Steve Allen (Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen) Quotes

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.

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• The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Up
  • Great
  • Business

• Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Wrong
  • Letter
  • DNA

• I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • You
  • Brain
  • Give

• Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.

  

  Finn Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Truth
  • Control
  • Government

• There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Actors
  • Writer
  • Lines

• As far as being on a major label, some labels get it and get what they have to do, and some labels don't. I don't think the label I'm on necessarily gets it, but I think over time they're gonna have to.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Time
  • Think
  • Labels

• I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • Different
  • American
  • Language

• You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Nature
  • See
  • Development

• Consult duty not events.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Duty
  • Events
  • Consult

• I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions that I would give anything from a piece of my soul to a limb to a portion of my life savings to teleport. Especially when bad weather keeps me off planes.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Hate

• My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Sagebrush Rebellion - and yet what I hear all too often from libertarians is that they don't read fiction.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • War
  • Culture
  • Uncle

• There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one’s sense of what is real.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Real

• I make no excuses. It is what is it. I came up short. I took a chance, it didn't pay off. I'll be back.

  

  Conor McGregor
  • Up
  • Excuses

• I've zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Art
  • Action
  • Excellence

• Junk food drags you down.

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • Food

• Anything other than a gold medal will be disappointing.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • Gold

• No matter how I look, the freak inside me leaks out.

  

  Marisa Coughlan

• 'Smoke Ring' was a downer, then 'Wakin' was an upturn.

  

  Kurt Vile

• For she had eyes and chose me.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Eye

• That holy, humble, meek, modest, retiring Form, sometimes called the Spirit of Prayer, has been dragged from the closet, and so rudely handled by some of her professed friends, that she has not only lost all her wonted loveliness, but is now stalking the street, in some places, stark mad.

  

  Asahel Nettleton
  • Lost
  • Prayer
  • Spirit

• I looked like this when I was young, and I still do.

  

  Yogi Berra

• Like Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, I try to balance reality with how we'd like the world to be.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • World
  • Reality
  • Balance

• If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.

  

  Steve Allen
  • God
  • Phrase
  • Holy War