Elmore Leonard Quotes

I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.

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• The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Good Thing
  • Storage

• I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Trying
  • Happy
  • Guy

• In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • World
  • Work
  • Past

• To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Yourself
  • Destiny
  • Transform

• I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Up
  • Sports

• My most joy that I have is dancing.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Joy
  • Dancing
  • Most

• For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Know
  • Me
  • Learn

• Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.

  

  Warren G
  • Work
  • Brother
  • Chance

• What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.

  

  Kal Penn
  • World
  • Space
  • Like

• We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Language
  • Service
  • Tests

• My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Best
  • Study
  • Blood

• Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Natural
  • Wonderful
  • Richness

• Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads, bridges, and a lack of tools. This is what makes traditional philanthropy so daunting. You could build a thousand new hospitals in some parts of the world and barely make a difference.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Poverty
  • Roads

• I was thinking on the rollers today that, before a race, if I could just pick my brain up and put it on the side of the track for four minutes, it would be perfect.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Today

• I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • World
  • Always
  • Little

• One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • Principles
  • Personal

• Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Think
  • Shy

• I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • People
  • Time
  • Think

• I would think that other people could see if you had other talents. I grew and expanded from the Elly May role. I was doing real estate and personal appearances and kept my foot in the door.

  

  Donna Douglas
  • People
  • Real
  • May

• The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• It has been said that the Fed's job is to take the punch bowl away just as the party gets going, raising interest rates when the economy is growing too fast and inflation threatens.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Job
  • Growing
  • Party

• I want to be remembered as a great performer.

  

  Conrad Sewell
  • Great

• Living longer is about loving longer, learning longer, teaching longer, connecting longer, if we figure out the supports and infrastructure to make all of that possible — and it is completely within reach.

  

  Ai-jen Poo
  • Support
  • Learning
  • Teaching

• I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • Believe
  • Waiting
  • Inspiration