Leykis Quotes

#1. There is only one child in the world
and the child's name is all children.

Carl Sandburg

#2. I love Dallas, Austin and Houston. Why? Because some of the best comedians, like Bill Hicks and Sam Kinison, started their careers in Texas, and because the crowds there are comedy-educated.

Bobby Lee

#3. Toodles looked so thunderstruck that the Assistant Commissioner smiled faintly.

Joseph Conrad

#4. There's a difference ... between the kind of woman you would bang and the kind of woman you would marry.

Tom Leykis

#5. Are men shallow? Should we be looking for inner beauty? Ha, ha.

Tom Leykis

#6. They took hands, the living with the dead, and they began to dance.

Neil Gaiman

#7. I grew up in a pretty gay world - my brother's gay and he's been married to a man for 20 years, which is like 60 in straight-people years.

Kevin Smith

#8. War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.

Alva Myrdal

#9. I don't just preach; I put my money where my mouth is!

Tom Leykis

#10. I wanted to see if you could put a prototype radio station on the Internet so you wouldn't have to invest $50 million or $100 million or $150 million to buy a transmitter and a frequency.

Tom Leykis

#11. The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.

Eugene Delacroix

#12. He was the child of a father who was not his father; but also the child of a time which damaged reality so badly that nobody ever managed to put it together again;

Salman Rushdie

#13. Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.

William Shakespeare

#14. There really is no Johnny Carson anymore. There is no one place a comedian can appear and explode.

Tom Leykis

#15. I feel moved to express what I feel more strongly than anything else, and what in my opinion is of immense importance, namely, what we call the renunciation of all opposition by force, which really simply means the doctrine of the law of love unperverted by sophistries.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. Net neutrality sounds wonky and technical but is actually quite simple. It would keep the Internet as it has always been - cable and phone companies would remain mere gateways to all sites, rather than gatekeepers determining where users can go and what innovators can offer them.

Marvin Ammori

#17. As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life.

Dinaw Mengestu

#18. I'm looking forward to providing the men of Seattle with an evening where they can kick back, light up a cigar and enjoy a night to themselves. Women, we can't technically keep you out, but please stay at home.

Tom Leykis

#19. My first glimpse of you was not in truth the first. The hour in which our hearts met confirmed in me the belief in Eternity and in the immortality of the Soul.

Kahlil Gibran

#20. There's some benefit to being happy in your life. Of looking around and saying, 'This is mine.'

Tom Leykis

#21. When I saw houses in Palmdale going for $500K, I knew something was wrong. If you got foreclosed, I don't feel sorry for you!

Tom Leykis

#22. Or. I hate that word. It's two letters long and stuffed to the gills with reasonable doubt.

Jodi Picoult

#23. Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.

Ellen Hopkins