Mike Lee Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
-
I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
-
I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
-
My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
-
I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
-
One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
-
As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
-
The longer you're on a show like 'SNL,' the less frequent the Google alerts become.
-
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
-
Great men always pay deference to greater.
-
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
-
Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
-
We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
-
The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.
-
It's great living with your best friends.
-
Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.
-
I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
-
Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like Scott Joplin and on through Bessie Smith.
-
Frank Zappa was one of the gods of the Czech underground, I thought of him as a friend. Whenever I feel like escaping from the world of the Presidency, I think of him.
-
In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'
-
Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.
-
If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.
-
When I was younger, I used to hate Germany. I hated the country, the people, the language, the culture, everything! But over the years I've grown to really appreciate the German people.
-
Limited government must come politically, not judicially.
