Leith's Quotes

#1. I love walking along Leith's waterfront and wandering around some of New Town's beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture.

Dexter Fletcher

#2. I came across a Haida saying that had etched itself into my memory banks: 'Joy is a well-made object, equaled only to the joy of making it.

Adam Leith Gollner

#3. The significant mistake of the traditionalists is they require the people to start where the church is instead of the church starting where the people are. Innovators begin by asking, 'What do we need to do to reach the people where they are?'

Leith Anderson

#4. As Marshall McLuhan pointed out, we've become so removed from reality that we're starting to prefer artificiality.

Adam Leith Gollner

#5. The study of art that does not result in making the strong less willing to suppress the weak means little.

Booker T. Washington

#6. The playwright Edward Albee has characterized [the suddenness of the appearance of fruits and flowers in evolutionary history] as 'that heartbreaking second when it all got together: the sugars and the acids and the ultraviolets, and the next thing you knew there were tangerines and string quartets.

Adam Leith Gollner

#7. Being anti-rhetoric is, finally, just another rhetorical strategy. Rhetoric is what the other guy is doing - whereas you, you're just speaking the plain truth as you see it.

Sam Leith

#8. Avacados, prickly pears and papayas used to be gulped down whole, seeds and all, by fridge-sized armadillos called glyptodonts.

Adam Leith Gollner

#9. It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start-starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult.

Prue Leith

#10. Often things are as bad as they seem.

Sheldon B. Kopp

#11. It's the digitals. Leith has that word he uses for the shift from analogs to digitals. That word he uses about eleven times an hour.

David Foster Wallace

#12. The finest peculiarity of belief is that believers do not recognize themselves as believers.

Adam Leith Gollner

#13. Psychologist Erich Fromm coined the term ["biophilia"] in 1964 as a way of describing the innate attraction to processes of life and growth.

Adam Leith Gollner

#14. I was 18 and making 150 quid a week, which was a lot of money to me. Then there was a bad winter and I got paid off. Then my firm, JW Henderson of Bowling Green Street, Leith, went bust. If they hadn't folded, I'd probably still be scaffolding and loving it.

Jamie Sives

#15. Progress has not brought about universal happiness ...

Adam Leith Gollner

#16. Most big cities like London and Glasgow have great big rivers that are unmissable. What's brilliant about the Water of Leith is that it's so hidden. It's a secret.

Antony Gormley

#17. Courage like Daniel's only comes from God." Leith leaned a hand against the tabletop. "Daniel didn't keep praying and trusting because he had courage. He had courage because he prayed and trusted.

Tricia Mingerink

#18. [My guilty pleasure is a] deep, eco-unfriendly, hot bath. Preferably with a glass of champagne and someone sitting on the loo seat gossiping.

Prue Leith

#19. When we parted, on the Boulevard du Montparnasse, I leaned over to give her a kiss on the cheek. 'If you do find paradise,' she said, turning to leave, 'send me a grape.

Adam Leith Gollner

#20. Don't spend time with anyone you don't like.

Prue Leith

#21. Sometimes a mindfuck was a satisfying and productive fuck after all.

Meg Wolitzer

#22. The simple definition of evangelism: Those who know, telling those who don't.

Leith Anderson

#23. To experience biophilia is to love a diversity that, as limitless as it is fragile, both haunts us and fills us with hope.

Adam Leith Gollner

#24. Two guys enter the cage and only one comes out the winner. It gets you pumped because you know the other guy is trying to finish you and you want to finish him before he gets his chance.

Travis Browne

#25. Protect our children from failure, is impossible; Teach them how to get up can make the difference

Mayra A. Diaz

#26. It could be said that just about anyone we encounter is our neighbor, but it especially applies to those we would be least likely to love.

Leith Anderson

#27. My need of your words: for such closeness there should be a word beyond love."
Helen, to Leith, in "The Great Fire

Shirley Hazzard

#28. Lotte watched Peter's fingers gently massaging his forehead and felt a wave of affection. The slightest stress - anxiety, embarrassment, confusion - brought his hand to his brow, like a thumb to the mouth of a child.

Prue Leith

#29. Having commodified nature, we're eating the shrapnel of a worldwide homogeneity bomb.

Adam Leith Gollner

#30. But in the West few men would risk bothering a woman. It was the one thing the frontier would not accept - Kilkenny

Louis L'Amour