A.A. Allen Quotes

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.

I just think that we're capable of so much more; we don't utilize all our capacity like we should.

There are two types of players: those who know and those who don’t. The smartest ones usually play the longest and [are] usually the most successful.

Life is too short not to do a little practical joking.

Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time, they need to feel like men.

Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!

Everyone just needs to stop fighting and have a cookie.

I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.

I seek as much as I can to mitigate risk.

There are problems in the world today.

The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made.

The only bit of logic-based public bathroom humor I know is: the difference between men and women is that between the statement [P and not Q] and the statement [Q and not P].

Defined broadly enough, mathematics encompasses everything.

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.

A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working.

You cannot travel within and stand still without.

We do not attract what we want, But what we are.

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.

The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.

If you [want to] change something, come talk to me. It's the easiest solution.

It would be far easier to lose weight permanently if replacement parts weren't so handy in the refrigerator.

I never want a fan to come and hear what they hear on their iPod, its about creating a unqiue and awesome experience.

I'll say this: Google is the best 9-5 anyone could ever get. Awesome environment, I loved my time there, but I grew up with my dream to pursue music full time.

I try not to listen to a lot of music when I'm starting the recording process, because it can be so subtly influential.

It's easy to choose doing what you love when there are people out there supporting you.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Sometimes I think of writing as becoming this antenna that picks up the vibrations all around me in order to find out how and where next I'll be steered.

The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous

Television is a triumph of equipment over people.

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.

He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night!

There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.

It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage.

As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them.

If you’re at zero backlog, it’s a whole lot easier to change priorities.

The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.

One of our gravest concerns is the entry of a nuclear device or materials into the U.S.

When I retired out of the military, I registered myself as a Republican because my views and perspectives were more in line with that party.

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

My next climb is going to be a tourist troll in a wheelchair.

Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics.

We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.

Night is the wonderful opportunity to take rest, to forgive, to smile, to get ready for all the battles that you have to fight tomorrow.