Ed Lee Quotes

If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?

Some people have the power but not the willingness to help. Others have the willingness but not the power. God has both.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

Man will never reach the Moon, regardless of all future scientific advances.

He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.

Inspiration comes in the middle of the night when you should be doing homework.

I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head.

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.

The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.

I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.

I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.

The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.

Stay true in the dark, and humble in the spotlight.

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.

I’m very determined. If I decide that something is worth doing, then I’ll put my heart and soul to it. The whole ground can be against me, but if I know it is right, I’ll do it.

Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.

It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.

I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.

Dancing is like walking.People always walk,right? For me,I always have to dance

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

I played the tour in 1967 and told jokes and nobody laughed. Then I won the Open the next year, told the same jokes, and everybody laughed like hell.

The first floor could be a restaurant. A good restaurant can survive as long as it has easy accessibility.

We must forgive our enemies. I can truly say that not a day has passed since the war began that I have not prayed for them.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

There are no natural barriers. It's all music. It's either hip or it ain't.

Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.

Mistakes are a part of life; you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't make the same mistake twice.

I wouldn't want to play LSU right now even if I were the Indianapolis Colts.

President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.

In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.

There's no great mystery to satisfying your customers. Build them a quality product and treat them with respect. It's that simple.

Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.

There was a time when fast playing and fretboard pyrotechnics on the bass were important to me and when I am recording a bass track, that is still very important to me.

You put out a funny podcast, you talk about bak chor mee. I will say mee siam mai hum.

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.

Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role.

I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.

There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.

I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences

I was stationed at a Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

If Jesus is the Son of God, his teachings are more than just good ideas from a wise teacher; they are divine insights on which I can confidently build my life.

The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.

Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.

O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.

People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!

We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.