A.A. Allen Quotes

Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.

Perez Hilton is an irritating wasp in the beautiful rose garden that is my life.

There are no language barriers when you are smiling.

Before repeating something bad about another person, ask yourself these three questions: Is it true? Is it necessary for me to tell it? Is it kind to tell it?

I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.

Laughing is also good for your respiratory system.

Dog's listen, or appear to listen. I think they hear blah, blah, blah, FOOD, blah, blah, blah. They appear to be listening to you.

A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.

Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.

A psychiatrists is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it.

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.

And more importantly, I wouldnt be the person I am today, I wouldnt be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasnt for the accident.

It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.

Internally, you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life - solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing and ultimately challenge.

I travel with chocolate - Godiva with caramel. When the craving hits, I have to have it. I share, but if I'm on my last one, I've been known to say, 'Sorry, I'm out!'

I have felt darkness lead me by the hand Over the hill to greet the singing dawn.

When you change your NOW story, you instantly change your past story and your future story.

A complete and accurately defined list of projects, kept current and reviewed on at least a weekly basis, is a master key to stress-free productivity.

Life is a free fall parachute jump. Pray all the way down and hope for a safe landing.

Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts youll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier.

The reason that deadline actually can work very well for you is what it forces you to do is make decisions.

Every decision to act is an intuitive one. The challenge is to migrate from hoping it's the right choice to trusting it's the right choice.

In the cold morning the rested street stands up To greet the clerk who saunters down the world.

Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time.

The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.

Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.

You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden.

Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!

Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.

Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.

We are in a new Civil War, and just like the last, it is a struggle for the sanctity of the Union - and it's hardly civil.

And always remember, Abraham Lincoln only served one term in Congress, too.

Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything.

Use a screwdriver instead of a hammer. Try to untighten the nut with your hand. Utilize the path of least resistance first.

I find it hilarious when Obama's hand gets caught in the cookie jar

My comedy is not mine. It's a gift. I'm not that smart.

But how can I give to God what is rightfully His? There is only one way; that is in service to others.

In the Bible there are three distinctive meanings of grace; It means the mercy and active love of God; It means the winsome attractiveness of God; It means the strength of God to overcome.

They say you only go around once, but with a muscle car you can go around two or three times.

Man is the only animal to borrow tools.

If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are able to paint that tree with more conviction, even if done with a few broad strokes.

You won't see how to do it until you see yourself doing it.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

I don't think men are the enemy. I think women are the enemy.