Leslie Fiedler Quotes

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

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• I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Soccer

• Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • More

• Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Sad

• We would here state that there are now three things necessary to be done in order to save China from revolution. The first is to maintain the reigning Dynasty; the second is to conserve the Holy Religion; and the third is to protect the Chinese race.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Done
  • Religion
  • Revolution

• Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Real
  • Poetry
  • Friendship

• Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Trouble
  • Individual
  • Last

• Predominantly I'm an Adidas guy who walks around in sports gear all the time because there's always a ball right next to me somewhere. I do a lot of sports, but I do enjoy wearing a lot of suits.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Sports

• The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.

  

  Walter Martin
  • May
  • Soul
  • Success

• Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Money
  • Doing

• Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Think
  • Know
  • Feel

• To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Violence
  • Daughter
  • Situation

• I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Own
  • Too Much
  • Admit

• There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.

  

  Beck
  • Fall
  • Quality
  • Doing

• At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Shoes
  • Company
  • Brand

• I started out doing musicals.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Doing
  • Started
  • Musicals

• During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.

  

  J. G. Stedman
  • Want
  • Religious
  • Mad

• I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Music
  • Important
  • Myself

• Our arguments - and those of hundreds more Venezuelans suffering the same injustice - are clear and forceful: political disqualification violates laws in Venezuela and throughout the continent.

  

  Leopoldo Lopez
  • Political
  • Suffering

• Before the Barn-Door crowing, The Cock by Hens attended, His Eyes around him throwing, Stands for a while suspended: Then One he singles from the Crew, And cheers the happy Hen; With how do you do, and how do you do, And how do you do again.

  

  John Gay
  • Happy
  • Eyes
  • Door

• As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Book
  • American
  • War

• I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

  

  Plato
  • Life
  • Great

• I was a banker in Morocco when I first saw 'American Graffiti.' It was before I was an actor, a melancholy time in my life, and this mood was reflected in the film.

  

  Jean Reno
  • Life
  • Time
  • American

• My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

  

  Leslie Fiedler
  • Time
  • Truth