Alten Quotes & Sayings

For the record, I take no satisfaction in being right. For the record, I pray to God that I'm wrong.
I'm not wrong ... — Steve Alten

I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time. — Ed Sullivan

Miscommunication is endless. — J.P. Rattie

Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall. — Jeremy Gutsche

A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates. — Bernard Bloch

That's easy. Any man who cannae keep his balls oot o' the water needs tae get laid. Come on, let's find my sister. — Steve Alten

Three lights should be fine." - Zachary
"Aye, well if it wis me, I'd want a bloody lighthoose beacon comin' oot o' my arse." - True MacDonald — Steve Alten

I'll love you forever," I hear her whisper.
And even though I've said it a hundred times. A thousand. I say it again.
"I love you, angel. Forever. — Victoria Scott

I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed — Martin Fowler

My first architectural project I did, I must have been fifteen, was for neighbors across the street, a couple of school teachers, and I designed a house for them. I didn't know anything about Le Corbusier or anything like that, but it ended up being a very cubistic kind of house. I always wanted to be an architect. — Emilio Ambasz

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first. — Brian Tracy

None of us have any control over the deck or the hand we've been dealt. What we do have is total responibility as to how we play the hand. — Steve Alten

Everything has its natural balance, and how would you know you were happy it you weren't sad sometimes? Or feel healthy if you were never ill? — Lucinda Riley

Sheriff, are you suggestin' the victom was kidnapped?"
"I'm only statin' that, at this time, we have no body, only nonvital body parts ... — Steve Alten

Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance. — Steve Alten

If you ever put yourself in harm's way like that again, I'll put you over my knee."
"And do what?" she asked indignantly.
He lifted his gaze to hers, and she saw the worry in his eyes, before he smiled.
"Kiss your bare bottom. — Lorraine Heath

Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. — Mark McKinnon

For the starship's inhabitants, time now stands still.
For planet Earth, the clock has begun ticking ... — Steve Alten

Will ye be there for him in his time of need, or do you prefer to take your anger with you to the grave? — Steve Alten

It takes exactly eighteen shots tae polish off a fifth o' a bottle o' Scotch, thus, a game o' golf equates tae eighteen holes ... — Steve Alten

An older, inebriated Scot who looked like he'd been sitting on his barstool all day looked me up and down, then smelled the air. "Heh, neebr, goat a deid an'mal in yer bac'pac, or iz it ye tha' bloody stinks?"
My brain took a moment to translate. "Actually, yes, there is a dead animal in my backpack, but I probably stink, too. — Steve Alten

Did fear drive her? Fear of the gray, not just in the strands of her hair and her wilting cheeks, but the gray that ran deeper, to the bone, so that she thought she might turn into a fine dust and simply sift away in the wind ... She cooked and cleaned, and cooked and cleaned, and found herself further consumed by the gray, until even her vision was muted and the world around her drained of color. — Eowyn Ivey

In America, even the critics - which is a pity - tend to genre-ize things. They have a hard time when genres get mixed. They want to categorize things. That's why I love Wes Anderson's films and the Coen Brothers, because you don't know what you're going to get, and very often you get something that you don't expect and that's just what a genre's not supposed to do. — Francis Ford Coppola

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them. — Steve Alten