Leonard Cohen Quotes

I fought against the bottle but I had to do it drunk

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• I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • God
  • Why
  • Problem

• I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Try

• We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.

  

  Daniel Drew
  • Want
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Silly

• To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Work
  • School
  • Kid

• I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Music
  • Always
  • Try

• I've done hundreds of interviews on guns. I'm against people who use guns. I don't like guns, but I've never yelled at anyone.

  

  Larry King
  • People
  • Done
  • Guns

• My vision is to build an e-commerce ecosystem that allows consumers and businesses to do all aspects of business online.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Business
  • Vision
  • E-Commerce

• Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Father
  • Intuition
  • Follow

• Sometimes audiences want to see what we're doing to their world. It's our obligation sometimes to reflect it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • World
  • Want
  • Doing

• It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Up
  • Career
  • Build

• I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

  

  Sally Field
  • Up
  • Great
  • Family

• The first deaths will barely swell the daily count, and no one in the statistics bureau will notice that extra zero. But after a while everyone will begin to look at each other and ask: what's happening? Because for months doors and windows are going to rattle, furniture and trees will creak.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Daily

• No time to see, in broad daylight,Streams full of stars, like skies at night.No time to turn at Beauty's glance,And watch her feet, how they can dance.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Time
  • Night
  • Dance

• Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Deep

• The value of my cry great will be its advantage to degrees. The chief of men, shield of warriors. The extensive booty of the ashen shaft is my fair Awen. A shield before a prince, bright his smile, Heroic, aspiring, the most heroic is Urien

  

  Taliesin
  • Great
  • Men
  • Value

• I realized that for this moment, nothing in the past mattered. Nothing terrible in the future mattered. What mattered was her skin against me, her hand holding me, the perfume of her hair and skin and the warmth of her breath against my chest. This was satori. This was truth.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Truth
  • Future
  • Past

• The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Air

• All men are almost led to believe not of proof, but by attraction. This way is base, ignoble, and irrelevant; every one therefore disavows it. Each one professes to believe and even to love nothing but what he knows to be worthy of belief and love.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Believe
  • Men

• The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Language
  • Chief
  • Detracts

• I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, but Melville was a drunk who beat his wife. 'Moveable Feast' by Hemingway, but I would not like him personally. He was a stupid macho person who believed in shooting animals for fun, but that book was incredible!

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Book
  • Fun
  • Wife

• Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted.

  

  Dee Dee Myers
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Drunk

• I fought against the bottle but I had to do it drunk

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Drunk