Top 100 Leach Quotes
#1. To the end of this age. Oh, a thousand years
Will Hardly leach," he thought, "this dust of that fire.
Robinson Jeffers
#2. Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you apply too many chemicals, or make patents too strong, then you can leach the land, making growth more difficult.
Alex Tabarrok
#3. Paroxysms of pain and twinges of desire leach from universal sources. All human suffering buttons itself to the pang of wanting.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#4. What if the book (of Genesis) is describing a dawning awareness of the world? The anthropologist Edmund Leach has argued that the 'bit' or binary digit is the basic unit of pre-logical communication. Genesis is a sprouting of 'bits', ie elementary binary distinctions ...
Charles Hampden-Turner
#5. I used to smoke cigarettes, ten a day, but gave up when I was 28. Now my vice is several cups of coffee a day, which isn't great if you're prone to weak bones as I am, as caffeine can leach calcium.
Britt Ekland
#6. When the First Sea Lord, Admiral Leach, told the Prime Minister and her cabinet colleagues that it would take three weeks to sail the Task Force to the Falklands, he was met with the incredulous response 'surely you mean three days?
Ian R. Gardiner
#7. In recent years, a green burial movement has protested formaldehyde, which oxidizes to formic acid, the toxic in fire ants and bee stingers, as yet one more poison to leach into water tables: careless people, polluting even from the tomb.
Alan Weisman
#8. He'd forgiven who he needed to forgive, let go of what he needed to, and accepted himself as he was. Archibald Alexander Leach, Cary Grant, and all.
Jennifer Grant
#9. I am appalled by the notion of cultural wars.
Jim Leach
#10. I'm convinced that if the same opportunities were made available to everybody, people would want to better their lot in life.
Robin Leach
#11. Back on Nov. 23, 1963, I sailed into Manhattan Harbor onboard the Queen Mary and landed with no job and contacts and just $135 in my pocket. My first lodging was in a rundown hotel for $27 a week with the bathroom down the end of a corridor of beds.
Robin Leach
#12. Molecule Trustees: The sun and all of us are molecule trustees, administering the molecules entrusted to us until they are passed on. Like any trustee, we do not own the property, nor do we decide who will receive what we stewarded. It might be somebody grumpy like Xanthippe.
Amy Leach
#13. You know, I run the Vegas Deluxe website and that really is 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And we have more stars going through this city with shows. We have more disc jockeys playing in nightclubs here, we have more parties, more of everything than any other city in the world. So it's non-stop.
Robin Leach
#14. Grown-up people do very little and say a great deal ... Toddlers say very little and do a great deal ... With a toddler you cannot explain, you have to show. You cannot send, you have to take. You cannot control with words, you have to use your body.
Penelope Leach
#15. Twenty Inches and Eight pounds of infant can, and undoubtedly sometimes will, reduce two or more intelligent, competent, organized adults to anxious, exhausted incompetent jellies.
Penelope Leach
#16. The air is a question and those who travel upon it travel in questions. When will I find what? Where is who?
Amy Leach
#17. I wanted no other job than to work in newspapers. I was fascinated by the process of collecting information, talking to people and having the story appear in a paper that would be delivered in your letterbox.
Robin Leach
#18. I'm not a politician. I don't pretend to be a politician. I'm an independent.
Robin Leach
#19. Don't follow your mentors; follow your mentors' mentors.
David Leach
#20. If ever you grow weary of concrete, so much concrete conversation, you might take your questions to the forest.
Amy Leach
#21. A tree can be tempted out of its winter dormancy by a few hours of southerly sun - the readiness to believe in spring is stronger than sleep or sanity.
Amy Leach
#22. Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.
Penelope Leach
#23. I am a creator of TV shows. 'Lifestyle' ran for 14 years ... that was pleasurable. We also had 'Runaway' for eight years. We did two years of a show called 'The Start of Something Big', and we did a network series called 'Fame, Fortune and Romance.'
Robin Leach
#24. I'm a big fan of pirates in general.
Mike Leach
#25. Nobody would watch Lifestyles of the Poor and the Unknown.
Robin Leach
#26. There are some people who get money just because they've got large families. So if it pays to make large families and earn more money than you would earn out at work, why not have more families, larger families? That's wrong.
Robin Leach
#27. There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.'
Jim Leach
#28. and while staring into my grey eyes with those steel blues,
Kiki Leach
#29. Entomologists use that word 'foul' often when referring to the flavor of a caterpillar. They are rarely more specific than 'foul' or 'tasty.' I expect that is because they are leaving the assessment up to birds, and birds have a very binary approach.
Amy Leach
#30. Living in a galaxy is like living in a neighborhood where the house down the street might have burned down four thousand years ago but you wouldn't know it for another three thousand years.
Amy Leach
#31. There are different ways of seeing things. That's art. There is no one interpretation.
Sharon Leach
#32. History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.
Jim Leach
#33. In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.
Robin Leach
#34. Emeril is a one-in-a-million Renaissance man. In 2002, he established his foundation to support children's educational programs to inspire and mentor young people through culinary arts, school food and nutrition.
Robin Leach
#35. Civility is not simply about manners.
Jim Leach
#36. If it weren't for Liberace, there would be no Madonna or Lady Gaga, Elton John, Bette Midler, or Elvis because it was Liberace who helped the King glitz up his act.
Robin Leach
#37. For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.
Penelope Leach
#38. I would never go back to doing the show again. I mean, every day I think about Lifestyles because somebody comes up to me and tells me how much they love the show and I should bring it back, but this is not the time to bring it back. I don't think it would be as successful today as it once was.
Robin Leach
#39. Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
Edmund Leach
#40. The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
Edmund Leach
#41. I stop in exasperation and almost storm out of the Airstream, fed up with myself and with my sister, filled with that itchy combination of fatigue and anxiety that my entire family produces in me. An allergic reaction for which antihistamines can do nothing. I want a drink.
Caite Dolan-Leach
#42. Your preschool child will chatter endlessly to you. If you half-listen and half-reply the whole conversation will seem, and become, tediously meaningless for both of you. but if you really listen and really answer, he will talk more and what he says will make more sense.
Penelope Leach
#43. There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth.
Penelope Leach
#44. I think America is going to have to think through whether it wants to uplift the political dialogue or advance an approach that divides and, frankly, can lead to violence.
Jim Leach
#45. Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.
Penelope Leach
#46. Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change.
James A. Leach
#47. Nature has another power besides the power to terrify.
Amy Leach
#48. When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer.
Robin Leach
#49. The system is wrong where it rewards the lack of interest in work with money, so you don't have to work.
Robin Leach
#50. Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments.
James A. Leach
#51. Never give up if you really want something, keep plugging away at it and your dreams can come true.
Robin Leach
#52. LSU would be a good place to stand during a lightning storm.
Mike Leach
#53. Plants cannot stay safe. Desire for light spools grass out of the ground; desire for a visitor spools red ruffles out of twigs. Desire makes plants very brave, so they can find what they desire; and very tender, so they can feel what they find.
Amy Leach
#54. While we may live longer than our ancestors, we are in fact dying slower.
Jeff Leach
#55. I have a long-term interest in the humanities.
Jim Leach
#56. Thus are many identities, over time, shown to be temporary alignments of components involved in a deeper allegiance.
Amy Leach
#57. I try to tell the story, always. I do not want to be part of it.
Robin Leach
#58. Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.
Penelope Leach
#59. The hallmark of our times is change and acceleration, but we have to provide the history.
Jim Leach
#61. Mississippi State has two pretty looking quarterbacks.
Mike Leach
#62. All bodies are radiant but not all radiance is visible: stars radiate visible light; planets and donkeys and couches radiate infrared waves. (If your couch is emitting visible light GET UP IMMEDIATELY!)
Amy Leach
#63. The first morning may seem to you too grand and expansive, with no familiar thing. The gorgeous wild flowers may seem too strange to you. But every succeeding day will surely seduce you.
Henry Goddard Leach
#64. Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
Edmund Leach
#65. Sometimes it didn't seem possible that I could be so unhappy, considering how much I had compared to other kids my age, and, believe me, I understood how extremely lucky I was. Sometimes things didn't add up.
Sharon Leach
#66. Celebrities are nowhere as rich as some people think they are.
Robin Leach
#67. Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.
Jim Leach
#68. It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.
Robin Leach
#69. If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.
Jim Leach
#70. The world, full of past sound, would be like the sky, full of past light. The world would be like the mind, for which there is no once.
Amy Leach
#71. A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.
Jim Leach
#72. Each space has a role to play, but while to date the majority of media investment and energy has really focused on the bought on the bought space ... this balance is shifting to a much stronger emphasis on owned and generated spaces.
Jamie Leach
#73. America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government.
Jim Leach
#74. America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.
Jim Leach
#75. There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.
Jim Leach
#76. Tatiana Alvarez, who also became a queen of the wheels of steel in L.A., has now sold her incredible cross-dressing, reverse 'Tootsie' story to Warner Bros. in Hollywood, and hotshot producers Mike Medavoy, Brian Medavoy and Erwin More have reunited to turn it into a movie.
Robin Leach
#77. Your toddler will be "good" if he feels like doing what you happen to want him to do and does not happen to feel like doing anything you would dislike. With a little cleverness you can organize life as a whole, and issues in particular, so that you both want the same thing most of the time.
Penelope Leach
#78. It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable.
Jim Leach
#79. Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.
Edmund Leach
#80. FIREFLAKES: The stars; as transitory as snowflakes only their transitoriness is protracted.
Amy Leach
#81. If you decide to stop flying, it is wise to hang on to your wings, for you may need them one day, when one of your other qualities turns dangerous.
Amy Leach
#82. I helped launch 'ET' ... I like to see things start, grow, and then move on to better things.
Robin Leach
#83. I've known Emeril for more than 20 years from when I featured him on 'Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous' from his days at Commander's Palace in New Orleans and from when I helped start the Food Network where he subsequently hosted an amazing 2,000-plus shows.
Robin Leach
#84. I have met some very strange people and some very strange cats - and I'm not talking about jazz greats. I'm talking about animals that people claim have come from outer space, and boy, they're weird!
Robin Leach
#85. Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.
Penelope Leach
#86. You can't reward people who don't want to work with more money than they would make while they were working.
Robin Leach
#87. No other entertainer in the world ever took the risks that Liberace took.
Robin Leach
#88. VASTY (As differentiated from "vast") Has approximately the same meaning as "biggy," "hugey," and "giganticky." Do not let anyone tell you these words are not words; all words are words.
Amy Leach
#89. DRAGON-GAGGERS: Instead of swords, some heroes wield toothbrushes, say they are there to "brush the dragon's teeth," and then they poke the toothbrush into the back gaggy part of its hot tongue.
Amy Leach
#90. I built the ideal house down in the Caribbean. All Englishmen dream of leaving the rain of England and getting a place in the sun - out in the grounds with separate guest houses; that is the ideal scenario.
Robin Leach
#91. The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.
Jim Leach
#92. There is this image of a guy in a hot tub, drinking champagne with two buxom blondes. But that is not the real me. I am a father, and I am a grandfather, too.
Robin Leach
#93. Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.
Jim Leach
#94. When I look at Social Security, I consider it the most important social program in the United States, arguably the most successful program in the world.
James A. Leach
#95. If we can make America great again and if we can get everybody working and bettering their lot in life, then this becomes the great country that it once was, that it's ceased to be.
Robin Leach
#96. Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.
Jim Leach
#97. They say that art comes from the soul. The more drama in an artist's life, the more he can draw on for his art. Van Gogh and Picasso had troubled souls, but poor Steve Kaufman has been shot once, stabbed 3 times - all by women. That is a lot of drama for great art.
Robin Leach
#98. It amazes me how well the majority of jump jockeys ride in a race until they've landed over the last, then how badly most of them ride a finish. Apart from a half-dozen, they look like coster boys sitting on top of donkeys' behinds, bashing about with shillelaghs.
Jack Leach
#99. Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.
Robin Leach
#100. Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine.
Robin Leach
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