Alex Turner Quotes

Humor is a show of both strength and of vulnerability: you are willing to make the first move but you are trusting in the response of your listener.

Which came first - the observer or the particle?

Now I know which came first - the chicken not the egg.

[My father] impressed upon me from the first, that the manner in which the world came into existence was a subject on which nothing was known: that the question, "Who made me?" cannot be answered, because we have no experience or authentic information from which to answer it; and that any answer only throws the difficulty a step further back, since the question immediately presents itself, "Who made God?

The thing I can't remember is, what came first? Us or the book?

Elizabeth Hardwick told me once that all her first drafts sounded as if a chicken had written them. So do mine for the most part.

People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.

First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third, they wouldn't be first things, would they? Still, cliches exist to comfort the feeble minded, not to provide any actual meaning.

The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first?

The first step in taking control of your money is to stop borrowing money. Start using cash today.

When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.

The first film is everything you want to say and how you want to say it. Lots of directors will do that and do it really well, but the second film is not so easy.

I was Patient Zero. The first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet.

The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after.

Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often we feel on the fringes, in the margins of life. And that's where we belong. What you are a part of, you cannot observe.

I got to see Linda's [Hart] live when it first came on Broadway. I just loved her. I've always been a fan of hers.

No doubt, the most challenging class of questions in science is the origin of things.

One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature.

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationship, and it's all about hiding your disappointment. And then, once you're married, it's about hiding your sins.

I like the second better, but the first fits with the vampire watching what she can’t have.” I blinked. “What he can’t have,” I amended, flushing.

For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.

I'd like to start with the chimney jokes - I've got a stack of them. The first one is on the house.

It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.