Ed Lee Quotes

God got nothing to lose. Them who think they can use God, they wiping out them own selves. If you think you can use God, you are destroying your own self.

I should probably never describe myself as adorable.

Korea is an open society and we will make sure that there is no restriction on foreign investment in Korea.

Spirit, faith, and positive energy are the core of human life, without them you lose your way. You live without Zest. You go through the motions but there's no passion

You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can learn to write it, and you can learn to speak it.

I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.

When I first read Lord of the Rings I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time the technology wasn't there, there was no such thing as CGI.

Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.

I believe I may so, looking into my own heart, and speaking as in the presence of God, that I have never know one moment of bitterness or resentment.

Let us go home and cultivate our virtues.

I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.

Hit them fast, hit them hard, and hit them a lot.

I should NOT be trading on the blood of my men.

To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old.

Recorded history is wrong. It’s wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it.

When I'm working on a serious and solid book ... I read about a detective novel a day. It's the best legal dope in the world. It makes you feel good until the next morning you can work again.

Newman has it all worked out. I get a million. He gets a million two, but that includes $200,000 expenses.

If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.

The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things.

I want to be one that is willing to do things that are not easy but that need to be done.

I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children.

You have to be daring and make something that doesn't look like anybody else.

TV spots are short. If you can't hold folks' attention for 20 seconds before revealing the brand, find another line of work.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation.

... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.

The gym is always open, except when it's closed.

A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words.

Nobody's perfect. I'm perfectly flawed.

I have decided that we shall make and build and never give way.

Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come in and stop it.

Sometimes just the facts of the matter make it interesting.

Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.

People are too hung up on winning. I can get off on a really good helmet throw.

It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

If we are in a supermarket when someone drops a bag of groceries on the floor and we don't help that person pick things up, what difference does it make how deeply we know we're a being of God?.

There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.

Enrolling your child in a recreational sport sponsored by your neighborhood recreation community centers is a great way to keep kids active.

After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.

Why is it that the hot chicks never can sing?

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

Americans are hidden dragons to me.

Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

The kindness of strangers and the support of the international community are truly the rays of hope we North Korean people need.

Normal people with normal problems can be hilarious.

Beijing residents joke that to get a free smoke all they have to do is open their windows!

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.