Ed Lee Quotes

Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.

How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end up in prison?

The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise, and if you're sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful.

Creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and often more accessible.

Always it is easier to pay homage to prophets than to heed the direction of their vision.

Things that happen along the way determine the final result. I think the pain and suffering I went through in the past... lead me here today.

I'd really love to meet the guy I'm supposed to be. I'd hire him in a second.

Who is an authentic seeker, but someone who has understood that there is nothing else to do but practice? Enthusiastic or discouraged, he or she continues, no matter what.

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us.

I do as much charity work as I can and that my family life will allow. I do believe charity begins at home and the more we focus on our families, the better they will be.

Sometimes it's nice to have a song that can be taken more then one way, so it can be interpreted differently.

A woman may be a mother, a sister, a business woman, or she may own a business. Woman do many things, and it is important that we do it with grace and style.

If you can’t get the wicket of Rohit Sharma, you are struggling in life

You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do.

Movements, like films, depend on word of mouth.

I recommend it to all people: Get down on the floor and look at the world from where the child looks at it.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Mind over matter. Weak minded people are easily influenced. Strong minded people you can't break their will.

When you start to build self-worth and redeem your magnificence, the fears go away... you void your fears via your realization of your own self-worth.

Testimony is not something you have today, and you are going to have always. A testimony is fragile. It is as hard to hold as a moonbeam. It is something you have to recapture every day of your life.

It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.

The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.

Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

Consumers never complain about ads being too smart.

I don't believe in getting something for nothing.

Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.

He has lost his left arm, but I my right.

Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting!

You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change...

If political correctness has achieved one thing, it’s that it has made the Conservative party cloak their inherent racism behind more creative language

I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you're not only allowed that, but you're encouraged.

Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.

I don't believe in the sort of "Eureka!" moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time.

Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.

I wouldn't be doing motherfu**ing films for almost three decades if every time I did something that someone didn't like I went in a fu**ing cocoon and just hid there and didn't make my art.

To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.

We've all fallen, but at the same time we're not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again.

I always figure I'm not unique, and something that would please me hopefully would please a lot of other people that have the same tastes that I do.

The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished; And what is love but a rose that fades?

Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that.

I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea. And the silence of the city when it pauses, And the silence of a man and a maid, And the silence for which music alone finds the word.

I retired from everything except work.

I know that people think I'm a party king; but, face it, if I finished the bottle every time I took a drink, I wouldn't be able to do the aerials I do onstage.