Richard Alley Quotes

#1. I saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley.

Little Richard

#2. The more the climate is forced to change, the more likely it is to hit some unforeseen threshold that can trigger quite fast, surprising and perhaps unpleasant changes.

Richard Alley

#3. East 103rd, New York, New York

Richard J. Alley

#4. The average British woman is a size 12 to 14, but in modelling, a size 12 is considered huge, which is ridiculous.

Marie Helvin

#5. The ice sheets seem to be shrinking 100 years ahead of schedule.

Richard Alley

#6. Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance.

Marshall McLuhan

#7. The English language is direct, unapologetic, and wonderfully amoral. Italian has a beautiful sound, but you cannot help but feel that you are always dealing with ghosts from the past and the looming dark presence of the Vatican.

Chiara Barzini

#8. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' because you will get 'down the drain,' into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

Richard P. Feynman

#9. I think it is safe to say that no one understands quantum mechanics. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will go "down the drain" into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. - Nobel physicist Richard Feynman

Robert Lanza

#10. I am a learner, my desire is to be a good listener and to have a teachable spirit in my life time.

Euginia Herlihy

#11. We won't ever see another one like Paul Scholes. He is a legend and a real benchmark. He is not interested in the modern-day footballer's life off the pitch, but he is a world-class player on it

Darren Fletcher

#12. A healthy brain leads to a healthy you.

Abhijit Naskar

#13. If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to you. And that enables you to interpret the myth in relation to life, as well as life in relation to myth.

Joseph Campbell

#14. I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.

Alan Hansen

#15. They are four people as similar as they are unique - one at the end of his career, one lost in the middle, one who dreams of beginning, and the fourth, a child, not knowing what is ahead of him.

Richard J. Alley

#16. Then they decided that the fleas that lived on Siamese cats would probably be more intelligent than the fleas that lived on just ordinary alley cats. It only made sense that drinking intelligent blood would make intelligent fleas.

Richard Brautigan

#17. He had made his choice while he dug Dobby's grave, he had decided to continue along the winding, dangerous path indicated for him by Albus Dumbledore, to accept that he had not been told everything that he wanted to know, but simply to trust.

J.K. Rowling

#18. If humans weren't here and we didn't care about anything that lives here, if this were a video game, I'd push the button and see what happens, because it'd be really exciting; but it's not a video game.

Richard Alley

#19. A time is one's own, Eva, when oneself and one's peers take the same things for granted, without thinking about it. Likewise, a man is ruined when the times change but he does not. Permit me to add, empires fall for the same reason.

David Mitchell

#20. As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

Felix Baumgartner

#21. Music, in all of its variations and venues, is the world's oldest social network.

Richard J. Alley