Al Murray Quotes

It is a sure mark of grace to desire more.

I have a high priest in heaven

One gem from that ocean is worth all the pebbles of earthly streams.

I never see a sign Licensed to sell spirits without thinking that it is a license to ruin souls.

Go on, dear brother; but an inch of time remains, and then eternal ages roll on for ever--but an inch on which we can stand and preach the way of salvation to a perishing world.

We must not close with Christ because we feel Him, but because God lias said it, and we must take God's word even in the dark.

I'm not sayin I'm a pothead, cause I'm not. I'm just sayin that I smoke a lot.

Got more milky syllables than alphabet cereals.

I often yearn to regress into a state that's slightly more atavistic than my decades of conditioning generally allow, but it's difficult to let go of those reigns.

Focus on growing your list all of the time as newer subscribers are more engaged adding to healthier open rates and ROI.

I've never regretted a swim

The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.

We're the real estate industry - not the manufacturers.

If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself

When you think you're listening to several conversations at once, they tell me, you may really simply be time sharing - that is, listening a little bit to this one, a little bit to that one

Legality can't create love if it isn't there, or preserve it if it's dying, but it can destroy love by making it compulsory.

If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.

There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability.

Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.

I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

Even the most productive writers are expert dawdlers.

I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write.

Process can not be inferred from product any more than a pig can be inferred from a sausage.

Simply, with a Republican Congress sitting shotgun, Mitt Romney will put the middle class on the roof and take us for a long, painful ride.

The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.

I guess my enthusiasm kind of rubs off on people.

Make sure everyone who works with you or for you, feels the need to tell others about the incredible experience.

I first met my wife in the tunnel of love. She was digging it at the time.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Repent or be damned! If you have already repented, please disregard this notice.

I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to.

The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.

To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off.

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.

It is a huge honour to be recognised as the world's best commentator, particularly against so many sporting greats.

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

There is no entering into the secret thoughts of a man's heart.

I'm not an ungenerous person; I don't resent it. It's just sort of a head-scratcher.

Half of the people in this room are more dressed up than on any other day in the year, and the other half are more dressed down.

The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.

And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, 'Oh! You're gonna be the mayor?' And I hadn't even read the script yet.

It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling.

I smell varmint poontang. And the only good varmint poontang is dead varmint poontang, I think.