Lester's Quotes

#1. My insides contract- bad. "who are you?" I ask right out loud. And he says what I've been afraid of since I killed Lester's father. Haven't you guessed? I'm you. The real you.

Bonnie Shimko

#2. If John had been paying close attention to Lester's face, he would have seen him go white, the way men do when they see a trap swinging shut on them.

Douglas Wilson

#3. True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.

Lester B. Pearson

#4. Just because she's dead it doesn't mean I stopped loving her or that she stopped loving me. It's just her body that left. The love didn't.
- Jenna Richards

Julius Lester

#5. I'm not terribly athletic. And ... there's a lot of things I'm not good at. And if it makes anybody feel better, I was really a pretty bad math student growing up.

Lester Holt

#6. Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

Lester Bowie

#7. Nuclear power, once regarded as petroleum's natural heir, has become less and less attractive as its numerous drawbacks come to light. Coal, the other fossil fuel, is ultimately as exhaustible as oil.

Lester R. Brown

#8. Irving Berlin said, "Popular music is popular because a lot of people like it." That doesn't mean it's good or bad - that's the equivalent of arguing the merits of hotdogs versus hamburgers. What the hell difference does it make?

Lester Bangs

#9. These people are interested in a wide variety of music, and that's what we're into.

Lester Bowie

#10. He took the box but did not avail himself of a tissue. She understood. Sometimes it was comforting to feel the wetness of grief's tears on your face.

Julius Lester

#11. I like to think of my best moment on the job as quiet victories. Victories over what? Over the "system", over the various bureaucracies not watching me, over my colleagues' indifference, over my patron's ignorance, over the very concept of horn-blowing pride.

Paul Lester Wiener

#12. Rock 'n' roll is an attitude, it's not a musical form of a strict sort. It's a way of doing things, of approaching things. Writing can be rock 'n' roll, or a movie can be rock 'n' roll. It's a way of living your life.

Lester Bangs

#13. I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.

Lester Bangs

#14. Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain't really nowhere. Gotta be original.

Lester Young

#15. Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to wear a Chairman Mao button, or do a lot of these things with out knowing what's behind it, and what it really means.

Lester Bangs

#16. Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, 'This is a moment of liberation, a chance to reinvent yourself.' That's kind of what I did.

Lester Holt

#17. I'm just Phil from Rossendale. And now people are screaming for me 'cause I make YouTube videos - it's just crazy!

Phil Lester

#18. Our numbers expand, but Earth's natural systems do not.

Lester R. Brown

#19. People read newspapers far more than they read the Word of God and then we wonder way America is in the mess she's in today. This is the Book that made America great, but since it's been kicked out, we've seen America go under and down.

Lester Roloff

#20. I'm cancer-free right now. That's it.

Jon Lester

#21. We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.

Julius Lester

#22. History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.

Julius Lester

#23. It's almost embarrassing to be out in public and someone comes up to you and says, 'My mother had the same thing you did.' What do you say? I don't know what to say to make them feel better about their situation.

Jon Lester

#24. We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.

Lester Bowie

#25. Sydney Poitier, who said to Lester Maddox, Guess who's not coming to dinner? Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#26. Part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

Julius Lester

#27. Sometimes, I'll be flipping the channel at home and think, 'Wow, there's a lot of me on TV.'

Lester Holt

#28. A victor's peace is usually vindictive and stirs up a passion for revenge a generation or so later.

Muriel Lester

#29. It's weird that apples bruise like humans. I'm glad they don't scream when you bite into them.

Phil Lester

#30. The old foundations of success are gone ... The world's wealthiest man, Bill Gates, owns nothing tangible: no land, no gold or oil, no factories ... For the first time in history the world's wealthiest man owns only knowledge.

Lester Thurow

#31. Sorrow does not take away, but adds to the Christian's joy.

Lester Roloff

#32. I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this.

Lester Bangs

#33. Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.

Julius Lester

#34. That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.

Lester Maddox

#35. I have a couple of basses in my office. And I try to be courteous of my co-workers, but sometimes I get carried away and I crank up my amp and I rock out. It's kind of my stress reliever.

Lester Holt

#36. What do you know what goes on inside a man's mind? Outside he may look like a gentleman, but inside ' e may 'ave the 'ankering for murder.

Lester Cole

#37. You can't exactly do it from your hotel room. It's the weather; you've got to get out in it. You're telling people that there are 70 mile-per-hour winds. So it's like, 'Let's prove it.'

Lester Holt

#38. They do put my films on TV from time to time. I don't go out of my way to watch them. But I'm now made to tape them for my daughter so that when she's old enough she can say, 'Hey, that's Daddy.'

Mark Lester

#39. The title came rather early in one of Ringo's more tired and emotional moments.

Richard Lester

#40. I'd been studying the microphone for a dozen years, and I suddenly saw what I'd been doing wrong. I'd been singing too loud. One night I was listening to a record by Lester Young, the horn player, and it came to me. Relax, just relax. It's all going to be all right.

Marvin Gaye

#41. Rock is for everybody; it should be so implicitly anti-elitist that the question of whether somebody's qualified to perform it should never even arise.

Lester Bangs

#42. No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse.

Lester Bangs

#43. You know there's some great folks, great story telling at 'Dateline,' and I'm glad to be a part of it.

Lester Holt

#44. In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care.

Lester Bangs

#45. Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.

Jon Lester

#46. In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.

Lester R. Brown

#47. You never know when you're going to throw a no-hitter or if you're ever going to get the chance to do it. It's one of those deals where the ninth inning comes around; it's either going to be your night or just a complete game.

Jon Lester

#48. And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.

Lester Bangs

#49. The extravagant and ostentatious lifestyles that pass for charisma in a time when almost anybody talks about charisma but if you think about it there's precious little to be seen.

Lester Bangs

#50. The Red Sox believe what's written. If it's written that I should be traded, more times than not, that's what ends up happening. Look at the people who've gotten traded around here. It's not their doing.

Jon Lester

#51. It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.

Lester Bowie

#52. If we don't like what's happening to us in the world, all we have to do is change our consciousness - and the world out there changes for us!

Lester Levenson

#53. Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music.

Lester Bowie

#54. The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

Lester Bangs

#55. Once you make the majors, it's never a great feeling to go back to the minors - no matter what the circumstances.

Jon Lester

#56. It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.

Lester Bangs

#57. Marriage is just a piece of paper if it's not a happy one.

Phil Lester

#58. The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.

Lester Bowie

#59. Don't ask me why I obsessively look to rock 'n' roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it's just that I glimpsed something beautiful in a flashbulb moment once, and perhaps mistaking it for prophecy have been seeking its fulfillment ever since.

Lester Bangs

#60. There's no such thing as a mistake
we do it! There's no such thing as an accident
we do it!.

Lester Levenson

#61. I see no hope for a revival among God's people today. They are so enamored and so cluttered up with Hollywood and newspapers and magazines and parties and bowling alleys and camping trips and everything else. How in the world are they going to get still long enough to see anything from God?

Lester Roloff

#62. Happiness is equal to one's capacity to love.

Lester Levenson

#63. I'd been doing the Chicago theatre thing for years. The money was kinda good - thanks to a push by my old pal Capone, who, let's say, persuaded theatre owners to book me.

Buddy Lester

#64. As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests.

Lester B. Pearson

#65. There's only certain things you can control. I know how hard I work, I know how I take care of myself, and those are the two things I can control. As far as injuries and wear and tear and stuff like that, it's going to happen.

Jon Lester

#66. One thing I know in baseball is you should never be comfortable where you are. It doesn't matter who you are. It's a business. If I got traded tomorrow, no hard feelings; it's a business.

Jon Lester

#67. That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place.

Lester Bangs

#68. A good jockey doesn't need orders and a bad jockey couldn't carry them out anyway; so it's best not to give them any.

Lester Piggott

#69. At the end of the day, I'm reading the news. I'm not digging ditches. I'm not fighting fires. It's a long day, and it's a lot of responsibility, and it can be a little bewildering sometimes with the schedule. But, you know, it's a job, and they pay me well to do a job.

Lester Holt

#70. It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.

Julius Lester

#71. We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs of all the Earth's people are satisfied, and a world that will allow us to think of ourselves as civilized. This is entirely doable.

Lester R. Brown

#72. Usually during the regular season, if you're starting pitcher, you're kind of walking back and forth from the clubhouse to the dugout and not really paying attention to what's going on.

Jon Lester

#73. Anytime you can see a hitter and face a hitter, you gain knowledge, and you gain that experience. Whether they hit a homerun off you, or you strike them out or whatever it is, it's information.

Jon Lester

#74. Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that.

Lester Bangs

#75. The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin.

Lester Roloff

#76. We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us.

Lester Bowie

#77. It's no good talking to a man with an apology for a brain.

Lester Cole

#78. Funny how an absence can feel like a presence, like that space practically glows with her outline and make me notice how she's not here.

Joan Steinau Lester

#79. Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from overpumping is a far more serious issue. Excessive pumping for irrigation to satisfy food needs today almost guarantees a decline in food production tomorrow.

Lester R. Brown

#80. We were all influenced by Lester [Young]. Listen to the records that he made with [Count] Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still the daddy.

Zoot Sims

#81. The designer's role in the development, application and protection of the trademark may be described as pre-creative, creative and post-creative.

Lester Beall

#82. What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

Lester Holt

#83. Humanity's greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest.

Lester R. Brown

#84. I've been smoking marijuana for 44 years now, and ... I think it's a tremendous blessing.

Lester Grinspoon

#85. Nervousness was never something I would ever associate with the Beatles ever. A Hard Day's Night was relatively unscathed by marijuana, but even then they were quite relaxed about it.

Richard Lester

#86. The real question is what to live for. And I can't answer it. Except another one of your records. And another chance for me to write. Art for art's sake, corny as that sounds.

Lester Bangs

#87. There's nothing bad; there's just making errors on the way back Home.

Lester Levenson

#88. It's obvious that five days is just enough to give one a false impression of any country.

Muriel Lester

#89. They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.

Lester Bowie

#90. No matter what you do in the offseason, you can't simulate putting spikes on and standing in the grass and being around your teammates. When you're around your teammates, you step it up a notch. It's just kind of instinctive you do that.

Jon Lester

#91. I predict the absolute fullness of man's operation on planet Earth by the year 2000 A.D.

Lester Sumrall

#92. Hard Day's Night was one of those great films that will never happen again to anyone in their lifetime. UA were in profit before we'd even finished shooting - The advance sales on the album - the film was out before the album was out was more than it cost UA to make the film.

Richard Lester

#93. I blew about pounds 70,000 on stupid things - a very expensive car which got written off, and nightclubs. I'd always pick up the bill. It's very easy to spend a lot of money in a short space of time, going out.

Mark Lester

#94. A moment from another world! Imagine a reporter dictating an exclusive story, a lead story, sourced from the President of the United States, from a telephone just off the White House dance floor to the strains of Lester Lanin's dance band.

Ben Bradlee

#95. God's greatest blessings are upon those who show the proper respect for the poor and the needy.

Lester Roloff

#96. A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.

Lester B. Pearson

#97. The only real source of historical information about pre-Islamic Mecca and the circumstances of the Koran's revelation is the classical Islamic story about the religion's foundation ...

Toby Lester

#98. Eating's going to be a whole new ball game. I may even have to buy a new pair of trousers.

Lester Piggott

#99. My wife's family lives up in South Carolina, so we go back and forth quite a bit up there.

Jon Lester

#100. She ran straight into Leo's open arms, unable to stop the tears from falling, feeling at last defended, like a single musical note that had finally found the symphony to which it belonged.

Natasha Lester