Al Goodman Quotes

[E]very time you think the entertainment moguls have hit rock bottom, they reach for the jackhammer and rat-a-tat-tat a little deeper.

It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments, like snapshots, in the fleeting video of time.

You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.

Politics makes estranged bedfellows.

Humor is such a great gift - why leave it to chance?

Either the Baby Boomers are not going to have the retirement life that they expect or taxpayers are going to be hit with a tremendously huge bill. Or both.

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.

I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.

If you want to direct, you've got to work.

But I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when he's working.

I'd bowled a lot, but I never really had proper lessons.

The contented have time to worry about trivialities; often to the extent that they never achieve anything worthwhile.

On the dance floor, as much as you say, 'Ladies, you are the car. He is the driver. You can only go where he takes you,' they still try to be in control.

I am good in bed - I don't snore. I don't take the duvet. I just lay there and go straight off to sleep. That's all you want out of a bloke.

I haven't danced since 1973; I'm too old.

There are no gentlemen in anything competitive - you want to win.

I try to keep myself in the best of company and my horses in the worst of company.

Children give life a reason to be - they make life.

Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.

I've got a great life. It's a shame the work gets in the way of the golf, really.

I can't do most things, if I'm honest, but cooking I definitely can't do.

I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.

As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.

Life is precious and relationships are precious. I'm a great believer in family.

All the drug dealers and gang members with whom I dealt had [a cell phone] long before any police officer I knew did.

A search engine can determine who shall live and who shall die.

An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure enough to be intriguing.

I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there are in heaven or earth.

It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.

Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.

Low pay generally means harder work under worse conditions.

In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance.

There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy... the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul... the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos.

There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education: what is basic and universal in human experience and practice, the underlying structure of culture.

We do not need to be able to say what "human nature" is in order to be able to say that some training is "against human nature.

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.

Penology...has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime...a blotting out of sight and heightening of social anxiety.

An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal Few great men could pass personnel

All men are creative but few are artists.

When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers.

It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

It is hard to grow up in a society in which one's important problems are treated as nonexistent. It is impossible to belong to it, it is hard to fight to change it.

What the devil to do with the sentence "Who the devil does he think he's fooling?" You can't write "Whom the devil- ".

The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony.

The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided a plausible adult recreation to grow up into.

Never waste a prayer on something that isn't important.

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident.

Writing- the profession in which you stare at a computer screen, stare out the window, type a few words, then curse repeatedly.