Leon Wieseltier Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
-
You cannot do only one thing.
-
One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
-
I don't know who Little Richard is.
-
All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
-
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
-
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
-
My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
-
There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
-
Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
-
I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
-
I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
-
I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
-
My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.
-
I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
-
The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
-
Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
-
But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
-
In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.
-
So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.
-
The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is possible to be informed, I shall make honesty, capacity, and fidelity indispensable prerequisites to the disposal of office, and the absence of either of these qualities shall be deemed sufficient cause for removal.
-
Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.
-
I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.
-
There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.
