John Leeson Quotes

I was lucky enough myself to have been in Dad's Army for an episode.

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• When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • God
  • May
  • Business

• The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Path
  • Resistance
  • Loser

• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• Second place is just the first place loser.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Place
  • Loser
  • Second Place

• The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.

  

  Idris Elba
  • You
  • Mine
  • Networking

• Geffen was never supportive of the band.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Band
  • Never
  • Supportive

• I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.

  

  T.I.
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Step

• Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Year
  • United States

• Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Long
  • Money
  • Movie

• For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Important
  • Together
  • Laugh

• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Money
  • Question
  • Wife

• Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

  

  Quintilian
  • Late
  • Begin
  • Too Late

• I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Live
  • Decision
  • Religious

• Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

  

  Patrick McGoohan
  • Answers
  • Questions
  • Prison

• I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • World
  • Woman
  • Gold

• I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Important
  • Book
  • Me

• Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Business
  • Change
  • Strength

• If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.

  

  James C. Collins
  • Text

• From 1967 to '70, Nigeria fought a war - the Nigeria-Biafra war. And in the middle of that war, I was 14 years old. We spent much of our time with my mother cooking. For the army - my father joined the army as a brigadier - the Biafran army. We were on the Biafran side.

  

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
  • Time
  • War
  • Mother

• I am an armor officer. I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s. It's still a magnificent tank, and we designed it for the Cold War and Central Europe.

  

  Eric Shinseki
  • Team
  • Army
  • Cold War

• My name is on the door, and I care very much about the design that gets put out. I'm sorry, but it has to be my way. You learn that by working for people like I. M. Pei. You think he isn't a design tyrant? Is Calvin Klein a tyrant? When it came to his dresses, he had to be.

  

  Peter Marino
  • People
  • Design
  • Door

• I was lucky enough myself to have been in Dad's Army for an episode.

  

  John Leeson
  • Dad
  • Army