Leon Uris Quotes

To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make.

Leon Uris

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• I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'

  

  Kari Wuhrer
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Woman

• What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Heaven
  • Name
  • Grandmother

• Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Time
  • She
  • Same

• Yoga is a life-saver.

  

  Ione Skye
  • Life
  • Yoga

• Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • People
  • Great
  • Think

• I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Myself

• The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Feeling
  • Journey

• Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Song
  • Happiness
  • Very

• If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Want
  • Emotional
  • Audience

• I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • Father
  • Death
  • Memories

• When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • World
  • Song
  • Big

• I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Time
  • World
  • Winning

• Although I've been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for 'the little guy'), my political orientation is not rigid. For instance, I supported John McCain's run for the presidency in 2000.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Political
  • Democrat
  • Orientation

• We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of the wool scour there. And, Ilfracombe was right at the heart of Australia's great wool industry, and my mother was a teacher at Winton.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Mother

• I just work a lot. I just remember recording in a hotel room in Malaysia. I work on planes, I work on buses. A lot of times when I'm backstage in the hotel or on the bus, I would have new ideas.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Ideas

• I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Best

• One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Up
  • Live
  • Man

• The bottom line is that the euro is a failed experiment.

  

  Paul Singer
  • Experiment
  • Failed
  • Euro

• My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop songs.

  

  Christina Perri
  • Listening
  • Memories

• Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Time
  • Memories
  • Sweet

• During the day, memories could be held at bay, but at night, dreams became the devil's own accomplices.

  

  Sharon Kay Penman
  • Memories
  • Dreams
  • Accomplices

• Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex North was supposed to do Sand Pebbles, but he got sick, so Fox preempted me out of Grand Prix, and to my good fortune, I got to do Sand Pebbles. It was my first time working with Robert Wise and it was a great experience.

  

  Jerry Goldsmith
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Memories
  • Voyage
  • Homeward