John Leo Quotes

Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.

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• The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Forget
  • Solitude
  • Cherish

• To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Artist

• I'm a huge gamer. I'm very excited, and the idea of the Rift was as a headset that was designed around the specific uses of VR gaming. But I'm excited about a lot of stuff that's outside of it, because I was a VR enthusiast. I want VR to be the thing that we all live in, that we all use for everything, not just games.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Live
  • Want
  • Everything

• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Start

• I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Myself
  • Hard
  • I Can

• The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Chance

• I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • School
  • High
  • Teacher

• I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • War
  • Past

• I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Myself
  • Decision
  • Listening

• You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Know
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Pretty
  • Dream
  • Boy

• I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Love
  • City
  • Tokyo

• I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.

  

  M. Ward
  • Love
  • Career
  • Respect

• I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • Strong
  • Afraid
  • Pressure

• I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Career
  • Film
  • Hollywood

• For the first time, open source, peer-to-peer protocol developers can monetize their project on a protocol level.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Time
  • First
  • Open

• On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Beer

• My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Theatre
  • Very
  • Formal

• In 1960, I enrolled in the chemical engineering program at UNAM, as this was then the closest way to become a physical chemist, taking math-oriented courses not available to chemistry majors.

  

  Mario J. Molina
  • Math
  • Engineering

• Composed for renown am I, a verse heard on the stone-doored isle in the four-quartered fort. Tranquillity and obscurity mingled shiny wine their drink before their retinue. Three fulnesses of Prydwen we went upon the main, Save for seven none came up from Castle Rigor.

  

  Taliesin
  • Up
  • Wine

• God has put something noble and good into every heart his hand has created. So while living on earth we must always remember to learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow because time will only show what has mattered throughout our journey.

  

  Melanie Klein
  • Heart
  • Journey
  • Motivational

• Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Guy
  • Once
  • Magnet

• My mom, ever the Italian, made braised chicken with tomato.

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
  • Mom
  • Italian

• Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.

  

  John Leo
  • Free
  • Small