Elmore Leonard Quotes

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

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• Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Law
  • Me
  • Rules

• My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Revolution
  • New
  • New York

• I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

  

  Imelda May
  • Love
  • True
  • Inspiration

• Quinoa is great for lazy day cooking because it's packed with complete proteins, but it cooks in only 20 minutes. And, you can flavor it any way you wish! I make mine with onions, lots of ground ginger, turmeric and coriander, and then whatever dried fruit and nuts I have around.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Great
  • Wish
  • Day

• The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Law
  • Light
  • Nutrition

• My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Death
  • Penalty

• I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Know

• I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Enjoy
  • Would
  • Dinner

• It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Culture
  • Books
  • Hip Hop

• You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'

  

  Dan Webster
  • Work
  • Water
  • Transportation

• More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Taken

• I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Good
  • Success
  • Light

• The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Community
  • Intelligence

• I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Rock
  • Wrestling
  • Favorite

• We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Writing
  • Study
  • Speech

• The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Truth

• Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Society
  • Never
  • New

• Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • People
  • Business
  • Past

• One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

  

  J. Cole
  • Day
  • Listening
  • Red

• Most non-New Yorkers, finding themselves within hearing range of strangers' conversation, think it's nice to pretend they didn't hear. But many New Yorkers think it's nice to toss in a relevant comment.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Nice

• There's a lot of young actors and people who have success very quickly who kind of expect it or don't have the experience to really appreciate it.

  

  David Walton
  • People
  • Experience
  • Success

• I'm quite an untidy person in a lot of ways. But order makes me happy. I have to have a clear desk and a tidy desktop, with as few visual distractions as possible. I don't mind sound distractions, but visual ones freak me out.

  

  Joanne Harris
  • Mind
  • Happy

• You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Flower
  • Love You
  • Fawns

• If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

  

  Elmore Leonard
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  • Work