic realm is to get you out of the word set. For skeptics, that's impossible, and they just can't see that and it just makes no sense.

Fred Alan Wolf

#62. Consider a world in which cause and effect are erratic. Sometimes the first precedes the second, and sometimes the second the first. Or perhaps cause lies forever in the past effect in the future, but future and past are intertwined.

Alan Lightman

#63. I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.

Alan Bennett

#64. Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

Alan Perlis

#65. Everything is always a muddle just before it settles in. Tell

Alan Bradley

#66. The arsenal of megadeath can't be rid no matter what the peace treaties come to.

Alan Cranston

#67. I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

Alan W. Watts

#68. The most valuable asset a nation has is the creativity of its children.

Alan Plater

#69. Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.

Alan Bullock

#70. And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.

Alan Blinder

#71. The man is United - cut him and he bleeds red

Alan Brazil

#72. I reached out and touched his hands and they stilled at once. I had observed - although I did not often make use of the fact - that there were times when a touch could say things that words could not.

Alan Bradley

#73. Fear inhibits our ability to understand,
doubt our ability to trust,ego hinders the emergence of truth.

I. Alan Appt

#74. I won't eat in a place that has suits of armor.

Alan King

#75. I am married,' she shouted, 'to the cupboard under the sink.' A remark made more mysterious to Mrs Barnes by the sound of a passing ice-cream van playing the opening bars of the 'Blue Danube'.

Alan Bennett

#76. The ego tells you to fill space. Your spirit tells you to let space fill you.

Alan Cohen

#77. I have always found that actively loving
saves one from a morbid preoccupation
with the shortcomings of society.

Alan Paton

#78. I don't care about names attached to the script. That doesn't matter to me. All things being equal, I would like to work with a good script with a good director, and the part I play is of less important than those two factors.

Alan Arkin

#79. I don't live in L.A. on purpose because I don't wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people, in order to inform what I'm doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.

Alan Arkin

#80. Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.

Alan Siegel

#81. Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago.

Jay Alan Sekulow

#82. It is seldom at the frontier that discoveries are made but more often in the dustbin.

Alan Bennett

#83. You can take a sidewards step in the Premier League, go to a team in the Championship or come to a team in League One.

Alan Smith

#84. I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.

Alan K. Simpson

#85. Big guys like you and me aren't allowed to whine.

Brad Alan Lewis

#86. Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.

Alan Cooper

#87. I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.

Alan Chambers

#88. I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.

Alan Alda

#89. For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.

Alan Watts

#90. The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.

Alan Keyes

#91. Oh, honey, being scared but still doing the right thing is what being brave is all about.

Kerry Alan Denney

#92. If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

Alan Chadwick

#93. Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.

Alan W. Watts

#94. What I discovered is I don't like to repeat lead characters because one of the most pleasurable things in a book to me is learning about the lead.

Alan Furst

#95. Any barrier, I had learned
even a potential one
was best breached by pretending urgency.

Alan Bradley

#96. I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really can artistically breathe, and let my ideas flow.

Alan Cohen

#97. I gotta make a living. I make no bones about that. Most actors do. But within that context, I've never not tried to make something as fresh and alive as I possibly could make it.

Alan Arkin

#98. Patience is hard when your very soul cries for freedom.

Alan Kinross

#99. Racing shirts should be sold on big, thick rolls like paper towels.

Brad Alan Lewis

#100. I'm not a big horror movie fan. I am afraid of them; they scare me.

Alan Tudyk