Alfred E. Perlman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. You can't be detached and effective.

  • Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

  • The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

  • There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.

  • Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.

  • It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

  • Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.

  • Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.

  • There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.

  • Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

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