Mitch Leigh Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
-
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
-
A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
-
I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
-
When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
-
One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
-
Good material is good material.
-
There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
-
My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
-
It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
-
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
-
I'm a dad, and I can tell you it's the most beautiful thing in the world.
-
I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.
-
I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.
-
When my car broke down in L.A., nobody stopped. They just kept whizzing by.
-
'Entrepreneur' is a French word.
-
If anything, the power of the cover of 'Time' has increased as the media landscape has atomized.
-
The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.
-
If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
-
I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody.
-
From the smallest misdemeanor up to the biggest crime, everyone is brought before a judge. And that means there's a huge backlog in the American legal system. There are prosecutors and public defenders and judges who are trying to keep their head above water in the tide of this bureaucracy and red tape.
-
I'll write anything; I don't want to judge its form.
