F. Thomson Leighton Quotes

Everyone is open for consideration, ... I think we are going to look at people who would do a commendable job and honor the wishes of our residents. I know the administration will act quickly and council will do the same.

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• I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.

  

  K. Flay
  • Better
  • Lazy
  • Month

• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Real
  • Me
  • Husband

• Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Music
  • Me

• I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Computers
  • Cursed

• If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Great
  • Career
  • Me

• I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Friends
  • Movie
  • Choose

• Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Mind
  • Church
  • Force

• The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • People
  • Never
  • Constitution

• One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Business
  • Society
  • Community

• Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Genius
  • Infinite
  • Out

• It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Joy
  • Pleasure
  • Confused

• Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Time
  • Change
  • Eyes

• Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Like
  • Strange
  • Botox

• If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Story
  • Life Story

• I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Friends
  • Making
  • Corporate

• I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Politics
  • Identity
  • Opportunities

• Even when I was in Dubai, I used to host small birthday parties, events, and lots more to make money of my own to fulfil my wish to become an actor. I didn't take any money from my parents to fulfil my dream.

  

  Rithvik Dhanjani
  • Money
  • Dream
  • Parents

• Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.

  

  Laure Manaudou
  • People
  • Time
  • Goal

• The thing people don't get about Indian films is that the songs are the story.

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • People

• Everyone is open for consideration, ... I think we are going to look at people who would do a commendable job and honor the wishes of our residents. I know the administration will act quickly and council will do the same.

  

  F. Thomson Leighton
  • People
  • Job
  • Open