Alan Alda Famous Quotes
"It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that."
It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
"Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory."
"No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness."
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
Alan Alda Quotations
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up by itself.
Woodrow Wilson
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
William Orville Douglas
"Walk till the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the brow."
Danish proverb
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard Shaw
"If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent."
Bette Davis
"Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
Unknown
"Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them."
Jean de la Bruyere
"Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart."
Phyllis Mcginley
"The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall to-day be uppermost."
Confucius
"'But it is always interesting when one doesn't see,' she added. 'If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way around.'"
Agatha Christie