A.A. Allen Quotes

So face with calm that heritage And earn contempt before the age.

It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct.

We quickly discovered that two kittens were much more fun than one.

Social media is that daily feed that reminds people that you exist and it has to be as transparent and true as everything else you do, or people will call you out on it.

Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.

In every job, relationship, or life situation there is inevitably some turbulence. Learn to laugh at it. It is part of what you do and who you are.

The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.

Our attitudes are the crayons that color our world.

If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.

I always wanted to do music but never really had the confidence to do it until my first manager George Lamb, who I met out in Ibiza, encouraged me.

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

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

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

The dreamers are the saviors of the world.

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.

I love having fans of all ages but it's especially cool for me to have young fans. I hope to be a role model for kids who want to follow their dreams.

Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars

Never buy anything with a handle on it. It means work.

Real worship is that of the heart.

It is not only that sin consists in doing evil, but in not doing the good that we know.

Anytime there is a Bigfoot show, where they supposedly have recordings of him, I am watching. I love the idea of Bigfoot. I want him to be out there somewhere.

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

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

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.

You can do anything, but you can't do everything

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission.

But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling.

The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to make the astrology column seem factual by comparison.

If you don't fall off the wagon regularly, you're not playing a big enough game.

Uncertainty would be the only certainty there's, and realizing how to stay with insecurity could be the only protection

Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence.

I think ties are great and Kathy Bates is an actress whose work I've admired tremendously over many years, and I feel a certain kinship with her, we both came from an extensive theater background.

Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.

Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused.

I believe teenagers are God's revenge on mankind. It's like He said, 'Hey let's see how they like it to create something in their own image that denies their existence.'

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little.

Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry

Losing the Super Bowl is worse than death. You have to get up the next morning.

Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth.

Peering, I heard the hooves come down the hill. The posse passed, twelve horse; the leader's face Was worn as limestone on an ancient sill.

If you can accept defeat and open your pay envelope without feeling guilty, you're stealing.

Art is the space between the viewer and the rectangle that hangs on the wall. Unless something of the person that created the work is there, there's nothing for the viewer to take away.