Quotes About Lester

#1. Spying is always an expensive method of acquiring information. - Author: Muriel Lester

#2. Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings - Author: Julius Lester

#3. You would think that anyone on a major label would be doing something, but when you speak of major label that means something to maybe a big pop star that might be getting some sort of benefit from the major. But we still don't get anything. - Author: Lester Bowie

#4. The only method of receiving love is to give love, because what we give out must come back. - Author: Lester Levenson

#5. I'm cancer-free right now. That's it. - Author: Jon Lester

#6. 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. - Author: Lester Roloff

#7. I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award. - Author: Lester B. Pearson

#8. A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own. - Author: Lester Bangs

#9. It might be hard to believe, but as difficult as cancer was, in some ways it was good for me. - Author: Jon Lester

#10. I write because the lives of all of us are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps we will begin to see that our lives are the same story. The differences are merely in the details. - Author: Julius Lester

#11. Our numbers expand, but Earth's natural systems do not. - Author: Lester R. Brown

#12. The only limitations you have are the ones that you accept. - Author: Lester Levenson

#13. I've been embarrassing myself since about birth. - Author: Phil Lester

#14. I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that. - Author: Lester Bangs

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

#16. I built up a knowledge of 1960s and '70s British films because my dad used to work nights, and I'd sit up with my mum and watch films - 'How I Won the War' and the films of Richard Lester, Karel Reisz and John Schlesinger. - Author: Nick Moran

#17. I've never been one to carry race on my sleeve, and I've never been one to really use my race. - Author: Lester Holt

#18. 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. - Author: Lester Holt

#19. 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. - Author: Lester Bangs

#20. We'll jump off that bridge when we come to it. - Author: Lester B. Pearson

#21. I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts. - Author: Lester Bangs

#22. Effective Peer Coaches emphasize inquiry over advocacy. Too much advocacy can produce learned helplessness. Inquiry builds capacity to improve teaching and learning by helping teachers to be more effective at designing and implementing learning activities that meet the needs of their students. - Author: Lester Joseph Foltos

#23. Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe. - Author: Lester B. Pearson

#24. Stagolee was, undoubtedly and without question, the baddest nigger that ever lived. Stagolee was so bad that the flies wouldn't even fly around his head in the summertime, and snow wouldn't fall on his house in the winter. He was bad, jim. - Author: Julius Lester

#25. 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. - Author: Lester Young

#26. When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand. - Author: Lester B. Pearson

#27. Never Judge a Book by its Cover". This quote doesn't apply to books only, but also to people, places and everything else. - Author: Edwin Rolfe And Lester Fuller

#28. Sometimes, I'll be flipping the channel at home and think, 'Wow, there's a lot of me on TV.' - Author: Lester Holt

#29. The greatest happiness we can give to a mate comes from helping him or her to more understanding of Truth. - Author: Lester Levenson

#30. I never believed the anchorman should be the know-it-all. And I try to communicate that to the audience. While I have some knowledge from my years of experience, what I want to do is walk you through this because we're all walking through this together. - Author: Lester Holt

#31. As a 13, - 14-year-old kid, I'd sit on my bed with a tape recorder and a newspaper. I would do my own newscast. I would practice my diction. - Author: Lester Holt

#32. It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world. - Author: Lester B. Pearson

#33. No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary. - Author: Lester B. Pearson

#34. As I travel the country for away games, I meet kids fighting cancer in almost every city. They visit the ballpark, and I invite them onto the field so we can chat and then watch the game. - Author: Jon Lester

#35. Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later. - Author: Julius Lester

#36. The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them. - Author: Julius Lester

#37. All humans are the same sex, except albinos. - Author: Lester Bangs

#38. 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 - Author: Julius Lester

#39. I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. - Author: Lester Bangs

#40. A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change. - Author: Lester Thurow

#41. Just picked up a black pair of scissors thinking they were my glasses.
That definitely would't have enhanced my eyesight. - Author: Phil Lester

#42. Sydney Poitier, who said to Lester Maddox, Guess who's not coming to dinner? Never got a dinner! - Author: Red Buttons

#43. 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. - Author: Lester Bowie

#44. 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. - Author: Jon Lester

#45. What you see is news, what you know is background, what you feel is opinion - Author: Lester Markel

#46. My dad has ingrained that in me: 'Be accountable.' - Author: Jon Lester

#47. 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. - Author: Julius Lester

#48. Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed. - Author: Lester Bangs

#49. To give good hugs you have to have some soft places.
- Jeremy Richards - Author: Julius Lester

#50. We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember. - Author: Julius Lester

#51. What is joy? Joy is nothing but the Self. When desires are fulfilled, the mind is stilled. This allows the Self to shine forth and that is what we call joy. - Author: Lester Levenson

#52. 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? - Author: Lester Bangs

#53. The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse. - Author: Lester R. Brown

#54. I'm not a follower. - Author: Jon Lester

#55. They're not just interested in one sort of music any more. - Author: Lester Bowie

#56. I thought I'd be back in baseball, but I didn't know when. - Author: Jon Lester

#57. While the subject matter is lynching, on a deeper level, this novel is about identity. Whom and what we identify ourselves with determines our characters, determines who we are, and what we do. - Author: Julius Lester

#58. The Television is the monster of hell. - Author: Lester Roloff

#59. Once your eyes get opened to pacifism, you can't shut them again. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. You may bitterly regret the fact that you happen to be one of the tiny minority of the human race who have caught this angle of vision, but you can't help it. - Author: Muriel Lester

#60. I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them. - Author: Lester B. Pearson

#61. 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. - Author: Lester R. Brown

#62. Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play. - Author: Lester Bowie

#63. Sometimes I think nothing is simple but the feeling of pain. - Author: Lester Bangs

#64. One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come - Author: Lester R. Brown

#65. His thirst was as tall as he was and more the man. It walked alone and was the only real life in the wind-weary February night. - Author: Lester Goran

#66. Better a pink bottom than a black soul. - Author: Lester Roloff

#67. These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear. - Author: Lester Bowie

#68. 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. - Author: Lester Holt

#69. Farmers ... can no longer keep up with rising demand; thus the outlook is for chronic scarcities and rising prices. - Author: Lester R. Brown

#70. We are always alone. We are never alone. Even in the center of a crowd of friends , we cannot escape our apartness; even in the locked and darkened room, we cannot cut ourselves off from our sense of the life going on outside. - Author: Lester M. Schulman

#71. The one thing I don't consume during 'Today' - which surprises many people - is coffee. I find that a lot of water helps wake me up, without the buzz. I love coffee, but usually reserve a double espresso as an afternoon pick-me-up before settling in to do the weekend 'Nightly News.' - Author: Lester Holt

#72. 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 - Author: Julius Lester

#73. Given is the word. Given publicly, on the first Good Friday, on a hill, in the sight of all, was the visible demonstration of the only permanent way to overcome evil. Human nature demands something more enduring than the unquiet equilibrium of rival powers. - Author: Muriel Lester

#74. In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal. - Author: Lee Konitz

#75. The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll. - Author: Lester Bangs

#76. 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. - Author: Julius Lester

#77. Until we become fully free, we put up a false front, a facade, to others for the purpose of winning the acceptance and approval of others. We behave in accordance with what we think the other one wants rather than by expressing our own real feelings. - Author: Lester Levenson

#78. At least Lester had the decency to weep at his act of perfidy. Reader, do you know what 'perfidy' means? I have a feeling you do, based on the scene that unfolded here. But you should look up the word in your dictionary, just to be sure. - Author: Kate DiCamillo

#79. 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. - Author: Lester Bangs

#80. I still credit Adrian Lester with being one of my biggest influences. - Author: Ashley Madekwe

#81. 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. - Author: Paul Lester Wiener

#82. You're taking the bus around Burbank?" Lester said. "Christ, Perry, this is Los Angeles. Even homeless people drive cars. - Author: Cory Doctorow

#83. When we take one step toward the Self, It takes nine steps towards us. - Author: Lester Levenson

#84. Whatever happens to us originates in the mind. - Author: Lester Levenson

#85. Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young. - Author: Sebastian Coe

#86. In this country kings or dukes don't amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was the President; so I started calling Lester the President. It got shortened to Pres. - Author: Billie Holiday

#87. The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience. - Author: Lester Bangs

#88. Without entrepreneurs, economies become poor and weak. The old will not exist, the new can't enter - Author: Lester Thurow

#89. 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. - Author: Lester B. Pearson

#90. Human love is needing the other one. Divine love is giving to the other one. - Author: Lester Levenson

#91. Misinterpretation is the most deadly of human sins. - Author: Lester Del Rey

#92. I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music. - Author: Lester Bangs

#93. Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist. - Author: Cameron Crowe

#94. Spiritual healing is KNOWING that the body is perfect. Mental healing is effecting a perfect body by visualizing the body as perfect. - Author: Lester Levenson

#95. Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all. - Author: Lester B. Pearson

#96. I figured being fat was my destiny. - Author: Ron Lester

#97. I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace. - Author: Lester B. Pearson

#98. My books are inspired by children - sometimes my own.
My writing is powered by chocolate - not always my own! - Author: Cas Lester

#99. These people are interested in a wide variety of music, and that's what we're into. - Author: Lester Bowie

#100. The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction. - Author: Lester B. Pearson