Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Guth

In the context of general relativity, space almost is a substance. It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best way to think about space is to just kind of imagine a big piece of rubber that you can pull and twist and bend.

Alan Guth

It’s hard to build models of inflation that don't lead to a multiverse. It’s not impossible, so I think there’s still certainly research that needs to be done. But most models of inflation do lead to a multiverse, and evidence for inflation will be pushing us in the direction of taking [the idea of a] multiverse seriously.

Alan Grayson

I think that the voters should choose the elected officials, not the elected officials choose the voters.

Alan Hovhaness

I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.

Alan Hovhaness

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.

Alan Hansen

I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

Alan Hansen

The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

Alan Hansen

Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.

Alan Green

As a teenager I was very clear that I wasn't in the church just to toe the line, but I saw there was a capacity within Christianity and the bible not to fall into line but to question the status quo, that's what kept me in the church. I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.

Alan Green

That level of expectation that I'm going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church

Alan Green

I'd signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England. That has a particular history and I think we rather lost it in the 19th Century, we became so much part of empire and colonialism, the language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time. As the 20th Century developed, not surprisingly people left the church and I can see the church's role in losing people.

Alan Green

I think what we're really bad at doing is recognising that it is possible to have lost of different views within the church.

Alan Jay Lerner

We met at nine We met at eight I was on time No, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well.

Alan Jay Lerner

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

Alan Jackson

You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time, just try to do music that you like and you are proud of and not just whatever you think it's going to take to get you on the radio.

Alan Jackson

I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.

Alan Jackson

I think if you retire from touring then people think you are retired.

Alan Jackson

I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself.

Alan Jackson

The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don't need, what wears you out and what's important.

Alan Greenspan

Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems. The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.

Alan Greenspan

Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.

Alan Greenspan

We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.

Alan Greenspan

You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.

Alan Greenspan

Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.

Alan Greenspan

If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America's system of higher education must remain the world's leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.

Alan Greenspan

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

Alan Greenspan

If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.

Alan Chadwick

Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.

Alan Clark

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Everyone's a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse. But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.

In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy seriously.

Alan Cooper

Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.

Alan Cooper

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.