Lionel Quotes

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet.

I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.

There’s something to be said for doing one thing right.

Practice and practice and practice, and you'll make friends all over the world.

I've had a wonderful life with music.

While death and darkness girdle me I grope for immortality.

Sombre and rich, the skies; Great glooms, and starry plains. Gently the night wind sighs; Else a vast silence reigns.

Yet, when the city sleeps; When all the cries are still: The stars and heavenly deeps Work out a perfect will.

Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness.

I am not the Prime Minister of French capitalism. I am the Prime Minister of France.

If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations.

I remain attached to my nation.

I always thought about carrying on training and working, chasing my dream.

I go out and do the best I can in each game, and I don't think about the fouls other players will commit or whether I might be injured. It only does you harm to worry about those things.

My family was always present when I needed them and sometimes felt even stronger emotions than me.

I still have a lot of room for improvement. For example, I want to shoot equally well with both feet.

My style of play has always been the same. I never tried to develop a specific style. From very young I just played this way.

I am the happiest man alive and I am happy for myself, for my family and for my country.

From the age of three, I played every day-morning, afternoon and night.

You have got to love the game.

I know how important it is to have a helping hand. In my childhood I had difficult times because of hormonal problems. If I hadn't had support, I wouldn't have been able to fulfill my dreams.

I don't think I'm going to be priest material.

I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.

My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry.

I am a country boy and proud of it.

Just when I think it couldn't get any bigger, 'Tuskegee' reaches a new level of success.

I'm a songwriter, and people will tell you the greatest stories about their lives, whether you want to hear it or not.

Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.

it is always difficult to impress the ignorant.

Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.

In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the prose that's prospectively boring to strangers.

[Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from the writing of my precious books.

Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.

I am in flight from my story every day, and it dogs me like a faithful stray.

Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches.

When Mexico enjoys an economic boom while the U.S. is in dire fiscal straights, it seemed perfectly credible that Mexico would not roll out the welcome mat for unemployed Americans.

Though it may be more romantic to picture the bereaved as gaunt, I imagine you can grieve as efficiently with chocolates as with tap water.

We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.

A boy is a dangerous animal.

How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!

But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.

I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts.

It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.

People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.

The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.

Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.

It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing.