Rick Allen Quotes

We've known for a long time that the universe is expanding. But about 15 years ago, my colleagues and I discovered that it is expanding faster and faster. That is, the universe is accelerating, and that was not expected, but it is now attributed to this mysterious stuff called dark energy which seems to make up about 70 percent of the universe.

The popularity of Groupon has almost rendered the group-buying element of it obsolete, because we're able to deliver so many customers that the merchants are very happy with even the smallest number that we can provide.

Yeah, we're sweet but savage, and I think a lot of Canadians are that way.

Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.

My life is really quite conservative. I've been married nearly 50 years. I don't have hobbies or children. I don't much care to travel. I've never had a big social life. I really just stay home, except when I go to work.

A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

Do you know something? The minute that blood sacrifice was accepted, Jesus was the first human being that was ever born again. Now that was real - it happened when he was in Hell.

We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

I've always liked a very dry snare and, like everyone else, a very dry bass drum.

I have a GoPro in the trunk of my streetcar.

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

When I think back on it, of course I got lucky and got great directors and good breaks but all that was the physical part. But what made me a star was that I could take a chance and not have anything to worry about in terms of losing.

We never left a set until we'd trashed it.

If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.