Overtures Leonard Quotes

#1. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#2. Think about what you do from 9 to 5 each weekday. Now imagine you put that much effort into something you really believe in. It's incredible what you can accomplish when you have both the interest to do something original (which everyone has) and the time to make it happen (which few have).

Ben Clymer

#3. When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.

Mahalia Jackson

#4. A tree there towere Tall and branching That house upholding The hall's wonder Its leaves their hangings Its limbs rafters Its mighty bole In the midst standing.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#5. One thing must be understood : I have said nothing extraordinary or even surprising. What is extraordinary begins at the moment I stop. But I am no longer able to speak of it.

Maurice Blanchot

#6. The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future.

Emmanuel Levinas

#7. A bit of a theory, more a corner of the eye noticing than an airtight argument: in the course of long artistic careers, women are more likely than men to change form and style, Proteus-like.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#8. It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.

Wilma Rudolph

#9. I have fun when I want to have fun, but I am learning how to balance my life out.

Carmen Electra

#10. Everything happens when it needs to happen; everyone is always where they need to be. You will never miss out on what is meant for you, even if it has to come to you in a roundabout way.

Iyanla Vanzant

#11. I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

Pablo Casals

#12. To be a straight person and discover you're infertile is almost like discovering you're not a straight person.

Dan Savage

#13. My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.

Dan Webster