Alan Alda Quotes

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

Alan Alda

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• Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Great
  • Evil
  • Military

• When I started off in England, HMV or Tower Records would come to meetings and be, like, 'We just don't know what this genre is.' I don't really fit in between Rihanna and Beyonce.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Know
  • England
  • Meetings

• If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • You
  • Light
  • Working

• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
  • Important
  • Fun

• When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Lost
  • Beginning

• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Commit
  • Promises
  • Loyal

• I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Day
  • Doing
  • Coaching

• Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Information
  • Management

• We seem to think we have some control over this planet.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Think
  • Control
  • Seem

• I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • You
  • Mean
  • Door

• The way to a man's heart is through his chest.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Way

• I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Spiritual
  • Religion
  • Phases

• The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Joy
  • Winning
  • Win

• I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Hate
  • Working
  • Learned

• The journey matters as much as the goal.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Goal
  • Journey
  • Matters

• Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • You
  • Sleep

• Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • War
  • Action
  • Fall

• I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • My Life

• I don't think the isolation of the American writer is a tradition; it's more that, geographically, he just is isolated, unless he happens to live in New York City. But I don't suppose there's a small town around the country that doesn't have a writer.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • Live
  • Country
  • American

• I financed and made my own films from the start. My path has been autonomous and independent, so I don't have any horror stories about glass ceilings and expectations and tense studio meetings.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • Path
  • Independent

• We wish to be treated 'not as ordinary prisoners,' for we are not criminals. We admit no crime - unless, that is, the love of one's people and country is a crime.

  

  Bobby Sands
  • People
  • Country
  • Wish

• Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Lose
  • Economic
  • Recovery

• You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Work
  • Risk
  • Wonderful