Leslie's Quotes

#1. You know if we've got anything about us that hurts we shrink from anyone's touch on or near it. It holds good with our souls as well as our bodies, I reckon. Leslie's soul must be near raw - it's no wonder she hides it away.

L.M. Montgomery

#2. I think Dr. Leslie's in love with me.
I certainly hope so.
Not that I want him to suffer. But I figure that if my gynecologist's in love with me, I must have a very interesting mind.

J.D. Landis

#3. What do you mean? Leslie's voice was cool, as if she questioned witches who were flat on their backs being threatened by werewolves every day.

Patricia Briggs

#4. Jess's feelings about Leslie's father poked up like a canker sore. You keep biting it, and it gets bigger and worse instead of better.

Katherine Paterson

#5. Leslie?" Irial whispered. "What are you doing?"
"Choosing."
Tears were soaking the blanket under Leslie's face.
"I'm mine. Not anyone else's."
"I'm still yours, though. That won't ever change, Shadow Girl." And then he was gone, and her emotions crashed over her.

Melissa Marr

#6. Them. She's much too nice about it, but that's the way she is. Leslie almost said that that was why he loved her, but caught

Danielle Steel

#7. In a large sense, Main Street is the American origin story. It's an evocation of the American creation tale, and the kick is that the American origin story is a never-ending one, a perpetual tale of creation and re-creation, an eternal now.

Leslie Le Mon

#8. The reason there's a question mark on my front door is just in case I forget my address.

Leslie Nielsen

#9. It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end.

Leslie Fiedler

#10. The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.

Leslie Fiedler

#11. I think it's great for the women to show that they are women and be feminine. And that's something that I've always promoted.

Lisa Leslie

#12. It's only people, as far as we know, who look up at the stars and wonder what they are.

Ian Leslie

#13. My name," the boy said importantly, "is Stacey de Lacey."
"But that's a girl's name!" blurted Oliver.
Stacey de Lacey's face turned a dark shade of red. "Silence!" he shouted. "Stacey is one of those names that can be for a boy or a girl! Like Hilary, or Leslie, or...um... Anyway...!

Philip Reeve

#14. I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.

Leslie Caron

#15. I tried to kickbox once right after I had my first baby, and I was so miserable; it was so hard. And I went home, and I passed out for three hours because it's so hard.

Leslie Mann

#16. I've been married for 17 years and you know how the actors say, "It's really technical. Those scenes are not sexy. They're just so technical. It's like work." And I'm like, "That's bullshit."

Leslie Mann

#17. I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without outside assistance.

Leslie Ford

#18. I've been going to the library, looking up our history. There's a ton of it in anthropology books, a ton of it, Ruth. We haven't always been hated. Why didn't we grow up knowing that?

Leslie Feinberg

#19. By the same token, I think news has more and more of a pro bono aspect to all the networks. When we do our election coverages throughout this coming year, it's not a money-maker for us. It is more of a public service situation.

Leslie Moonves

#20. When others lives were at stake, Virchow's courage had no limit. That is the definition of a hero.

Leslie Dunn

#21. We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.

Shane Leslie

#22. Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.

Leslie Lamport

#23. Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it moves people's hearts as well as engaging their minds.

Ian Leslie

#24. I am so sorry for you, Leslie.' She said it like she really meant it. But not like she was completely surprised. 'And for him. Because he's lost you now.' This last part undid me. Despite her cruel criticism of me over the years, from where she sat, I was anyone and everyone's prize.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

#25. I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to seek, or to supply: an empathy that rearticulates more clearly what it's shown.

Leslie Jamison

#26. We think wireless is going to grow tremendously. Do I think people are going to watch an episode of 'Survivor' on a 2-inch television set? I doubt it. But I do think somebody's going to go to a grocery store in the middle of a football game and watch that game.

Leslie Moonves

#27. There's a lot of women in the WNBA. There's a lot of women who could be here. To be voted by the fans says a lot - that people are aware of what's going on. I'm really thankful. I think they just really appreciate my talent so I'm definitely grateful.

Lisa Leslie

#28. Prayer is not first and foremost talking to God, it's first and foremost listening to God.

Leslie Ludy

#29. Gaby's expression doesn't change. "I didn't," she says. "I took a chance. It's rare; I don't know what the odds are of it happening like that. Once in - " She lifts her hands. "In a blue moon?

John Leslie

#30. Lise: Paris has ways of making people forget. Jerry: Paris? No, not this city. It's too real and too beautiful. It never lets you forget anything. It reaches in and opens you wide, and you stay that way.

Leslie Caron

#31. Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it's the ability to manipulate concepts.

Leslie Lamport

#32. Women are naturally competitive. That's what drives women to form cliques at early age.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

#33. I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy.

Leslie Mann

#34. It's hard to confine an irrational woman in a rational pattern, so I had no idea really what was in her mind.

Leslie Ford

#35. Parenthood doesn't improve one's character, it exposes it.

Leslie A. Gordon

#36. Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.

Leslie Fiedler

#37. Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style.

Desmond Dekker

#38. It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is: kill her.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

#39. This is what courage is. It's not just living through the nightmare, it's doing something with it afterward. It's being brave enough to talk about it to other people. It's trying to organize to change things.

Leslie Feinberg

#40. But I am clinically depressed and have an anxiety disorder, which interferes with things like studying and learning and breathing and living. He thinks it's something I can just turn off and on with willpower.

Leslie Stella

#41. One thing a person won't do when he's laughing is try to beat you up.

Leslie Nielsen

#42. I believe that we're not alone. How can we be alone in an infinite universe? I'm using the word 'alien' with a little trepidation because I know that sparks so many different versions of that word, and there are so many different images that come into one person's head when someone says it.

Rose Leslie

#43. Empathy is a kind of care but it's not the only kind of care, and it's not always enough.

Leslie Jamison

#44. The team is very enthusiastic - everyone is trying hard to do their best, and everyone is putting a lot of effort in to moving forward and getting the right results and it's a very good, close-knit team.

David Leslie

#45. The last remnants of Deanna the child--the idealist, the sheltered elite--had been torn loose by tonight's tragedies, slain with the same bullet that had felled her would-be killer. She had no idea who the new person inhabiting this shell of her old self would become. The realization frightened her.

Leslie Ann Moore

#46. Her mother's private feelings, she would realize later (with no small amount of shame), were of no real concern to her. She only cared about what her mother gave to her and what she withheld.

Leslie Parry

#47. Men ruin cars. That's one of the things every woman knows.

Leslie Ford

#48. The thing about George Barrol is that he's always putting his own and other people's feet into things that had best be left quite free of feet.

Leslie Ford

#49. It's always fun to think about winning an award. I thought about winning awards when I was a little girl. Everybody wants to win an award for something.

Leslie Mann

#50. During winter 2013, the Disneyland Railroad station and it's "Population" sign was swathed in a huge tent for refurbishment; when the tent was removed, the updated population sign read 650 million.

Leslie Le Mon

#51. Once a month, I get together with my girlfriends and we usually check into a hotel or go to someone else's house. We can talk for 15 hours, and it just flies by.

Leslie Mann

#52. Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.

Lisa Leslie

#53. When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.

Leslie Grossman

#54. We never replace Jesus in our children's lives. We don't even do the work of Jesus in our children's lives. We do the work of parents, which is to point our children to Jesus. And then Jesus does his own work
with or without us.

Leslie Leyland Fields

#55. Flik's Fun Fair: Whether or not you have little ones, take a few moments to stroll through this whimsical corner of DCA.

Leslie Le Mon

#56. Working moms elevate themselves above stay-at-home moms, and stay-at-home moms try to put down working moms. It's a war in which both sides are trying to put the other one down.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

#57. It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.

Leslie Caron

#58. Nobody's ever decided what success is, out here.

Leslie Ford

#59. A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care.

Shane Leslie

#60. You're not weak at all. Wounded, but that's nothing to be ashamed of.

Melissa Marr

#61. DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.

Leslie Fiedler

#62. Eventually I would learn that the enchanting tree was one of the resort's signatures, one of those subtle delightful touches that resonate on poetic, artistic, and even spiritual frequencies.

Leslie Le Mon

#63. If I'm not with a butch everyone just assumes I'm straight. It's like I'm passing too, against my will. I'm sick of the world thinking I'm straight. I've worked hard to be discriminated against as a lesbian

Leslie Feinberg

#64. Unfortunately I don't have my grandparents, but Mum and I are working quite well together. That's candid, that's frank. Your grandmother is never going to lie to you.

Rose Leslie

#65. There are a lot of people missing in Iraq. Just the other day I heard of somebody asking $250,000 ransom for an Egyptian. Can you imagine? An Egyptian. That's inflation. This war," he said, leaning closer to her, "is all about money.

Leslie Cockburn

#66. About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly.

Leslie Charteris

#67. The question, 'Why does she stay?' is code for some people for, 'It's her fault for staying,' as if [domestic violence] victims intentionally choose to fall in love with men intent upon destroying us.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

#68. Rather than being guided by images of how to be, people need to attend to how they actually are and to respect this.

Leslie S. Greenberg

#69. you would only laugh at me, not because my thoughts were stupid, but because I was so foolish as to attempt to tell them to you. If

Leslie S. Klinger

#70. You're more than just neither, honey. There's other ways to be than either-or. It's not so simple. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many people who don't fit.

Leslie Feinberg

#71. Do you have to do murder?
Do we have to do murder? Sure we have to do murder. There are only two subjects
a woman's chastity, and murder. Nobody's interested in chastity any more. Murder's all we got to write stories about.

Leslie Ford

#72. Goal-setting and achieving those goals - that's just what I do.

Lisa Leslie

#73. If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it's that people and events are rarely who and what we think they are. They are more meaningful, more worth our attention-part of some finely choreographed, eternal dance that we would be wise to bow down before in gratitude and humility.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

#74. The team's aims are do to the best we can basically.

David Leslie

#75. I don't know so much about making it, because I think of myself as a working actor who's always got my eye on what's going to be the next job. I've been acting for 22 years, and I think there's something to be said for simply staying in the game.

Leslie Hope

#76. Broadcasting for advertisers is still the best game in town, and they know it. Look, I admire a lot of the shows on cable. I think 'Mad Men' is wonderful. I think 'Breaking Bad' is wonderful. But let's remember they're about one-tenth the audience of NCIS.

Leslie Moonves

#77. People get DUIs, people get in fights with their boyfriends, it happens, life happens, but it's about being accountable for your actions. I don't know. I'm just not that girl, I don't go to clubs. I'm a pretty normal girl.

Leslie Bibb

#78. Our negative thoughts actually and literally cause the blessings to be repelled. If you can picture what you want, and believe that it is on its way, by God's law it must come. Hold on to the belief, and in time you will realize it.

Leslie Householder

#79. I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inches wide. What will change is the ability to get 'CSI' not only on TV but also on the Internet, even watching it in a foreign country as it's playing in the U.S.

Leslie Moonves

#80. I find it hard to swallow the notion that the world is improved by extra suffering. And that goes for a lot of Christian doctrine. Jones commits a crime, so you expiate the evil by nailing Smith to a cross and it's all better. - John Leslie

Jim Holt

#81. It was a boy's name first.

Leslie Nielsen

#82. If he took her into his arms, he would keep her. He wouldn't let her suffer the way the other mortals had when he'd left them. He would keep her, with his court's permission or without it. Irial wouldn't take her, and Keenan wouldn't stand between them.

Melissa Marr

#83. These reviews of David's performances come from my father's collection of David's clippings, which he certainly never burned as is depicted in Shine. After he died Leslie kept the clippings, and then passed them on to David. I made myself some copies years later.

Margaret Helfgott

#84. This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It's a quick fix of empathy.

Leslie Jamison

#85. Dunking is something guys care more about than girls, There's something about jumping that seems to fascinate guys. Girls are more, like, 'As long as the ball goes in, who cares how you got it there?'

Lisa Leslie

#86. We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn't matter, but work is third.

Leslie Knope

#87. There's a time to live and a time to die.
The only trouble is, when would you know?
When would your mind let you freely sacrifice your life?
Life is as long or as short as you want it to be.
Or so they say.

Paul Leslie Griffiths

#88. The most important experience for learning to be a mother is your own mom's experience.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

#89. I've always thought of nuclear as something that's good for the environment. I worry about my polar bears.

Leslie Dewan

#90. Let's see what you've got - as the actress said to the bishop,

Leslie Charteris

#91. God's grace has nothing to do with any goodness of ours, who we are, what we know, or where we are in life. It has all to do with the nature of Him.

Leslie Haskin

#92. Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders.

Jim Woodring

#93. Everybody's scared, but if you don't let your fears stop you, that's bravery!

Leslie Feinberg

#94. Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.

Lisa Leslie

#95. It is not your husband's lies that will do the most damage to you. It's the lies you tell yourself.

Leslie Vernick

#96. I think we're different, but we are very similar in a lot of ways, and we really complement each other in real life and on screen. Cameron [Diaz], for me, is like the teacher. And Kate's [Uptone] like my daughter. She's only five years older than my daughter, and so, I always wanted to protect her.

Leslie Mann

#97. For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.

Leslie Charteris

#98. Instead sit back, have patience and let the man do the hard work. This isn't easy... it's hard and not for the weak.

Leslie Braswell

#99. This darkness is for sleeping, for escape; it's where I go when the other places ache with light; this is where I curl up and close my eyes and darkness flows like lava, and I dissapear into what, into nothing, into pure dark, into what there is before there is anything else.

Leslie Pietrzyk

#100. Prayer is not supposed to be all we do - it's just supposed to undergird all we do. Prayer is not supposed to be just the first thing we do, but the first, second, fourth, seventh, and final thing we do in each circumstance.

Leslie Ludy