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Alan Jay Lerner Quotes

A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.

Alan Jay Lerner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 31, 1918 - June 14, 1986

Topics

Work Sleep Monday Schedule Would

The type of mind of Whitman's, which seldom or never emerges as a mere mentality, an independent thinking and knowing faculty, but always as a personality, always as a complete human entity, never can expound itself, because its operations are synthetic and not analytic; its mainspring is love and not mere knowledge.

Love Knowledge Personality Mind

I don't think that we have a consistent team motto, but before we take to the ice, Charlie and I like to go over things and just reminding ourselves to have a wonderful time and enjoy the moment.

Time Moment Motto Team Think Enjoy

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

Freedom Responsibility Speak Speech

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Love Beauty Design Integration

For a long time, I consciously tried to be a good person for others. Not anymore. Caring about other people keeps me in line, but I've decided to just be myself.

Good Time Myself Caring People Me

I like cooking, but I like other people cooking more.

Cooking People More Like Other

My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing.

Money Job House Know Milk My Own

Break any problem into, or make any changes in, small increments.

Small Problem Changes Break Make

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.

Thornton Wilder

Children Day Beginning Man End Week

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Work Age Thankful Old Age Done Old

On the field I'm trying to play for the glory of God but then also I'm trying to give everything I have and win and compete. And so I think more than just winning or losing, I think He cares about where our hearts are when we're playing.

God Losing Win Winning Think Play

You have to be narcissistic to be an artist. You have to think you are the centre of the whole thing; otherwise, why do you create? The only thing is to recognise it, and then you make the best of it.

Marjane Satrapi

Best Think You Artist Create Why

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