Alan Ball Quotes

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Alan Ball

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• In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

  

  Warren Mitchell
  • You
  • Doubt
  • Little

• I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Life
  • Home
  • Dream

• For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Me
  • Beauty
  • Creativity

• I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Battle
  • Planets

• I like very much to put on fashion shows.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Fashion
  • Like
  • Shows

• It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Man

• If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Process

• The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

  

  Jackie Gleason
  • Day
  • Always
  • Diet

• I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • World
  • Friends
  • Most

• We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Health
  • Language
  • Resolve

• Cycling was the sport of our family - we did it all the time, five days a week.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Time
  • Family
  • Week

• People have to realize that dieting is not a sprint, it's a marathon. If you celebrate the small victories, you will eventually win the war.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • People
  • War
  • Small

• Yes, our DNA is unique but so is a salamander’s.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Unique

• For his the artist's life is, of necessity, full of conflicts, since two forces fight in him: the ordinary man with his justified claim for happiness, contentment, and guarantees for living on the one hand, and the ruthless creative passion on the other, which under certain conditions crushes all personal desires into the dust.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Hand
  • Passion

• When I feel very loved, when I nurture and support people, my experience is deepened. I feel connected to a larger purpose and meaning.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Experience
  • Support

• It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Small

• A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on.

  

  Cordell Hull
  • Time
  • World
  • Truth

• Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Halloween

• This book full of linoleum prints will be an alphabet of pictorial elements without text, which shall aim at establishing a larger scale of painting, a closer contact between the artist and the wall, and a new spirit of art accompanying architecture.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • Art
  • Book
  • Painting

• I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Money

• The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.

  

  Thomas Malory
  • Love
  • Pain
  • Sweetness

• God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • World
  • God
  • Men

• The greatest gift you can give anyone is to be happy. And we will take that further. The greatest gift you can give to any partner, past, present or future is to be so connected with who you truly are that they are irrelevant to your connection. And when they are irrelevant to your connection, then you are going to have a really good time together.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Together
  • Past
  • Present

• Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

  

  Alan Ball