Leon Russell Quotes

I like the Beatles very much, and there are certain things about the Stones that I like.

Leon Russell

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• I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Women
  • Home
  • Remember

• Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Morning

• I'm not a big texter anyway. I'm really slow at it and so I try to avoid it to avoid embarrassment, you know what I mean?

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Know
  • Try
  • Slow

• If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Guy
  • Free

• You just have to work super hard, and if you have a passion, that's the most beautiful thing in life, and you just have to bust out and do it, baby!

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Life
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• Every education law should be based around the question, 'Is this good for children?' And it's not.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Good
  • Children
  • Education

• There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • People
  • Magic
  • Sea

• In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • America
  • Latin
  • Even

• I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Despair
  • Accountant
  • Receipts

• Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Quality
  • Brain

• Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.

  

  P. F. Strawson
  • Language
  • Rules
  • Logic

• I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • People
  • Time
  • Funny

• Man, an animal that makes bargains.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Makes

• I got what I needed out of Princeton in 1 year, and I didn't think it was useful.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Think
  • Year
  • Useful

• The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Value
  • Facts
  • Intellectual

• I have no need of your God-damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences.

  

  Alexander Woollcott
  • God
  • Wish
  • Sympathy

• Freedom does not mean doing what you can get away with, doing what you please. It means, instead, having the opportunity to do what you ought to do-for family and for community and for humanity as a whole.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • Family
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity

• I've have a number of violent tics. With Tourette syndrome, there's not just compulsive actions, but compulsive thoughts as well. That used to scare my mother a lot.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Mother
  • Thoughts

• Doing good holds the power to transform us on the inside, and then ripple out in ever-expanding circles that positively impact the world at large.

  

  Shari Arison
  • World
  • Impact
  • Circles

• Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the dust - the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Life
  • Dust
  • Ill-spent

• I have so many just precious, fond memories that revolve around food, and that's why I have such a passion for it.

  

  Kimberly Schlapman
  • Passion
  • Memories
  • Around

• No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to seek to translate itself into a new faith.

  

  Paul Kurtz
  • Faith
  • Claim
  • Skepticism

• I need to conduct myself differently in different communities. In my experience, the journalistic conventions - you know, I'm the reporter, you're the subject, the interviewee - actually tend to hold steady much more consistently in rural Africa than they do in the American inner city.

  

  William Finnegan
  • Different
  • Community
  • Steady

• I like the Beatles very much, and there are certain things about the Stones that I like.

  

  Leon Russell