Leeward Quotes

#1. When you start a fire, be to windward of it. Do not attack from the leeward.

Sun Tzu

#2. several hundred English lived on Tortuga, the westernmost part of the sprawling British Leeward Islands

Colin Woodard

#3. When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#4. Whenever you're confronted with a tough work situation, stop for a second and try to honestly answer this question:
Am I approaching this emotionally or am I approaching this professionally?

Suze Orman

#5. Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.

Christopher McQuarrie

#6. I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'm gonna keep going 'til the wheels fall off.

Wale

#7. If I ever had twins, I'd use one for parts.

Steven Wright

#8. The Japanese have become so smitten with the Western condiment - its texture as silky as a kimono, its tang as understated as the tang of Zen - that today they have a word for mayonnaise junkie: mayora.

Tom Robbins

#9. Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It's not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out.

Jim Rohn

#10. To dance sublimely, one has to forget all about dancing.

Marty Rubin

#11. The thing about the banjo is, when you first hear it, it strikes many people as 'What's that?' There's something very compelling about it to certain people; that's the way I was; that's the way a lot of banjo players and people who love the banjo are.

Steve Martin

#12. [T]he more technology develops the diffusion of information (and notably of images), the more it provides the means of masking the constructed meaning under the appearance of the given meaning.

Roland Barthes

#13. Zitner said hell would freeze over before something like that happened. Harold had a brief image of Adolf Hitler and Judas Iscariot handing out ice-skates and went on heaving sandbags.

Stephen King

#14. Everyone striving to be witty and sought-after, everyone talking and no one listening ...

Lisa Kleypas

#15. That so many of them were African American, many of them my grandmother's age, struck me as simply a part of the natural order of things: growing up in Hampton, the face of science was brown like mine. My

Margot Lee Shetterly

#16. God, that voice. I've been trying to ignore it because it's the kind of voice that can pull you under, make you lose your train of thought. Low and deep and powerful. He talks, and it's a melody.

Kristen Callihan