Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.


Allen Ginsberg

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Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind...
KAREN ALLEN
I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire t...
KAREN ALLEN
I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
KAREN ALLEN
You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I wan...
KAREN ALLEN
I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying...
KAREN ALLEN
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my car...
WOODY ALLEN
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?
WOODY ALLEN
If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.
TED ALLEN
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, ...
JAMES ALLEN
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman...
WOODY ALLEN
So now is an opportunity for us to stand up and have a good, strong immigration policy to make sure ...
ALLEN WEST
Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of disease...
TOM ALLEN
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of respondin...
JAMES ALLEN
A man is literally what he thinks.
JAMES ALLEN
The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a ...
JAMES ALLEN
The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and y...
JAMES ALLEN
You can hide from the devil, but he'll always find you.
ALLEN IVERSON
The little platoon of the black community is the church. Our Christian faith is based on individual ...
ALLEN WEST
I don't want to just go to the playoffs, I don't want to go to the playoffs and win the firs...
ALLEN IVERSON
There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to h...
ALLEN BOYD
The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen So...
NANCY ALLEN
God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.
WOODY ALLEN
Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.
DEBBIE ALLEN
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . . I want to achieve it through not dying.
WOODY ALLEN
Trust free people and free enterprise as opposed to meddling, burdensome government.
GEORGE ALLEN
In my experience, it's all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of c...
TIM ALLEN
Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oas...
ALLEN WEST
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
WOODY ALLEN
From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and be...
ALLEN WEST