Leery Quotes

#1. I might have asked, figured her out, led her to open up. I was good at that. But I didn't inquire, a punishment. I didn't let anger go, habit from the dangerous family I'd left behind, from being leery of women. I was good at that, too, the guarded disappointment.

Susanna Sonnenberg

#2. I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

Alan Alda

#3. Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.

Edward Hoagland

#4. I have always been reasonably leery of religion because there are so many edicts in religion, 'thou shalt not,' or 'thou shalt.' I wanted my world of the future to be clear of that.

Gene Roddenberry

#5. I'd always been leery of Eric, but I'd appreciated his mischief, his single-mindedness, and his flair. If you could a vampire had jois de vivre, Eric had it in spades.
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Charlaine Harris

#6. I'm leery of legislative solutions to what is morality.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

#7. I've become very leery of jumping on bandwagons in my old age.

R.L. Mosz

#8. I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again.

Greg Kinnear

#9. I start looking for adjectives in news reporting, and if there are too many of them, if they're all sort of repeatedly designed to influence my thinking in a certain way, I start getting concerned. I'm leery of people trying to paint a picture in a certain way.

Thomas Sadoski

#10. While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.

Sam Harris

#11. Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.

Mal Peet

#12. We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people - and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through.

Christopher Meloni

#13. He (Chuck Smith) was leery of music that moved the body more than the soul.

Larry Eskridge

#14. People were a little leery when I was doing the press for my last album 'Rumble Doll,' yes. It's always that thing that this is a dilettante or a pet project.

Patti Scialfa

#15. I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life - redemption does happen, and it's cool when it does - but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own).

George Saunders

#16. Dogs are not people. Be leery of any woman who refers to her dogs as her 'kids,' because you'll only end up paying for their schooling.

Garry Shandling

#17. The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don't pause. Don't put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don't sort of do anything other than read it.

Humphrey Lyttelton

#18. I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability.

Mike Stoller

#19. I'm very, very leery of nonfiction books where they change timeframes and use - what do they call those things? - composite characters. I don't think that's right.

Geraldine Brooks

#20. I force a smile and hold up my hand, which must end up looking like some sort of strange, leery wince, like I've just swallowed a glass of somebody's urine and I'm recommending it.

Craig Silvey

#21. At first I was a little leery to just post photos of my little girl all the time and kind of exploit her to the world.

Jake Owen

#22. Audiences can be leery of sequels; the studios make a hit, they see dollar signs, and they make a cheap rip-off.

William Katt

#23. For the most time I've followed instinct rather than intelligence, and this has resulted in a modicum of happiness.

Ruskin Bond

#24. Time isn't circular," she said to Dr. Kellet. "It's like a ... palimpsest.

Kate Atkinson

#25. Peter laughed. "Still worried somebody'll get ideas? Listen, champ, New York is teeming with faggots. One more or less won't frighten the horses.

Gordon Merrick

#26. Pressure has the power to create a diamond, but it has to be the "right" pressure.

Shannon L. Alder

#27. Each season, my balance gets worse, and sometimes I fall. I no longer cook for myself but microwave widower food, mostly Stouffer's. My fingers are clumsy and slow with buttons.

Donald Hall

#28. Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

Mary Schmich

#29. A man is at his best when he is simply not like the rest in all his life's test.

Anuj

#30. A man who lives a lie will soon enough be consumed by it,

R.A. Salvatore