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180000 famous quotes part 4 – 3001 to 4000
3001. The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart – this you will build your life by, and this you will become. – James Lane Allen
3002. To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. – James Lane Allen
3003. We do not attract what we want, but what we are. – James Lane Allen
3004. Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. – James Lane Allen
3005. You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. – James Lane Allen
3006. Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. – James Lane Allen
3007. You cannot travel within and stand still without. – James Lane Allen
3008. Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go. – James Van Allen
3009. These days, it’s really been uninteresting except when disasters occur. – James Van Allen
3010. We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines. – James Van Allen
3011. I’m going to be a great film star. That is, if booze and sex don’t get me first. – Jay Presson Allen
3012. Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That’s what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession. – Joan Allen
3013. It’s such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I’ve made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing. – Joan Allen
3014. I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don’t feel like I am representing women. That’s up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it. – Joan Allen
3015. I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do. – Joan Allen
3016. Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful even if it was just vicariously. – Joan Allen
3017. I don’t have a political bone in my body. – Joan Allen
3018. Eventually you love people – friends or lovers – because of their flaws. – Karen Allen
3019. I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I’d run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York. – Karen Allen
3020. I’ve always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I’ll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life. – Karen Allen
3021. I’ve never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life. – Karen Allen
3022. Idleness does drive me crazy, but I’d rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it. – Karen Allen
3023. I think men are a beautiful creation. – Krista Allen
3024. I’m a firm believer that it’s not the way you look or what you have, but what you’ve got inside. – Krista Allen
3025. Life is too short not to do a little practical joking. – Krista Allen
3026. Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They’re consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time, they need to feel like men. – Krista Allen
3027. At a pool party, with everybody around, a guy and I had sex in the pool, but nobody knew it. – Krista Allen
3028. I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men – that they never mature and are always just boys. – Krista Allen
3029. It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back – to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play. – Marcus Allen
3030. You’ve got to be extremely careful, because you could be with a great team, and you could be the product of a great team. There are some players that stand out despite the teams that they play on, and there are some players that are good because of the team that they’re with. – Marcus Allen
3031. You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there’s certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now. – Marcus Allen
3032. To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons… that’s the greatest thing. – Marcus Allen
3033. That’s why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that place and to step outside yourself and observe yourself do these things, while the rest of the world is moving in slow motion, is really incredible. – Marcus Allen
3034. It really lasted the whole game, because I was really untouchable, unstoppable that game. But it was heightened on one particular play, and that was the longest run where everything completely slowed down. My awareness was so keen, it was so heightened, it was really amazing. – Marcus Allen
3035. I was saying earlier that it’s really strange – you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and that’s what I was doing. – Marcus Allen
3036. I just felt like reflecting on my junior year, when I didn’t know what I was doing, I left a lot of stuff out there. Actually, I gained close to 700 yards more and I took myself out of a lot of games. – Marcus Allen
3037. Going in, I knew I wasn’t one of the top ones, because I didn’t even make the pre-season All-American team. That shows you what people thought of me right there, so I knew I had to go to work. – Marcus Allen
3038. Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN. – Marcus Allen
3039. But there is something to the fact that we don’t see games on the West Coast, or we don’t see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It’s so unfair, because there is a bias that takes place. – Marcus Allen
3040. But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody. – Marcus Allen
3041. At USC, if you’re running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones. – Marcus Allen
3042. I just think that we’re capable of so much more; we don’t utilize all our capacity like we should. – Marcus Allen
3043. It’s always hard – if you’re not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college? – Marcus Allen
3044. A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year. – Marty Allen
3045. If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path. – Marty Allen
3046. I know a doctor who can give you a shot and you’ll get over that cold you’ve got and get better in a day. – Mel Allen
3047. I am very excited to be supporting one of the world’s most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere. – Paul Allen
3048. The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too. – Paul Allen
3049. We’ve had some tough times, but we’ve hung in there. – Paul Allen
3050. What should exist? To me, that’s the most exciting question imaginable. What do we need that we don’t have? How can we realize our potential? – Paul Allen
3051. When it comes to helping out, I don’t believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help. – Paul Allen
3052. In my own work, I’ve tried to anticipate what’s coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people’s lives in a meaningful way. – Paul Allen
3053. The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward. – Paul Allen
3054. Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the hearts and cools the sting. – Peter Allen
3055. Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said. – Peter Lewis Allen
3056. Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices. – Peter Lewis Allen
3057. Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s. – Peter Lewis Allen
3058. The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague – sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets. – Peter Lewis Allen
3059. Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it? – Peter Lewis Allen
3060. Even more than this, however, the sick – like lepers – were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves. – Peter Lewis Allen
3061. I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don’t have any prejudice. Life concerns me. – Ralph Allen
3062. Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation. – Ralph Allen
3063. The magic of creation has always fascinated me. – Ralph Allen
3064. People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence. – Ralph Allen
3065. I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests. – Ralph Allen
3066. At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time. – Ralph Allen
3067. My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father’s office. – Ralph Allen
3068. I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a ‘national’ posture, exhibiting generosity toward the defeated opponent, but proceeding with determination to implement an agenda. – Richard V. Allen
3069. A Bush Administration will, I believe, enjoy a better relationship with the new Congress, although President-elect Bush will be faced with real challenges in getting along with the Congress. – Richard V. Allen
3070. A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals. – Richard V. Allen
3071. At the same time, the Reagan Administration assured that the main elements of policymaking were in the hands of competent loyalists, thus assuring a successful launch and a highly successful first year. – Richard V. Allen
3072. The ‘transition’ involves the transfer of power from one president to another. In recent times, the incoming President has designated a Director of the Transition, a team leader, to oversee and administer the orderly transfer of power. – Richard V. Allen
3073. We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to – be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted. – Richard V. Allen
3074. Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and practices, and are able to interpret his wishes regarding the structure and staffing of the new Administration. – Richard V. Allen
3075. Unlike the Reagan and Bush Administrations, with but one exception, the Clinton administration failed to reach out to Republicans in creating a new team, and eventually paid a political price. – Richard V. Allen
3076. This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free. – Richard V. Allen
3077. The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process. – Richard V. Allen
3078. The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy. – Richard V. Allen
3079. Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries. – Richard V. Allen
3080. The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because ‘people are policy’), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards. – Richard V. Allen
3081. ‘Favoritism’ is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President’s party. – Richard V. Allen
3082. Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and to acquaint the incoming administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy that will remain in place in the new Administration. – Richard V. Allen
3083. Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance. – Richard V. Allen
3084. In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team as quickly as possible, and this does not imply that he must or should appoint members of the ‘other’ party to his Cabinet, which could contribute to inaction and inefficiency. – Richard V. Allen
3085. In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine (‘vet’) its nominees for high public office. – Richard V. Allen
3086. If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them. – Richard V. Allen
3087. If it is widely assumed that the new President cannot move forward simply because of a narrow victory, there can easily develop a sense of unease and uncertainty, adversely affecting every sector of American society, our economy and the perception of other nations. – Richard V. Allen
3088. Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton Administration, elected in 1992, lingered in naming its team, and as a result, took almost a year to staff its ranks. – Richard V. Allen
3089. The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President. – Richard V. Allen
3090. Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest. – Richard V. Allen
3091. If a horse won’t eat it, I don’t want to play on it. – Richie Allen
3092. I’ll play first, third, left. I’ll play anywhere – except Philadelphia. – Richie Allen
3093. I wish they’d shut the gates, and let us play ball with no press and no fans. – Richie Allen
3094. I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it’s nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It’s a shame they’ve destroyed my love for the game. – Richie Allen
3095. I think at that time I obviously wasn’t aware of what I really needed. But conversely, my wanting to prove something to everyone was beneficial ’cause if I hadn’t done it then, maybe I’d never have done it. – Rick Allen
3096. Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life. – Rick Allen
3097. I have never been one for the over-the-top. – Rick Allen
3098. I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new. – Rick Allen
3099. I really don’t feel any strong allegiance to any country. – Rick Allen
3100. I think all of those things, but certainly the booze really brought out the really unreasonable side of me, and I just didn’t want to revisit that place again. – Rick Allen
3101. ‘Cause I felt I didn’t have anything else to prove as a musician… and boy was I wrong about that one. – Rick Allen
3102. I think my perception of my own life is different and the fact that Lauren and myself are together. I’ve never felt this free or happy and so that permeates onto my onstage persona and to my working environment. – Rick Allen
3103. If we had loads of money as a family, things would be different and they’d come to visit more and I’d get to spend more time here. But I’m laying down roots in America so when I’m there, just being at home, it’s harder to break away from that. – Rick Allen
3104. My situation should have been a lot worse. By rights I shouldn’t have survived the crash. – Rick Allen
3105. I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan. – Rick Allen
3106. I wanted to be as far away from everybody as I could be. I found it difficult to be close to anybody, not just the guys in the band. – Rick Allen
3107. Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show. – Rick Allen
3108. Just the same way I’d say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention. – Rick Allen
3109. We’re probably doing better business than we thought we would do especially considering the disappointing way the record company has handled the album. – Rick Allen
3110. Yes, of course that’s true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I’d pretty much lost interest in playing drums. – Rick Allen
3111. Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like the enemy. – Rick Allen
3112. And more importantly, I wouldn’t be the person I am today, I wouldn’t be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasn’t for the accident. – Rick Allen
3113. But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really forgot about me. – Rick Allen
3114. But the irony is that because the band isn’t the focus any more, it allows me the chance to enjoy being a member of Def Leppard much more. – Rick Allen
3115. But it’s funny that now I’m in such a happy situation, I look more objectively at my own past and see what others have seen for a long time and I’m just so glad I’ve been able to get to this point. – Rick Allen
3116. But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking. – Rick Allen
3117. At the end of the day, they’re happy if you do the obvious songs towards the end of the set and you’ve got to try and make yourself happy by doing certain songs at the front end of the set. – Rick Allen
3118. America feels like home as much as it does here. Although it’s a strange situation as I feel almost like I’m in no-man’s land some of the time, because although I’m a resident, I still can’t vote so I don’t really have a say in what goes on where I live. – Rick Allen
3119. Before my accident I was a little too… selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I’m blessed. I’m really blessed. – Rick Allen
3120. Pursuing your passion is fulfilling and leads to financial freedom. – Robert G. Allen
3121. Don’t let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you’re crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you’re lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you’re greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn’t understand. – Robert G. Allen
3122. How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case. – Robert G. Allen
3123. Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. – Robert G. Allen
3124. If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls. – Roland Allen
3125. I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them. – Roland Allen
3126. Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit. – Roland Allen
3127. In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth. – Roland Allen
3128. It certainly must help us if we recognize that it is the presence of the Holy Spirit which creates a unity which we can never create. – Roland Allen
3129. Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact. – Roland Allen
3130. Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him. – Roland Allen
3131. The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them. – Roland Allen
3132. The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness. – Roland Allen
3133. To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response. – Roland Allen
3134. Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience. – Roland Allen
3135. Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots. – Steve Allen
3136. Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics. – Steve Allen
3137. I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That’s how I lost my mind. – Steve Allen
3138. If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow. – Steve Allen
3139. If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is – holy war. – Steve Allen
3140. In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders. – Steve Allen
3141. Asthma doesn’t seem to bother me any more unless I’m around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar. – Steve Allen
3142. One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations. – Steve Allen
3143. Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized. – Steve Allen
3144. The hair is real – it’s the head that’s a fake. – Steve Allen
3145. Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. – Steve Allen
3146. I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world. – Ted Allen
3147. For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It’s a different designer for each episode, but for each one we’re all wearing their clothes. – Ted Allen
3148. Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day. – Ted Allen
3149. It’s very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I’m not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef. – Ted Allen
3150. In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult. – Ted Allen
3151. If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me. – Ted Allen
3152. I’ve leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we’re keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff! – Ted Allen
3153. My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it’s refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things. – Ted Allen
3154. I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy. – Ted Allen
3155. My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it. – Ted Allen
3156. I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations. – Ted Allen
3157. I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen. – Ted Allen
3158. I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I’ve learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special. – Ted Allen
3159. I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles. – Ted Allen
3160. I am much more interested in the process than results. – Ted Allen
3161. However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I’ve been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It’s just something I’m passionate about. – Ted Allen
3162. I’m in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it. – Ted Allen
3163. Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he’d be a great guest at any dinner party. – Ted Allen
3164. You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame. – Ted Allen
3165. What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff. – Ted Allen
3166. Well, we don’t take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that’s true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show. – Ted Allen
3167. Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets. – Ted Allen
3168. The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are. – Ted Allen
3169. Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period. – Ted Allen
3170. Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information. – Ted Allen
3171. Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal. – Ted Allen
3172. No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area. – Ted Allen
3173. While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously. – Tim Allen
3174. Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we’ve always had: work, or prison. – Tim Allen
3175. Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon. – Tim Allen
3176. Never comment on a woman’s rear end. Never use the words “large” or “size” with “rear end.” Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me. – Tim Allen
3177. Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they’re fun, they do things together, they’re best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they’re going to respect Mom. – Tim Allen
3178. Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn’t go far didn’t see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded. – Tim Allen
3179. Men are liars. We’ll lie about lying if we have to. I’m an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive. – Tim Allen
3180. Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything. – Tim Allen
3181. My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance. – Tim Allen
3182. They don’t have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways. – Tom Allen
3183. Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response. – Tom Allen
3184. Maine’s long and cold winters may help keep our State’s population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique and valuable about our land and our people. – Tom Allen
3185. In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have. – Tom Allen
3186. In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden. – Tom Allen
3187. If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you’re not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything. – Tom Allen
3188. I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations. – Tom Allen
3189. I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism. – Tom Allen
3190. Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups. – Tom Allen
3191. Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities. – Tom Allen
3192. Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence. – Tom Allen
3193. Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens. – Tom Allen
3194. By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America! – Tom Allen
3195. The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources. – Tom Allen
3196. These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things. – Tom Allen
3197. Winter in Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity. – Tom Allen
3198. Through their work with fetal tissue, researchers hope to find ways to harness embryonic stem cells which have the ability to become any type of human cell and could provide new treatments for many illnesses. – Tom Allen
3199. To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it. – Tom Allen
3200. Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research. – Tom Allen
3201. Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean’s surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance. – Tom Allen
3202. We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq. – Tom Allen
3203. I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans. – Tom Allen
3204. What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt. – Tom Allen
3205. While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best. – Tom Allen
3206. The Republicans in the House and the Bush administration are bankrupting this country. – Tom Allen
3207. Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases. – Tom Allen
3208. The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It’s bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities. – Tom Allen
3209. President Bush’s mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office. – Tom Allen
3210. The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury’s special qualities. – Tom Allen
3211. But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders. – Tom Allen
3212. I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm. – Tom Allen
3213. I belong to a church and I try to do my Christian duty, so I am against alcohol… But we need the tax money. – Walter Allen
3214. I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look. – Woody Allen
3215. Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. – Woody Allen
3216. Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television. – Woody Allen
3217. It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens. – Woody Allen
3218. It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more. – Woody Allen
3219. It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune. – Woody Allen
3220. In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker. – Woody Allen
3221. In California, they don’t throw their garbage away – they make it into TV shows. – Woody Allen
3222. In Beverly Hills… they don’t throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows. – Woody Allen
3223. If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative. – Woody Allen
3224. If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans. – Woody Allen
3225. If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. – Woody Allen
3226. I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle! – Woody Allen
3227. If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right. – Woody Allen
3228. Marriage is the death of hope. – Woody Allen
3229. I’m very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. – Woody Allen
3230. I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own. – Woody Allen
3231. I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens. – Woody Allen
3232. I’m astounded by people who want to ‘know’ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. – Woody Allen
3233. I’d call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse. – Woody Allen
3234. I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead. – Woody Allen
3235. I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox. – Woody Allen
3236. I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said ‘No.’ – Woody Allen
3237. I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. – Woody Allen
3238. I think being funny is not anyone’s first choice. – Woody Allen
3239. I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. – Woody Allen
3240. If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job. – Woody Allen
3241. Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness. – Woody Allen
3242. You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. – Woody Allen
3243. Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage. – Woody Allen
3244. Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered? – Woody Allen
3245. Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen. – Woody Allen
3246. When we played softball, I’d steal second base, feel guilty and go back. – Woody Allen
3247. When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room. – Woody Allen
3248. What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream? – Woody Allen
3249. What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. – Woody Allen
3250. Tradition is the illusion of permanance. – Woody Allen
3251. Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once. – Woody Allen
3252. The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have. – Woody Allen
3253. Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon. – Woody Allen
3254. The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small. – Woody Allen
3255. Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun. – Woody Allen
3256. Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, ‘Be fruitful and multiply,’ but not in those words. – Woody Allen
3257. Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good. – Woody Allen
3258. Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. – Woody Allen
3259. Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea. – Woody Allen
3260. Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies. – Woody Allen
3261. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down . – Woody Allen
3262. Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. – Woody Allen
3263. My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. – Woody Allen
3264. My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker. – Woody Allen
3265. Most of the time I don’t have much fun. The rest of the time I don’t have any fun at all. – Woody Allen
3266. Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. – Woody Allen
3267. There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? – Woody Allen
3268. The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep. – Woody Allen
3269. Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there. – Woody Allen
3270. To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition. – Woody Allen
3271. I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys. – Woody Allen
3272. As the poet said, ‘Only God can make a tree,’ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. – Woody Allen
3273. Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats. – Woody Allen
3274. Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. – Woody Allen
3275. Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue. – Woody Allen
3276. Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. – Woody Allen
3277. Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it. – Woody Allen
3278. He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian. – Woody Allen
3279. His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. – Woody Allen
3280. I don’t think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib. – Woody Allen
3281. I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. – Woody Allen
3282. Eighty percent of success is showing up. – Woody Allen
3283. I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. – Woody Allen
3284. I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens. – Woody Allen
3285. I don’t have to ‘freedom-kiss’ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her. – Woody Allen
3286. I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear. – Woody Allen
3287. I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it’s the government. – Woody Allen
3288. I am two with nature. – Woody Allen
3289. I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. – Woody Allen
3290. I failed to make the chess team because of my height. – Woody Allen
3291. The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds. – George Allen, Sr.
3292. When we get to the future, I’ll determine the future. – George Allen, Sr.
3293. Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don’t use that ability as best we can. – George Allen, Sr.
3294. Every day you waste is one you can never make up. – George Allen, Sr.
3295. Winning is the science of being totally prepared. – George Allen, Sr.
3296. Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done. – George Allen, Sr.
3297. The tougher the job, the greater the reward. – George Allen, Sr.
3298. Success is what you do with your ability. It’s how you use your talent. – George Allen, Sr.
3299. Persevere and get it done. – George Allen, Sr.
3300. People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. – George Allen, Sr.
3301. Every time you win, you’re reborn; when you lose, you die a little. – George Allen, Sr.
3302. One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve. – George Allen, Sr.
3303. Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It’s the best part of the day. – George Allen, Sr.
3304. Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night. – George Allen, Sr.
3305. If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks. – George Allen, Sr.
3306. The achiever is the only individual who is truly alive. – George Allen, Sr.
3307. Forget the past – the future will give you plenty to worry about. – George Allen, Sr.
3308. I’m aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic. – Isabel Allende
3309. All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom. – Isabel Allende
3310. Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken. – Isabel Allende
3311. Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor – they have children that they don’t want or they cannot feed. – Isabel Allende
3312. Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks. – Isabel Allende
3313. I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist – although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me. – Isabel Allende
3314. We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged. – Isabel Allende
3315. What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse. – Isabel Allende
3316. I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet. – Isabel Allende
3317. There’s a lot more to life than how fat or thin you are. – Kirstie Alley
3318. Until I separated from Parker, I had never been without them-and it’s the hardest thing to share them. But we’re trying to give the children the semblance of having whole lives. – Kirstie Alley
3319. Usually, about 85 percent of what the tabloids report is a lie. Over the last year, I can truly say it has been 99 percent. – Kirstie Alley
3320. When I play ball, I play hardball. – Kirstie Alley
3321. When I see someone who is starved, they don’t look alert. They don’t have boundless energy. If you’re too skinny, it looks like you’re near death. – Kirstie Alley
3322. When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using. – Kirstie Alley
3323. When push comes to shove, it ain’t the science that’s going to lift you up-it’s the belief, the spiritual side of life, that’s going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are. – Kirstie Alley
3324. When you’re the spokeswoman for a weight-loss program, everything is witnessed. I weigh in once a week with a witness. I have to sign an affidavit saying I cannot have any surgeries. – Kirstie Alley
3325. You’ll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you’ll be challenged and growing and having fun. – Kirstie Alley
3326. There’s always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you. – Kirstie Alley
3327. You’re not going to live your life unscathed. – Kirstie Alley
3328. The reason I went for Jenny Craig is I thought, Maybe I’m not the only one who has stupid reasons for getting fat. – Kirstie Alley
3329. No matter what parents do, kids retain their uniqueness. – Kirstie Alley
3330. Look for someone who has a complete life without you in it. If you have a person you don’t need for anything, that’s ideal. You’re just together because you really want to be. – Kirstie Alley
3331. Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too. – Kirstie Alley
3332. I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead. – Kirstie Alley
3333. I binge when I’m happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I’m at a birthday party. – Kirstie Alley
3334. I believe that behind both the person who weighs 400 pounds and the one who weighs 85 there is a lot of baggage, and it has nothing to do with their bodies. – Kirstie Alley
3335. I am the one who got myself fat, who did all the eating. So I had to take full responsibility for it. – Kirstie Alley
3336. I developed a nutty attitude where I’d think, If some guy really loves me he doesn’t care if I’m fat. I’d come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat. – Kirstie Alley
3337. I don’t like psychiatry. I don’t believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part. – Kirstie Alley
3338. I don’t smoke pot. I never liked it. – Kirstie Alley
3339. I have a hotline to the tabloids. When I get up in the morning, I call the Star, and the last thing at night, I call them. I want them to have the inside track. – Kirstie Alley
3340. I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I’d rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed. – Kirstie Alley
3341. I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working. – Kirstie Alley
3342. I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother. – Kirstie Alley
3343. I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He’d better be strong and have a good heart! – Kirstie Alley
3344. I was really tired of words like ‘plus size,’ ’round’ and ‘large.’ I thought, ‘Come on, we’re fat.’ – Kirstie Alley
3345. I was so naive I didn’t even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call. – Kirstie Alley
3346. I’m happy when I’m juggling, but I feel like I’ve gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 bowling balls. But, that’s a good problem. I don’t really have a complaint about that. – Kirstie Alley
3347. Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems. – Kirstie Alley
3348. It’s amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends. – Kirstie Alley
3349. I always had really long swimmer’s arms. The last to totally go is always my thighs and butt, but my old body is there somewhere. – Kirstie Alley
3350. I couldn’t care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful. – Kirstie Alley
3351. I don’t think children are any more resilent than anyone else. They’re just people with little bodies. – Kirstie Alley
3352. God gave us intestines for a reason. I’m not keen on surgery. It’s too extreme. All it took was one of those plastic surgery shows to see how violent it is. – Kirstie Alley
3353. For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression. – Kirstie Alley
3354. I don’t believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up. – Kirstie Alley
3355. I always feel like there is some dude out there with money that I could fall back on if I needed to. – Kirstie Alley
3356. As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness. – Svetlana Alliluyeva
3357. It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes. – Svetlana Alliluyeva
3358. God grants an easy death only to the just. – Svetlana Alliluyeva
3359. I hate everybody. – GG Allin
3360. Rock’n’roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it’s ever gonna accomplish anything. – GG Allin
3361. I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want. – GG Allin
3362. You are what you are. – GG Allin
3363. I don’t have any influences, any heroes, it’s just me. – GG Allin
3364. Death is a very important part of life. – GG Allin
3365. That audience is there for me. – GG Allin
3366. I am in control at all times. – GG Allin
3367. I believe I am the highest power, absolutely. – GG Allin
3368. I’d like to see anyone do what I do for one week. – GG Allin
3369. I’ve had women who move to the towns I’m living in, just pack up and move there, never even met ’em before, ’cause they heard I lived there. – GG Allin
3370. I’ve sold my records outta shopping carts on the street. – GG Allin
3371. No one comes to my shows so they’ll feel safe and comfortable. – GG Allin
3372. I don’t wanna get old and stagnant and hang around. – GG Allin
3373. He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things. – Margery Allingham
3374. Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man. – Margery Allingham
3375. If one cannot command attention by one’s admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance. – Margery Allingham
3376. I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it. – Margery Allingham
3377. Mourning is not forgetting… It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust. – Margery Allingham
3378. When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don’t you think? – Margery Allingham
3379. The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable. – Margery Allingham
3380. Autumn’s the mellow time. – William Allingham
3381. I have been an “Official” all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity. – William Allingham
3382. If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me. – William Allingham
3383. Now Autumn’s fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. – William Allingham
3384. She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away. – William Allingham
3385. Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day. – William Allingham
3386. Your best penalty killer is your goalie. – Dave Allison
3387. If we remain humble and hungry, we can win. – Dave Allison
3388. Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside. – Dorothy Allison
3389. Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I’d rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me. – Dorothy Allison
3390. Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning. – Dorothy Allison
3391. I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them. – Dorothy Allison
3392. I think I would have died if there hadn’t been the women’s movement. – Dorothy Allison
3393. One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. – Dorothy Allison
3394. When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. – Dorothy Allison
3395. Change, when it comes, cracks everything open. – Dorothy Allison
3396. Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off – I’m talking 100km or 200km long – every 10 or 20 or 50 years. – Ian Allison
3397. Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally. – Ian Allison
3398. I’ve been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday. – Luther Allison
3399. But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn’t do his job. – Luther Allison
3400. I don’t want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues. – Luther Allison
3401. I had the qualifications, but I was not chosen. – Luther Allison
3402. I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect. – Luther Allison
3403. I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name’s getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company. – Luther Allison
3404. I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I’m workin’ and they’re not. – Luther Allison
3405. I think I’m the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I’m out there to prove that. – Luther Allison
3406. But my big thing was always the blues. – Luther Allison
3407. I want to play in a place people want to hear me. – Luther Allison
3408. But you know, I still had a dream of being able to go back home and tour. – Luther Allison
3409. In the blues, it just takes so long for us to get recognized. – Luther Allison
3410. In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago’s South Side to the West Side. – Luther Allison
3411. Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit. – Luther Allison
3412. So I cut out all the drinkin’ and hangin’ out and stuff like that early on. – Luther Allison
3413. The blues is the foundation, and it’s got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock ‘n’ roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues. – Luther Allison
3414. We played the same thing in Europe we played in the States. – Luther Allison
3415. Well, I first started going to Europe in the late ’70s. – Luther Allison
3416. Well, I’ve had to deal with everything in my life… leavin’ the family, learnin’ what not and what to do. – Luther Allison
3417. What I want to do, is play music for somebody who believe in me. – Luther Allison
3418. When I got to Chicago I had to find my way. – Luther Allison
3419. I want people to recognize Luther Allison when I play. – Luther Allison
3420. But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular? – Luther Allison
3421. But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about. – Luther Allison
3422. I focused on how these people became how they were. – Luther Allison
3423. Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it. – Luther Allison
3424. Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues. – Luther Allison
3425. And I can do the rock clubs if I have to. – Luther Allison
3426. But let’s face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I’ve done down the stretch. – Luther Allison
3427. There’s a lot of terrible things goin’ on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end. – Mose Allison
3428. The jazz boom was goin’ on then so there was a lot happenin’ in New York at that time. – Mose Allison
3429. The thing of playin’ and singin’ never bothered me. – Mose Allison
3430. Then I started listenin’ a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin’. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in. – Mose Allison
3431. I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes. – Mose Allison
3432. I just have a lot off different influences. – Mose Allison
3433. I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people’s tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known. – Mose Allison
3434. I have no idea what I’m doin’. I’ve never seen me. – Mose Allison
3435. My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden. – Mose Allison
3436. I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York. – Mose Allison
3437. Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more. – Mose Allison
3438. I haven’t stopped and I don’t plan on stoppin’ any time soon. – Mose Allison
3439. So I’m in my 51st year of playin’ mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts. – Mose Allison
3440. I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain. – Mose Allison
3441. Pizza Express has been a real godsend for me. I’ve been working there for several years, six weeks a year. You can go to work every night and play. It’s a nice little club. It’s just about the right size for me, about 150 people. – Mose Allison
3442. It’s as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin’ there is a little harder. – Mose Allison
3443. I’ve heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial. – Mose Allison
3444. I’ve been able to do pretty well. I don’t work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I’m still working over 100 nights a year, so that’s good for me. – Mose Allison
3445. I’m playin’ the music I like. – Mose Allison
3446. I’m playin’ music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin’ to see me than there were 30 years ago or so. – Mose Allison
3447. I’m always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs. – Mose Allison
3448. I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me. – Mose Allison
3449. I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old. – Mose Allison
3450. There’s a few tunes of mine that don’t have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere. – Mose Allison
3451. But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good. – Mose Allison
3452. I do some concerts. At the moment, I’m being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express. – Mose Allison
3453. I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years. – Mose Allison
3454. At this point, I don’t listen to other people too much. I’m not really that affected by anyone. – Mose Allison
3455. As far as I’m concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. – Mose Allison
3456. And Lennie Tristano I like a lot, I still like him. – Mose Allison
3457. All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of ’em sang blues. – Mose Allison
3458. I can’t judge my own stuff. That’s for others. But those are the three things that I admire. – Mose Allison
3459. The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology. – Eric Allman
3460. This is like the telephone problem – no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem. – Eric Allman
3461. Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don’t have much time to code any more. – Eric Allman
3462. I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can. – Eric Allman
3463. I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight. – Gregg Allman
3464. You got to be pretty thin to be in the movies, or it helps. I would actually love to do it. – Gregg Allman
3465. When I got out of high school, I thought, I’ll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school. – Gregg Allman
3466. The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there. – Gregg Allman
3467. Gotta take my puppy on the road with me, Killer. – Gregg Allman
3468. The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece. – Gregg Allman
3469. I said, other people can write songs, let’s see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa. – Gregg Allman
3470. Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world. – Gregg Allman
3471. I didn’t think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music. – Gregg Allman
3472. I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr. – Gregg Allman
3473. I got tired of playing other people’s songs. – Gregg Allman
3474. At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y’all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time. – Gregg Allman
3475. So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. – Gordon W. Allport
3476. The more I know about men the more I like dogs. – Gloria Allred
3477. The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding. – Chris Van Allsburg
3478. At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the ‘what if – what then’ approach to writing and illustration. – Chris Van Allsburg
3479. Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can’t see any reason to change the formula now. – Chris Van Allsburg
3480. I write for what’s left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head. – Chris Van Allsburg
3481. Santa is our culture’s only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It’s a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that’s a pity. – Chris Van Allsburg
3482. Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it’s quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great. – Chris Van Allsburg
3483. The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it’s for the best. – Chris Van Allsburg
3484. The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what’s fascinating to me. – Chris Van Allsburg
3485. The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It’s also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older. – Chris Van Allsburg
3486. As much as I’d like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don’t really believe it can happen. – Chris Van Allsburg
3487. There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress. – Chris Van Allsburg
3488. The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself. – Aaron Allston
3489. Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone’s satisfaction. – Aaron Allston
3490. I really can’t complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can’t get paid to be smart. – Aaron Allston
3491. I’m content to stand on tradition. I’m even more content to wipe my feet on it. – Aaron Allston
3492. If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God’s domain? – Aaron Allston
3493. Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent. – Aaron Allston
3494. Life is like an analogy. – Aaron Allston
3495. Definition of ‘Free’: You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it. – Aaron Allston
3496. No one pays me to be nice. – Aaron Allston
3497. There are two types of people in the world, and I’m one of them. – Aaron Allston
3498. The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else. – Aaron Allston
3499. The principle of Sturgeon’s Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap. – Aaron Allston
3500. The way to a man’s heart is through his chest. – Aaron Allston
3501. This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow. – Aaron Allston
3502. When all else fails, complicate matters. – Aaron Allston
3503. Where can I get some tat? I’d like to trade it in. – Aaron Allston
3504. Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way. – Aaron Allston
3505. Violence is the first refuge of the violent. – Aaron Allston
3506. Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic. – Aaron Allston
3507. The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself. – Washington Allston
3508. Never judge a work of art by its defects. – Washington Allston
3509. Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind. – Washington Allston
3510. For the first time in my life I feel important. I’d like to have five babies. – June Allyson
3511. The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me. – June Allyson
3512. The first day I arrived, they told me to go home and get rid of that cold. – June Allyson
3513. So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting. – June Allyson
3514. It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played. – June Allyson
3515. I’m not a career woman. – June Allyson
3516. I’d just as soon stay home and raise babies. – June Allyson
3517. I don’t like to fight. – June Allyson
3518. Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert. – June Allyson
3519. I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I dont’ know whether they were for television or not. You know how little I know about cameras. – June Allyson
3520. The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion. – Pedro Almodovar
3521. In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government. – Pedro Almodovar
3522. I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema. – Pedro Almodovar
3523. The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika. – Pedro Almodovar
3524. The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple. – Pedro Almodovar
3525. Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have. – Pedro Almodovar
3526. With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner. – Pedro Almodovar
3527. Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don’t know why I am more interested in women, because I don’t go to any psychiatrists, and I don’t want to know why. – Pedro Almodovar
3528. It’s a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing. – Pedro Almodovar
3529. The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images. – Pedro Almodovar
3530. I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently. – Pedro Almodovar
3531. All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres. – Pedro Almodovar
3532. Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women. – Pedro Almodovar
3533. Even though I love my mother, I didn’t want to make an idealized portrait of her. I’m fascinated more by her defects – they are funnier than her other qualities. – Pedro Almodovar
3534. Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn’t seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places. – Pedro Almodovar
3535. I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness. – Pedro Almodovar
3536. I don’t want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it’s to show one emotion. – Pedro Almodovar
3537. I think it’s a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity. – Pedro Almodovar
3538. After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception. – Pedro Almodovar
3539. I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It’s not a caprice. – Pedro Almodovar
3540. I think decor says a lot about someone’s social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work – and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story. – Pedro Almodovar
3541. As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV. – Marc Almond
3542. I think there’s always been singers like that and i’ve done my fair share of cheese as well. – Marc Almond
3543. I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don’t have the distractions that I had when I was younger. – Marc Almond
3544. I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people. – Marc Almond
3545. I mean whatever I do it’s important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I’m doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example. – Marc Almond
3546. I don’t really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates. – Marc Almond
3547. I don’t enjoy being a celebrity, I don’t want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame… i’d actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!! – Marc Almond
3548. As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else. – Marc Almond
3549. Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process. – Marc Almond
3550. For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I’m very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar. – Marc Almond
3551. Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it. – Marc Almond
3552. We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist. – Marc Almond
3553. These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next. – Marc Almond
3554. The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album. – Marc Almond
3555. The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not. – Marc Almond
3556. That’s what I like to do, I like to make songs. – Marc Almond
3557. Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don’t express that freedom on a public platform. – Marc Almond
3558. My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way. – Marc Almond
3559. It’s a shame in a way that people come and go with one album. – Marc Almond
3560. I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style. – Marc Almond
3561. That’s the way I work and one day I won’t have the energy to do it, so I think it’s always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible. – Marc Almond
3562. I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways. – Steve Almond
3563. For me it’s a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport. – Fernando Alonso
3564. For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now – I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver. – Fernando Alonso
3565. I have always been very calm on the outside. I’m not too stressed now just because I’m in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself. – Fernando Alonso
3566. I like America, and I think probably the American people like me. – Fernando Alonso
3567. I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky – my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it. – Fernando Alonso
3568. I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport – and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested. – Fernando Alonso
3569. I’m an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million. – Herb Alpert
3570. I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico… not so much the music, but the spirit. – Herb Alpert
3571. I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play. – Herb Alpert
3572. I practice every day. I’ve been doing it since I was eight. – Herb Alpert
3573. I like to listen to classical music… I like mainline jazz. – Herb Alpert
3574. The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument. – Herb Alpert
3575. It’s very clean. With tape, you get noise. – Herb Alpert
3576. It’s – as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that’s excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers. – Herb Alpert
3577. Instrumental music can spread the international language. – Herb Alpert
3578. If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges… and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are deep bass sounds. When it cut it at half speed, you’re getting more of those on the record. – Herb Alpert
3579. Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass. – Herb Alpert
3580. Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It’s something I will always do. – Herb Alpert
3581. I like to listed to the adventurous guys – the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose. – Herb Alpert
3582. The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world… and I’ve had offers to perform from around the world and I’m tempted to do it. I’ve got itchy lips. – Herb Alpert
3583. You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage. – Herb Alpert
3584. There’s something interesting about playing live; you’re in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial. – Herb Alpert
3585. This was during a period when I was producing Brazil ’66 records and got infected by Brazilian music. – Herb Alpert
3586. We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it’s going to come back to you. – Herb Alpert
3587. We finally got our big break when Ed Sullivan put us on his show. – Herb Alpert
3588. When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that’s the time to try to let other people know about it. – Herb Alpert
3589. He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music. – Herb Alpert
3590. I’m sure I’ll go back again and record in the digital process. – Herb Alpert
3591. The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience. – Herb Alpert
3592. I find that it’s nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else’s feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself. – Herb Alpert
3593. I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure. – Herb Alpert
3594. I don’t think radio is selling records like they used to. They’d hawk the song and hawk the artist and you’d get so excited, you’d stop your car and go into the nearest record store. – Herb Alpert
3595. Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived. – Herb Alpert
3596. Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes. – Herb Alpert
3597. The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
3598. Are these the Americans? People remain silent and placate the Americans. By God, they only deserve scorn. We slaughtered them yesterday and we will continue to slaughter them. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
3599. Blair… is accusing us of executing British soldiers. We want to tell him that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
3600. God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
3601. I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
3602. It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don’t know why they were fired into Kuwait. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
3603. Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
3604. Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam’s airport. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
3605. The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
3606. Our initial assessment is that they will all die. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
3607. We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
3608. There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never! – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
3609. There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
3610. They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
3611. They are superpower of villains. They are superpower of Al Capone. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
3612. They’re not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion… they are trying to sell to the others an illusion. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
3613. Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
3614. When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
3615. The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
3616. Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
3617. Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
3618. We blocked them inside the city. Their rear is blocked. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
3619. We will welcome them with bullets and shoes. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
3620. We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
3621. We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein’s soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
3622. We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
3623. The United Nations is a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
3624. A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist. – Stewart Alsop
3625. Bill, The United States is not a company. It is a country. – Stewart Alsop
3626. Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal. – Stewart Alsop
3627. Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems. – Stewart Alsop
3628. More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn’t a manager. – Walt Alston
3629. Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium. – Walt Alston
3630. Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat. – Walt Alston
3631. I’d rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I’m a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you’re going to lose some too. – Walt Alston
3632. Look at misfortune the same way you look at success – Don’t Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences. – Walt Alston
3633. It’s not the winter that bothers me – it’s the summers. – Walt Alston
3634. I never thought I was the most beautiful model out there or the most sexy woman, but I was a hard worker. – Carol Alt
3635. If I’m making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers. – Carol Alt
3636. Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda. – Eric Alterman
3637. Ideology has very little to do with ‘consciousness’ – it is profoundly unconscious. – Louis Althusser
3638. Ideology… is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence. – Louis Althusser
3639. I’m the kind of person who just can’t wait to get on a train and not know where I’m going. I definitely want to live life to the fullest. And that’s the type of man I’m attracted to – somebody with that spontaneous spirit. – Summer Altice
3640. People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn’t going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it’s all about? Jealousy. – Summer Altice
3641. If George W. Bush is elected president, I’m leaving for France. – Robert Altman
3642. What’s a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority. – Robert Altman
3643. Men make clothes for the women they’d like to be with or in most cases the women they’d like to be. – Robert Altman
3644. Maybe there’s a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people. – Robert Altman
3645. If you don’t have a leg to stand on, you can’t put your foot down. – Robert Altman
3646. Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes. – Robert Altman
3647. It’s all just one film to me. Just different chapters. – Robert Altman
3648. It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments. – Sidney Altman
3649. We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages. – Sidney Altman
3650. By the time I reached high school my father’s grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college. – Sidney Altman
3651. The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth. – Sidney Altman
3652. We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy. – Sidney Altman
3653. The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old. – Sidney Altman
3654. Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon. – Sidney Altman
3655. My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. – Sidney Altman
3656. I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants. – Sidney Altman
3657. I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics. – Sidney Altman
3658. Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis. – Sidney Altman
3659. Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics. – Sidney Altman
3660. About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power. – Sidney Altman
3661. For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. – Sidney Altman
3662. Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government. – Sidney Altman
3663. I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table. – Al Alvarez
3664. Yes, I think poker really isn’t gambling. – Al Alvarez
3665. When you make a bet, you’re saying something. – Al Alvarez
3666. The fact that we write about it doesn’t mean we play better than ordinary players at all. – Al Alvarez
3667. Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it’s a kind of risky trade. – Al Alvarez
3668. I’m good at reading people. – Al Alvarez
3669. I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you’re done for. – Al Alvarez
3670. I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can’t imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade. – Al Alvarez
3671. I hate writing. – Al Alvarez
3672. I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck. – Al Alvarez
3673. But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can’t make any mistakes so you have to, it’s all about where you’re sitting at the table. – Al Alvarez
3674. I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don’t get any patients. – Al Alvarez
3675. In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business. – Carlos Alvarez
3676. In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps back. – Carlos Alvarez
3677. Corona Light has had very faithful stewardship from us from the very beginning in 1989. – Carlos Alvarez
3678. The Corona Extra brand was launched in Austin, Texas. From Austin, where it was exclusively for three or four months, it became more widely available in that state and in others, primarily in the southwest and western United States. – Carlos Alvarez
3679. I don’t really trust a sane person. – Lyle Alzado
3680. I never met a man I didn’t want to fight. – Lyle Alzado
3681. Night was running ahead of itself. – Jorge Amado
3682. Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent. – Christiane Amanpour
3683. What we do and say and show really matters. – Christiane Amanpour
3684. U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next. – Christiane Amanpour
3685. In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it’s okay to aim his gun at a child. – Christiane Amanpour
3686. In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies. – Christiane Amanpour
3687. In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press. – Christiane Amanpour
3688. Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children. – Christiane Amanpour
3689. Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league. – Christiane Amanpour
3690. ‘m thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor ‘This Week’ and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day. – Christiane Amanpour
3691. If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive. – Christiane Amanpour
3692. Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it’s time to invest in talent, in people. – Christiane Amanpour
3693. They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be. – Christiane Amanpour
3694. We do it because we’re committed, because we’re believers. – Christiane Amanpour
3695. We hear foreign accents on CNN. It’s crazy, it’s wild, who knows, maybe they’ll take you because you certainly don’t fit in, in the American spectrum of news. – Christiane Amanpour
3696. We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership. – Christiane Amanpour
3697. We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does. – Christiane Amanpour
3698. We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN. – Christiane Amanpour
3699. For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned? – Christiane Amanpour
3700. And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place. – Christiane Amanpour
3701. If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do? – Christiane Amanpour
3702. And I really believe good journalism is good business. – Christiane Amanpour
3703. And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story. – Christiane Amanpour
3704. Because if we the storytellers don’t do this, then the bad people will win. – Christiane Amanpour
3705. But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars. – Christiane Amanpour
3706. But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world. – Christiane Amanpour
3707. Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don’t trust or like journalists anymore and that’s sad. – Christiane Amanpour
3708. I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century. – Christiane Amanpour
3709. I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was. – Christiane Amanpour
3710. I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished. – Christiane Amanpour
3711. I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent. – Christiane Amanpour
3712. I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent. – Christiane Amanpour
3713. I’m not an American but I have always had the outsiders’ respect for the American people and the American way. – Christiane Amanpour
3714. I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get. – Christiane Amanpour
3715. I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it’ll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by. – Christiane Amanpour
3716. China and India will, separately and together, unleash an explosion of demand. – Mukesh Ambani
3717. I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times. – Mukesh Ambani
3718. The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don’t count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on. – Mukesh Ambani
3719. Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered. – B. R. Ambedkar
3720. Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die. – B. R. Ambedkar
3721. What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights. – B. R. Ambedkar
3722. We are Indians, firstly and lastly. – B. R. Ambedkar
3723. Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. – B. R. Ambedkar
3724. The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India. – B. R. Ambedkar
3725. The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends. – B. R. Ambedkar
3726. So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you. – B. R. Ambedkar
3727. In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development. – B. R. Ambedkar
3728. Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government. – B. R. Ambedkar
3729. A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society. – B. R. Ambedkar
3730. Life should be great rather than long. – B. R. Ambedkar
3731. Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. – B. R. Ambedkar
3732. I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved. – B. R. Ambedkar
3733. I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity. – B. R. Ambedkar
3734. History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them. – B. R. Ambedkar
3735. For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights. – B. R. Ambedkar
3736. Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class. – B. R. Ambedkar
3737. Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. – B. R. Ambedkar
3738. A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people. – B. R. Ambedkar
3739. Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act. – B. R. Ambedkar
3740. International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood. – Eric Ambler
3741. I never thought about being on a series before. It seemed like such a big commitment. But I love going to work every day. This is not about ego, it’s about work, and that’s refreshing in this town. – Lauren Ambrose
3742. Having my son, I mean, I feel already that it makes me a better actress. Just the feeling and the love that expands in my being is more than I ever thought possible. – Lauren Ambrose
3743. I came to L.A. to work and become a better actress, not to be a star. – Lauren Ambrose
3744. I saw ‘Food, Inc.’ last night – it was like a horror movie. I’m definitely thinking about my food supply now and how I want to grow my own. – Lauren Ambrose
3745. I think I need a little break. I’ve got a two-year old. I’ll be part of The Leisure Class for a while. – Lauren Ambrose
3746. Right now I just want to chill for a while. Take a hiatus from all the craziness. To clean my house, see my family. Just see some movies and pick some strawberries. – Lauren Ambrose
3747. The idea is that we’re doing it just for the joy of the actual physical experience. We may record something just for the fun of it, but the idea is just to be truly joyful and truly fun, especially for me, because I take myself too seriously all the time. – Lauren Ambrose
3748. We played one warm-up gig at this bar that was kinda like that bar in ‘The Blues Brothers’ with the chicken wire. This place called The Brick House, in Housatonic. I really can’t believe we’re going to play for people in New York City. I’m terrified, but it’s a small enough room. But it’s really just supposed to be for the fun of it. – Lauren Ambrose
3749. Yeah, I’ve always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life. – Lauren Ambrose
3750. Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You’re expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things. – Lauren Ambrose
3751. When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal. – Saint Ambrose
3752. There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience. – Saint Ambrose
3753. In some causes silence is dangerous. – Saint Ambrose
3754. When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere. – Saint Ambrose
3755. To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way. – Stephen Ambrose
3756. Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death. – Stephen Ambrose
3757. You don’t hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school. – Stephen Ambrose
3758. Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money. – Stephen Ambrose
3759. World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. – Stephen Ambrose
3760. Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress. – Stephen Ambrose
3761. Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico? – Stephen Ambrose
3762. We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today. – Stephen Ambrose
3763. Washington’s character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice. – Stephen Ambrose
3764. American corporations hate to give away money. – Stephen Ambrose
3765. Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends. – Stephen Ambrose
3766. Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of. – Stephen Ambrose
3767. American is the first democratic nation-state. – Stephen Ambrose
3768. Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men. – Stephen Ambrose
3769. As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way. – Stephen Ambrose
3770. The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake. – Stephen Ambrose
3771. There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors. – Stephen Ambrose
3772. Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail? – Stephen Ambrose
3773. The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major. – Stephen Ambrose
3774. Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist. – Stephen Ambrose
3775. Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will. – Stephen Ambrose
3776. Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands. – Stephen Ambrose
3777. My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier. – Stephen Ambrose
3778. My first book was the book that changed my life. – Stephen Ambrose
3779. Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job. – Stephen Ambrose
3780. Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote. – Stephen Ambrose
3781. Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen. – Stephen Ambrose
3782. The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest. – Stephen Ambrose
3783. The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are. – Stephen Ambrose
3784. The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. – Stephen Ambrose
3785. It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly. – Stephen Ambrose
3786. The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same. – Stephen Ambrose
3787. The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever. – Stephen Ambrose
3788. Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there. – Stephen Ambrose
3789. The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed. – Stephen Ambrose
3790. It does you no good to see the number two or number three man in the corporation-you have to get through to number one. – Stephen Ambrose
3791. Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation. – Stephen Ambrose
3792. Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I’ve studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best. – Stephen Ambrose
3793. Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life. – Stephen Ambrose
3794. Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions. – Stephen Ambrose
3795. History is everything that has ever happened. – Stephen Ambrose
3796. I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business. – Stephen Ambrose
3797. I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam. – Stephen Ambrose
3798. I’m no politician. I’m an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education. – Stephen Ambrose
3799. I’ve always tried to be fair to my subjects. That’s easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower. – Stephen Ambrose
3800. In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place. – Stephen Ambrose
3801. In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since. – Stephen Ambrose
3802. Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants. – Stephen Ambrose
3803. I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson. – Stephen Ambrose
3804. Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones. – Stephen Ambrose
3805. I think this is the sweetest tribute I have ever seen in this town. – Don Ameche
3806. The key is growth margins went in the right direction, unit volume increased quarter on quarter, and expenses came down. We threw off over $300 million in cash. All of those were in the right direction. So I think we’re on our way. – Gil Amelio
3807. What’s really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That’s Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing. – Alejandro Amenabar
3808. An Oscar means a lot of things because it’s like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you’re creating you shouldn’t think about it. – Alejandro Amenabar
3809. I think the concept of the sea is very important. – Alejandro Amenabar
3810. I wouldn’t say I’m a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don’t tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to. – Alejandro Amenabar
3811. In horror movies today it’s lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance. – Alejandro Amenabar
3812. My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the ’30s and ’40s. I liked scary books. – Alejandro Amenabar
3813. Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn’t effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it’s too much. – Alejandro Amenabar
3814. Make movies. Don’t make videos. Videos are evil. – Jeff Ament
3815. Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be. – Jeff Ament
3816. I didn’t write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said. – Jeff Ament
3817. I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere. – Jeff Ament
3818. I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang. – Jeff Ament
3819. I’m not going to say no to playing a show in Missoula. – Jeff Ament
3820. It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out. – Jeff Ament
3821. It’s hard for us not to be involved with things. When you have so much information and you see so much need, there’s too much going on for us not to get involved. – Jeff Ament
3822. Every few years I’ll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am. – Jeff Ament
3823. It’s great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take ’em to some cool places. – Jeff Ament
3824. That’s probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band – I wanted to see the world. – Jeff Ament
3825. With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it’s hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that. – Jeff Ament
3826. When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away. – Jeff Ament
3827. We’ve always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right. – Jeff Ament
3828. We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we’re going to after that. – Jeff Ament
3829. Our first record didn’t come out on vinyl, so I think that might have had something to do with actually being in a position to make sure that it came out in vinyl this time. It sounds way better. – Jeff Ament
3830. We went to Big Sur about three years ago and hung out at the Esalen Institute. – Jeff Ament
3831. It is up to you to decide that this has lasted long enough, that our boys are dying to serve no British interest but for the interests of a small clique of utterly unscrupulous men. – John Amery
3832. There is more than enough room in the world for Germany and Britain. – John Amery
3833. That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization. – John Amery
3834. Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests – but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers? – John Amery
3835. I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world. – John Amery
3836. Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward. – John Amery
3837. Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment. – John Amery
3838. It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism. – John Amery
3839. In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer. – John Amery
3840. For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth. – John Amery
3841. American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England. – John Amery
3842. All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise. – John Amery
3843. It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests. – John Amery
3844. It is up to you civilians to give a hand to show that we intend to take our responsibilities to maintain the integrity of our Empire, by giving the world proof that we have not all sold out to the Jew or Plutocrat. – John Amery
3845. The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo. – Aldrich Ames
3846. The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for. – Aldrich Ames
3847. The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated. – Aldrich Ames
3848. The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent. – Aldrich Ames
3849. The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don’t understand what the real problems are. – Aldrich Ames
3850. Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the KGB officers that I was dealing with. – Aldrich Ames
3851. To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn’t processing that. – Aldrich Ames
3852. You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation. – Aldrich Ames
3853. The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people. – Aldrich Ames
3854. The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory? – Aldrich Ames
3855. The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble. – Aldrich Ames
3856. There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results. – Aldrich Ames
3857. We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn’t support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap. – Aldrich Ames
3858. When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties. – Aldrich Ames
3859. When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests. – Aldrich Ames
3860. When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement. – Aldrich Ames
3861. Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union. – Aldrich Ames
3862. The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes. – Aldrich Ames
3863. I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn’t even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents’ names that I gave. – Aldrich Ames
3864. The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task. – Aldrich Ames
3865. No one’s interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me. – Aldrich Ames
3866. An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product. – Aldrich Ames
3867. Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point. – Aldrich Ames
3868. By the late ’70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA’s overall charter. – Aldrich Ames
3869. Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task. – Aldrich Ames
3870. Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust. – Aldrich Ames
3871. Foreign Ministry guys don’t become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. – Aldrich Ames
3872. I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism. – Aldrich Ames
3873. I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union. – Aldrich Ames
3874. I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union. – Aldrich Ames
3875. I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment. – Aldrich Ames
3876. I said in court a long time ago that I didn’t see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed. – Aldrich Ames
3877. I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us. – Aldrich Ames
3878. I’m a traitor, but I don’t consider myself a traitor. – Aldrich Ames
3879. In my professional work with the Agency, by the late ’70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency’s impact on American policy. – Aldrich Ames
3880. Let’s say a Soviet exchange student back in the ’70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he’d seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there’s no betrayal of trust. – Aldrich Ames
3881. My little scam in April ’85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here’s some names of some people we’ve recruited. – Aldrich Ames
3882. Historians don’t really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low. – Aldrich Ames
3883. A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way. – Fisher Ames
3884. The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. – Fisher Ames
3885. No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language. – Fisher Ames
3886. The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. – Fisher Ames
3887. The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin. – William Ames
3888. Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation. – William Ames
3889. Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker. – William Ames
3890. Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God. – William Ames
3891. Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God’s image. – William Ames
3892. The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence. – William Ames
3893. The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God. – William Ames
3894. The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things. – William Ames
3895. The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal. – William Ames
3896. The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father’s nature. – William Ames
3897. The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before. – William Ames
3898. The will of God is single and totally one in Him. – William Ames
3899. The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification. – William Ames
3900. The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is. – William Ames
3901. In the exercise of God’s efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature. – William Ames
3902. An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else. – William Ames
3903. Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers. – William Ames
3904. Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God. – William Ames
3905. From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer. – William Ames
3906. For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor. – William Ames
3907. Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us. – William Ames
3908. Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things. – William Ames
3909. In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor. – William Ames
3910. Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object. – William Ames
3911. Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul. – William Ames
3912. The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things. – William Ames
3913. Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church. – William Ames
3914. This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties. – William Ames
3915. There are three easy ways of losing money – racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain. – Lord Amherst
3916. A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration. – Edmondo De Amicis
3917. When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling. – Barbara Amiel
3918. Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II. – Barbara Amiel
3919. When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. – Barbara Amiel
3920. The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire. – Barbara Amiel
3921. Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control. – Barbara Amiel
3922. The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia. – Barbara Amiel
3923. The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved. – Barbara Amiel
3924. There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well – the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa. – Barbara Amiel
3925. There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea. – Barbara Amiel
3926. Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word. – Barbara Amiel
3927. Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. – Barbara Amiel
3928. They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children. – Barbara Amiel
3929. By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire. – Barbara Amiel
3930. Only a free West can help the prisoners of today’s left- and right-wing dictatorships. – Barbara Amiel
3931. The People’s Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists. – Barbara Amiel
3932. Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution. – Barbara Amiel
3933. Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial. – Barbara Amiel
3934. Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians. – Barbara Amiel
3935. I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people. – Barbara Amiel
3936. I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver’s Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas. – Barbara Amiel
3937. In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system. – Barbara Amiel
3938. It did not occur to us that the Marxists’ solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them. – Barbara Amiel
3939. It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World. – Barbara Amiel
3940. Of course the barbarians’ aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls. – Barbara Amiel
3941. All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty. – Barbara Amiel
3942. There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3943. The best path through life is the highway. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3944. Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3945. So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3946. Sympathy is the first condition of criticism. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3947. Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3948. Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3949. Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3950. The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3951. The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3952. The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3953. Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3954. The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3955. Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3956. Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3957. The only substance properly so called is the soul. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3958. Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3959. In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past – a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3960. In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3961. It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3962. It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3963. Learn to… be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3964. Order is power. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3965. Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3966. Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3967. Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3968. Society lives by faith, and develops by science. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3969. Order is a great person’s need and their true well being. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3970. To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3971. Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3972. Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3973. Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3974. Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3975. Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3976. To shun one’s cross is to make it heavier. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3977. I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3978. If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3979. To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3980. To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3981. To marry unequally is to suffer equally. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3982. True humility is contentment. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3983. Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3984. Uncertainty is the refuge of hope. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3985. We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3986. He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3987. Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3988. Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one’s liberty. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3989. Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3990. Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3991. We only understand that which already within us. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3992. Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3993. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3994. Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3995. An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3996. Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3997. Any landscape is a condition of the spirit. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3998. For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. – Henri Frederic Amiel
3999. Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. – Henri Frederic Amiel
4000. Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. – Henri Frederic Amiel