Allen Unwin Quotes

Stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. ~ Angelica Banks

I was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you've never seen neurotics play softball, it's really funny.
I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back. ~ Woody Allen

There are two kinds of jokes - funny jokes and Jack Benny jokes. ~ Fred Allen

One of our gravest concerns is the entry of a nuclear device or materials into the U.S. ~ Charles E. Allen

When I worked with Woody Allen, I only got the parts of the script that I was in. I was able to piece together the narrative from that, but I remember being quite excited to watch the movie - the movie that I was in but didn't know what happened in, like, 65 percent of. ~ Chiwetel Ejiofor

I like so many different directors: Scorsese, Coppola, Cassavetes, Jarmusch, Gus van Sant, Woody Allen and the greats like Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky and among current filmmakers von Trier, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The study of economy usually shows us that the best time for purchase was last year. ~ Woody Allen

Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little. ~ George Allen, Sr.

We have something special ... a culture which we do not think of as something for the elite, but as something which is accessible to practically everybody. ~ Frederick Lewis Allen

She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak. ~ Woody Allen

There was an art to the male posterior. That's all there was to it. ~ Sarah Addison Allen

Some people are funny, and some people are not funny. Many people who are not funny can make a living at it. You don't have to be great to make a living at it. Just like a doctor who doesn't have to be great can still make a living out of it. ~ Woody Allen

One of the things I prize most about being a writer is its license - you could even say injunction - to be curious, to follow anything anywhere and see where it might take you, how it can transform you, whether in content or form. ~ Gregory Allen Howard

Did you get rid of that sweater like I asked?"
"Yes, Mother," Josey said.
"I wasn't trying to be mean the other day. It just doesn't look good on you."
"Yes, Mother," Josey said.
The truth was, that sweater, that color, looked good on her daughter. And every time she wore it, it hinted at something that scared Margaret.
Josey was growing into her beauty.
Margaret watched Josey leave.
She used to be a beautiful woman, the most beautiful woman around.
She brought out the photo again.
But that was forever ago. ~ Sarah Addison Allen

What miracle is God fashioning out of this misfortune? ~ Robert G. Allen

I used to love Woody Allen but feel he's become a hack as a director. 'Bullets Over Broadway' is the only film of his I've enjoyed in the last 10 years. ~ Douglas Wood

Science is not always what scientists do. ~ J. Allen Hynek

If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures. ~ Harry Allen Overstreet

The tougher the job, the greater the reward. ~ George Allen, Sr.

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion. ~ Fred Allen

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. - Sally Kempton ~ David Allen

With all my might, I heave the axe into the ice, just inches from Kristoff's head. Oops. ~ Elise Allen

In Sermons on the Statutes, Saint John Chrysostom reiterates this point saying: Do you fast? Give me proof of it by your works. If you see a poor man, take pity on him. If you see a friend being honored, do not envy him. Do not let only your mouth fast, but also the eye and the ear and the feet and the hands and all the members of our bodies. Let the hands fast, by being free of avarice. Let the feet fast, by ceasing to run after sin. Let the eyes fast, by disciplining them not to glare at that which is sinful. Let the ear fast, by not listening to evil talk and gossip. Let the mouth fast from foul words and unjust criticism. For what good is it if we abstain from birds and fishes, but bite and devour our brothers? May He who came to the world to save sinners strengthen us to complete the fast with humility, have mercy on us and save us. ~ Michelle Allen Bychek

To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard. ~ Allen Ginsberg

Getting things done, and feeling good about it, means being willing to recognize, acknowledge, and appropriately manage all the things that have your consciousness engaged. Mastering the art of stress-free productivity requires it. ~ David Allen

Many of us hold ourselves back from imagining a desired outcome unless someone can show us how to get there. Unfortunately, that's backward in terms of how our minds work to generate and recognize solutions and methods. ~ David Allen

The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities. ~ Tom Allen

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons ... that's the greatest thing. ~ Marcus Allen

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem. ~ Allen Tate

My success has allowed me to strike out with a higher class of women. ~ Woody Allen

Sex and death - two things that come once in a lifetime. ~ Woody Allen

I remember playing in a tournament when at home we didn't have light, because my mom spent her last money on my sneakers. ~ Allen Iverson

The United States of America was once a great nation... but this United States is not the one our founding fathers set out to build over 200 years ago. This United States stands for everything its citizens have fought against throughout its history: oppression, unwarranted violence against innocent and weaker countries or its own citizens, trampling of human rights, crooked legal systems, and socialism. ~ J.C. Allen

Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host. ~ Fred Allen

Humanity surges with uncontrolled passion, is tumultuous with ungoverned grief, is blown about by anxiety and doubt only the wise man, only he whose thoughts ~ James Allen

Kate's stomach trembled with that particular anxiety that always heralded something good. ~ Sarah Addison Allen

I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me. ~ Allen Funt

The way Woody Allen directs, there isn't a lot of direction. He kind of might give a few gentle suggestions, but he really says right from the first day, "Just make it sound natural, and if you don't like something, put it in your own words." And [Woody Allen] gives you a lot of freedom and just very polite. ~ Owen Wilson

When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know. ~ Sarah Addison Allen

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through. ~ David Allen

Convictions and beliefs! .. what do they have to do with religion! ~ Tim Allen

Girls like us, when we love, it takes everything we have. ~ Sarah Addison Allen

The purpose of the appeal was to open a subscription list by which signatories pledged themselves to support the cost of printing a limited edition, of which they themselves would be entitled to one or more copies, depending on the amount pledged. This was the usual means at the time [1836] of enabling the publication of an expensive book… ~ Charles Allen

I listen as I walk down the hall, measuring off the seconds before she closes the door. With a friend, you might close it right behind them. With someone you're interested in, you might wait a few seconds before closing. And with someone you're falling for . . . With someone you're falling for, you don't go inside. You wait and watch them go. Just like she's doing now. ~ Allen Zadoff

As the smallest drop of water detached from the ocean contains all the qualities of the ocean, so man, detached in consciousness from the Infinite, contains within him its likeness; and as the drop of water must, by the law of its nature, ultimately find its way back to the ocean and lose itself in its silent depths, so must man, by the unfailing law of his nature, at last return to his source, and lose himself in the great ocean of the Infinite. ~ James Allen

Mr. Kennedy, you can't say Dallas doesn't love you!" These were the last words President John F. Kennedy would ever hear. Leslie ~ Allen Childs