Dave Allen Quotes

We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.

Dave Allen

• Giving
• Running
• Sleep
• Retiring

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• In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Reality
  • Giving

• I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Running
  • Space
  • Hiking

• I feel creatively vibrant. I have some great friends; I feel like I'm capable of giving a lot to the world. And ultimately, that's what I really care about, is just giving.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • World
  • Great
  • Friends

• Happiness is the bomb cosmetic! When I'm smiling, sometimes I'm giving thanks for all the things I have rather than worrying about the things I don't.

  

  Yaya DaCosta
  • Giving
  • Happiness
  • Thanks

• I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Good
  • Problem
  • Sleep

• All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Life
  • Running
  • My Life

• When my son was growing up, I was always guilty, no matter what I did. Make decisions and be happy with the decisions you've made. I tell myself, in the long run, it's the love, the quality of relationships that you have with your family, your friends and giving back to the community that matters.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Up
  • Long
  • Family

• I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes, but that's really not what giving someone goosebumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Trying
  • High
  • Giving

• What nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not love. If it involves less than total giving, it is not love. It is impotent; for the moment it is nothing.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Giving

• I think producing a record for other artists is almost like giving them advice, and I would say that it is easier to produce another artist than it is to produce yourself.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Giving
  • Advice

• I really enjoy the shopping and going out and getting stuff for other people. I could really give a damn about getting gifts for myself, but I really enjoy giving gifts.

  

  Luke Combs
  • People
  • Giving
  • Shopping

• Nebraskans are known for giving of themselves and that quality is part of what makes our state such a wonderful place to live, work and raise a family.

  

  Dave Heineman
  • Work
  • Live
  • Family

• I'm giving curvy women a seat at a table that we've never been invited to before - a table with high-end fashion people who have never considered us beautiful.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • People
  • Women
  • High

• In western culture, we have ignored death. We're running the other way - everything is about life and youth. So, there's something resonant about walking around with our own death masks. Zombies are the visible embodiment of death staring at us with our own faces.

  

  Andrew Lincoln
  • Life
  • Death
  • Culture

• I don't really know how many films I've done, and I don't look at this as a race that I necessarily want to win. Nor is it a race that I want to stop running.

  

  Donald Pleasence
  • Done
  • Running
  • Stop

• The fans know that I have been giving it my all and that we had the good judgment to when to say when.

  

  Bobby Rahal
  • Good
  • Giving

• Doing something like 'Damages,' I played a character with post-traumatic stress. I was playing with sleep deprivation. I was not sleeping; I stayed up for three days at a time, drinking Red Bull. I would get shaky and tired and hyper.

  

  Chris Messina
  • Up
  • Time
  • Character

• I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

  

  bell hooks
  • Trying
  • Quality
  • Sleep

• There are two main organizations that rate charities. They look at their finances and decide whether they are giving enough to the causes they claim to focus on. Something like 80 or 90% of their money actually goes to a charitable purpose.

  

  David Fahrenthold
  • Money
  • Giving
  • Focus

• The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • History
  • Future
  • Past

• But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.

  

  Michael Hutchence INXS
  • Up
  • Music
  • Power

• There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.

  

  Mathieu Amalric
  • Feeling
  • Sad
  • Romantic

• We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.

  

  Dave Allen
  • Giving
  • Running
  • Sleep