Leo Ornstein Quotes

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

Leo Ornstein

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• The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Pressure
  • Loss
  • Suits

• Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Try
  • Fiction
  • Short

• Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Hurt
  • Learn
  • Down

• As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • World
  • Different
  • You

• I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Music
  • School

• The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Father

• One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Way
  • Looking
  • Speech

• I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Faith
  • Style
  • Ideas

• 'Brisco' was the first show I created, and of course, at the time I had no idea what a special experience it was because I didn't have a frame of reference. After it was over I was like, 'Damn. Shoot. That was something special.' I'm still upset that it got cancelled.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Special

• I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Great
  • Music
  • Listen

• I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • American
  • Movie
  • Years

• In 'Roma,' I wanted to get across the idea that underneath Rome today is ancient Rome. So close. I am always conscious of that, and it thrills me. Imagine being in a traffic jam at the Coliseum! Rome is the most wonderful movie set in the world... As was the case with many of my film ideas, it was inspired by a dream.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • World
  • Movie
  • Today

• I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Play
  • Like
  • Piano

• Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Action
  • Religious
  • Look

• I've learned you can always achieve more than you thought you could. There are moments when I've walked off the court, and I'm like, 'I don't know how I won that match.' It was actually impossible, but it happened, and then you realize that you can push yourself much further than you ever thought, and you can make the impossible happen.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Moments
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Things
  • Enemy

• There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Men
  • Man
  • Fear

• People have been playing versions of 'World of Warcraft' since 1994, and it's still the world's leading subscription-based MMO.

  

  Bobby Kotick
  • People
  • World

• Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.

  

  Joseph Story
  • Generation
  • Excellence
  • Example

• There are systems called zero discharge emission systems that would prevent any pollution from making it into the water or the air.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Water
  • Air

• I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been constructed, a feeling there is something more than the mundane, and a reason for our plodding.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

  

  Leo Ornstein