Dave Allen Quotes

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

Dave Allen

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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

• Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.

  

  Kal Penn
  • World
  • Space
  • Like

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

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Fate
  • Existence
  • Nothing

• I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Life
  • Tragic
  • Beginner

• 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

• For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Character
  • Reality
  • Me

• 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

• Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

  

  Mary McLeod Bethune
  • Soul
  • Diamond

• Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

  

  Andres Segovia
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Support

• 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

• My little yorkie Floyd is the ultimate buddy, and his passport has as many stamps as mine.

  

  Jessica Hart

• Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• I want to run with the best, that's how I've always lived.

  

  Tyson Gay

• Some old poet's grand imagination is imposed on us as adamantine everlasting truth, and God's own word! Pythagoras says, truly enough, 'A true assertion respecting God, is an assertion of God'; but we may well doubt if there is any example of this in literature.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • God
  • May
  • Truth

• Living in fear is what every hater, negative person, and the devil wants. Live a righteous life with God and nothing but positivity. You must forgive anyone who has done you dirty, and move on. Your personal life, career, and love life will be that much more amazing after. Life is too short to live it being empty inside, sad, angry, and defensive just to hide your pain. Let it all go and let love and happiness in. Put yourself out there all the way and don't be fearful of losing love. If you don't live life by fully enjoying it and opening your heart, your just not living.

  

  Behdad Sami
  • Life
  • God
  • Heart

• Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Knows
  • Quiet
  • Woods

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

  

  Dave Allen
  • God
  • Thank You
  • Goodnight