Al Lewis Quotes

I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.

For 45 years I've worked without an audience.

For me, poetry is the colour of Elizabeth Taylor's eyes, or the pauses in Pinter's plays - only the pauses, not the words.

It varies by community. At (one local community) we've never offered them. But at most communities, we offer 2 or 3 percent off base price.

For me personally, to hop onboard and use the amazing success and blessings in my life to pull off something like the 30/30 Project is awesome.

I have an AIDS ribbon tattooed on my arm.

Play allows us to maintain curiosity while learning.

Mastery is in constantly wanting to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.

Coming close to what you thought you wanted can help you attain what you never dreamed you could.

The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost.

Completion is a goal, but we hope it is never the end.

Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.

It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.

If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.

Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.

I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.

It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.

The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.

Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, 'tain't any laughing matter!

The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called "patriotism" and "love of sport."

Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.

What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?

His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?

That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.

There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.

Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.

Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.

In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.

There was much conversation, most of which sounded like the rest of it.

Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.

I don't believe in God for the same reason that most people don't believe in Apollo or Zeus. ... God is just human beings' way of personifying an otherwise completely natural universe.

Even as I speak, in four hours time the Kyalami Grand Prix will roar away

For any budding cricketers listening, do you have any superstitious routines before an innings, like putting one pad on first and then the other one?

The child and the poet know that Reality is what does not need to be realistic.

According to legend. Telford is so dull that the by-pass was built before the town.

We love and reason because God Loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it.

I suspect there is something in our very mode of thought which makes it inevitable that we should always be baffled by actual existence, whatever character actual existence may have.

, "I am not crazy, my reality is just different from yours."-Cheshire Cat

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Begin at the beginning, " the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

have i gone mad?im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.

Why it's simply impassible!Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible? Nothing's impossible!

Take some more tea, " the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly."I've had nothing yet, " Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more." than nothing." opinion, " said Alice.

Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing--turn your toes out when you walk---And remember who you are!

I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.

One! two! and through and throughThe vorpal blade went snickersnack!He left it dead, and with its headHe went galumphing back.

what is the use of a book, ' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'"- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Ch. 1