Alan Quotations

I've known Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles and they're two of the most independent people I've ever known in my life, and the thought we could somehow bend their views I find really beyond my capacity to believe.

I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

My very first acting job was with Alan Parker on' Angela's Ashes,' but as a child, I had written to so many other productions just applying for any role. I always wanted to be an actress, and I did loads of acting summer schools.

I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.

Here's a list of some of the folks who have written Swamp Thing over the years: Alan Moore, Len Wein, Scott Snyder, Brian K Vaughan, Joshua Dysart, Rick Veitch, Grant Morrison, Mark Millar. That's not even a full list, but you see my point - ol' Swampy has had some seriously brilliant people behind the keyboard in his time.

Alan Bennett is a starmaker; he's the Simon Cowell of the theatre world! He's a beautiful, beautiful man: completely humble and so accessible.

The truth is, I would do anything for Alan Rudolph. If he asked me to stand on my head and spit wooden nickels, I would. I love him. I loved working with him.

Growing up, I was obsessed with Disney movies like 'The Little Mermaid,' 'Aladdin' and 'Beauty And The Beast.' I was always singing the songs from these movies, so to find myself in the studio with Alan Menken was an amazing experience. In fact, it was a dream come true.

I had first heard about Alan Turing when I was a teenager. I've known about him since I was a kid, and I always wanted to write about him.

I would totally, if Alan Cumming is tired of doing Cabaret, I'd be like, 'I'll do it tonight.' I would have such a good time doing that.

You're in a scene with Laura Linney or Oliver Platt or John Hickey or Alan Alda and these amazing actors and actresses, and you're like, 'Oh my God, I haven't even started; I'm nothing compared to these people!'

Yes, I'm happy with Alan Ball's production of my novels.

I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years.

Alan is a great guy, a terrific guy. We haven't worked together since then, and he's always working with different artists. I think he sees different dimensions he can see from different guys.

A lot of biopics to me feel very much like someone is standing in front of the camera and is reading a Wikipedia page to you, like someone is reciting event. Did you know this happened? Did you know that happened? But Alan Turing's life deserved a sort of passionate film, and an exciting film.

Alan Turing is so important to me and to the world, and his story is so important to be told, so it was a big thing to take up, and I was a little petrified. Like, who am I to write the Alan Turing story? He's one of the great geniuses of the 20th century - who was horribly persecuted for being gay - and I'm a kid from Chicago.

Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan Moore was first and foremost in my mind.

I did 'Quigley Down Under,' which is quite deliberately placed in Australia, which is a Tom Selleck, Alan Rickman, Laura San Giacomo film from '88, I want to say.

When I first met Alan, I was absolutely terrified. I was 19, he was Alan Rickman, and he's got that voice, and I remember meeting him in the hair and make-up trailer and thinking, 'I'm going to die. He thinks I'm rubbish. Why am I here?'

Whether or not he's ready, it's irrelevant because he's going to play. There's a pecking order of what you have going into the year. He was where he was and now he is where he is. I feel comfortable with Alan and he'll be capable of helping us.

We've been able to achieve great things amid great challenges- including the stock market crash of 1987, the bursting of the stock bubble in 2000, two wars and the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. Alan Greenspan might be thought of as our most valuable economic player.

With the sheriff asleep in the office, the only way you get justice is with private lawyers like Alan Grayson willing to step up and take down these fraudulent companies. Alan Grayson showed that you can do that even without help from the government.

The CPI report was very tame. It sort of reflects the comments by Alan Greenspan that even though monetary policy is way too expansive right now, inflation is sufficiently a non-event, a non-problem, so the Fed obviously can wait at this point,

When I bought the business, I bought the name. Alan has taught me a lot over the years. He always made every customer feel like a friend and part of the family. He was always so good with people and so well-known in the community.

There are people who think the film 'This Is Spinal Tap' is simply a very funny 'mockumentary.' Well, with Yes, we lived it. Take the hilarious scene in the film in which the bass player is trapped in a giant pod - that actually happened to Alan one night.

Like all our volunteer committee chairs, Alan Silverman has devoted an enormous amount of his time to this year's AES Convention program. The workshops he has developed reflect this combination of knowledge and dedication, and we greatly appreciate his effort.

Like Alan Curbishley with the first team, I have a few options at the moment which can only be good for the team,

Some crew chief has to be the best. In Top Fuel it's obviously Alan Johnson. I compare it to chess. We all basically have the same pieces and play on the same board, but some guys are just better than others. I can't give you an answer why and I bet Alan can't either. It's just the way it is. He's very expensive, but worth every penny.

'Six Feet Under,' for me, was college. Alan Ball and Alan Poul ran that show and really taught me what it meant to really run a show in a classic way.

Of course, it's been a long, hard road and there has been a lot of criticism handed out, especially to Alan, and what I tried to do was do my job as best I could and support Alan at the same time.

My first ideas of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) arose with my Ph.D. in Edinburgh University in the early 1950s. Supervised by Alan Beatty, my research was based on his work on altering chromosomal complements in mouse embryos.

Rick Wakeman and Jon Anderson have rejoined and gone off again and rejoined, but I've been there the whole time, and even though Alan White is the 'new' drummer, he has been there since 1972, so he also deserves the credit for being around for 20 years.

One of the keys of playing San Francisco is containing Alan when he gets the ball in the high post. When he gets the ball in the low post, he can use his quickness to beat you. He's going to be heard from in his own career.

I was shaped by the heroes in the films I saw, which you always want to emulate and be like. I wanted to be like Alan Ladd, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart.

I was pleased with the fourth-place finish. Alan had the best finish of any runners we've had at this meet. All of the teams ahead of us are quality teams. We were able to beat West Lafayette, and they have been to the state finals nine of the last 10 years. It was the first time we have beaten them.

If we had Alan Greenspan sitting here between us, I think he would quietly admit it's been a long time since he's been as optimistic as he is for the outlook for this economy.

If they didn't want to continue, we would stop the contest. But I talked to Alan and he said he would like to continue doing the contest. Brent said he also wants to continue.

Certainly, people are waiting to hear what Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is going to say.

But Alan was in the dugout and as a future manager one day, I think he enjoyed it. He spoke to the lads in the dressing room. If he doesn't make that, he should be fit for Saturday against Everton.

I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it was low-class black music. We thought what we needed was a new name. But a white disc jockey named Alan Freed laid on it, and he thought up the name 'rock n' roll.'

I felt like Alan Turing's story was such an important story to tell, and it was so wonderful to write the script and other people find it and say, 'I never heard this story.' It's such an amazing story that people don't believe it.

I fell in love with Alan Ayckbourn the day I met him and, starting with 'The Norman Conquests,' went on to do eight plays with him. He tells you just what you want to know and has a brilliant way of solving problems.

I first became an Alan Moore fan in Covent Garden on a Saturday afternoon in 1987, when I bought a copy of 'Watchmen,' his graphic novel about ageing superheroes and nuclear apocalypse.

I can tell you as someone who worked there, you really wanted to make sure that you knew what you were talking about before you presented something to Alan Greenspan.

Given (Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's) concerns regarding consumer attitudes this development has to be seen as worrisome.

I don't think anyone has seen this happen so quickly. I don't think Alan Greenspan has seen it happen so quickly. So he's taking out an insurance policy for himself. My best guess is that they (The Fed) are running scared. At this point we've seen such pronounced weakness across all areas of the economy that I think they're fearful this downturn is going to be very different than any in the past.

I don't think Alan was dissatisfied at the time. I think he was dissatisfied several years later.

I don't think Alan did anything wrong. He relied on his accountant.

I enjoy most that Alan seems to be happiest the stranger it can be. I don't think it ever can be strange enough for him.

Glenn and Alan are capable of getting us through to the end of this season. The board won't be hurried. We have to get the appointment right and we will take our time.

God forbid if anything was to happen to Alan Shearer. If it did we'd be in terrible trouble. I don't think anybody needs me to tell them how disastrous that would be.

Glenn Roeder and Alan Shearer are quite capable of getting us through to the end of the season. There is no hurry. We don't want to be rushed into giving it to the wrong man, we'll be very careful.

If we were going to succeed as a team I knew we had to change Alan Shearer but he didn't want to change.

He has an incredible scoring record in Holland. People have said he is a young Alan Shearer.

He is extremely optimistic on technology, its impact on productivity and the benefits it has to our economy. We believe Alan Greenspan does not see any burning need to further tighten policy, assuming the economy is slowing as it has been indicating so far.

Whatever job Alan does for this club, whatever job Alan would want to do for this club, he will always do his very best. He's assisting me brilliantly.

What you're seeing today is that swing back and forth. There's always a range of expectations, which means he'll (Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan) always disappoint somebody, and a lot of that disappointment was reflected yesterday.

He's Alan Greenspan all purpose sage, ... He seldom has anyone tell him, 'Why don't you be more like Fed chairman of the past?'

History will show Alan Greenspan did an outstanding job. He's just steeped in economics. He knows the data better than probably just about anyone else I know.

History shows us that voters turned on Alan Dixon for his vote on Clarence Thomas.

Unless they break through the brass ceiling of academia by writing best-selling books, like Harold Bloom or Alan Dershowitz, or go to Washington to make policy like Henry Kissinger, college professors can only aspire to limited public recognition.

We lost our Alan so senselessly. And we just don't understand it. I mean, this happens to other people. Now we lost our only brother and my parents lost their only son.

He'll be out three to six weeks. It's a big loss for us. We're not the most physical team, and he brings a little physicality. And maybe more importantly, he's a guy who can cover people on the perimeter or inside. We don't have many players who are quick enough to do that, like Alan Anderson did.

He (Lacy) was dealing with a deceitful department head who sounds like he was hiding some bad news, ... Our feeling is Alan Lacy is being very forthcoming and straightforward with the problems, and is tackling them very aggressively. But we're not convinced that's going to be enough to immediately restore investor confidence in shares.

Greenspan is going to have as much influence as anybody has ever had on this critically important decision, ... Politics of Money: The Fed Under Alan Greenspan.

There are so many books I love for different reasons. For superhero stuff, I always go back to Alan Moore's 'Watchmen' or his 'Swamp Thing' run. Those are my two favorites, and there are indie books that I really love, like Eddie Campbell's 'Alec' books and 'From Hell.'

Knowing Alan Shearer like I do, he will be happy to share that (the record) with the fans and send them away really happy.

I yelled for help so many times my lungs were getting hoarse. If my alderman, Alan Atherton, had not come out to smoke, he would not have seen me.

Just like in baseball, when your No. 1 guy is struggling, you put a relief pitcher in and that's what we did. Alan was struggling a little so we decided to give Sweeney a chance. We're very blessed to have two very good quarterbacks. It's a shame that one has to sit while the other plays.

I think investors underestimated (Fed Chairman) Alan Greenspan's sense of show business.

I think the markets probably overreacted when the Federal Reserve first moved toward a neutral operating directive. When Alan Greenspan spoke this time, I think the reality set in and that is, yes, the central bank has a neutral directive, but it's more like an ultra-right (hawkish) form of neutral directive. ... Any time they get an excuse to raise rates, they're going to take it.

I thought Alan Tallman had a hell of a game. He was playing very, very well defensively for us. It's disappointing because he was playing as well as I've seen him play here.

I think things went comparatively well today (Friday). The market has said and (Federal Reserve Chairman) Alan Greenspan has said that the recovery is another quarter away, that it's going to be the third quarter, not the second, which is what people had been thinking.

I think (Fed Chairman) Alan Greenspan has made it all but official, we'll get another rate cut in June, but my guess is a quarter point rate cut, principally because of what we're seeing on the inflation report. The CPI and PPI have been trending up over the last two years.

I saw the break and it looked bad. But I am proof that he can recover well and get even stronger afterwards. When I saw him lying there on the pitch in agony, it brought back to me what happened. A year ago, I was recovering from a terrible break, and now I am playing again. But Alan strikes me as that kind of person, someone who is tough and can deal with this. I told him that he will get through it.

Our understanding of the best practice in monetary policy evolved during Alan Greenspan's tenure at the Fed, and it will continue to evolve in the future,

Rest assured Alan would have been watching this race on TV - he was confident for weeks Miss Finland would win.

That final round when (crew chief) Alan (Johnson) says, 'Big round,' you know it's important because he never says that.

My mom's brother was gay, and he actually passed away from AIDS when I was 13. He was quite a character, but he also worked at the electrical plant, so he was this complicated guy with a big laugh who would wear a trucker hat and do impressions. He was gay, but to me, Uncle Alan was just the funniest person in the world.

It doesn't surprise me that Alan Lacy was squeezed down due to the questionable performance of Sears over the years.

I think the stimulation that (Federal Reserve Chairman) Alan Greenspan has given to the economy is starting to take hold. It's going to take us a little while, by the third quarter, maybe even into the fourth quarter, we may see things do better.

We'll be seeking to exonerate Alan Brogan. We feel what happened did not merit a red card.

While Alan Greenspan may have enjoyed more than his share of good luck during his storied tenure as Fed chairman, he was also confronted with a wide variety of challenges that required subtlety, a deft touch and good judgment.

We've let Alan Abrams back on the team. There will be certain circumstances he must follow.

Usually the Fed keeps raising rates until something goes wrong in the economy or the market. Even Alan Greenspan has never gotten it right.

With the Fed's statement, Chairman Alan Greenspan's famed gradualism is surfacing again, as the chairman appears to be signaling a slow pace of interest rate hikes in the future,

When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death of me. Right away, he sat me down and said, 'I'm very scared of you. I've heard you're a very bad boy.'

The only risk out there is that Alan Greenspan will go one step too far and put us in a recession, ... And it's hard to see what he's doing now as putting us in a recession.

We are delighted that St James' Park will play host to Alan's testimonial game to celebrate his unparalleled career both at club and international level. It will be a fantastic night. The atmosphere will match the occasion and Alan will be given the perfect send-off.

We'll make it be known that it's time to focus and pay attention to details. Alan usually says something in the huddle and makes sure everybody understands what we need to do. When you hear things from a five-time Pro Bowler like Alan, you listen.

We opened it up a little outside. We had some kids like Aaron and Alan step up and hit big shots. Defensively, we extended their offense by getting in the passing lanes and caused some turnovers.

Yankee fans will now hold their breath as Alan Embree comes in to pitch

Whenever Alan steps to the line you know there's a shot that he's going to go faster than he ever has in his life. He's always goes after it. He's not afraid to take risks

There are several factors weighing on the dollar, among them the weak retail sales data and the feeling that Alan Greenspan was backtracking from his recent optimism on the U.S. economy. Greenspan's mention of the U.S. current account deficit has focused market attention on the problems associated with a strong dollar policy, particularly given the recent imposition of tariffs on U.S. steel imports.

The question must be ... whether anyone could run it better than Alan Giles. Thus, there must be some doubt as to a bid emerging.

We have shown an interest in him; we have made an inquiry. He has the most incredible scoring record in Dutch football. Many people have described him as a young Alan Shearer, but whether that's true or not I don't know.

What's important to me, ... is that we do good storytelling. I think we've been doing that and keep the audience on their toes, keep it topical. And, just to reinforce what Alan said before, is that both points of view are strong and I think since last season we've been doing that and will continue doing that.

When I went to the Alan Jackson concert this summer, he didn't mention it there.

Unfortunately, I don't think it's a job for Alan Greenspan.

Financial markets are going to become uneasy about this because Alan Greenspan has become an oracle,