Stephen Leacock (Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock) Quotes

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

Stephen Leacock

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• Occur
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• If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.

  

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• I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.

  

  Sam Smith
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• Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!

  

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• I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.

  

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• You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.

  

  Gail Sheehy
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• We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.

  

  Hans Jonas
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• I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
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• The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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• I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.

  

  Gabriel Macht
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• I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.

  

  Sally Phillips
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• Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.

  

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• But who can fathom the subtleties of the human heart? Certainly not those who expect from it only decorous sentiments and normal emotions.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• I'm truly, truly boring! I don't change. If people know me, I have not changed.

  

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• If I am happy in my personal life, I will be happy in my profession.

  

  Antoine Griezmann
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• Josh is the guy in the band who's just so friendly and super, wanting to walk up to you and say, 'Hey, I'm Josh. I drum in this band, and I'm a big fan of you, and I really appreciate what you do.' Josh has all these great friends in the industry now.

  

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• If I can learn how to pitch in two months, and I'm doing OK, how can we not assume that a woman who's been working on it for her entire life won't be playing in the MLB? It's ridiculous.

  

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• It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

  

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• I'm not going to let anyone tell me that I can't perform, that I'm not artistic.

  

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• You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion.

  

  Claire Denis
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• I would never knowingly go and date somebody that my friend loved.

  

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• Cyder was anciently the main drink of the country people in the West of England.

  

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• What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?

  

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• In my ideal writing environment, I'd be surrounded by nice visual art in a room with a window and high ceilings. The window would have to give me natural light.

  

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• Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

  

  Stephen Leacock
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Occur