Ed Lee Quotes

My children teach me to slow down and enjoy life.

I love a guy in a suit - someone who puts on his nice Armani pants.

To this day people will say, "What do you think about doing Playboy?" I feel honored to be a part of that bit of history with Hugh Hefner. No regrets.

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

Christmas it too large to be tucked away in the toe of a child's stocking.

We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for what we do, we have hell anyway.

Crowds speak in heroes.

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.

It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.

When America has been discovered in America it will be discovered in Europe. They are looking for America now.

The new industrial world is coming to us one new free-born industry at a time.

Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.

A vice is a failure of desire

To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years--to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of it, and at last the indifference because any one would.

Machinery makes men like itself.

Wage work is disappearing. I didn't make the jobs disappear, but they have disappeared. And people are forced to be looking for other alternatives.

I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived.

I think we have to understand that the nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization.

There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness.

Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.

I don't know how other bands play the same songs every night.

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

I'm always keen to head to where the greatest gravitation pull is tugging me.

I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much.

It's not an insult to have a past and to have some accountability to it.

It is natural for us to pay attention to North Korea and human rights issues of North Korean defectors but I wish people would not try to create stars. The reality is different from Hollywood movies.

I agree strongly that no story is more valuable than someone's life.

I think I was able to endure risks not because I was ambitious about great stories but I was curious as a journalist.

People don't tend to lie about themselves when they're in imminent danger.

It isn't the Lord who withholds himself from us. It is we who withhold ourselves from him because of our failure to keep his commandments.

I want to say something to you men. You cannot destroy the appointment of a prophet of God, but you can cut the thread that binds you to the prophet of God, and sink yourselves to hell.

Missionary work is but home teaching to those who are not now members of the Church, and home teaching is nothing more or less than missionary work to Church members

The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.

The recurrence of fundamentals is essential to perpetuity.

And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion

Never is the gospel of Jesus Christ more beautiful than in times of intense need, or in times of a severe storm within us as individuals, or in times of confusion and turmoil.

The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible for teaching these laws to the world.

Don't you study about other folks's business till you take care of your own.

...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964

I do my best to love everybody

Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.

Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.

As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for us to learn, except possibly algebra.

My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.

I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?' I said not particularly.

Scout, I´m telling you for the last time, shut your trap or go home - I declare to the Lord you´re gettin´ more like a girl every day!” With that, I had no option but to join them.

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

Never, never, never on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby food. Do it, and you'll often get an answer you don't want.

I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it.

Yeah, that's all," said Dill. "He'll probably come out after you when he sees you in the yard, then Scout'n' me'll jump on him and hold him down till we can tell him we ain't gonna hurt him.