Steve Alten Quotes

#1. Devote 100 hours every year towards the cause of cleanliness.

Narendra Modi

#2. That's easy. Any man who cannae keep his balls oot o' the water needs tae get laid. Come on, let's find my sister.

Steve Alten

#3. None of us have any control over the deck or the hand we've been dealt. What we do have is total responibility as to how we play the hand.

Steve Alten

#4. You cannot appreciate what you have never experienced. Sadly, full appreciation tends to come only after the experience is past.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#5. I started here in Australia, playing a lot of roles but never the lead guy in shows here. I always tended to play the rougher guy, the criminal who gets caught or shot by the cops. Or the boyfriend from the wrong side of the tracks.

Sullivan Stapleton

#6. Sheriff, are you suggestin' the victom was kidnapped?"
"I'm only statin' that, at this time, we have no body, only nonvital body parts ...

Steve Alten

#7. The Srimad-Bhagavatam states that any bona fide preacher of God consciousness must have the qualities of titiksa (tolerance) and karuna (compassion). In the character of Lord Jesus Christ we find both these qualities.

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

#8. There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.

Joseph Heller

#9. most grounded people I have ever met. "There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and

Walter Isaacson

#10. Will ye be there for him in his time of need, or do you prefer to take your anger with you to the grave?

Steve Alten

#11. Under any other circumstances, he'd have found himself stealing glances all evening. But looking at her was like picking up a luxurious peach and discovering it half taken over by mold.

Courtney Milan

#12. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them.

Steve Alten

#13. You can't just do one of the things, because it won't be enough to combat the climate change that we're already starting to experience. It will only get worse.

Ed Begley Jr.

#14. Pamela could be at the gym right now, or at the salon, or with the board of directors dealing with the business. She could be anywhere.

Traci Tyne Hilton

#15. You are an unusual, brilliant child who has not seen enough of life to grasp the full measure of human stupidity.

Ayn Rand

#16. He liked cheap women, fast cars, late nights, and hard liquor, especially all together. In Jack's view, you are obliged to sin on Saturday night so you'd have something to atone for Sunday morning. Otherwise, you'd be putting the preacher out of business.

Lisa Kleypas

#17. When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

Alanis Morissette

#18. Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.

Steve Alten

#19. For the starship's inhabitants, time now stands still.
For planet Earth, the clock has begun ticking ...

Steve Alten

#20. Three lights should be fine." - Zachary
"Aye, well if it wis me, I'd want a bloody lighthoose beacon comin' oot o' my arse." - True MacDonald

Steve Alten

#21. For the record, I take no satisfaction in being right. For the record, I pray to God that I'm wrong.
I'm not wrong ...

Steve Alten

#22. It takes exactly eighteen shots tae polish off a fifth o' a bottle o' Scotch, thus, a game o' golf equates tae eighteen holes ...

Steve Alten