Alan Garner Quotes

My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian.

Alan Garner

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• It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Important
  • American
  • Values

• I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Car
  • Chicago

• I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock n' roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock n' roll.

  

  Gary Glitter
  • Thinking
  • Rock
  • Finish

• I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Day
  • Single
  • Dreams

• The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Future
  • Myself

• I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Control

• I'd like to do a really masculine film.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Like
  • Film
  • Masculine

• And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Family
  • Man
  • Law

• The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Good
  • Live
  • Earth

• Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Like
  • Oppression
  • Dislike

• I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Life
  • Microsoft
  • E-mail

• There was another Judy Garland movie on TV, and it wasn't 'The Wizard of Oz,' and I was so confused. I was like, 'Wait a second, what is Dorothy doing in this movie?' And that's when I became fascinated. I didn't realize there were actors.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Movie
  • Doing
  • Confused

• Training is vital. You need to know the technical aspects of acting, just in case someone hands you a monologue and simply says, 'Cry here and laugh here.' You have to be able to make sense of it all.

  

  Kali Hawk
  • Training
  • Hands
  • Laugh

• I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Me
  • Best
  • Prefer

• First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.

  

  C. Day Lewis
  • Mind
  • Need
  • Down

• Some men say that they should be satisfied with the abolition of untouchability only, leaving the caste system alone. The aim of abolition of untouchability alone without trying to abolish the inequalities inherent in the caste system is a rather low aim.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Alone

• The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • First
  • Come
  • Second

• If a girl gets sexual pleasure from riding a horse, does the horse suffer? If not, who cares? If you French kiss your dog and he or she thinks it's great, is it wrong? We believe all exploitation and abuse is wrong. If it isn't exploitation and abuse, it may not be wrong.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Great
  • Believe
  • May

• I’ve always wanted to do the right thing by a horse, that’s never changed, its just that as my knowledge grew I’ve been able to offer the horse a better human being, as time has gone on.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Knowledge
  • Horse
  • Human being

• I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • People
  • Think
  • Habit

• Honestly, I don't really read about myself. I look at the pictures sometimes. Sometimes I'm looking at them, and I'm thinking, 'They could choose some better ones.' But I don't spend time reading about myself because I know what I'm up to. I prefer to read about other people.

  

  Caroline Wozniacki
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Everything I've ever wanted to do, we've kinda done. Everything beyond this has been just the cherry on top. I've been so happy with the band, and we're so lucky and blessed to be able to do it.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Band
  • Blessed
  • Kinda

• A book, an article, could make noise, but ancient warriors before the battle also made noise, and if it wasn’t accompanied by real force and immeasurable violence it was only theater.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Violence
  • Battles
  • Article

• My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian.

  

  Alan Garner