Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Rickman

I'm a lot less serious than people think, it's probably because the way my face is put together.

Alan Moore

When I hear alcoholics talk about having their demons, I think that they're probably absolutely literally correct.

Alan Moore

I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on.

Alan Moore

The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.

Alan Moore

I don't really think that very much is interesting about the superhero as an archetype.

Alan Moore

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

Alan Moore

I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.

Alan Moore

Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

Alan Moore

The central question is, is this guy right? Or is he mad? What do you, the reader, think about this? Which struck me as a properly anarchist solution. I didn't want to tell people what to think, I just wanted to tell people to think and consider some of these admittedly extreme little elements, which nevertheless do recur fairly regularly throughout human history.

Alan Moore

I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

Alan Moore

Our consciousness, a startling outgrowth of the universe, is possibly its most important part, the fraction of existence that can think, feel, marvel at itself.

Alan Moore

I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary.

Alan Moore

I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium.

Alan Moore

I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me, but for most of the cultures that have had a concept of magic, then the manipulation of language, and words, and thus of stories and fictions, has been very close to the center of it all.

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 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 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

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

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 Chambers

I think that's really where we need to be more consistent as believers. Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help. But we will encourage the church to do that in general for anyone and everyone who's seeking to be a mature believer in Christ.

Alan Chambers

I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness, when they don't have to live in that fear or that life of condemnation wondering whether God's going to yank His relationship from them

Alan Chambers

There wasn't reparative therapy in Corinth. So in this passage I think people came to Christ and experienced a new life in him apart from the therapeutic process. But when it comes to someone pointing to this passage and saying homosexuals changed, well, I'm not sure that's what that passage is referring to.