Ed Lee Quotes

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

That's where I spent of lot of my high-school years -- in the closet. It wasn't too cramped, but you do get really hot.

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

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

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

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

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

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.

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

My secret indulgent food is dessert. I have an incredible sweet tooth - chocolate pudding with vanilla ice-cream or trifle and pavlova. I do love dessert.

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

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

Music videos are like girlfriends. I'm constantly amazed on what other people doing

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

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

I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may.

The trend of offering individualized education plans, curricula, and lessons is going to help students tremendously. “Teaching to the middle” is one of the saddest concepts I've ever heard about.

It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.

Oh, I know my family's not of royal blood, but you needn't throw it in my face all the time.

Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it.

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.

Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.

When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.

I have done a series in the '60s, '70s and '80s.

Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.

The necklace is the anchor; it's the classification of jewelry that says what the whole idea is about.

Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.

Fact: More people are killed each year by teddy bears than by grizzly bears.

History teaches us hope.

Any victory would be dear at such a price.

I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started on a number of writers, including Hemingway.

As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.

And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit.

Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.

I'm happy doing what I'm doing, and if you have that kind of attitude then everything else from there on is a bonus.

I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.

Pchem is the root of all evil.

I dream about having a house by the water and not doing anything, not feeling ambitious, nor having the need to make money.

Everything we're doing is planting a seed that will come to fruition at some point

A style similar to Song Hye Gyo's is my ideal type.

The morning, which is like a farewell that approaches slowly from far away, while smiling... We are the sunshine in the night sky. It's as if the Night is sleepwalking. Slowly, we'll be forgotten.

I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.

I've never been a goalscorer, only own goals. Good own goals.

Become more than what you were.

If you gotta label me, label me proud.

There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines.

Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart.

What can you take from me which is not already yours?

Anybody who has ever "gotten it" by following some so-called method, has gotten it in spite of the method, not because of it.

There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water.