H. S. Leigh Quotes

I'm definitely really shy on some level. But on another level, I'm all entertainer. It's a strange dichotomy, but it's true.

David will never go to space again. I'm glad.What did it gain the McQuarries? What has it ever gained men? Have men ever brought back more happiness from the stars? Will they ever?

Wisdom eventually comes to all of us. Someday it might even be your turn.

Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.

Improvement is nature.

Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?

A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word "effrontery" comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall.

There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.

Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.

An author is like a baker; it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.

There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.

The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot!

Write me as one who loves his fellow men.

Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves.

The rapturuous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense

Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate.

A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness of the old angler's face to a fish.

Little eyes must be good-tempered or they are ruined. They have no other resource. But this will beautify them enough. They are made for laughing, and, should do their duty.

Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs.

Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.

Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much confidence as if they had booked them at a box office.

It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and things, as in that vision, seem Keeping along it their eternal stands.

A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

I've managed to create intimacy with people I know, and people that I don't know. The longer things stay inside of us, the more we think they are black or tainted, but they're really not.

If you’re an actress, you’re always on one diet or another — it’s a way of life.

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

Then the Angels came in 1961, and I fell in love with them.

It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives.

I try to live in the moment, every moment.

I ran track, and basically played every sport.

We live in a niche world.

When it comes to holdouts, there's a presupposition that the player is some angry rebel who's defying authority and only cares about the money.

There's never a benefit to bragging too much about a deal because the only sure thing is that I'm probably going to be dealing with that same general manager or that same person over and over again.

As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to negotiate.

So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.

People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.

A player cannot be part of the training camp experience as a rookie unless he is signed to a contract.

As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.

Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense.

I don't think many kids question their surroundings. Everything seems so permanent and inevitable growing up, even chaos.