Alvin Karpis Quotes

Clarence Hurt was driving, and he got lost. "Does anyone know where the Post Office Building is?" Hurt asked at one point.

"I can tell you," Karpis said.

"How do you know where it is?" asked Clyde Tolson, who sat in the backseat with Hoover.

"We were thinking of robbing it," Karpis said. ~ Bryan Burrough

There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both. ~ Dave Alvin

I danced growing up. I had two friends of mine that, actually, one of them wound up dancing with Alvin Ailey. ~ Lisa Ann Walter

A library is a hospital for the mind. - Anonymous ~ Alvin Toffler

So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now. ~ Alvin Lee

In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort. ~ Alvin Ailey

There is one domain in which untruth is insupportable, that field of the human soul's endeavor of which Truth is the very substance and being, - religion ~ Alvin Boyd Kuhn

The string connecting everything real and abstract in the universe is entangled in a thought and knotted in an idea. ~ Alvin Conway

On the seemingly one-sided relationship between Michael Jordan and his shoe sponsors Nike- The company should change its name to Mike. ~ Alvin Robertson

Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it. ~ Alvin E. Roth

The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking. ~ Alvin Dark

I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation. ~ Alvin Ailey

Money is a never-ending problem. ~ Alvin Ailey

The way Alvin Ailey has transformed modern dance and dance in general is the fact of variety. It's a cornucopia of ways to move. There are choreographers in the company as - as diverse, as different from each other as Donald McKayle and Bill T. Jones, or Jawole Zollar and John Butler, Lar Lubovitch, you know, and Judith Jamison. ~ Judith Jamison

I'm born originally in Toronto, and I have what I call my 'Fame' story. I took a Greyhound bus and went to Alvin Ailey and received Dunham, Horton, Graham technique there, but I could never take my eyes off of Balanchine doing 'Nutcracker'; to me he's the best who ever did it. ~ Laurieann Gibson

The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons of mass destruction. You combine those things with standardization, centralization, concentration, and synchronization, and you wind up with a style of organization we call bureaucracy. ~ Alvin Toffler

Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge. ~ Alvin Toffler

I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head. ~ Alvin Ailey

We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work. ~ Alvin Ailey

I wanted to be an Ailey dancer. I would watch Alvin Ailey videos over and over, and I'd picture myself doing that. I was obsessed with it. ~ Robert Battle

When the clock struck twelve, you dropped whatever you were doing and you went and ate your lunch. You had to have your priorities straight, and Alvin Hobbs figured his priorities were as straight as an arrow. Hunting ~ Scott Langrel

Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations. The number of possible combinations rises exponentially as the number of new machines or techniques rises arithmetically. Indeed, each new combination may, itself, be regarded as a new super-machine. ~ Alvin Toffler

If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy. ~ Alvin Toffler

To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us in such a way that it is by virtue of those processes that we come to have knowledge of him. ~ Alvin Plantinga

We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on things like a poet, string quartets, and then a rock band! It was kinda cool! ~ Alvin Lee

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment. ~ Alvin Toffler

The fear of God makes a hero; the fear of man makes a coward. ~ Alvin C. York

Despair keeps no clocks. If you ask him the time, he will always say it is too late to complete your journey. He will tell you his is the last stop there is, anywhere. Do not trust the wily old shopkeeper. Instead, rest a while and thank him for his stories of lost glory. Then it is best to be on your way. ~ Alvin Pang

She flew like a bird, only faster. ~ Alvin M. Johnston

Guns, double-crosses, hitmen ... I can get used to a lot of things, but I'm never going to get used to sleeping where apocalypse bugs mate," Wednesday said, walking into the room looking around. She dropped her Birkin on the floor and heard something scuttling behind the cheap plastic wood print veneer covered dresser. She turned to face Alvin, her head cocked to the side. "Seriously. I'm not saying five-star ... I'm saying go on Expedia and find a place that actually has stars ... any stars. ~ Dennis Sharpe

I'm against anything atheists represent because I believe in God. ~ Alvin Holmes

Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life. ~ Alvin Toffler

A manager doesn't hear the cheers. ~ Alvin Dark

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist. ~ Alvin Dark

I can see why Passion and Purpose are so attracted to each other. She's fascinated by his energy and intensity, and he admires her sense of focus, how she can always find her way without making a fuss. She calms and steadies him, he makes her feel alive. ~ Alvin Pang

Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth. ~ Alvin Toffler

I really like working. I can't think of a job I didn't like. I was in an Alvin and the Chipmunks movie, which is not my idea of folk art; but I really enjoyed making it, and everyone was really nice. ~ Jenny Slate

They knew that it was not their faith that validated Christ's resurrection, as many of today's modern theologians teach and preach, but that it was his physical resurrection that validated their faith. ~ Alvin J. Schmidt

Every generation gets a chance to change the world Pity the nation that won't listen to your boys and girls Cos the sweetest melody is the one we haven't heard ~ Alvin Toffler

When it appeared that even the most passive-aggressive attempts would not work, Charlie resorted to the ultimate Beta Male Attack, which was to tolerate Alvin and Mohammed's presence, but to resent the hell out of them and drop snide remarks whenever he had the chance. ~ Christopher Moore

We also did something called the Texas Peace Festival, which was actually a better gig both musically, and in the way it was organised. ~ Alvin Lee

I always want more. ~ Alvin Ailey

What's important is the work that you're doing, not the country that you're in. I would much rather be in a play at the Royal Court than in Los Angeles making 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.' ~ James Corden

The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird. ~ Alvin Lee

You've got to think about the big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. - Alvin Toffler ~ David Allen

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution. ~ Alvin Toffler