Al Snow Quotes

It is understandable that people cannot be knowledgeable about all the different mediums. Sometimes it is funny.

People's vocabulary has expanded.

I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

A friend hipped me to hypoglycemia, which an article I read calls 'a disease for a nation of sugar junkies.' Who knows how many people in this country have it?

Once I get out onstage, it's the same sort of basic production that it is anywhere else. But I might be a little bit aware that there might be people I know out there, who wondered where I was.

The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.

If the baby is sick, you won't find me showing up to play my gigs. If I have a contract, there is going to be a clause in that contract saying that if the baby is sick I will not appear.

I lost interest in being in the public eye.

Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins.

When politicians rush to fix things, it's a sure sign that either the intended patient is dead or fully healed.

We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.

American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.

We live in an anaesthetized society.

If you disaggregate, things fall apart.

I hate to tell you, but it's not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill and there have been other scandals as you know that have been more than simply naughty e-mails.

President Bush has committed billions to the fight against AIDS, thus making retroviral drugs available to millions of HIV-positive Africans.

Go off-road...Practice a little daring.

The last person to achieve unambiguous victory in an air war was Zeus.

George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.

Investigators have discovered that dogs can laugh, which can't be too big of a surprise.

It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.

We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.

That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.

Snow came back, but she didn't come back right.

Its not what the universe gives us that matters, but what we give the universe

Christmas is a state of mind.

Because I lay with him… I’ve caught a glimpse of heaven. Or I understand what I need. Or I have the courage to be myself.

Hawke, " he said. "That's the word you need to be saying.

It would be too easy to become infatuated with a man like him, and also decidedly unwise considering the female debris left in his wake.

At the end of the night awaits the white morning: showered in sunlight.

I recall that now and I recall everything for what do we have but the past to parent us?

New knowledge enhances an ever increasing sense of our own ignorance. The more we know, the more we know we don't know. Feynman called it 'the expanding frontier of ignorance'.

Disseminating knowledge is the human duty, sharing it about so that all can benefit.

A happy childhood can fortify one against the ravages of life, and part of that happiness is found in books, which become our constant companions for the rest of our lives.

The place we get lost is the very place that we're found, all we need to do is put one foot in front of the other.

[S]omehow, without his being aware of it, time had coated his awe with a rind of disillusionment, and the wine of wonder had turned to vinegar.

How time slips past, masked in the rhythm of the days!

We are very fond of books. You can learn nearly everything from them that rabbits can't teach you.

We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.

Stare at the dark too long and you will eventually see what isn’t there.

That's the kind of thing people always thinking. They always got to see some sort of scary thing in everything.

And yet he found comfort in the absence of telling.

Combinations of people, who should have nothing to say to each other. Yet, with hearts that do not recognize it.

Legend has it, dwarves were made to uncover all the riches hidden on earth. Not just golds or precious stones, but the beauty in people's hearts. -Eric

A bed is a place where so much of life is played out - births and deaths and passions and dreaming - all the most fundamental moments of our fragile human existence.

Those dreams seem very simple to me now, a crude, crayon-drawn picture by a wistful child. But the beauty of impossible dreams is that they are impossible - the hows and whens don't really matter.

I have a bad habit of wolfing down things that catch my eye.

That's why literature is so fascinating. It's always up for interpretation, and could be a hundred different things to a hundred different people. It's never the same thing twice.

The time for princes and tsars and holy madmen was gone.In its place came a world of war and revolution, of tanks andtelephones, murder and assassination.