Famous Quotes

"I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger."

Alan Alda on Anger

More quotes about Anger

• "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned."

  Buddha on Anger

• "Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."

  Aristotle on Anger

• "Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

  Mark Twain on Anger

• "Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."

  Albert Einstein on Anger

• "Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

  Maya Angelou on Anger

More quotes by Alan Alda

• "Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you."

• "You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school."

• "I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me."

• "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change."

• "I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head."