Steve Allen Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

14 Famous Quotes by Steve Allen
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“Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.”
Dogs Quotes
“I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.”
Gambling Quotes
“...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.”
Psychological subjects Quotes
“Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.”
Psychological subjects Quotes
“Based on the facts we have, police reports here give us cause for concern that there's other victims out there, so we put him on the sex registry.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“They wanted to do some inexpensive shopping at Wal-Mart.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“The hair is real; it's the head that's fake”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“If you could make a car engine that was as efficient as one of these black hole engines you could get about a billion miles per gallon of gas. In anyone's book that would be pretty green.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“What we want is a healthy canopy. If we go in there and say, 'Just plant a bunch of trees,' they'll just plant them in a random fashion. That may result in a tree not surviving more than a decade.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Other than chauffeuring, (our duties are) helping them find places to eat and helping them find necessities, ... And we try to find some things for them that are entertaining and reflective of America, like the sites around Seattle.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Other than chauffeuring, (our duties are) helping them find places to eat and helping them find necessities. And we try to find some things for them that are entertaining and reflective of America, like the sites around Seattle.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“It's the most complete team they've had since they had Xavier Lee and Kenny Scott.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational - the powers of reason are s”
Miscellaneous Quotes