Leonard Maltin Quotes

NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.

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• The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Passion
  • First
  • Unity

• In high school, the fastest I ever ran was like a 4.67; that's pretty fast. But then, I only weighed 168 pounds.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • School
  • High
  • Pretty

• Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Love
  • Yourself
  • Neighbor

• A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Professional
  • Poet
  • Objects

• You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Party
  • Democracy
  • Vote

• Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Leadership
  • Storm

• I think I've always had to pick and choose whatever I want to work on. If I'm not happy with what I'm doing, it's probably not going to end up that interesting.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Work
  • Happy

• It takes a long time to become young.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Time
  • Long
  • Young

• I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Job
  • Black

• Would but some wing'ed Angel ere too late Arrest the yet unfolded Roll of Fate, And make the stern Recorder otherwise Enregister, or quite obliterate!

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Fate
  • Angel

• Lovers lying two and twoAsk not whom they sleep beside,And the bridegroom all night throughNever turns him to the bride.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Night
  • Sleep

• It is necessary that every thing which is harmonized, should be generated from that which is void of harmony, and that which is void of harmony from that which is harmonized. ...But there is no difference, whether this is asserted of harmony, or of order, or composition... the same reason will apply to all of these.

  

  Aristotle
  • Reason
  • Difference
  • Order

• A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Truth
  • Lies

• When I was mayor of Tulsa, Tulsa County was in nonattainment of the 1979 ozone NAAQS, so I have seen firsthand the economic impacts associated with the challenges of attainment and the legacy of EPA intervention that continues long after meeting the standard.

  

  Jim Inhofe
  • Long
  • Legacy

• Governor Romney is a good debater.

  

  Jim Talent
  • Good

• Iranians have suffered economically under the U.S.-led sanctions.

  

  Bob Beckel

• Persuasiveness is really just about getting your ideas across without being forceful. It's a skill that can be learned and is useful for anyone who works in a team environment.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Team
  • Environment

• Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

  

  Emma Goldman

• I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • People
  • Responsibility

• As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.

  

  Gemma Ward
  • Fool

• To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Wind
  • Lie
  • Anchor

• Homes should be an anchor, a safe harbor, a place of refuge, a place where families dwell together, a place where children are loved. In the home, parents should teach their children the great lessons of life. Home should be the center of one’s earthly experience, where love and mutual respect are appropriately blended.

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • Life
  • Great
  • Children

• Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Music
  • Future
  • Success

• NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.

  

  Leonard Maltin
  • Anchor