Alan King Quotes

My son says I never tell stories about anyone who's living.

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• I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Community
  • Acceptance
  • Tolerance

• I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Up
  • Game
  • Waiting

• We sit and read the paper in conjunction with having a little breakfast. Usually fruit salad, or I make myself a smoothie with rice milk, coconut water and yogurt.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Water
  • Myself
  • Breakfast

• To be honest, I didn't really understand how involved putting a fragrance together could be - or would be. Once I made the choice to actually do it, I just went for it. I just dove in and have really learned a lot about putting a scent together. It's kind of exciting.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Together
  • Kind
  • Choice

• I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Purpose

• The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Soul
  • Beauty
  • Bread

• I have all of the Apple products. Everything I've ever written, I've written on a Mac. My first computer, my roommates and I chipped in, and we got that first Macintosh - 128K. It had as much memory as a greeting card that plays music.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Music
  • Memory
  • Apple

• It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Good
  • Home
  • Kids

• I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Love
  • Want
  • Find

• In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • World
  • Home
  • Weekend

• I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Real
  • Definitely
  • Streak

• There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Television

• Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Important
  • True
  • Self

• The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Faith
  • Traditions

• A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Deep
  • Results
  • Insecurity

• Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Negative
  • Nasty
  • Narrow

• And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Different
  • Love

• The message would be that the purpose of life is not to eat and drink, watch television and so on. Consuming is not the aim of life. Earning as much money as one can is not the real purpose of life. There is a superior entity, a divinity, le divin as we say in French that is worth thinking about, as are our feelings of wholeness, respect and love, if we can. A society in which these feelings are widespread would be more reasonable than the society the West presently lives in.

  

  Bernard d'Espagnat
  • Money
  • Respect
  • Aim

• Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Life
  • Principle

• Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.

  

  Rumi
  • Feel
  • Wonders
  • Observe

• In 1984, I returned to Newnham College at Cambridge University to teach after completing my Ph.D. there a couple of years earlier. Almost all of my colleagues in the university's classics department were men, and my office at the all-women's college was in the dorm.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Men
  • Women
  • College

• O war! thou son of Hell!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • War
  • Son
  • Hell

• My son says I never tell stories about anyone who's living.

  

  Alan King
  • Son