Alan Moore Quotes

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

Alan Moore

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• Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Sometimes

• A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Government
  • Unexpected

• As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Mean
  • Opinion

• 'Twin Peaks' was huge. I mean, it changed television; it was a huge hit, and it only went a season and a half. So that teaches you immediately that you just enjoy it for the time that you do it.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Time
  • Enjoy
  • Season

• Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Political
  • Crisis
  • Soviet

• Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Difference
  • Privacy
  • Secrecy

• Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Me
  • Down
  • Trial

• Ultimately, I want to be a good person and spread happiness through my acting. If I don't forget to be appreciative and thankful, then that would be the most important thing that I'll ever achieve.

  

  Park Bo-gum
  • Good
  • Important
  • Happiness

• Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Hell

• To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Giving
  • Reading
  • Singing

• Fifth Harmony is an entity or identity outside all of us, and I don't think anybody felt individually represented by the sound - we didn't make it.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Think
  • Identity
  • Harmony

• I didn't realize I was still grieving for my father at 30-something.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Father
  • Realize
  • Still

• People are starved for a way of life - they're hunting for a way to be or to act toward the world.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Hate

• Once its considered proper to use government force to solve one person’s problem, force can be justified to solve anyone’s problem.

  

  Harry Browne

• Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand? The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

  

  Claude Debussy
  • Time
  • Music
  • Progress

• Unplugged was also the cheapest to produce and required the least amount of preparation and work. But if you want to know what it actually cost me, go to Ripley and visit the grave of my son.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Work
  • Son
  • Preparation

• Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. That's it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Nature

• Rejecting the fundamental provision of the Civil Rights Act is a rejection of the foundational promise of America that all men and women should be treated equally, a promise for which many Americans have lost their lives.

  

  John Yarmuth
  • Men
  • Women
  • America

• Every successful social movement in this country's history has used disruption as a strategy to fight for social change. Whether it was the Boston Tea Party to the sit-ins at lunch counters throughout the South, no change has been won without disruptive action.

  

  Alicia Garza
  • Country
  • History
  • Action

• My favorite wrestler growing up was Dean Malenko. He was a very technical wrestler, and when I trained with Shawn Michaels, he wasn't that kind of a technical wrestler. So, when I finally met Regal in 2001, he was that kind of a wrestler, and all of a sudden, I could ask him things, and he would know what I was talking about and how to do it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Know

• I suppose it would be different if I sat down and listened to some of the recordings from way back, that might provoke that response, but I’m not really good at sitting down and listening to my own music.

  

  John Paul Young
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Own

• Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

  

  Alan Moore