Alan Abel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We're a nation of sheep. If you go out and look up at the sky, people around you will start looking up at the sky.
-- Alan Abel

#Sheep #Sky #People
I look at the newspapers, and I cannot believe most of the stories I read. Bernie Madoff, who actually screwed millions of people for billions of dollars, it's just unbelievable what he got away with and how long it took for him to be exposed. A guy like that should be hanged.
-- Alan Abel

#Believe #Long #People
I once recommended [in a San Francisco Chronicle column] that a third arm - a plastic arm - be sewn at the base of the spine so that people could have a tripod to sit on while waiting in line, and it was taken seriously.
-- Alan Abel

#Taken #San Francisco #Waiting In Line
My credibility is zero. My wife claims she can go before any judge at any time and have me committed.
-- Alan Abel

#Zero #Wife #Judging
Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check. I fondled it for about five minutes and then sent it back. I told her I couldn't accept money from strangers.
-- Alan Abel

#Animal #California #Santa Barbara

We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.
A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.
That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs and get a lift home with the police when I become inebriated. What more could you want?
Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

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