A.A. Allen Quotes

Money is attracted to great ideas.

The more clarity you have, the more powerful your goals are.

Time management is a big part of the director's job.

Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.

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.

The church was first established and organized with a world-wide mission for a world-wide work.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

I owe all of this to the guys I've played with and all the coaches that have helped me get to where I'm at right now. I'm honored to be here.

Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

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

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

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.'

Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality.

I am never as clear about any matter as when I have finished writing about it.

The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself.

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.

As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Sometime I’ll lay down my wrath, As I lay my body down Between the ache of breath and breath, Golden slumber in the bone.

And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers.

Playing golf is like going to a strip joint. After 18 holes you are tired and most of your balls are missing.

It's foolish to bet on a horse without talking to him first. I know it seems silly to ask a horse who's going to win a race - but it's no sillier than asking anyone else.

Every politician must be able to keep both feet on the fence with his ear to the ground.

My fans are the only people who will be with me forever, all else comes and goes.

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.

Liberal progressivism evolved after our Constitution. It has repeatedly failed all over the world so why do we think it could be successful here in the United States of America?

I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you dont follow my path to extinction

I know it sounds odd, but I want to make a Rolex-quality screwdriver.

There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder.

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.