A.A. Allen Quotes

When you decide clearly and definitely what you want, then no sacrifice is too great as you put all of your powers into astounding results.

If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.

But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.

The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!

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.

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.

The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity

When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.

'I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. The solution is simple. Write it down. Look at it. Do it or say to yourself 'not now'.

She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with the wrong people.

The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

People allow themselves to get distracted; I think ultimately, probably the biggest thing that gets in the way of people doing what they ought to be doing at any point in time is distraction.

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.

The twilight is long fingers and black hair.

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.

Fame is fleeting, honey. Fame is fleeting and it changes.

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live.

Indeed the presence of outstanding strengths presupposes that energy needed in other areas has been channeled away from them.

The single most important thing in coaching is turning out educated kids who are ready for society.

I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan.

Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.

The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.

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.

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.

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.

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.

And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.

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.

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.

As buoyancy is not contrary to other characteristics of leadership, including decisiveness, accountability and performance standards, I don't ever think it can be self-defeating.

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

The practice. Muscles do not interpret right or wrong just familiarity. Through repetition we begin to make what is unfamiliar our own

So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers.

Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.

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.

When you lose, there is a whole bunch of room for negativity and I don't feed into this stuff and I do not do any talking. I don't run my mouth.

I personally call one of my fans every month. I answer all of my own fan mail.

What I've come to realize is that emotional intelligence, which I define as buoyancy, was the only way I knew how to lead, and is, in my option, the only way to inspire real change.

I was the bridge between the Michael Jordan era and LeBron James era.

Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.

There are two kinds of jokes - funny jokes and Jack Benny jokes.

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

You have to be in love with yourself before anyone else can fall in love with you; to be happy with yourself.

I don't ever really notice when guys are hitting on me. I'm oblivious.

Personally I just want to win a championship.

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.

The truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love itself.