Ed Lee Quotes

Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.

Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the trough that defines you.

This is for fighting, this is for fun.

I spend a lot of time with my characters.

You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game.

I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.

There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.

That teacher teaches best who teaches least.

Untested faith was rarely strong. Deep, abiding faith was tempered through fire.

At the end of oneself was the best place to discover the Lord at work.

My biggest fear in life is fear.

It's still difficult for me to watch my work.

Stick around long enough, you'll get some grace.

Everybody does what they want to do for their own specific reasons.

I've never seen black men with fine white women. They be ugly. Mugly dogs.

For me, I believe in God, God is real.

And one thing Hollywood does well is sequels.

I miss my brother. Prince was a funny cat. Great sence of humor.

My people, my people, what can I say; say what I can. I saw it but didn't believe it; I didn't believe what I saw. Are we gonna live together? Together are we gonna live?

I'm happiest when I'm working. If I'm not working, I feel like I'm wasting my time.

If you enjoy what you do, if you are interested in what you do, I really think that's the best situation.

I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own mind.

I think people are interested in anything that's a little bigger than life and that's colorful and - you know, what they like? They like fairy tales for grownups.

I'm very proud of being a hack. It's why I've lived as long as I have, I think.

I have a reputation for doing superheroes, but I like all kinds of writing. In fact, hardly anybody knows this, but I've probably written as many humor stories as superhero stories.

I love Marvel and the people there. Im glad I m still part of it.

I'm just working with ideas in my head and with drawings that the artists did. And suddenly to see these things come to life in movies - it's just wonderful.

I'm really glad I'm not on Twitter. Because I'd have to be answering things that I didn't really know anything about, and I'd rather just wait for the dust to settle and then say something.

It's fun to be a girl, and get dressed up, but that's not how I really am.

The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.

People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!

Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future.

What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web … Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring.

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.

The financial system as a whole has had the characteristics of a Ponzi scheme if we look at it fundamentally.

I don't really put too much emphasis on what somebody else might think of it. Otherwise your putting limits on yourself.

Sometimes when you have children they're the opposites of you.

I still play but for some reason, I am having so much fun playing guitar and singing that I don't really miss it because I've done it for so long like twenty-something years with Motley.

I don't do anything that is not fun. I just don't do it.

Meryl Streep does not make mistakes. Sometimes the world just can't keep up.

I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next.

I look upon pride as a sin.

If we're just trying to be accurate, then how about 'The Doomed to Fail Bunch'?" said Constance. "Honestly! We can't even name ourselves.

You are the smartest children i know. You just don't beleive it.

Good grief! They're going to call us inside soon, and Sticky hasn't even met Madge yet!" "Who's Madge?" Sticky asked. "Her Majesty the Queen!

Milligan! Come and tell us why you're so dreadfully glum!" ~ Constance, The Mysterious Benedict Society

They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept.

A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.