You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in b...
ALAN ALDA I love oatmeal. To me, it's not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not th...
ALAN ALDA When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.
ALAN ALDA Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them o...
ALAN ALDA Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange p...
ALAN ALDA You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. W...
ALAN ALDA No one can replace a unique person like Peter.
ALAN ALDA Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange ...
ALAN ALDA Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has even been. You h...
ALAN ALDA You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll...
ALAN ALDA Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You h...
ALAN ALDA ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe -- you can't take a taxi.
ALAN ALDA It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few peo...
ALAN ALDA It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
ALAN ALDA Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light w...
ALAN ALDA It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few pe...
ALAN ALDA Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young...
ALAN ALDA Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
ALAN ALDA You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you...
ALAN ALDA In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segmen...
ALAN ALDA M*A*S*H' was a collection of people, in front of and behind the cameras, that really clicked.
ALAN ALDA My father sang well, and he was a handsome man. When he walked down the street, people sometimes mis...
ALAN ALDA Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them o...
ALAN ALDA Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows on the world. Scrub them off ev...
ALAN ALDA Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
ALAN ALDA Backstage life is terrific training for an actor, seeing shows from the wings.
ALAN ALDA I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works ...
ALAN ALDA When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might l...
ALAN ALDA I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story,...
ALAN ALDA I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia,...
ALAN ALDA Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it h...
ALAN ALDA The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfor...
ALAN ALDA Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.
ALAN ALDA It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It'...
ALAN ALDA You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, wher...
ALAN ALDA If scientists could communicate more in their own voices - in a familiar tone, with a less specializ...
ALAN ALDA Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange p...
ALAN ALDA No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being ...
ALAN ALDA If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money
ALAN ALDA It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it d...
ALAN ALDA I did many of them on 'M*A*S*H,'
ALAN ALDA We loved the idea of CMEE [pronounced
ALAN ALDA I think the audience was aware that even when it was farcical, there was the sense that at some leve...
ALAN ALDA For nearly a quarter of a century three men in this country were anchors in more ways than one. At a...
ALAN ALDA [Alda concluded by invoking the words with which Jennings had closed his final broadcast in April, w...
ALAN ALDA We're left now with just a little bit of snow at the bottom of the screen,
ALAN ALDA Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fa...
ALAN ALDA Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned
ALAN ALDA When the greatest hero in the history of my party, Abraham Lincoln, debated, he didn't need any rule...
ALAN ALDA Marie Curie is my hero. Few people have accomplished something so rare - changing science. And as ha...
ALAN ALDA When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead gol...
ALAN ALDA What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous a...
ALAN ALDA It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose ...
ALAN ALDA When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gott...
ALAN ALDA In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way...
ALAN ALDA You can't be aware of everything. You'd fall down the stairs if you were aware of every intr...
ALAN ALDA I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them ...
ALAN ALDA Self-confidence gives you the freedom to make mistakes and cope with failure without feeling that yo...
ALAN ALDA The one thing I think I've noticed about shows that are supposed to be funny on television is th...
ALAN ALDA At times you have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. Wh...
ALAN ALDA No, I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to ...
ALAN ALDA I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be m...
ALAN ALDA Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest disc...
ALAN ALDA Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for stran...
ALAN ALDA I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
ALAN ALDA The U.S. Steel Hour.
ALAN ALDA Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they're fair with you.
ALAN ALDA Others will step in and do his job with excellence. But no one can replace the unique person that wa...
ALAN ALDA [B]egin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them...
ALAN ALDA an electronic Mount Rushmore.
ALAN ALDA The creative is the place where no one else have ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfo...
ALAN ALDA I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce ...
ALAN ALDA I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mothe...
ALAN ALDA What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what...
ALAN ALDA Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You h...
ALAN ALDA You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons fro...
ALAN ALDA There is a wonderful feeling of power when you're a director, but I don't think I need that,...
ALAN ALDA I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shar...
ALAN ALDA Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they&#...
ALAN ALDA There's a vacancy now that no president can fill, no power on Earth can fill, ... Others will step i...
ALAN ALDA 'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid ...
ALAN ALDA I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
ALAN ALDA What is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in ...
ALAN ALDA Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.
ALAN ALDA Blind dates are treacherous. You don't know who this person is. You wonder, 'Should I call m...
ALAN ALDA Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
ALAN ALDA Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they're fair with you.
ALAN ALDA The meaning of life is life.
ALAN ALDA You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're ...
ALAN ALDA I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by j...
ALAN ALDA La miglior vendetta? La felicità. Non c'è niente che faccia più impazzire la gente che vederti fe...
ALDA MERINI If you want to look good on the outside, you must also feel good and be good on the inside. Our prac...
ALDA PILISZEK I decided to start Spa Nova to integrate that with a little bit of the medicine. [Ted] decided a cou...
ALDA PILISZEK At that time, Ted was 23 years old, a doctor at London University-Kings College of Medicine. He was ...
ALDA PILISZEK Spazio

Spazio spazio, io voglio, tanto spazio
per dolcissima muovermi ferita:
v...
ALDA MERINI I don't like Paradise,
As they probably don't have obsessions there.
ALDA MERINI Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
ALAN No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
ALAN WATTS I think most people have that crazy uncle they sit at Thanksgiving dinner with: someone they disagre...
ALAN COLMES Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLIS Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest po...
ALAN STERN Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETT I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETT I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
ALAN BENNETT We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me ch...
ALAN BENNETT I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.
ALAN BENNETT I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu...
ALAN BENNETT I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fall...
ALAN BENNETT I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
ALAN BENNETT I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that...
ALAN BENNETT All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
ALAN BENNETT We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's...
ALAN BENNETT Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
ALAN BENNETT I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The...
ALAN BENNETT Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
ALAN BENNETT Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
ALAN BENNETT Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception...
ALAN BENNETT Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETT Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; o...
ALAN BENNETT Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
ALAN BENNETT If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
ALAN KING I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.
ALAN TURING I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don'...
ALAN TURING I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature co...
ALAN TURING Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two ...
ALAN TURING No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brai...
ALAN TURING I want to enjoy not getting recognised while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can...
ALAN WALKER Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.
ALAN BULLOCK The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
ALAN WATTS In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
ALAN PERLIS People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAY I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce.
ALAN AUTRY Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, il...
ALAN MOORE I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I kn...
ALAN MOORE We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
ALAN WATTS Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATON You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven...
ALAN GREENSPAN I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' A...
ALAN BALL Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
ALAN PARKER I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it pers...
ALAN BALL Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go u...
ALAN GREENSPAN And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, ...
ALAN WATTS There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world insid...
ALAN MOORE Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of ea...
ALAN KAY If we don't re-charge the American Brand, all future challenges - economic, social and political...
ALAN SIEGEL On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12....
ALAN RICKMAN So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impos...
ALAN WATTS Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
ALAN WATTS So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they...
ALAN WATTS Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is a...
ALAN WATTS In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about th...
ALAN WATTS I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTS We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
ALAN WATTS Saints need sinners.
ALAN WATTS You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
ALAN WATTS Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
ALAN WATTS No work for love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans fo...
ALAN WATTS Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the s...
ALAN WATTS Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the s...
ALAN WATTS How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instr...
ALAN WATTS The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
ALAN WATTS Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in t...
ALAN KEYES Arsenal paid a lot of money for him a few years ago but he found it difficult to claim a first-team ...
ALAN CURBISHLEY It was a great night for us and a great achievement. Who knows what will happen in the next round. I...
ALAN CURBISHLEY There has not really been a lot going on for Stephan, he has not had many saves to make. I want to h...
ALAN CURBISHLEY There may be players wanting to leave, and obviously I have a surplus in the forward area, so this w...
ALAN CURBISHLEY I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
ALAN CUMMING Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
ALAN CUMMING It's a sort of anti-Broadway musical. It's odd, disjointed and spiky.
ALAN CUMMING Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what...
ALAN CUMMING It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
ALAN CUMMING It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
ALAN CUMMING When Brian went by me, I thought he was some guy that jumped on the course.
ALAN CULPEPPER In Athens, I was running in long sleeves and pants in the summertime to acclimate as much as I could...
ALAN CULPEPPER If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which incl...
ALAN LIGHTMAN At this point, our office is going to prepare to go to trial again, ... We believe the jury will com...
ALAN CURRY We haven't made a decision yet. I think there's several options open to us and that's something work...
ALAN CURRY Andrea Yates knew precisely what she was doing, ... She knew that it was wrong.
ALAN CURRY He has come here to gain experience, and nothing can happen until December anyway. I believe Gary Ne...
ALAN CURBISHLEY I left some of the boys out completely to have a rest,
ALAN CURBISHLEY We moved in straight away, and although he was publicly linked with other clubs, we were always conf...
ALAN CURBISHLEY Danny is a player we have been tracking for some time, but he only became available last week,
ALAN CURBISHLEY Claus had one year remaining on his contract and made it clear that he didn't wish to renew his deal...
ALAN CURBISHLEY The player wanted to come to us and we are very pleased to welcome him.
ALAN CURBISHLEY We don't believe isolated testimony on cross examination by one of our witnesses had such an impact ...
ALAN CURRY We are hopeful that we can now finally place our complete focus upon going to trial.
ALAN CURRY The case has already been reversed once, so we want to make sure we proceed correctly and appropriat...
ALAN CURRY I would anticipate this case is going to have to be retried.
ALAN CURRY It's just a matter of our blokes lifting their game. They haven't been playing to their usual standa...
ALAN DAVIDSON We?re pleased with the vitality we're seeing in the UK market. Our company accounted for close to a ...
ALAN CURTIS One can always hope, but I worry this will be a repeat of that experience. After the 1960 riots, the...
ALAN CURTIS [Some found Bush's words reassuring. Others worried that they would not resonate far into the future...
ALAN CURTIS But the major mistake is to take the census report as a one-year phenomenon. This is the fourth stra...
ALAN CURTIS If anything, the numbers out of the Census Bureau underestimate the problem of poverty in America,
ALAN CURTIS This is an unusual case, but the state has previously shown that the defendant knew that her conduct...
ALAN CURRY It is kind-of the same issue, but they have added a couple of different elements to it, a couple of ...
ALAN CURRY The case was reversed on appeal. She's gotten a new trial. She's gained the relief she's entitled to...
ALAN CURRY He had a fool proof plan for not getting a job - In the event of an interview wear flip-flops.
ALAN DAVIES