Top 100 Quotes About Les

#1. Quand les cimes de notre ciel se rejoindront Ma maison aura un toit.
(When the peaks of our sky come together My house will have a roof.)

Paul Eluard

#2. I don't really listen to bassists - not anymore. When I was younger, I listened to those guys and was trying to figure out everything they did. Nowadays, I draw inspiration from everybody.

Les Claypool

#3. Scully was doing the driving, which she preferred. Mulder knew only two speeds: fast and faster.

Les Martin

#4. Forgive those who have hurt you.

Les Brown

#5. Stand up for what you believe in, because you can fall for anything.

Les Brown

#6. A bridge has no allegiance to either side.

Les Coleman

#7. Any good music must be an innovation.

Les Baxter

#8. I love doing concert music.

Les Baxter

#9. I knew I'd chosen the wrong airline when I noticed the sick bag had the Lord's Prayer on it.

Les Dawson

#10. I know my name will always be linked with women.

Les Dawson

#11. Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Les Brown

#12. You could do a 'Les Mis'-type musical about Hamilton, but it would have to be 12 hours long, because the amount of words on the bars when you're writing a typical song - that's maybe got 10 words per line.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#13. You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

Les Brown

#14. Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.

Les Brown

#15. When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.

Les Paul

#16. I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.

Adam Jones

#17. If you spend a lot of time thinking about your problems, they'll grow bigger and stronger. Is that what you want? Of course not!Instead, focus on your goals. Start your day with them at the front of your mind, and use notes to recall them strategically throughout your day.

Les Brown

#18. We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

Les Brown

#19. Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive

Les Paul

#20. I have the power to handle whatever comes up.

Les Brown

#21. One minute we're over here, the next minute we're doing something completely different. But it's interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn't do with analog.

Les Paul

#22. I went to the doctor last week. I said: 'Can I have some sleeping pills for the wife?' He said: 'Why?' I said: 'She's woke up.'

Les Dawson

#23. Empathy requires us to step outside of our own agendas long enough to develop an understanding of the other person's perspective. It can be rightly stated that no relationship will be whole without ongoing displays of empathy.

Les Carter

#24. I need to give affection and love, because without that, I wither. I need to give that love to someone. Without that, I'm rudderless.

Les Dawson

#25. My heroes are guys like Frank Capra and Elia Kazan and Coen brothers and Terry Gilliam, more so than a lot of bass players at this point in my life. So I've always been an old-film nut and have very much enjoyed doing videos over the years.

Les Claypool

#26. There is a point at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, a fatal word, Les Miserables.

Victor Hugo

#27. Downsizing trends and the changing global market require people to reinvent themselves and think like entrepreneurs.

Les Brown

#28. Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.

Les Brown

#29. Centuries of perfectly-pitched heartbreak resound through Les' microphone as Stella and I embrace in a slow dance.

Daven Anderson

#30. Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.

Boris Vian

#31. The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis
only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without any protection. And accept them as the reality before which we must justify our existence. For this is the truth we must reach to live, that everything is and we just in it.

Dag Hammarskjold

#32. Do you think to yourself, 'Wow, I saw this chicken and she was gorgeous?'

Les Dennis

#33. Les te moins sont fort chers, et n'en a pas qui veut. Witnesses are expensive and not everyone can afford them.

Jean Racine

#34. Sometimes you've got to # believe in someone else's belief in you until your # belief kicks in.

Les Brown

#35. Make thought a whirlwind.

Victor Hugo

#36. I think Phish will come back. I just think it's time for a breather.

Les Claypool

#37. If I'm home and I come up with something, I'll try to record it, but a lot of the time I'll forget to. A lot of things go off into space and never come back 'cause I just don't remember them.

Les Claypool

#38. We need to live in mindful harmony with our feelings, not attempt to control them.

Les Greenberg

#39. To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.

Les Paul

#40. You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it.

Les Claypool

#41. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

Victor Hugo

#42. It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America.

Les Paul

#43. You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.

Les Brown

#44. I never got that show - Les Miz. It's about the French guy, right, who steals a loaf of bread, and then he suffers for the rest of his life. For Toast. Get over it!

Paul Rudnick

#45. Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Les Brown

#46. You know, there are times when you play a song over and over and over and you get a little tired of it and you let it sit for a while. It's like, you may love eating sushi, but if you eat it every single day, you're going to get a little tired of it.

Les Claypool

#47. If it's hard, do it hard! Nobody said it would be easy.

Les Brown

#48. I did see 'Les Miz' and I thought it was just incredible. Totally incredible. I love 'Chicago,' too.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#49. Whatever you're seeking-it's seeking You

Les Brown

#50. I have loved 'Les Miz' for so long. It was the first Broadway show I'd ever done.

Lea Michele

#51. Shoot for the moon, the worst that could happen is you land amongst the stars

Les Brown

#52. I like your custom 1911," the man said, glancing at Pendergast's weapon. "Les Baer Thunder Ranch Special? Nice-looking piece.

Douglas Preston

#53. Les moments de crise produsent un redoublement de vie chez les hommes.
Moments of crisis produce a redoubled vitality in men. Or, more succinctly perhaps: Men don't begin to live fully until thier backs are against the wall.

Paul Auster

#54. Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life.

Les Brown

#55. In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.

Les Brown

#56. NEVER let other people's opinions of you determine your destiny.

Les Brown

#57. As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts.

Victor Hugo

#58. My mother-in-law had to stop skipping for exercise. It registered seven on the Richter scale.

Les Dawson

#59. We're undefeated in regulation.

Les Miles

#60. I designed a guitar for Ibanez and then they started manufacturing it - it's called the Jem - it's 26 years old and I still play it. As a kid I liked Les Pauls and Strats, but they had limitations for the kind of playing I wanted to do.

Steve Vai

#61. This guitar is such a pal. It's a psychiatrist. It's a doggone bartender. It's a housewife. This guy is everything. Whenever I find that I've got a problem, I'll go pick my guitar up and play. It's the greatest pal in the whole world.

Les Paul

#62. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

Victor Hugo

#63. I love' Les Mis,' and I owe it a lot, because I wouldn't have been born without it.

Eliza Doolittle

#64. There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.

Les Brown

#65. Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you get the personalities and the chemistry right, that's a grand slam.

Les Claypool

#66. I would play in any number shirt for Newcastle United, but the No 9 at Newcastle is something very special and I've always wanted to wear it. I mentioned it to the manager, he mentioned it to Les and Les has been very kind and given it to me.

Alan Shearer

#67. The werewolf by the moon. The wererat by money. (Loup garou par la lune. - Rat garou par les thunes.)

Charles De Leusse

#68. It's fantastic to see 'Les Miserables' become the top-grossing film at the U.K. box office.

Eric Fellner

#69. The wealthiest place on the planet is the graveyard, because in the graveyard we will find inventions that we were never ever exposed to, ideas, dreams that never became a reality, hopes and aspirations that were never acted upon.

Les Brown

#70. Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril.

Kenneth Tynan

#71. While other guitars may have more twang or an esoteric atmosphere, the Les Paul is like a T-Rex thampling everything in it's path .. it can be subtle if you want it to be, but it works best if you have an 'armadillo in your trousers' and you want to articulate that

Miles Zuniga

#72. Failure is not a destination; it's an invitation to unforeseen VICTORIES.

Les Brown

#73. My first trip abroad was to do a TV version of 'Les Miserables' in France with Anthony Perkins. There I was at 12 acting with the guy from 'Psycho.' My parents were teachers, and it was hard for them to relate to that world.

Dexter Fletcher

#74. Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

Les Brown

#75. Say, you told me you thought Les Miserables was the greatest novel ever written. I think Vanity Fair is the greatest. Let's fight. - Joe Willard

Maud Hart Lovelace

#76. He asked himself ... whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods made by chance, and consequently the most deserving of consideration.

Victor Hugo

#77. The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.

Les Dawson

#78. One does not cross-examine a saint.

Victor Hugo

#79. When a show fails to destroy the competition-and it can fail while attracting 20 million viewers-it is itself destroyed.

Les Brown

#80. There are as many minds as there are heads, so there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts. Leo Tolstoy

Les And Leslie Parrott

#81. The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have.
[Fr., On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualites que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir.]

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#82. Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.

Les Brown

#83. Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs barefoot. It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove. There was a foundation of wildness and bravery in her

Victor Hugo

#84. If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.

Christian Louboutin

#85. No matter how bad it is ... or how bad it gets ... I'm going to make it.

Les Brown

#86. Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.

Victor Hugo

#87. I just want to remind everybody that it's Columbus Day. That all those of you that know Italians and like Italians are the people that might venture on to a ship and travel to explore and find new lands, this is your day. It's not St. Patty's Day. That's a different day entirely.

Les Miles

#88. If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Les Brown

#89. In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#90. Well, that's the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.

Les Baxter

#91. You have something special, you have GREATNESS within you!

Les Brown

#92. Be humble!! Be wise!! Be wild!! Be love!! Be cute!! Be sexy!! Be sweet!! Be bold!! Okaaaayyyy... Be whatever you wanna be!! It's your life!! **Someone's opinion of you doesn't have to be your reality! (Les brown)**

Abhishek Kumar

#93. My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him.

Les Dawson

#94. At the end of the day, it's important to know what really matters most in life ... your sanity, your health, your family, and the ability to start anew.

Les Brown

#95. Expect bad days and tears. but it's not how you wake up, it's how you go to sleep. always remember that

Les Simple

#96. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation / it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Les Brown

#97. I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

Les Baxter

#98. A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

Victor Hugo

#99. Any manager will tell you that they would rather win one and lose two than to draw three, because you get more points

Les Ferdinand

#100. If no one loved, the sun would go out.

Victor Hugo

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