Alan Cohen Quotes

If you sense there must be more, there is more.

Alan Cohen

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• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Time
  • Given
  • Decide

• I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Point
  • View
  • Point Of View

• The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Chance

• My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Mother
  • Parents
  • Name

• The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Power
  • Smart
  • Influence

• It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Want
  • Kind
  • Key

• The divestment movement is a start at challenging the excesses of capitalism. It's working to delegitimize fossil fuels and showing that they're just as unethical as profits from the tobacco industry.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Start
  • Movement
  • Capitalism

• Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Men
  • Done
  • Why

• Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Energy
  • Me
  • Audience

• Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Good
  • Process
  • Through

• I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Sports
  • Basketball
  • Tennis

• I believe in breakfast. It's the one meal that my kids usually eat without a fuss, so that's huge. As for myself, I can't function without it, and I see it as a great way to get some healthy greens in, some coffee, and on a good day, maybe even some news of the world via the newspaper.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Person
  • Talent
  • Genius

• I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Feelings
  • More
  • Married

• Even as a little kid, I was fascinated by newspapers and magazines. They were my TV. I'd be the first one up to grab the morning paper, mainly to look at the sports pictures, the war pictures.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Up
  • War
  • Morning

• I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Control
  • Play
  • Person

• Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Great
  • City
  • Taken

• We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable service; which challenges the investigation of its evidences; and which, in the doctrine of immortality, invests the mind of man with a portion of the dignity of Divine intelligence.

  

  Edward Everett
  • Mind
  • Faith
  • Action

• Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, '20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.'

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Funny

• We can invent only with memory.

  

  Alphonse Karr

• We put water down into the earth to push up gas, then we say, 'Ooh, we're having a water crisis.' This is foolishness, and this kind of foolishness, where we try to excuse human behavior, is dangerous.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Water

• I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

  

  Mike Mills
  • Reality
  • Fiction
  • Illusion

• The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • World
  • Bible

• If you sense there must be more, there is more.

  

  Alan Cohen