Leon Edel Quotes
Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.Leon Edel
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
Parker Stevenson -
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
D. H. Lawrence -
The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
Otto Rank -
I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
Uma Thurman -
Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of this matters without them. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. I don't know where I would be, honestly.
J. R. Smith -
Our career had a sort of funny shape.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.
Rahm Emanuel -
China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
Jack Ma -
I'm a runner first before anything else.
Haile Gebrselassie -
My childhood was appalling.
Taylor Caldwell -
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
Barack Obama -
I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
Hale Irwin
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I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
Ted Cruz -
The feeble soul merely whines and complains.
Taylor Caldwell -
I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.
Fanny Burney -
The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
Warwick Davis -
I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
Damien Chazelle
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There's always a time when you think you've done your last song or you've written your last rap or, you know, people are not checking for you.
Betty Wright -
Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Little tornado You and the hurricane Close your eyes and go campaign Make it go faster Baby go faster Make it go twice the speed of you and me
Aimee Mann -
He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment upon these eyes and joyfully plays on the chords of my heart in varied cadence of pleasure and pain.
Rabindranath Tagore -
In Little League back in Oklahoma, I struck out 14 batters in a six-inning game, and we won the state championship.
Jimmy Walker -
Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
Leon Edel