Top 100 Leroy Quotes
#1. Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his own heartbeats. Lying beside him is his wife, lying on her right side and enjoying her sleep.
John O'Hara
#2. Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction.
Leroy Chiao
#3. The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.
LeRoy Neiman
#4. Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.
Rita Mae Brown
#5. What is unique about humans is their individuality.
Leroy Hood
#6. Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.
Leroy Hood
#7. I have good genes, and I also do lots of exercises.
Leroy Hood
#8. For some people, it's best for their mental health to know they have the gene for Huntington's and some time in the future they'll have a problem. But to other people, it would be a disaster.
Leroy Hood
#9. But 'Playboy' was liberating. I was drawn to it and went for it full throttle.
LeRoy Neiman
#10. Beside assurance and acceptance, a growing Christian has four basic needs. He needs protection, fellowship, food, and training.
Leroy Eims
#12. I hope that China will continue with space exploration. It would be logical to have international co-operation. I hope that it will come about and that I can be involved in it.
Leroy Chiao
#13. Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.
Chuck Palahniuk
#14. On some nights, I put old episodes of Dukes of Hazzard on and paused every scene with Daisy, wrapping my hand in a Confederate t-shirt or tube sock and going to town on my dick.
LeRoy Ned Malone
#15. The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks, and the voice of the New Negro is heard.
Alain LeRoy Locke
#16. The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth.
Leroy Chiao
#17. Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.
Leroy Hood
#18. Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, and a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intempe diet.
Marion LeRoy Burton
#19. Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.
Leroy Hood
#20. Sorrow is allowed, sorrow is advised; all we have to do is let go, all we have to do is love.
Gregoire Delacourt
#21. I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades and their movement, grace and energy have kept me captivated over the years. That's what the ancient Greeks first saw and that's what caught my interest.
LeRoy Neiman
#22. There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant.
Leroy Chiao
#23. Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations ... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.
LeRoy Neiman
#24. Throughout my life, cigars have played different roles for me. They fit easily and well in the various stages and experiences Ive had
like a companion, almost. If youve smoked a long time, as I have, they become part of you.
LeRoy Neiman
#25. If a startup stays in Microsoft, it does not have a chance, because all it tries to do goes against what Microsoft is about.
Leroy Hood
#26. No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't ... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.
LeRoy Neiman
#27. The Set animal's jaws were pried open so fast that it yelped and let go of my arm. I stood, now encased in a magical barrier twice my normal size, and kicked Leroy into a wall.
Good! said Horus. Now dispatch the beast to the netherworld!
Quiet man. I'm doing all the work.
Rick Riordan
#28. I could not personally care less about whether JT Leroy turns out to be fictional or not. I find fictional people writing fiction no more or less objectionable than real people writing fiction, because it's fiction,
John Scalzi
#29. I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.
Leroy Chiao
#30. As I turn 91 this June 8th, I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished.
LeRoy Neiman
#31. If you know the mother's genome and the father's genome, and you see that the children have some genes that neither parent has, then you know that difference is either a mutation or a processing error.
Leroy Hood
#32. The younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses ... Each generation ... will have its creed.
Alain LeRoy Locke
#33. But life doesn't wait - it trickles between your fingers, trickles away....
Margaret Leroy
#34. As commander I was responsible for the overall success of the mission, and so I had to know at least a little bit about everything.
Leroy Chiao
#35. You never let go of your dreams. They're meant to be pursued. And even though it might be hard reaching them, they'll pay off in the end.
Atle Jarnaes Leroy
#36. What you need to learn how to do is analyze situations and do differential diagnoses and understand the principle and the concepts rather than learn all the details, and medical school doesn't begin to do that.
Leroy Hood
#37. He cast his eyes upon her and the trouble soon began, cause Leroy Brown learned a lesson about messing with the wife of a jealous man.
Jim Croce
#38. I think the real problem is it's easy to persuade young kids of particular kinds of ideas, because they are flexible.
Leroy Hood
#39. A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do. (Leroy Eims)
John C. Maxwell
#40. Even this little moment is a blessing.
Life is always full of hope, if you only let it in
Atle Jarnaes Leroy
#41. The Human Genome Project has given us a genetic parts list.
Leroy Hood
#42. I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.
LeRoy Neiman
#43. Life is a process of evolution and anyone who thinks the current world order is OK does not get what evolution is all about.
Leroy Hood
#44. So you've got no name?" I asked. "They couldn't think of one ugly enough?"
The creature snarled, stepping over the unconscious policeman.
"Set animal is too hard to say," I decided. "I'll call you Leroy."
Apparently, Leroy didn't like his name. He lunged.
Rick Riordan
#45. When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.
LeRoy Neiman
#46. Breast cancer isn't one disease - it's probably four or five different types, and without knowing what type a person has, you can't optimize treatment for them.
Leroy Hood
#47. The most important thing is to just do it. If I work at a higher level I have responsibility to do better than what I've done before. Sometimes the best happens - beyond possibility. Just do it. Can't worry about it.
LeRoy Neiman
#48. Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.
Alain LeRoy Locke
#49. Data-intensive graph problems abound in the Life Science drug discovery and development process.
Leroy Hood
#51. I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.
LeRoy Neiman
#52. We don't argue if drug companies create drugs that can cure humans and charge lots of money for them, even though we all have these diseases. It will be pretty hard to make a different argument for genes.
Leroy Hood
#53. A college education feeds an adolescent in one end and gets a young adult out the other. In the process of those four years that person has changed significantly, and you and I have been agents of that change ... what happens, in the course of what we do, is soul making.
Leroy S Rouner
#55. How many remember where they were when the war began on the 1st of September 1939?
I remember.
I should remember.
I started it.
My name is Robert Leroy Parker.
Daniel DeLacy
#56. The systems approach to biology will be the dominant theme in medicine.
Leroy Hood
#57. When you're off saving the world, you'll come to a point where you discover it was just yourself that needed saving.
Atle Jarnaes Leroy
#58. All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be in your computer.
Leroy Hood
#59. Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.
Leroy Hood
#61. I didn't want my genome to be sequenced by any of the companies that were out there doing the partial sequences just from the point of view of commercialisation.
Leroy Hood
#62. It's a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence - the best in man. My subject is very valid. It's about people, and about life.
LeRoy Neiman
#64. We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally is we have an utter total obligation to make sure we have an environment that not only is good for us but is good for all living organisms.
Leroy Hood
#65. Lord, I never seen blue hair on a black woman before or since. Leroy say you look like a cracker from outer space.
Kathryn Stockett
#66. She would wake up in the middle of the night and say things like "What if Bad Bad Leroy Brown was a girl?" or "Why don't they have commercials for salt like they do for milk?
Rob Sheffield
#67. I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'
LeRoy Neiman
#68. Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.
LeRoy Neiman
#69. Mom asked Dad "where is Mickey?" Dad said that the hogs are him, that's when the pot of beans went flying through the air. Uncle Leroy said, "I think I'll go back home now.
Mickey R. Mullen
#70. Socrates asks him the crucial question about education, and that is, If you study with this fellow, what will he make of you?
Leroy S Rouner
#71. I think of the U.S. Marines like we used to think of the Foreign Legion; as big mouths with big hearts.
Catherine Leroy
#72. I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.
Leroy Chiao
#74. One day, people will be able to buy tickets to visit space.
Leroy Chiao
#75. As Shakespeare once wrote...To be or not to be.. And my answer to that is, yes. You're meant to be. And that your life - and every other life matters, as we're all connected as one.
Atle Jarnaes Leroy
#76. Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80 percent chance of breast cancer by the time you are 50, but if you take a preventive drug starting when you are 40, the chance will drop to 2 percent.
Leroy Hood
#77. Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.
Alain LeRoy Locke
#78. I love the passion you go through while you're creating.
LeRoy Neiman
#79. But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together.
Leroy Chiao
#80. Each form of Alzheimer's disease should perturb different brain networks and so influence the concentration of different proteins that can be measured in the blood.
Leroy Hood
#81. I wasn't feeling well in the first half. I felt down, man. I had three slices of pizza before the game and the food took me down.
Leroy Loggins
#82. As a chemist, I wanted to ask myself the question frustrated by biology: What is the minimal unit of matter that can undergo Darwinian evolution?
Leroy Cronin
#83. There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful.
Leroy Chiao
#84. Well, it's still a bit uncertain, but I will do the consulting, and I'll see how I can contribute. But I'm sure whatever I do will involve the space program. That's where my passion is.
Leroy Chiao
#85. I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.
LeRoy Neiman
#86. Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.
Leroy Hood
#88. It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.
LeRoy Neiman
#89. If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.
Leroy Hood
#91. I can easily ignore my detractors and feel the people who respond favorably.
LeRoy Neiman
#92. Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events ... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.
LeRoy Neiman
#93. As we've mentioned already, it is fairly easy to misread body language.
Leroy Jackson
#94. I already get 10 job offers a year, which is more than I can handle anyway.
Leroy Hood
#95. 'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself.
LeRoy Neiman
#96. The major thing is to view biology as an information science.
Leroy Hood
#97. The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'
LeRoy Neiman
#98. In the late 1970s, when I was a professor at Caltech, I pioneered four instruments for analyzing genes and proteins that revolutionized modern biology - and one of these, the automated DNA sequencer, enabled the Human Genome Project.
Leroy Hood
#99. One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.
Leroy Chiao
#100. If you go to the FDA with a drug that's only meant to treat 50 people, and it's a 95 percent cure rate, you'll get your drug approved.
Leroy Hood
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