Alan Alexander Milne Quotes

A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

No sensible author wants anything but praise.

I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.

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I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.

I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.

For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is… not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.

In other words, I'd say the whole story of Bob Dylan is one man's search for God. The turns and the steps he takes to find God are his business. I think he went to a study group at the Vineyard, and it created a lot of excitement.

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