Al Gore Quotes

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

A good deed never goes unpunished.

For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.

The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.

The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come. We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather.

I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

I think when you get people who are really talented and you take them out of their comfort zone, you get a lot more out of them.

I want people to feel good about listening to this [Delta Machine] record, to get some kind of peace. It's just got something magical about it.

I might become an ascetic, live in India. A little rice is about the best I can do now.

Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.

And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It's character building.

If you go into the eastern bloc countries we are huge, and in Russia. Maybe there is something about the depressing nature of our music and lyrics that some people find an affinity with.

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place

Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.

I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

Plant trees, Lots of trees

I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

I know how important good mental health care can be because I personally benefited from it.

I was born a poor black child.

We know that mental illness is not something that happens to other people. It touches us all. Why then is mental illness met with so much misunderstanding and fear?

I doubt nuclear power will play a much larger role than it does now.

In a free society, there comes a time when the truth - however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say - must be told.

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.

Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.

I live in Santa Barbara. My wife's American, and she lived in England for 11 years and then told me she'd had enough.

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.

Love is a fan club with only two fans.

All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.

I liked the trichotomy, that's the only thing I ever liked.

I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging.

What is a political party but a conspiracy?

I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.

How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.

The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'