Quotes of: Leo Keyword

I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.

Candace Camp

Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality

Jean Rousset

I am ashamed of some of Democrats in my own party.

Donna Brazile

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

Daniel Kahneman

The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul.

David O. McKay

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

Emily Greene Balch

If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.

Stephen Hawking

The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and it's only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Albert Einstein

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Albert Einstein

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

Ferdinand de Saussure

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

William Gilmore Simms

Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.

Dani Shapiro

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Aristophanes

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

Anne Sullivan

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

Anne Sullivan

Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out.

Blaize Clement

It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.

William P. Leahy

Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting.

William P. Leahy

Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care.

Jean Hanff Korelitz