Top 100 Leary Quotes
#1. I always hated the Grateful Dead. Never even bought a Led Zeppelin album.
Denis Leary
#2. The airline business is it is mostly run by a bunch of spineless nincompoops who actually don't want to stand up to the environmentalists and call them the lying wankers that they are.
Michael O'Leary
#3. I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft. It doesn't matter if it's acting or music; you really have to learn how to do it from the bottom up because unless you have a great work ethic ... fame is a terrible thing to have.
Denis Leary
#4. Yeah, I love living in New York, man, and people who live in New York, we wear that fact like a badge right on our sleeve because we know that fact impresses everybody! I was in Vietnam. So what? I live in New York!
Denis Leary
#5. Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.
Denis Leary
#6. Did you ever notice they never take any fat hostages? You never see a guy coming out of Lebanon going: I was held hostage for seven months and I lost 175 pounds, I feel good and I look good and I learned self-discipline. That's the important thing.
Denis Leary
#7. Everything we did in the 1960s was designed to fission, to weaken faith in and conformity to the 1950s social order. Our precise surgical target was the Judeo-Christian power monolith, which has imposed a guilty, inhibited, grim, anti-body, anti-life repression on Western civilization.
Timothy Leary
#8. We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations.
Timothy Leary
#9. Living, dying, and thinking ... they're all team sports.
Timothy Leary
#10. Ella, just stay here. Stay safe."
"Safe," Ella repeated. "Ella likes being safe. Safety in numbers. Safety deposit boxes. Ella will go with Tyson."
"What?" Percy said. "Oh ... fine, whatever. Just don't get hurt. And Mrs. O'Leary - "
"ROOOF."
"How do you feel about pulling a chariot?
Rick Riordan
#11. I didn't raise my kids with the fear of God.
Denis Leary
#12. I don't mind rude people. I want people that I can make money with, so if their executional abilities are good, and they're arrogant and rude, I don't care.
Kevin O'Leary
#13. You get to a certain point, especially if you're a comedian, where people think certain things. It's like, I don't take the time to explain it to people, it's just part of what I do.
Denis Leary
#16. The word Styx got her [Mrs. O'Leary, the hellhound] excited. She probably thought I meant sticks. She jumped a few times, chased her tail just to teach it who was boss, and then calmed down enough for me to push Nico onto her back.
Rick Riordan
#17. Seven million people I turned on, and only one hundred thousand have come by to thank me.
Timothy Leary
#18. And when you give up your dreams, an important part of who you are dies with them, and so does that which makes you unique.
Jeff O'Leary
#19. The road to riches is never straight and narrow. It can be riddled with financial land mines.
Kevin O'Leary
#20. I predicted that if control of drugs were administered by law enforcement agencies, the result would be a black market more irrational and widespread than that of alcohol prohibition and the growth of enormous police-state repressive bureaucracy. And who, indeed, wanted that?
Timothy Leary
#21. If you're over 52 years old and you're on Facebook, do us all a favor and log off now.
Denis Leary
#22. Nobody can make more fun of me than I already make of myself.
Denis Leary
#23. We live our lives from A-Z, but forget the other 24 letters in between.
Timothy Leary
#24. The best comedy audiences in the country and this is tried and true, I'm not just saying it, in my opinion are Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago.
Denis Leary
#25. I don't watch 'American Idol.' I don't watch any of that stuff.
Denis Leary
#26. The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland.
Michael O'Leary
#27. Don't let the dark clouds of greed confuse you
Kevin O'Leary
#30. You just can't win. Men have very recent land mines in their heads. Women have recorded conversations and photographs in their heads from 15 years ago.
Denis Leary
#31. The brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology.
Timothy Leary
#32. In addition to my cousin, there were 30 or 40 guys I grew up with who became firefighters as well. So, I've been around firefighters all my life.
Denis Leary
#33. I have more money than I am ever going to need. Financially, I'm fine for the next couple of hundred years.
Michael O'Leary
#34. I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with.
Denis Leary
#35. I'm not trying to make friends, I'm just trying to make money.
Kevin O'Leary
#36. There's only one side with me. You get the right side. You get the correct version of the facts.
Kevin O'Leary
#37. I've always had a thing for Catwoman. Michelle Pfeiffer or Halle Berry in tight leather pants, with the boots - I'm pretty good with either one.
Denis Leary
#38. I think that marijuana makes you stupid but sensual. I've watched many of my friends and loved ones become more erotic and dumber - just going around with a glazed expression on their faces from their last orgasms to the next - and found them really quite boring.
Timothy Leary
#39. We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
Timothy Leary
#41. To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.
Timothy Leary
#42. They're only askin' you to do one thing. From what Rogue says, you ain't exactly reluctant."
"F**k myself into a coma. Sure, I can do that. Then what?"
"Uh, wait an hour?
Michelle O'Leary
#43. The only difference between kids and jungle animals is pants. Kids wear them. Jungle animals don't.
Denis Leary
#44. I eat meat because meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty dam good!
Denis Leary
#45. We've always talked about doing something else and Campbell Scott is always busy and I'm always busy. But when we came up with the idea of doing the potato famine as a hip hop musical, I wanted somebody who was going to bring gravity.
Denis Leary
#46. Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.
Denis Leary
#47. There's something very visceral about watching people beg for money. It's powerful.
Kevin O'Leary
#48. Recite to yourself some of the traditional attributes of the word 'spiritual': mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied, ideal, platonic. Is that not a definition of the electronic-digital?
Timothy Leary
#49. I don't believe in the power of words.
Denis Leary
#50. My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day.
Denis Leary
#52. Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.
Kevin O'Leary
#53. I don't really have a lot of fun playing just straight good guys. It's not my thing. It's like Tom Hanks territory.
Denis Leary
#54. I have always considered myself, when I learned what the word meant, I've always considered myself a Pagan.
Timothy Leary
#55. Once Michigan stood proud. In addition to GM, Ford and Chrysler, it was home base for the United Auto Workers, a powerful escalator transporting hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers into America's middle class.
Kevin O'Leary
#56. If you want a long-term relationship that doesn't require a lot of work, I say, get a dog. They love you no matter what. But when it comes to humans, there's no secret; you really have to appreciate the person every single day.
Denis Leary
#57. My kids watch everything downloaded; they have no idea what the numbers or the names of the channels mean, except, 'FX makes the show that I see on my computer.' So it's harder to get a show on the air, but at the same time, there are a lot of terrific shows.
Denis Leary
#58. Personally, I think Jim Henson said it best when he said "Anybody got an aspirin? I think I've got a cold."
Denis Leary
#60. You know why the French hate us so much? Thay gave us the croissant. And you know what we did with it? We turned it into our croissandwich, thank you very much.
Denis Leary
#61. I'm gonna get one of those tracheotomies, so I can smoke two cigarettes at the same time! I'm gonna get nine tracheotomies, all around my neck, I'll be Tracheotomy Man! He can smoke a pack
at a time, he's Tracheotomy Man!
Denis Leary
#62. Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.
Jean O'Leary
#63. Like it or not, we are all insectoid aliens burrowing within our urbaniod bodies.
Timothy Leary
H.R. Giger
#64. One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.
Denis Leary
#65. We didn't have rehab back in the Seventies. Back in the Seventies, rehab meant you stopped doing coke, but you kept smoking pot and drinking for a couple more weeks.
Denis Leary
#66. Express the psychedelic with the cybernetic. Turn on, tune in and boot up.
Timothy Leary
#67. Good actors, especially when they know their character, will come in and either tell you in advance that they have an idea, or in the middle of the rehearsal or the scene they'll let it loose and you go, 'Ah that's great.'
Denis Leary
#68. People are aware of what I stand for through television. Nobody gets rich on TV but you build brand. That's what I'm attempting to do.
Kevin O'Leary
#69. Willem Dafoe and I are actually the same person.
Denis Leary
#70. If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.
Kevin O'Leary
#71. It wasn't until after I'd been around Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, that I started to reflect about issues like the evolution of consciousness.
Ram Dass
#72. Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it. So I don't think I could successfully pull off being on a project like that without really losing my mind.
Denis Leary
#73. God #1 is the Single-cell Intelligence, the collaborative brain that knows how to run a simple protozoan. The First God is the one-celled God. The First and original craft of God is Protozoan.
Timothy Leary
#75. Coffee doesn't need a menu, it needs a cup. That's all it needs! Maybe a saucer underneath the cup - that's it.
Denis Leary
#76. If global warming meant temperatures rose by one or two degrees, France would become a desert, which would be no bad thing. The Scots would grow wine and make buffalo mozzarella.
Michael O'Leary
#77. Acid is not for every brain ... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain.
Timothy Leary
#78. LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.
Timothy Leary
#79. Rosemary Rodriguez directed on Rescue Me for us, and I love her. She's fantastic with actresses and she's got a great sense of humor. That was a huge thing for me.
Denis Leary
#81. Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them.
Denis Leary
#82. When you look at the number of stupid people who have succeeded in business, you clearly don't have to be very bright. Business is all about getting your sales up and your costs down, the bit in the middle is profit.
Michael O'Leary
#83. The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment.
Timothy Leary
#84. I'm starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is driving a car like a Porsche. I've driven a lot of cars - sedans, trucks and big family vehicles all year long. But there's nothing like a four-wheel-drive Porsche.
Kevin O'Leary
#85. I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there.
Rachel Cohn
#86. Happiness comes in small doses folks. It's a cigarette butt, or a chocolate chip cookie or a five second orgasm. You come, you smoke the butt you eat the cookie you go to sleep wake up and go back to fucking work the next morning, THAT'S IT! End of fucking list!
Denis Leary
#88. There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.
Denis Leary
#89. Homesick? For a village in the middle of nowhere? Where there's no work and everyone
Susanne O'Leary
#90. If you had no enemies, you had no fun.
Denis Leary
#91. Germans will crawl bollock-naked over broken glass to get low fares.
Michael O'Leary
#92. I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again.
Kevin O'Leary
#93. Everyone should have an evil secret plan ...
Denis Leary
#94. If you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, 'The Ref' is my favorite Christmas movie.'
Denis Leary
#95. I'm praying for 'Ice Age' 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Because I really think we can run those characters into the '60s, and I'm talking the 1960s, you know? The Civil Rights Movement. That's what I'm praying for, because then I wouldn't have to do anything else.
Denis Leary
#96. To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.
Timothy Leary
#97. When I become president, all you assholes that ride bikes in the city? Lock and load! You're going down!
Denis Leary
#98. Stolen pleasures are always more thrilling than those come by honestly.
Ann Leary
#99. Money has no grey areas. You either make it or you lose it.
Kevin O'Leary
#100. Mrs O'Leary said, 'Tis the child I feel sorry for', and all the people looked up and saw me, so I looked especially sad, I expect the experience will give me a trauma at some stage in the future. I'm all right at the moment, but you never know.
Sue Townsend
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