Al Lewis Quotes

Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

The lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.

If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.

As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.

The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.

Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.

Flowers for me are just things to give to a beatiful woman.

Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed.

I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.

To do what you love and are passionate about is a dream come true, My life is consumed by music and entertainment— and it’s the best life I could ever hope for.

this is a book about something

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and replace them with data, you gain a clear advantage.

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.

It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.

People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say.

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

I don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell.

Usually when I see someone famous, for some reason, I think I know them.

And I love Evander Holyfield to death!

I love nature and enjoy learning new skills.

I love a beautiful gown on stage, and luckily I've been fortunate to wear some amazing dresses.

I continue to work on plays, but I've always felt that you could put a note in a bottle and send it offshore, and you'd have as much chance communicating with people.

God has never made a mistake. Ever.

I try not to diet because it never really works for me, if I tell myself I can't eat something then I tend to want to eat everything in sight.

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.

This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars.

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.

The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.

I'm more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?

Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.

I personally feel very strongly that what it will take is not more disasters, it's that what it will take is a vision of the future that is better than our present.

One of the things that could be exciting about this next phase of Canadian politics is if we could maybe have co-leaders.