Leo Ornstein Quotes

A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.

Leo Ornstein

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• Laughter made you live better and longer.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Live
  • Better
  • Laughter

• Alaska itself is an unusual state.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Unusual
  • Itself
  • Alaska

• To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Experience
  • Together
  • Future

• Sometimes when I'm at my desk, I'll realize that I have contorted myself completely, and I haven't moved for hours, and that my legs have fallen asleep. I am elsewhere, not in my body, not in the room, not in my house.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • House
  • Body
  • Room

• I have been reorganizing and restructuring AOL: changing the strategy and rebuilding it from scratch in the worst economy in a generation.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Generation
  • Strategy

• In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Nature

• I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Believe
  • Happen
  • Afterlife

• The guys have told me not to quit my day job.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Job
  • Me
  • Day

• I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind's nature is to remain pure like ether.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Nature

• Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

  

  Hannah More
  • Poverty
  • Youth
  • Luxury

• Managerial discretion can take many forms, some very subtle. Individual managers may run slack operations; they may pursue subgoals that are at variance with corporate purposes; they can engage in self-dealing.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • May
  • Run
  • Operations

• I am interested in classic building development, such as hotels and residential homes, rather than commercial properties.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Building
  • Development
  • Commercial

• My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Great
  • Mother
  • High

• I saw the Kino print of 'The Man From Beyond,' but apparently a superior new print has been produced by Restored Serials. Maybe a few snippets of missing footage will close up some of the plot holes, but I have my doubts.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Up
  • Man
  • Missing

• At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Time
  • Die
  • Television

• I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • People
  • Bad
  • Reality

• Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?

  

  Gabrielle Roy

• The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favourite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come, And make their bed with thee.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Art
  • Care
  • Gay

• I guess I much prefer the path of the contrarian: the guy who goes against the grain a bit. The careers of the people who I admire deeply - like the Coen brothers and Soderbergh - don't repeat themselves, and they make radically different films at times, and I think that's wonderful.

  

  Joe Carnahan
  • People
  • Different
  • Guy

• I was one of those kids who had never seen an indie film before I got to college. If it wasn't a big, huge tentpole movie, or if it wasn't on the radio, I hadn't experienced it.

  

  John Krasinski
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • College

• Racquetball was always number one but when our first child was born things I thought I cherished weren't as important. You put yourself in a position to win, but now you're extra careful. Because I never wanted my kids to see me losing. I wanted them to remember me winning...thought that would be cool.

  

  Kane Waselenchuk
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Remember

• I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • People
  • Love
  • Want

• A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.

  

  Leo Ornstein