Alan Brien Quotes

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.

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• When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Audience
  • Thank You

• Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Forever
  • Root
  • Assurance

• What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • School
  • Change
  • Building

• Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Different
  • Connection
  • Trouble

• It means a lot when people understand what I'm going for.

  

  Donna McKechnie
  • People
  • Mean

• Those self-evident principles of life and liberty, pursuit of happiness, they're not self-executing. They require each of us to get engaged. And what Barack Obama is really concerned about is to ensure that the American people appreciate their power to influence the democracy.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • People
  • Life
  • Power

• We can choose to allow our experiences to hold us back, and to not allow us to become great or achieve greatness in this life. Or we can allow our experiences to push us forward, to make us grateful for every day we have and to be all the more thankful for those who are around us.

  

  Elizabeth Smart
  • Life
  • Great
  • Achieve

• It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in physics, where leading theorists are striving, with the help of experimentalists, to devise a single mathematical theory that embraces all the basic phenomena of matter and energy. The other two are in biology. Biologists-and the rest of us too-would like to know how the brain works and how a single cell, the fertilized egg cell, develops into an entire organism.

  

  Dennis Flanagan
  • Help
  • Energy
  • Single

• Listening is more than being quiet. Listening is much more than silence. Listening requires undivided attention. The time to listen is when someone needs to be heard. The time to deal with a person with a problem is when he has the problem. The time to listen is the time when our interest and love are vital to the one who seeks our ear, our heart, our help, and our empathy.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Help

• My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook....Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.

  

  James Boswell
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Man

• Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human destiny, which it is in their nature and in their futurity to accomplish.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Human being
  • Fortunes
  • Human Destiny

• When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Political
  • Interest
  • Subjects

• I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State.

  

  William Whipple
  • Wonder
  • Doubt
  • Congress

• Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Faith
  • Knowledge

• The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the other people.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • People
  • Good
  • Kids

• Ditch the dream and be a doer.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Dream
  • Doers

• He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.

  

  Plato
  • Money
  • Impression
  • Lover

• The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Impression

• The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.

  

  Alan Brien
  • Impression
  • Drafted
  • Proffession