Alan King Quotes

My wife is a very attractive woman, and she's always worried about her diet. But she doesn't pay attention to me, and I don't pay attention to her. She's a vegetarian, and it drives me crazy.

Alan King

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• For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Friends
  • Together
  • Trust

• I like to wear shoes that are cool but also practical. The same goes for bags. Your bag is a big deal in New York. You can't just carry around a little clutch, because you don't have a car or anywhere to stash things during the day, so you need to carry your whole life with you. That's why I like big, chunky bags with lots of compartments.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Life
  • Why
  • Day

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Poetry

• There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Fiction

• Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Ability
  • Over
  • Disability

• With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Popular

• As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Want
  • Technology
  • Medical

• I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Conflict
  • Unhappy

• I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Feel
  • Body

• Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Space

• To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Long
  • Faith

• A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.

  

  Gary Carr
  • People
  • Nice
  • Always

• Through geospatial technologies, you can plan a whole city sitting in your room.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • You
  • City
  • Plan

• In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.

  

  Major Taylor
  • My Own
  • Trail
  • Pioneer

• If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Money
  • Voice

• It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Giving
  • Woman
  • Stand

• Our historical bequest is sublime. I have inherited a fragmented but highly creative exile and, since 1948, a home. I don't know that I want to settle there. I prefer the creative spur of exile. () But wherever I am I shall be Jewish, and that sound will inform every syllable I write. I am blessed with a long ancestry of wisdom, prophecy, and promise, a line of overwhelming creative achievements, courage, humor, and, above all, a dogged and chronic permanence, the greatest legacy of all.

  

  Bernice Rubens
  • Write
  • Humor
  • Historical

• Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God-she has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind. She is the channel of the eternal purpose of Heaven.

  

  John Buchan
  • God
  • She
  • Mother

• He was nothing but a deep abyss of want, and only she could fill him.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • She
  • Want
  • Him

• I don't think there's any other issue out there that young people are more passionate, and more ahead in, than global warming.

  

  Jose Antonio Vargas
  • People

• My wife is a very attractive woman, and she's always worried about her diet. But she doesn't pay attention to me, and I don't pay attention to her. She's a vegetarian, and it drives me crazy.

  

  Alan King
  • She
  • Attention
  • Wife