Alan Brien famous quotes

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.
-- Alan Brien

#Doe #Done #Drainage

When ordinary Soviet citizens are told that a vital trade agreement awarding their country most-favoured-nation status with the US is being blocked in Congress because Soviet Jews are demanding as an absolute right something few other inhabitants can expect as a special privilege - then the result is likely to be spontaneous outbreaks of anti-Semitism.
-- Alan Brien

#Country #Agreement #Special

The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.
-- Alan Brien

#Country #Fashion #Mind

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.
-- Alan Brien

#New York #Food #Cities

You can never win as a sight-seer. Somebody else, more often than not the first person you meet when you get back home, has been there before you.
-- Alan Brien

#Home #Winning #Sight

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

Let's stop somebody from doing something! Everybody does too much.

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

Funny... I still can't believe in God." "Does that matter now?"..."He believes in you.

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

A busybody's work is never done.

I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.

THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple... President Woodruff then spoke... 'In searching out my genealogy I found about four hundred of my female kindred who were never married. I asked Pres. Young what I should do with them. He said for me to have them sealed to me unless there were more than 999 of them. The doctrine startled me, but I had it done.