Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
-
I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
-
People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
-
I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
-
And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
-
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
-
When I left my home to become an actress, my father didn't give me a single penny. I struggled a lot, and they had no idea what I went through. My grandfather even asked me to drop my surname when he learnt I was joining films.
-
My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.
-
If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
-
Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.
-
You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point.
-
I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.
-
I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.
-
We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.
-
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.
-
I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.
-
When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
-
As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.
-
The only bombshells that strike my fancy are the ones that will free the proletariat from the shackles of wage slavery.
-
Everything we say has metamessages indicating how our words are to be interpreted: Is this a serious statement or a joke? Does it show annoyance or goodwill? Most of the time, metamessages are communicated and interpreted without notice because, as far as anyone can tell, the speaker and the hearer agree on their meaning.
-
An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
