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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• 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.

  

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• After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.

  

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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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• It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.

  

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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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• Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.

  

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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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• I wasn't the prettiest girl in class. No breasts, short legs, gangly teeth. I didn't think I was model material, that's for sure.

  

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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.

  

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• If you don't optimize for the consumer on the Internet, you're dead.

  

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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.

  

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• You're not always able to choose.

  

  Anatoly Chubais

• I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving someone another person's prescription. How do you know that's what they need?

  

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• Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.

  

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• In my life, looking at other women who have been pregnant while writing, I always feel like it's kind of their most musical or the closest to themselves. I think for me it's such a validating moment, you know. I always knew I wanted to have kids, and I've been making music all my life.

  

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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