Alecs Quotes & Sayings

The music takes on all different jobs and hopefully is part of telling the story. Each song has to be a story unto itself. It's a very different set of muscles. — Frank Wildhorn

You don't share the things you're forced to share [on a movie set]. — Anton Yelchin

In America one of the first things done in a new State is to make the post go there; in the forests of Michigan there is no cabin so isolated, no valley so wild, but that letters and newspapers arrive at least once a week. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Because it's not fair that you should have to love me broken, especially when I can never make you whole. — Jay McLean

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. — Jenny Holzer

Absolutely everybody wants to be liked (law 1).

Everyone feels different inside (less confident, less able, etc.) from how they infer other people to feel (law 2).

Few honest and courageous people who have achieved anything of real value in life do not feel a fraud much of the time (law 3).

Acceptance of these three 'laws' alone would save an awful lot of people an awful lot of grief! — David Smail

Good-bye, Jackson.
I will LOVE you 4ever. — Lisa Schroeder

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone. — Joe Paterno

Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose. That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful. But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever. — Alan Kay

We're being followed, I said, not bothering to whisper it. They were at least seventy feet behind us, — Patrick Rothfuss

I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one, — Pat Conroy

Some smart alecs of those days after World War I used to say: The French fought for liberty, the British fought to control the seas, but the Americans fought for souvenirs. — Harry Truman

I don't write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. "Ornamental Hermit" was a comparatively effortless song to write, which is rare for me. — David Grubbs

Tut, tut - fame clearly isn't everything. — J.K. Rowling