Alans Factory Quotes & Sayings

I don't have a kid, but I think that I would be a good father, especially if my baby liked to go out drinking. — Eugene Mirman

I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face. — Margaret Mitchell

I'm agoraphobic. I can't deal with crowds. — Douglas Coupland

It is not true that some doctors are only for the initiated. There is NOTHING in Scripture which is ashamed of the light. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The pre-scientific age, whatever its deficiencies, had at least offered its members the peace of mind that follows from knowing all man-made achievements to be nothing next to the grandeur of the universe. We, more blessed in our gadgetry but less humble in our outlook, have been left ... having no more compelling repository of veneration than our brilliant, precise, blinkered and morally troubling fellow human beings. — Alain De Botton

A closed mouth gathers no foot.
A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.
A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant. — David Gries

Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily. — Natalia Makarova