Dave Allen Quotes

Goodnight, thank you, and may your God go with you.

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• I love cooking and baking.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Love
  • Cooking
  • Baking

• I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Work
  • Decision
  • Protect

• I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • American
  • America
  • High

• All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Time
  • Art
  • Effort

• Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Fate
  • Existence
  • Nothing

• It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • May
  • Control

• He swayed in the strong wind that pressed against his back. He swayed forward, on the brink of the high cliff. And his right foot, his enormous iron right foot, lifted-up, out, into space, and the Iron Man stepped forward, off the cliff, into nothingness.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Up
  • High
  • Strong

• A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • God
  • Remember
  • Peace

• There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Success
  • Japanese

• The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.

  

  Mary Catherine Bateson
  • Democracy
  • Commitment

• You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Different
  • Attention
  • Miracle

• If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.

  

  Kevin J. Anderson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Death

• I never view myself as a leader.

  

  Jeff Hardy

• Everyone who comes to my show has their own struggles. There's so many people dealing with so many things; I love that I get to be part of their healing process by making them laugh.

  

  Anjelah Johnson
  • People
  • Healing

• Am I a slacker? I can be a slacker. When I was in college, most people got summer jobs for college or did research during college. I went home and watched TV the whole day for three months; it was really awesome.

  

  Luis von Ahn
  • People
  • Home
  • College

• First, I was a glacial blonde doing music programmes. Then I was the film kind of sexy bird late at night. It was frustrating like I guess it's frustrating for everyone who is not fully employing their talents.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Music
  • Night
  • Sexy

• Every law is an infraction of liberty.

  

  Jeremy Bentham
  • Law

• I never had a plan; I always follow my intuition.

  

  Vicky Krieps
  • Intuition

• My hair has been this chapter thing for me. In 'Jem,' I have blue hair. 'Insidious,' it's pink. In 'CSI,' I have blonde. I love changing my hair. It's just hair and it grows all the time.

  

  Hayley Kiyoko
  • Time
  • Hair
  • Blue

• Right after 'Backspacer,' my best friend got killed tragically. Something happened to me then where I got super motivated. I had a shelf of all this unfinished music... So I just went to work and made a conscious decision that I was going to finish a bunch of stuff. Life's short.

  

  Jeff Ament
  • Life
  • Work
  • Music

• God looketh upon any thing we say, or any thing we do, and if He seeth Christ in it, He accepteth it; but if there be no Christ, He putteth it away as a foul thing.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • God

• Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Trying

• We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Problem
  • Government
  • Constitution

• Goodnight, thank you, and may your God go with you.

  

  Dave Allen
  • God
  • Thank You
  • Goodnight