H. T. Leslie Quotes

I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.

Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.

I'm really good at standup. I always win at standup.

The gospel is not outward rituals and sacrifices, it is a living sacrifice. It is to have the laws of God written in our heart. It is to have a soft, listening, responding heart to God.

Everything is a struggle. Everything is relative, too, so I still feel like I'm struggling, in many aspects. I'm not worried about paying my rent next month, but in about two months, we'll see.

Women love hairy men. Cavemen were the sexiest men in history.

the material world and the flesh are only temporary - there are no sins of the flesh, spirit is everything!

We should hold abusers — and no one else — responsible for the damage they inflict.

Women are naturally competitive. That's what drives women to form cliques at early age.

Sometimes disaster is our teacher. I don't welcome it, but if it comes, there is something to be learned from it.

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Chinese workers are not forced into factories because of our insatiable desire for iPods. They choose to leave their homes in order to earn money, to learn new skills, and to see the world.

I'm probably taller than 90% of the men I meet.

Manu Ginobili is just a baller dude.

You ultimately have to find out who you are inside and develop a set of values that are truly yourself, and then express them.

The honeymoon phase always ends, for everyone.

The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right.

I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'

Flattery is praise without foundation.

You can hire a bodyguard, to protect you at the bank for example.

I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.

I can be inappropriate at times.

I learned that strength, like height, is measured by who you're standing next to.

Are you with women who only bleed monthly on their cycles?

I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without outside assistance.

Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real.

Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience.

I am happy to be able to be part of this Rock'n'Blues Fest as the first tour since the amputation of my right leg. I hope this gives me a leg up on the new year!

I encourage girls to play sports and play hard.

Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but it's really funny because now that I'm in law, I'm like 'Wow, I could be a lawyer

I still believe I'm the best player. That's what keeps me going.

My success has surpassed my childhood dreams.

I tend not to get too emotional about things.

I believe if you want to be trusted, you have to trust first. If you do that, you will be betrayed sometimes. But the value of engendering trust is greater than the cost of being betrayed sometimes.

The truth of course was otherwise, but Lecha had never felt she owed anyone the truth, unless it was truth about their own lives, and then they had to pay her to tell them.

You're in the democratic West now, lady. Anybody's as good as anybody else as long as he's got the dough to prove it.

I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to seek, or to supply: an empathy that rearticulates more clearly what it's shown.

I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions.

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.

I've always surrounded myself with funny people.

My job is to bring the tickle. I know what's funny.

I take great pride in all the tremendous success we've enjoyed at CBS. And the good news is that I feel even more enthusiastic about what my terrific team and I will accomplish going forward.

No animal is so inexhaustible as an excited infant.

Avoid giving invitations to bores - they will come without.

When you see persons slip down on the ice, do not laugh at them. ... It is more feminine on witnessing such a sight, to utter an involuntary scream than a shout of laughter.

Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve in garrets, nor wear rags - at least in America.

I'd like to play nothing but good characters.

That has always been it for me: family first.

I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with her during her recovery.