Leonard Alfred George Strong Quotes

Real people are places to me as much as persons: I want to see them, as I want to see the places I am fond of, in all weathers and at all times of the year.

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• A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • Determination
  • Head

• Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • World
  • Wonder

• I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Me
  • Promise

• So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • House
  • Green
  • Trees

• I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Single
  • Weekend
  • Skills

• The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • People
  • Time
  • Technology

• I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Game

• I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Friends
  • Game
  • Cool

• In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Faith
  • Through
  • Cardinal

• I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Never
  • Red
  • Awkward

• I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Think
  • You
  • Better

• We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Holidays

• I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Believe
  • Future
  • Alone

• In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Space
  • Like
  • Film

• The Internet is part of our evolution. The mystics used to say, 'We can travel across the planet in a thought.' Now we really can. We can be connected with a million people at a time.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Time
  • Travel

• My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Father
  • Universe
  • Ship

• We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Choice

• It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

  

  Mae West
  • Better
  • Over
  • Overlooked

• Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Women

• Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.

  

  Bobby Darin
  • Up
  • God
  • Truth

• If you read Bernard Hopkins' name in the dictionary, the definition would be 'discipline.'

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Discipline

• Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Free
  • Armed

• When in doubt, do it.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Doubt
  • When In Doubt

• Real people are places to me as much as persons: I want to see them, as I want to see the places I am fond of, in all weathers and at all times of the year.

  

  Leonard Alfred George Strong
  • People
  • Persons
  • Year