Lloyd Alexander Quotes
Well, that is one of the three foundations of learning: see much, study much, suffer much.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
-
Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
-
I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
-
When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
-
(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
-
I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
-
I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
-
I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.
-
Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
-
I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
-
Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
-
The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
-
Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
-
Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
-
I'd like to be more spontaneous.
-
I'm a serial monogamist.
-
There are still some pieces that aren't being used, like the white-space bands between TV channels. With digital broadcasting, those buffers aren't needed anymore. The wireless telcos want to lease them, while the TV industry wants to maintain the status quo. Either decision would be a mistake.
-
So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.
-
I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.
-
I see so many people get so wrapped up in wanting to get a bigger SUV or a bigger house. But then I think, 'My God, I could have been born a woman in the Congo.'
-
I don't believe you can absolutely have it all.
-
George Saunders is the funniest. He makes me laugh in the way I want to laugh - with so much empathy and deep understanding of people. He illuminates things and people I've never thought about - and I've dedicated my life to the study of people and their idiosyncrasies. He is light years ahead.
-
When you set out to carry on a tradition as deep rooted as folk music is, you've got to have your story together. You've got to study and have a foundation. Jeffrey Foucault has that foundation, and you can hear it in his voice, and feel it in his music. He's got an understanding that you don't hear that often.
-
Well, that is one of the three foundations of learning: see much, study much, suffer much.
