Alan Brien Quotes

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

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• Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Evolution

• At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Challenge

• Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Harmony

• This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • People
  • Life
  • Dream

• Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

  

  Pat Barker
  • World
  • War
  • First

• The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.

  

  Adam Kluger
  • Music
  • Back
  • Aggressive

• I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Why
  • Friends

• For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • World
  • American
  • Years

• I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Long
  • Career
  • Golf

• Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Uncertainty

• Actor's life is very long.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Long
  • Actor

• I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Me
  • Voice
  • Making

• If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Eyes
  • Brain
  • Only

• The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Alone
  • Literature
  • Often

• The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Want
  • Design
  • Building

• How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Childhood

• The world was not supportive. They look at me as a joke for 13 to 14 years until I could prove feasibility; then I had competitors. Those that laughed at me became my competitors.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • World
  • Me
  • Supportive

• I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Hope
  • Dead
  • Icon

• The challenge in multi-lateral negotiations is not to lose sight of one's over-arching goal in the midst of the cacophony of opinions at the bargaining table.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Challenge
  • Goal
  • Opinions

• I wish one and all long and happy lives, no matter what may become of them afterwards. Use sunscreen! Don’t smoke cigarettes. Cigars, however, are good for you … Firearms are also good for you … Gunpowder has zero fat and zero cholesterol. That goes for dumdums, too.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Good
  • Long
  • May

• Without justice, the most heinous crimes go unpunished; victims are unable to obtain redress, and peace remains an elusive goal, since impunity generates more hatred, leading to acts of revenge and more suffering.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Peace
  • Justice
  • Suffering

• A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Life
  • Views
  • Wasted

• New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

  

  Alan Brien
  • City
  • Images
  • Waiters