Mark Leyner Quotes

When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive part of a person's sensibility. It's an almost impossible thing to teach anyone, which leads me to believe that it's intuitive.

Mark Leyner

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• Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Reality
  • Jazz
  • Prism

• I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Years
  • Point
  • Early

• I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Never
  • Before
  • Wrote

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Remember
  • Song
  • Day

• I was a horrible athlete.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Athlete
  • Horrible

• If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Up
  • You
  • Look

• I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Internet
  • Well
  • Versed

• Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.

  

  Vicki Delany
  • Human
  • Said
  • Pressure

• The world is no longer against us.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • World
  • Against
  • U.S.

• During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Money
  • War
  • Political

• The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • Money
  • War

• 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I was playing the main verse part of 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and after a few minutes I got frustrated, as normal, then started to play the other song, and realized they went together.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Different
  • Friends
  • Together

• Language usage always has a political context.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Political
  • Always
  • Language

• Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Remember
  • Nice
  • Journey

• Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• The lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world a little bit.

  

  Djimon Hounsou
  • Up
  • World
  • Kids

• "World War III, was the Cold War".

  

  James Woolsey
  • World
  • War
  • Cold

• Sure enough, it wasn't long until I got a call, telling me I had a scholarship there. It was the only scholarship offer I had and, believe me, I jumped at it.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Telling

• It's about knowing yourself and what you're good at. Females, males - anyone can be anything they want to be.

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • Good

• God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Christian

• When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive part of a person's sensibility. It's an almost impossible thing to teach anyone, which leads me to believe that it's intuitive.

  

  Mark Leyner
  • Believe
  • Funny
  • Seductive