Ed Lee Quotes

Sachin Tendulkar is a guy you don't want to chat to period, because he will knuckle down...

Out here where the world begins and ends, it’s like nothing ever stops happening.

Scott: I don't think I'm ready to be a grown-up. Kim: I don't think you are either, buddy. But hey, you'll get it. It just takes practice.

This song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'We hate you, please die.'

When you're alone, you look at yourself more, it is kind of inevitable.

Oh, hey, maybe I should have mentioned that my friends are retarded douchebags.

Stand by me, my brave grenadiers!

The sugar industry doesn't want to see more of the agricultural areas turned into storm-water treatment areas. Ultimately they want to develop that land for houses and a shopping center.

I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.

I love Chicago. It is my new favorite city. It is the perfect place to do any kind of theater.

Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.

If I had any deadly secrets, I wouldn't still be alive.

People should not pass judgment until they have seen the film.

Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.

The secret to a long marriage in the film industry? Marry someone wonderful, as I did. And always have her come along on location.

I didn't want to be known as a man who only made horror films. I made some - very few.

What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.

I've done a lot of films that have become iconic, not necessarily because of me.

Once asked if he felt wearied by the constant onslaught of autograph seekers, actor Gregory Peck replied that he would be more worried when they stopped asking.

From the east comes the sun, bringing a new and unspoiled day.

The awareness that we cultivate is what makes yoga a practice, rather than a task or a goal to be completed. Your body will most likely become much more flexible by doing yoga, and so will your mind.

Yoga, like meditation, offers a method for coming together after you've come apart.

Whether I'm on for a day or whether I'm on for a year, at the end of the day, I sing for my dinner.

Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello.

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.

Many of the critics have kids of their own. It scares the hell out of them to think that their kids could be anything remotely like David Lee Roth.

On parties it's not about who you are. The real reason to which a party revolves is how good you look.

I knew already when I was seven years old, that I wanted to be on stage and entertain people. I sell laughs. Here, you got one for free!

Sometimes it's more fun to compete with your friends, because you can talk a little trash with them.

It's not like I'm an introvert. You get to know me, I can have a conversation with you. But in front of the media, I'm probably more of a quiet guy.

Anything that the private sector can do, the government can do it worse.

I have confidence in people's basic common sense.

The quality of news coverage has diminished, because giants of the print media are no longer being nurtured properly.

The people I have no feeling for are professional killers. But I count that man no worse than a governor who won't commute a death sentence because it's unpolitical.

Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.

I'm not calling for a boycott on voting. But I think it should be very clear that just voting is not going to solve our problems.

Pure womanhood plus priesthood means exaltation. But womanhood without priesthood, or priesthood without pure womanhood doesn't spell exaltation.

Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there, nothing can put it there.

Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

Nothin’s real scary except in books.

I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.

Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

See there?" Jem was scowling triumphantly. "Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin

Create the temperature of your passion!

When the path ahead of you is uphill, surrounded by rough spots, hazards and obstacles: use a pitching wedge.

One day you'll have a quiet heart.

I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious choice to erase God's thumbprint from their souls.

My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death.

There's no substitute for loyalty.