Top 100 Lee Quotes
#1. While Roscoe made cups of coffee for Charlie Hubble and Finlay sat in the rosewood office,
Lee Child
#2. You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.
Ang Lee
#3. But she knew that her father's presence at the table with a man who spewed filth from his mouth - did that make it less filthy? No. it condoned.
Harper Lee
#4. Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the pay is terrible, and the product, when it's finally finished, is pure joy.
Mary Lee Settle
#6. There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire." Atticus
Harper Lee
#7. Storytelling explores the problem with people. Stories without conflict are bad stories that no one repeats. Conflict describes the reality of human life and interaction with others. The resolution of the conflict in which everyone lives happily ever after reflects the human yearning for hope.
Harry Lee Poe
#8. The thing is, what I'm tryin' to say is -
they do get on a lot better without me, I can't help them any. They ain't mean. They buy me everything I want, but it's now - you've-got-it-go-play-with-it. You've got a roomful of things. I-got-you-that-book-so-go-read-it.
Harper Lee
#9. I think people are universal.
Ang Lee
#10. Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.
Bruce Lee
#11. We're all of us going to hell, it's just a question of time.
Harper Lee
#12. Marching with over a million women in support of our reproductive rights was one of the most empowering things I have done, both as a woman and as a Member of Congress.
Sheila Jackson Lee
#13. Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself.
Bruce Lee
#14. Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage
David Lee Roth
#15. The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh and uncontaminated by previous conditioning.
Bruce Lee
#16. Place your concentration in the center of your palm. Concentrate on making that part of your palm warmer than the rest of your hand. After a while, compare the temperature in the center of your palm to another part of your body.
Ilchi Lee
#17. Men aren't attracted to me by my mind. They're attracted by what I don't mind.
Gypsy Rose Lee
#18. We can choose to be truthful even when the choice means personal loss. We can choose to undertake a great action - unselfish, courageous, daringly creative - that looks unreasonable and irrational to the eye of the Ego.
Ilchi Lee
#19. I never liked to work because I don't want no one to be a slave. I want to be worked in my mind. Every thing that's going on, there's some big spirit behind me who send me to do the thing that I must do.
Lee "Scratch" Perry
#20. Did you ever see a mob rush across town to do a good deed? Dave Robicheaux
James Lee Burke
#21. No I'm not. It might benefit you to go back and have a look at what some of our founding fathers really believed, instead of relying so much on what people these days tell you they believed.
Harper Lee
#22. I did play Ramses II once, who lived to be 91 and had 120 children, but he died 4,000 years ago.
Christopher Lee
#23. There are things we can't change, and we just have to accept that. And maybe that's some kind of grace
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#24. Worry is nothing but practical infidelity. The person who worries reveals his lack of trust in God and that he is trusting too much in self.
Lee Roberson
#25. It's no such thing! she said. It's friendship! And if you're a man who can't tell friendship from charity, then you're to be pitied!
Bette Lee Crosby
#27. I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium ... if I have been doing a very large painting I like to drop into something in small scale. It is a challenge to go into this size. It is just to hold my own interest, and then each media has its own conditions.
Lee Krasner
#28. The trend of offering individualized education plans, curricula, and lessons is going to help students tremendously. "Teaching to the middle" is one of the saddest concepts I've ever heard about.
Mike Lee
#29. A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.
Lee Bolman
#30. In all true faith there is complete committal to God.
Lee Roberson
#31. 'Push' had a story, 'The Paperboy' story you could just throw up in the air and shoot holes through the book because the story wasn't as strong. But I felt the characters were stronger in 'The Paperboy'; they were vivid.
Lee Daniels
#32. What good's a black face if it means I'm just someone else's property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else's load, not my own?
Stacey Lee
#33. Let us respect even error when it has its source in virtue.
Sophia Lee
#34. While I am not a musician, I love music. I have over 15,000 songs on my iPod. Everything from hard core rap to the soundtrack from the original 'Cinderella.'
Lee Daniels
#35. Every third night a commitee holds a meeting in my head.
James Lee Burke
#36. Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.
Robert E.Lee
#37. You are an indispensable and irreplaceable asset to the human family.
Ilchi Lee
#38. In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.
Lee Konitz
#39. Now they broke my toothbrush, I don't own anything.
Lee Child
#40. You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.
Amy Lee
#41. I think our concept of revolution, in terms of getting the power to do things, is too focused on the state. We have a scenario of revolution that first, you know, comes from 1917, that first you take the state power, and then you change things. And we don't realize it's collapsed.
Grace Lee Boggs
#42. I Am excited, this is a new day and one I have never experienced nor will again. What fantabulous miracles will show up today!
Lee Pryke
#43. I was always drawn toward the Actor's Studio. I studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute when I first came to New York. One of my favorite teachers was one of Al [Pachino]'s teachers, a guy named Charlie Laughton, who was just a wonderful, wonderful man.
Karen Allen
#44. I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
R. Lee Ermey
#45. The body performs better when the athlete lets it go than when he tries to drive it.
Bruce Lee
#46. Talking to Lee Child and discovering, from his chapter in The Chopin Manuscript, that he's even more of an audio geek than I am (as his chapter in Chopin proves).
David Hewson
#47. When I got the episode where Spider-Man meets Aunt May (voiced by Misty Lee), it was another one of those things where I was like, "I can't believe I have a scene with Aunt May. That's just amazing to me." And they drew her a lot younger and hotter then the Aunt May that I remember.
Clark Gregg
#48. Some kids are good at math, some kids can run, and acting was an interest of mine. Because I knew you could do it for a living I decided, that's what I'm going to do.
Jonny Lee Miller
#49. Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#50. Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.
Christopher Lee
#51. My last girlfriend was a Showgirl - But we eventually broke up because she wouldn't Tell me anything. Now I'm dating a girl who looks exactly like my grandma, only my girl older.
-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz
James Lee Schmidt
#52. I don't like acting; not in front of the camera.
Spike Lee
#54. I wonder what would happen if the South had a 'Be Kind to the Niggers Week'?
Harper Lee
#55. We do emphasize the matter of working with God and not working for God by our own strength. Yes, we should work with God and even by God. But
Witness Lee
#56. A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
Bruce Lee
#57. An open internet is an open platform for debating opposing views. It allows unpopular voices to be heard.
Newton Lee
#58. I had more or less abandoned the idea of an electroweak gauge theory during the period 1961-1970. Of the several reasons for this, one was the failure of my naive foray into renormalizability.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
#59. I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.
Lee Iacocca
#60. I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life.
Lee Radziwill
#61. Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.
Bruce Lee
#62. Back in the '30s, '40s and '50s, you had clear-cut heroes, clear-cut supervillains. Today, you have more of a blend, more of a gray area between the two. You have the rise of the sympathetic villain and the rise of the antihero.
Jim Lee
#63. Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.
Grace Lee Boggs
#64. Do you see anything Wrong with my teeth?"
"Plenty, I'm surprised you can eat. Maybe that's why your're so little
Lee Child
#65. In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired.
Lee Child
#66. No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.
Chang-rae Lee
#67. So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or comics or television.
Stan Lee
#68. There is a serious discrepancy between what we really wants, and what we usually do to get what we think we want. What we really want is to fill the hole inside and become complete, and what we do is look for success and growth outside.
Ilchi Lee
#69. I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.
Sammy Hagar
#70. I really idolize everything my sisters do,so I went into singing contests and won also. That's how I really got into singing.
Coco Lee
#71. Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.
Bruce Lee
#72. You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.
Lee Trevino
#73. My memories came back like a punch in the face. Only good.
Lee Davidson
#74. A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce Lee
#76. She had two minutes of peace before yesterday returned: nothing can kill the pleasure of one's first cigarette on a new morning. Jean Louise blew smoke carefully into the still air. She
Harper Lee
#78. By acknowledging and accepting the ultimate commonality, we can naturally and voluntarily develop the attitude of compassion and benevolence toward other people, other life-forms, and all beings. We will want to live for the good of all because we know that's the way we benefit ourselves, too.
Ilchi Lee
#79. The reward is found in the work.
Bruce Lee
#80. Most criminals are stupid. They creep $500,000 homes in the Garden District, load up two dozen bottles of gin, whiskey, vermouth, and Collins mix in a $2,000 Irish linen tablecloth and later drink the booze and throw the tablecloth away.
James Lee Burke
#81. Lord, I don't understand it, but when a person does something wrong, it never feels wrong until later. It's never as evil as you'd imagined.
Michael Lee West
#82. My work is really simple, actually. I'm just playing with forms of changing.
Nikki S. Lee
#83. Bruce Lee loved all different styles of martial arts. He believed that you shouldn't limit yourself to one style, because martial arts is just another form of human expression.
Jake Shimabukuro
#84. Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, Tick, tick, tick, what little iambics, While Homer and Whitman roared in the pines.
Edgar Lee Masters
#85. you know much about head injuries?'
'only the ones I cause
Lee Child
#86. I need to know how many men ... " I glanced at the door. "How many men Brant has ... " I tried to find the right word to use in this public setting. " ... been in contact with. If Lee is the only one. What the possibilities are for more.
Alessandra Torre
#87. By opening blockages in the energy pathways and reawakening our innate ability to sense energy flow, we can recover our health and natural balance. When we develop sensitivity to ki, we will be able to reach our body's potential.
Ilchi Lee
#88. Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.
Lee Iacocca
#89. Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.
Amy Lee
#90. We poor sinners need to come back from our wanderings to seek pardon through the all-sufficient merits of our Redeemer. And we need to pray earnestly for the power of the Holy Spirit to give us a precious revival in our hearts and among the unconverted.
Robert E.Lee
#91. Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.
Lee Iacocca
#92. It ain't time to worry yet. I'll let you know when.
Harper Lee
#93. When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story.
Lee Daniels
#94. I watch movies and hang with my family, go shopping, love to cuddle with my dog, Happy, & write songs with my guitar!
Megan Lee
#96. We're all monsters. We're all careless and cruel in the end.
Mackenzi Lee
#97. The highest technique is to have no technique. My technique is a result of your technique; my movement is a result of your movement.
Bruce Lee
#98. Chemistry is good for fun - it's like baseball. It has its role for small children, but I can't see an adult being concerned with it.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
#99. It was a ridiculous question. Did I _love_ Char? Did I feel about Char the same way I feel about the Beatles, string instruments in pop songs, the way Little Anthony sang high notes, the way Jerry Lee Lewis played piano?
Leila Sales
#100. Dawkins talked about chance, but he didn't calculate the chance of anything. Nor did he cite anyone who did. He just assumed that cumulative selection could lead to macroevolution. He assumed what I have shown to be impossible.
Lee Spetner
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