FastSaying

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.


Alison Lurie

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.
CRAIG GROESCHEL - Mrzim sve što je odricanje!
- Ni ja, Ivane, ne pristajem da se odričem. Ja hoću ceo, sav, ...
DOBRICA ĆOSIć She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She s...
ELIZABETH WINDER One must complete the past to embrace the future, however to embrace the future one must forgive the...
CAITLIN D'ONOFRIO One must complete the Past to embrace the Future, however, to embrace the Future one must first forg...
CAITLIN D'ONOFRIO The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Being clingy may work for puppies, but not for you.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
VICTOR SHAMAS Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti...
FENNEL HUDSON Don't tell me you're one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that....
JOHN GREEN Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s ov...
JOSS WHEDON He created us for adventure, not ease.
MARY E. DEMUTH Fuel your life with passion.
TERESA COLLINS Outside your comfort zone is the only place worth living.
KARINA BLISS Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
R.J. GONZALES In order to encounter a better future, one must walk past their past
REZA FARIVAR The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you.
KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l...
MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Judge not lest ye be judged.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
MARILYN VOS SAVANT The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Times like this were special. Memory builders. When something extraordinary happened to a person the...
SANDRA HILL I want to live like there's no tomorrow. Love like I'm on borrowed time. It's good to be alive.
JASON GRAY Jane Heard.
ONE Every time we sin, it causes chaos in our lives; maybe not at that very moment, but eventually it al...
ROBIN BERTRAM To work for the sheer joy of it, to wake up and be really excited on a Monday, to love what you do s...
MANOJ ARORA Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.
EMM COLE It's looking pretty good. The storm has moved on to the coast, Southern California - past us.
DON STRICKLAND One of the first things a British visitor to Southern California discovers is that he must have a ca...
CHRISTOPHER LEE That is our Fairy Tail!! We don't live like we have already died, like you do!! We live with our liv...
HIRO MASHIMA Sylvia possessed a deeply conditioned respect for authority. She wanted desperately to live up to th...
ELIZABETH WINDER Change often brings unimagined opportunity...If there is no struggle, there is no progress. To live ...
SYRIE JAMES The only place you'll be escorting me is to the vet so you can have the foot I'm going to shove up y...
QUINN LOFTIS How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been wi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS There was a terribly ghastly silence.
There was a terribly ghastly noise.
There was a terr...
DOUGLAS ADAMS To make one mistake, and then fix it. It shows, a sign that you have understood
the lesson.
DEYTH BANGER Boring people live boring lives.
HABEEB AKANDE Can I buy you a drink when you get off?"

"I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs."
ERIC JEROME DICKEY He'd never forget what Naasir had said to him when Dmitri yelled that he didn't intend to bury anoth...
NALINI SINGH Seeking survival, hostile, hidden from sight,
Deliciously flavoured - juicy, sweet bite,
E...
CLAUDIA BAKKER He muttered something foul and then climbed the stairs, rapping twice on Timmie’s door.
“Ri...
JEANIENE FROST I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should re...
JEFF DIXON-THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one.
DOUG DILLON No one seemed to want to take the shot. So we put in Alison and she responded.
AMY MANCO Ich habe gelernt, dass es auch Gutes auf der Welt gibt, wenn man genau hinschaut und danach sucht. I...
JENNIFER NIVEN The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future became one of red clay pine barrens, of...
RANDALL JARRELL I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like ...
EDMUND WHITE We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid...
KURT VONNEGUT One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspira...
WAYNE NEWTON I surf; I skateboard. I'm from Southern California. I never thought I was going to be an actor. ...
PAUL WALKER The past never quite disappeared, did it? Folks usually thought time moved forward, starting on the ...
BRANDY HEINEMAN If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fu...
ROY BENNETT You won't see a Southern California-has-got-to-have-it debate.
JEFFREY KIGHTLINGER Each day is a gift
To embrace and welcome
KAREN HACKEL The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH As each day passes by your past is past plus one and your future is future minus one.
JAGAN REDDY As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in th...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much.
DOUGLAS ADAMS The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizab...
DOUGLAS ADAMS God's Final Message to His Creation:
'We apologize for the inconvenience.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
SUSANE COLASANTI You learned right away that applause sounds like love.
AVA DELLAIRA ...we live on the edge of the abstract all the time. Look at something solid in the known world: an ...
NATALIE GOLDBERG This Arthur Dent," comes the cry from the furthest reaches of the galaxy, and has even now been foun...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The shoes always tell the story,' said the shoe poet.
'Not always,' I countered.
'Yes, alw...
RUTA SEPETYS Some minds are like concrete: thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.
ATTRIBUTED TO THE REV. DENNY BRAKE Promise me you'll always remember that you're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and s...
CRISTOPHER ROBIN TO WINNIE THE POOH As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and s...
ED BEGLEY, JR. May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Abstract conversations are my favourite, for they unviel true convictions.
PARUL WADHWA In the Arctic countries and southern Europe, ... it will become harder and harder to sustain current...
JACQUELINE MCGLADE Don't let fear cripple you and keep you from trying new things, changing things, exploring and livin...
AKIROQ BROST Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying abo...
ROY BENNETT Today is the tomorrow we were were anxiously waiting for yesterday. We must embrace it with our whol...
ETTA SAWYERR

More Alison Lurie

Truth and Consequences
ALISON LURIE We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it i...
ALISON LURIE There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the ...
ALISON LURIE The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life...
ALISON LURIE The head coach is the chemist.
JEFFREY LURIE The only model to me that correlates with big success in the NFL is having a Hall of Fame franchise ...
JEFFREY LURIE I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81.
JOHN LURIE Lead wicks are unnecessary in candles, and the industry has acted recklessly by continuing to manufa...
PETER LURIE But at least it's being adopted by a Rockefeller.
ROD LURIE This is not a 'You-go-Hillary' show, this is a 'You-go-girl' show. I just want to see women in the p...
ROD LURIE Hillary Clinton is going to have a very tough fight. However, if she should get the nomination, we'r...
ROD LURIE The way it was explained to me was, by rule, if players throw punches, the official is obligated to ...
JEFFREY LURIE You never want to plateau out. Getting better every day is my expectation.
JEFFREY LURIE When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. T...
JOHN LURIE If I was just throwing on the air another middle-aged white man as president of the United States an...
ROD LURIE I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to reca...
JOHN LURIE This represents clearly significant additional risks to workers.
PETER LURIE The division was there for the taking and we didn't take it. This game was there for the taking in t...
JEFFREY LURIE He's a leader, a top-notch human being and somebody you can't ask more of. He's exceptional in every...
JEFFREY LURIE On behalf of the entire Eagles family, our condolences go out to his wife, Sara, to his children, an...
JEFFREY LURIE We are deeply saddened by the passing of one of the greatest men ever to play the game of football,
JEFFREY LURIE [7 Yards away from a score, QB Ty Detmer's pass was intercepted by Marquez Pope in the end zone. It ...
JEFFREY LURIE The question of the fire, the motivation, the discipline, it's all there. What you can't account for...
JEFFREY LURIE It's an important moment for this franchise to recognize one of the greatest players in the history ...
JEFFREY LURIE I thought that was appropriate because Mike Holmgren is the coach of Seattle, and was Reggie's coach...
JEFFREY LURIE Brian's a guy that we all would like to have a long-term contract with. He wants to stay. We want hi...
JEFFREY LURIE Joe plays a crucial role in most everything we accomplish. His determination, intelligence and desir...
JEFF LURIE It's not the speed of the hire. It's the quality of the hire.
JEFF LURIE [If he weren't so eager to differentiate between the two shows, Lurie could have easily called his n...
ROD LURIE You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales a...
ALISON KRAUSS If you think about it, I was at college, and then three months later, I was a massive pop star. It&#...
ALISON MOYET Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop st...
ALISON MOYET Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of d...
ALISON GOPNIK Generally, if a good script comes in I read it, and if it appeals to me, it appeals to me. And it do...
ALISON DOODY I'd like to take more pictures of real celebrities. It would be fabulous to photograph Brad Pitt...
ALISON JACKSON Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
ALISON GOMME Fly high... Where the only chill that cuts through you is the wind. Where your heart pounds from exh...
VIRGINIA ALISON The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but i...
ALISON GOPNIK Where we're located, we're kind of far away from opportunities and activities that might be offered ...
ALISON VINCENT The other part of the program features things the children haven't been exposed to at home or within...
ALISON VINCENT With some parents' work schedules, some children might be here at the school for 11 hours.
ALISON VINCENT The bottom line is that it's for the kids and the parents so they can all have the best experience p...
ALISON VINCENT Dog cases cause such severe neighbor problems. The dog cases, they get so contentious.
ALISON TATE Well, I care. If you don't do this, you could die.
ALISON TATE It's a good thing he didn't touch me. I would have decked him.
ALISON TATE He's not even close to ready. He is going to lose everything he's gained this far . . . . To show hi...
ALISON TATE It's hard whenever we lose an animal.
ALISON SWANK Their counterparts in the wild are out in the weather, too.
ALISON SWANK We think the overriding cause of her death was something other than drowning.
ALISON SWANK One of the two suspicions is that there was an indirect lightning strike which may have caused the z...
ALISON SWANK We're unsure how many are down there.
ALISON SWANK We do have quite a few people stopping by offering condolences.
ALISON SWANK The group putting this together was looking for a hurdle that would be doable within the time span, ...
ALISON SMITH It helps that we know the drugs so we can input it faster.
ALISON SMITH We saw it as a unique opportunity to use our knowledge to make this run smoothly.
ALISON SMITH Today, the landscape has changed dramatically.
ALISON SMITH It sends $3 of your tax money that you already pay into the fund. It sends a message that Maine peop...
ALISON SMITH We're all going to miss Jack.
ALISON SMITH In both fours, we viewed the race as an opportunity to work on our race plan against a fast opponent...
ALISON REYNOLDS There's no evidence to suggest that cooling relations has dampened business.
ALISON REYNOLDS Many people have used the argument that opening up trade leads to political reform and social reform...
ALISON REYNOLDS The Tibetan people will not be satisfied until there is political change which will give them genuin...
ALISON REYNOLDS The police have promised not to do that again and we will demonstrate at every point in this visit.
ALISON REYNOLDS What we would like to see is Tony Blair making a public statement of concern over these issues.
ALISON REYNOLDS I'm hearing these words about renewal of the ecumenical movement, but I'm looking for a tangible fra...
ALISON PRESTON Tracy was frustrated at the start of the season. She wasn't scoring and the links were which wasn't ...
ALISON PRESTON Annie was frustrated in the preseason but she's steadily improved and has seven goals.
ALISON PRESTON Everyone was upset when Mackenzie went down. When she came back, their level of play went back up. S...
ALISON PRESTON Pequannock's only lost two games, both to Madison, so they're obviously a good team.
ALISON PRESTON When we played Roxbury in the first round, we found out the final would be on our field. It's exciti...
ALISON PRESTON We've got no superstars but they're getting the job done.
ALISON PRESTON Kids who commit serious crimes shouldn't go scot-free. But if they are too young to vote or buy ciga...
ALISON PARKER Frankly, from a human rights perspective, that raises concerns,
ALISON PARKER We're asking for a recognition that these are child offenders and they should have access to parole ...
ALISON PARKER For example, Georgia rarely sentences children to life without parole, but it has youth crimes rates...
ALISON PARKER This would bring us in line with the rest of the world and make the US act in accordance with human-...
ALISON PARKER [Human rights advocates say that the use of juvenile life without parole, or LWOP, is by one measure...
ALISON PARKER The big thing was we knew Claudia wasn't going to be able to move that well?[She] really gutted it o...
ALISON OJEDA We had chance after chance and you only get so many opportunities and we didn't convert.
ALISON OJEDA As long as we have confidence going into our matches, we have a great shot at winning some of those ...
ALISON OJEDA Winning sure makes everything more exciting. I thought we played very well. We've been stressing eve...
ALISON OJEDA As long as these girls have someone to lead them, they will go above and beyond what they are suppos...
ALISON OJEDA We played in those tournaments to prepare us for the spring, and I think we will be well prepared wh...
ALISON OJEDA We'll get a lot more eyes on these photos. Our mission was never to keep them in a box.
ALISON NORDSTROM These are instructions in desire. It's a staged, idealized vision of a perfectly happy household.
ALISON NORDSTROM I suspect that Rothstein was looking for an opportunity to show the dignity of African Americans, ev...
ALISON NORDSTROM The Office of War Information asked Parks to provide inspirational photos to support the war effort....
ALISON NORDSTROM He consciously tried to preserve aspects of old Paris. For example, he didn't shoot the Eiffel Tower...
ALISON NORDSTROM I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult.
ALISON MOYET I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.
ALISON MOYET I love singing in French. I don't think in French. Sometimes when you sing in another language becau...
ALISON MOYET I have never had another job and I don't have a mortgage.
ALISON MOYET I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqua...
ALISON MOYET I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little ...
ALISON MOYET I chose not to work. It was one of those sticky things that happen in people's careers when you have...
ALISON MOYET I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and som...
ALISON MOYET As you get older, your windows of opportunity close. I needed to make a record once and for all that...
ALISON MOYET As I was growing up, French was the language in the house, so when I started school there were lots ...
ALISON MOYET It's always a good thing to have places to go and things to do.
ALISON MORANO Destinations with a capital D.
ALISON MORANO The major goal is going to be, they will never say the Democratic Executive Committee wasn't there f...
ALISON MORANO You'll see more of us in the media. You'll see more of us at events. You'll see more position statem...
ALISON MORANO This is just the beginning. We are very pleased.
ALISON MARQUISS We're working on a campaign for the next season and we're also executing on the remediation plan to ...
ALISON MARQUISS We're working on a campaign for the next season and we're also executing on the remediation plan to ...
ALISON MARQUISS If there were something that were shutting down companies, of course it is vital that our company co...
ALISON MARQUISS I think with these projections the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] will be in a good po...
ALISON MARQUISS We're approaching the finish line and look forward to providing vaccine for people to get vaccinated...
ALISON MARQUISS It's an ongoing process.
ALISON MARQUISS Our third-quarter earnings report is October 25, so we hope to have a more concrete number then, or ...
ALISON MARQUISS The [FDA] release yesterday was the last regulatory step.
ALISON MARQUISS [Full FDA clearance has not yet been achieved, but] there are no regulatory hurdles except supplemen...
ALISON MARQUISS I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that...
ALISON LOHMAN I mean, God, I'm so lucky right now with the opportunities that I've had. There's nothing to worry a...
ALISON LOHMAN I like to take a character and develop it.
ALISON LOHMAN We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But ...
ALISON CROGGON Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
ALISON GOMME It is not given to us to know what difference we can make, and perhaps we can make no difference at ...
ALISON CROGGON It is only the darkness in our own hearts that will defeat us, in the end.
ALISON CROGGON There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.
ALISON CROGGON While the heart beats, hope lingers.
ALISON CROGGON Love is one of the true mysteries,' he said at last. 'The truest and the deepest of all. One thing, ...
ALISON CROGGON My homosexuality remained at that point purely theoretical, an untested hypothesis. But it was a hyp...
ALISON BECHDEL The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story. Not, you may note,...
ALISON BECHDEL My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of e...
ALISON BECHDEL What would happen if we spoke the truth?
ALISON BECHDEL In this pause, I suddenly saw something very clearly.

Whatever it was I wanted from my m...
ALISON BECHDEL It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.
ALISON BECHDEL Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.
ALISON BECHDEL It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolat...
ALISON BECHDEL What we want in students is creativity and a willingness to fail. I always say to students, 'If ...
ALISON GOPNIK I have always loved a hard-faced girl. I get that Alison Goldfrapp isn't easy, and I like her be...
ALISON MOYET I was always an odd girl; I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a square peg in a round...
ALISON MOYET I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human bein...
ALISON MOYET What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of ...
ALISON GOPNIK I think my cat is adorable, and I probably give it too much fresh chicken. Maybe if I had a child, I...
ALISON GOLDFRAPP Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while ado...
ALISON GOPNIK Spinning has been such an amazing part of my exercise. I love the music, the energy, and the sweat. ...
ALISON SWEENEY If you're going to saute something, lightly spray olive oil in the pan or on veggies before you ...
ALISON SWEENEY I'm addicted to a really tough workout. I like to be drenched in sweat when I'm done because...
ALISON SWEENEY A wedding, people decide to get married, it comes out of such love for one another and then women ca...
ALISON BRIE The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study tha...
ALISON GOPNIK I recommend that people try new stuff or take new fitness classes all the time. It's important t...
ALISON SWEENEY Fitness is not an option. It's part of my job.
ALISON SWEENEY I'll have wine or a piece of cake once in a while, but I don't look at it as sliding backwar...
ALISON SWEENEY I was definitely one of those people who fell for the fat-free cookies and chips that are loaded wit...
ALISON SWEENEY When I saw contestants fighting for their lives on 'The Biggest Loser,' I realized I just wa...
ALISON SWEENEY I eat a lot of fruit after I run. I find that hydrates me better than just drinking water. I have fr...
ALISON SWEENEY I have two beautiful children and my husband. The perfect day for me is just to be with them and hav...
ALISON SWEENEY I battled with my weight as a teenager, partly because there wasn't the information or conversat...
ALISON SWEENEY I've met so many fans of daytime television who've watched the shows with their moms and gra...
ALISON SWEENEY It's funny because I'm a sucker for glitz and glitter when it comes to clothes and nail poli...
ALISON SWEENEY The number one mistake is giving pets table scraps. I made the mistake thinking I was showing my dog...
ALISON SWEENEY I save my dreams and hopes for my kids. When I'm making a wish under a bridge or tunnel, it'...
ALISON SWEENEY People think, 'Oh, I'm loving myself by sitting on this sofa for four hours.' Love yours...
ALISON SWEENEY With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be eve...
ALISON SWEENEY I wasn't eating the right kinds of calories. I didn't know about healthy carbs such as brown...
ALISON SWEENEY I always cringe when people tell me they don't eat breakfast, as though that's a good thing....
ALISON SWEENEY Sunscreen is my number 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 tip. I'm a fanatic, partially because I live in L.A. an...
ALISON SWEENEY One of the things I like best about 'Biggest Loser' is being around people who are trying to...
ALISON SWEENEY My husband and I have known each other since kindergarten. I had a crush on him in school, but we ne...
ALISON SWEENEY We have lots of evidence that putting investments in early childhood education, even evidence from v...
ALISON GOPNIK Because Bin Laden's culture doesn't permit the worship of images, they understand how powerf...
ALISON JACKSON I do a lot of cardio. I think it's super important, especially for women. I don't have a tre...
ALISON SWEENEY If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but cons...
ALISON GOPNIK What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.
ALISON GOPNIK I'm not satirical in a traditional way. What I do is more about creating caricatures and cartoon...
ALISON JACKSON Honestly, my favorite kind of dancing is just lettin' loose. There's something great about t...
ALISON BRIE I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but ...
ALISON GOODMAN If you just casually look at a baby, it doesn't look like there's very much going on there, ...
ALISON GOPNIK I just want to act. I just want to do the work.
ALISON LOHMAN I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.
ALISON LOHMAN I don't know... I don't want people to know everything about me.
ALISON LOHMAN I did musicals from about age 10 to 18.
ALISON LOHMAN For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard ...
ALISON LOHMAN But, you know, it really depends on the character. Age doesn't really matter.
ALISON LOHMAN But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and per...
ALISON LOHMAN The competition was Coke vs. Pepsi 10 years ago. Our business has evolved over the past 10 years, an...
ALISON LEWIS So far it [the program] has been great. We have to see how it goes and then gauge its strength. If i...
ALISON LEWIS The Academy Awards have become much bigger than a night on TV. It has become something we can build ...
ALISON LEWIS You can never predict ratings. It's more about the association with these marquee entertainment even...
ALISON LEWIS We didn't think it was ours at halftime. We came back when we played them, and we knew they could do...
ALISON LACEY I think we didn't play our style of basketball in the second half. I don't know what happened, but y...
ALISON LACEY I knew Amanda was out (in the first quarter), and I had to take control a bit and just be a good lea...
ALISON LACEY We definitely don't think about it like we're the favorite; not at all. We know every game is going ...
ALISON LACEY I think we were a little bit overwhelmed by the atmosphere, but we came back and I'm so proud of the...
ALISON LACEY She's very efficient; we always know she's going to finish when she gets the ball down low. It's nic...
ALISON LACEY We were working hard during the (holiday) break, and we came out and we were ready to play. We came ...
ALISON LACEY If we win state, then we will be No. 1.
ALISON LACEY We have depth. We know that anybody can come in and play and have good games. Tonight, I thought eve...
ALISON LACEY Everybody was really welcoming and friendly. They made me feel welcome at all times. I didn't feel u...
ALISON LACEY On a creative level, I think the songs are simpler in that they're more direct. To be commercially s...
ALISON GOLDFRAPP Always have sunglasses with you. They're great for when you can't be bothered to put make-up on.
ALISON GOLDFRAPP We shot it on blue screen, so it was this great big ugly, metal, weird, jerky horse-thing that Brad ...
ALISON GOLDFRAPP I remember everyone made this big deal out of it,
ALISON GOLDFRAPP But what's great about working with Will is that I was so bored of working with people who seemed to...
ALISON GOLDFRAPP They seem to have these personalities that are very generic and so I can't really relate to them. I ...
ALISON GOLDFRAPP People say that sort of thing and I just think, nah,
ALISON GOLDFRAPP It's like they're a separate identity to the whole music and imagery,
ALISON GOLDFRAPP I thought what everyone thinks when they first meet Will,
ALISON GOLDFRAPP