A.A. Allen Quotes

Things are symbols of themselves.

I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.

I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly. God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.

Who’ll come lie down in the dark with me Belly to belly and knee to knee Who’ll look into my hooded eye Who’ll lie down under my darkened thigh?

Inside skull vast as outside skull

Do not be content with an imaginary god.

If not every one of these people, who were never perfect, is worthy of our love, at least their fate deserves our attention and our memory. They should talk and be talked about.

Small things lead to big changes.

No single initiative by itself can solve the climate crisis.

Nothing is too small to matter.

I would rather win than have good sportsmanship.

I am the MVP and I gotta worry about the trade talk.

I don't care. I feel like if we don't make a trade, we have to get it done with what we've got.

God chose Memphis as the place that I will continue my career.

I remember playing in a tournament when at home we didn't have light, because my mom spent her last money on my sneakers.

We talkin' bout practice?

We had a lot to do with Randy being fired. If we were to do a lot better, then it probably wouldn't have happened.

I'm going to always be a Sixer til I die.

There's nothing less than that. I don't care about just going to the playoffs; I've been to the playoffs before.

I love you Philadelphia. I want to thank you for accepting me, and letting me be me and make this my home forever.

You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.

Very rarely do you have a perfect race, and it's about overcoming your mistakes in the race and remaining composed.

It's about stepping up on the big stage. The athlete who can do that is goig to do well.

I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start again during my career.

Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything.

In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.

It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body.

When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.

I know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new friends almost constantly.

Plants are the original chemists. Their sophistication makes DuPont and Monsanto look like little kids with chemistry sets.

A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of seeing.

Crabgrass is aptly descriptive of this hated weed, for it does scuttle quickly through a lawn.

We can plant to suit the needs of the birds and other wildlife that find a haven and a habitat on our home ground, and we can understand that to do so is a moral dictate, not a personal whim.

But there is one place where a person can make choices that will lead in a small way toward greater sanity in dealing with the natural order. That place is the private garden.

In a well-made garden every day is new.

Am I accurately reporting what I see in such a blossom? The answer is no ... and yes.

One becomes a gardener by becoming a gardener.

Not knowing where your food comes from is a primary form of alienation.

Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France, had such an aversion to roses that she could not stand seeing one even in a painting.

Democracy is fine in politics. It should stay there, and we need more of it. But its political virture is no reason to practice it in the garden.

Gardening is in large measure a phenomenon of attention.

In addition to all its rich offerings to the body and its five senses, gardening engages the mind.

All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be.

Of course, the character of my garden is also determined by things beyond any human decision, mine or anyone else's.

In Downton Abbey, foreplay is basically hanging your clothes up properly

I never get recognised.

I'm actually just an actor.

People's minds are overloaded with information.

The darkest day in life is the one in which we expect something for nothing.

Look ... first and foremost, I'm a scientist. That means it's my responsibility to make observations and gather evidence before forming a hypothesis, not vice versa.