Quotes About Leonie

#1. 'Leonie' did get made and it was an extremely wonderful experience. I got to travel the world. I filmed for 6 months - 3 months in New Orleans and 3 months in Japan.

Emily Mortimer

#2. In kindergarten, we had this Irish Catholic headmistress called Sister Leonie, and I remember she would tell us, say, to put the crayons in the box. I remember thinking, 'Why is everyone finding this so easy? Why should the crayons be in the box?'

Binyavanga Wainaina

#3. Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just think how it's improved her French.

Harry Graham

#4. Oh, it's ridiculous. I ought to laugh. But I can't. You won't believe it."
"Of course we will," Sophye said.
"He offered you a carte blanche," Leonie said.
"No, he asked me to marry him."
There was a short stunned silence.
Then, "I reckon he's in a marrying mood," Sophy said.

Loretta Chase

#5. Leonie Barrow knew enough about real criminal investigations to know full well that cases rarely if ever hinged on an encyclopedic knowledge of tobacco ash or the curious incident of the butler's allergy to spinach.

Jonathan L. Howard

#6. Weeping is terrible for the complexion" said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, "but it is very good for the soul.

Anita Diamant

#7. Of a certainty Madame has died," Leonie said wickedly. "Tiens, c'est bien drole!

Georgette Heyer

#8. It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?

Helmut Jahn

#9. She did love Paul during certain hours of certain days. How many hours did you have to love someone to be in love?

Lincoln Michel

#10. You shouldn't believe what you don't understand. You should understand what you believe.

Leonie Swann

#11. A story always ends just when it comes to an end. Like a breath.

Leonie Swann

#12. Cordelia was thinking how human beings can invent words, how they can line up their invented words side by side on paper. It was magic.

Leonie Swann

#13. M'sieur, I am as a slave to my wife." He kissed the tips of his fingers. "I am as the dirt beneath her feet." He clasped his hands. "I must bestow on her all that she desires, or die!"
"Pray make use of my sword, " invited his Grace. "It is in the corner behind you.

Georgette Heyer

#14. I wondered what I'd end up looking like once I bloomed. I couldn't even guess. If I had to be stuck in my own skinny, gawky, coltish body forever ... well. It probably wouldn't be so bad.
I wouldn't mind a little more in the chest, though. But wild horses wouldn't drag that out of me. Ever.

Lilith Saintcrow

#15. There was a time when I believed there was loss that could not be defined, that language had not caught up to death's enormity.

Jacqueline Woodson

#16. Maple thought optimistically that human beings, on their good days, weren't much dimmer than sheep. Or at least, not much dimmer than dim sheep.

Leonie Swann

#17. This novel has it all
mystery, psychological insight, emotional truth, and
most important
characters whose lives matter. You'll fall in love with these families. Solti writes with such passion it is inescapable, lyrical, and profoundly moving. The Forgetting Tree goes on my top ten list.

Jonis Agee

#18. I cannot bear to go back alone - to the world I have lived in with you.

Georgette Heyer

#19. The group was led by a very thin man whom the sheep didn't know. They looked hard at him. The leader of the flock is always important.

Leonie Swann

#20. A member of the Archery Club tries to say that we are all foreigners and we should give the country back to the Native Americans, but she's buried under disagreement.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#21. Moral living sometimes demands difficult choices. It requires selflessness.

Billy Graham

#22. I'm never going to be a size zero and, to be honest I don't want to be.

Hannah Tointon

#23. When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned, what you are left with is an ocean of bliss.

Robert Thurman

#24. Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.

William Gibson

#25. Justice!" bleated Othello.
"Justice!" bleated the other sheep. And so it was decided that George Glenn's sheep themselves would solve the wicked murder of their shepherd.

Leonie Swann

#26. No sheep may leave the flock," he said to anyone who would listen, "unless he comes back again.

Leonie Swann

#27. True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.

Mahatma Gandhi

#28. This God sounds rather suspicious to me, said Mopple.

Leonie Swann

#29. Perhaps I just wanted to know what it was that I wanted. Maybe that is all that growing up means.

Mark Lawrence

#30. Adam could imagine what he looked like: a debauched nerd.

Heidi Cullinan

#31. They can herd you only because you can't herd yourselves. Forget the flock. Forget the dogs. Herd yourselves (p. 223).
Melmouth, of the George Flock in Three Bags Full

Leonie Swann

#32. If you are constantly looking over your shoulder at the competition you are not concentrating on the path ahead

Leonie Mateer

#33. Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.

Arthur Ashe