Alan Sheinwald > Alan's Quotes

“Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.
And never mix up your right foot with your left.
And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

“There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.”
― Marilyn Monroe, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

“. . . Now you see . . . they' re not fit for humans . . ." "Put them on me.”
― Steve Martin, Cruel Shoes

“I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point?”
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

“...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs.”
― Steve Martin, An Object of Beauty

“So, I can hurt now, or hurt later.”
― Steve Martin, Shopgirl

“I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said, "I am Picasso." And I said, "Well, so what?”
― Steve Martin, Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays

“-Who knows about this?
-Just me, the police, the killer, and now you.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“She saw him drenched with gasoline. She could actually feel the box of matches in her hand.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

“Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be discovered and invited forth.”
― William W. Purkey

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“I love my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx

“Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“When the well is dry we know the value of water”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“Be nice to people on your way up because you will meet them on your way down.”
― Wilson Mizner

“The only man who never makes a mistake is the one one who never does anything”
― Teddy Roosevelt

“The only man who never makes a mistake is the one one who never does anything.”
― Teddy Roosevelt

“Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother in law to hear at your trial”
― Sydney Biddle Barrows , Uncensored Sales Strategies: A Radical New Approach to Selling Your Customers What They Really Want - No Matter What Business You're In

“Flattery is alright if you don't inhale.”
― Adlai Stevenson Samper, Pacho Galan: El Rey del Merecumbe

“Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Show me a good and gracious loser and I will show you a failure.”
― Knute Rockne, Coaching

“We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-”
― Mark Twain, Leo Tolstoy, jane austen, CHARLES DICKENS, Victor Hugo, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“Well timed silence has more eloquence than speech.”
― Martin Farquhar Tupper, My Life as an Author

“Absolute power corrupts absolutely”
― Lord Acton, Essays on Freedom and Power

“When infants aren't held, they can become sick, even die. It's universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“As merry as the day is long.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people.”
― Marianne Williamson, Everyday Grace

“Walter Helwich understands the world solely as a field for cultural competition among nations”
― Gotse Delchev

“If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity