Ed Lee Quotes

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

Sometimes just the facts of the matter make it interesting.

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.

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

Nobody's perfect. I'm perfectly flawed.

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

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

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

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

Studying is also important, but we must become humans first.

Something that's fun for me is a challenge. When you have a challenge and you take on that challenge and succeed, that's the best feeling.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.

My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.

Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what's out there in the form of stories, not just facts, opinion, analysis.

In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.

People think a big camera and big lighting will make art, and I want to break that rule. If you have a great concept, it can be art.

But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.

If we want to truly live, at some point, we find the dark facts of psychic life demand our full attention.

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.

When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.

We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.

Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.

I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.

The truth, finally, is who can tell it.

When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them through the tough times.

But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system - we will have something without heart.

It's not time to worry yet

The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.

Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.

We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

Sometimes it is the emotional experience of film and television that bring a cause to our hearts and stir us to action - they inform and inspire.

Someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. That's also what happens in almost every movie - someone is going to win and someone is going to lose.

At times I can't help going for visual comfort. Sometimes a picture fills up your head, and you try to move the actors around to make that visual statement.

Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land, God Bless the U.S.A.

I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right.

If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

Anything my staff does in my office is pursuant to congressional rules.

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

I'm really trying to focus on the storytelling, more so than ever before I think, partly because it makes for easier pages.

The Nightmare Before Christmas is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.

Just because I keep getting close and don't win these Majors, I must not panic.

For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at.

Nobody's going to get a hot dog at my concert!

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

Singing still brings me tremendous joy, the reception you get and you never know what people are going to share with you after the event.