Leslie Charteris quote: "For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are."

About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly.
LESLIE CHARTERIS

I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the ...
LESLIE CHARTERIS

The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of co...
LESLIE CHARTERIS

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own ...
LESLIE CHARTERIS

He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an ex...
LESLIE CHARTERIS

Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.
LESLIE JONES

Growing up in Britain, Michael Caine has always been such an icon. Chatting with him, I know I came ...
ROSE LESLIE

I just know that for my honeymoon, I'm not going to go to a cabin in the woods.
ROSE LESLIE

When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spen...
LESLIE MANN

I've perfected the art of busting on people. That's how comedians show each other love.
LESLIE JONES

A nuclear power reactor is just a fancy way of boiling water.
LESLIE DEWAN

I do have body-image issues, just like everyone else. I mean, I wish I had bigger boobs. And I hate ...
LESLIE BIBB

The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular du...
LESLIE JAMISON

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rat...
LESLIE FIEDLER

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would yo...
LESLIE CARON

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can rend...
LESLIE LAMPORT

The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which k...
LESLIE WEATHERHEAD

The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more ...
LESLIE FIEDLER

Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to,...
LESLIE FIEDLER

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
LESLIE STEPHEN

Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the b...
LESLIE WEXNER

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she mana...
LESLIE MCINTYRE

No animal is so inexhaustable as an excited infant.
AMY LESLIE

The truth is that to enjoy acting one must be an exhibitionist at heart, one must revel in those exp...
LESLIE HOWARD

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made...
LESLIE FIEDLER

I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences don't like dark. They like st...
LESLIE MOONVES

Nuclear power is a young technology - there's so much more to be discovered. That's what mak...
LESLIE DEWAN

It is a pledge that senility has not the last say in everything.
SHANE LESLIE

We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for ...
SHANE LESLIE

A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. ...
SHANE LESLIE

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
SHANE LESLIE

Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets ...
LISA LESLIE

Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do...
LESLIE JAMISON

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

Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be dec...
LESLIE MOONVES

It will be hard work. It's always hard work, and hard work from everybody within the team - tech...
DAVID LESLIE

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough...
LESLIE CARON

Sure, some news is bigger news than other news. War is bigger news than a girl having mixed feelings...
LESLIE JAMISON

The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.
LESLIE CARON

Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really be...
LESLIE FIEDLER

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to i...
LESLIE FIEDLER

As the TiVos and the Replays are coming into our world - and they're coming - it's better to...
LESLIE MOONVES

Child actors don't have great track records.
LESLIE MANN

If you're like me and love chatting about your latest box set addiction, then Sky Box Sets Club ...
ROSE LESLIE

I would support a letter.
ASSEMBLYWOMAN LESLIE

This is about giving consumers better information so they can make better choices for themselves.
ASSEMBLYWOMAN LESLIE

You've had a year. I know people turn over and that those things happen. ... But I don't think we wa...
ASSEMBLYWOMAN LESLIE

We've got to start somewhere. I want to see something in place.
ASSEMBLYWOMAN LESLIE

There is a certain amount of coercion that is implied. My general reaction is (this is) a disturbing...
ASSEMBLYWOMAN LESLIE

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable...
LESLIE STEPHEN

Going into auditions, there is a wonderful butterfly feeling in your stomach - an equal balance of b...
ROSE LESLIE

I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.
LESLIE NIELSEN

When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most re...
LESLIE COCKBURN

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
LESLIE FIEDLER

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
LESLIE STEPHEN

Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, ...
LESLIE JAMISON

Think about back in the day when we had Archie Bunker, 'The Jeffersons.' We had stuff to sit...
LESLIE JONES

I do love archery in my day-to-day life because I find it very therapeutic, and I've trained eve...
ROSE LESLIE

Now that I know how to handle a bow and arrow, I find it very therapeutic. It is a brilliant way to ...
ROSE LESLIE

I take care of everybody. I'm either hugging you or making sure that you're not sick, becaus...
LESLIE JONES

What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a be...
LESLIE FIEDLER

For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.
LISA LESLIE

It is too soon to tell, but old, tired 'Survivor' last night beat 'X Factor.' We'...
LESLIE MOONVES

It is so inspirational, to see that in the world of Westeros, men are answering to women, and they a...
ROSE LESLIE

I personally have been drawn to female roles who are incredibly strong; females who are dominant and...
ROSE LESLIE

There are plenty of people who are willing to pay $2.6 million for 30 seconds on the Super Bowl and ...
LESLIE MOONVES

It's kind of ridiculous, but I hate creepy crawlers. Like centipedes. It's just the fact tha...
ROSE LESLIE

It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I&#...
LESLIE NIELSEN

CBS is proud to have been the home of David Letterman since 1993. He is truly one of the great talen...
LESLIE MOONVES

With 'Honeymoon,' it was so intimate, and we literally shot it in something like 20, 24 days...
ROSE LESLIE

With 'Game of Thrones' you're not really dealing with anything that is based in reality....
ROSE LESLIE

All the things you put off, like learning to play the piano or leaning a different language? You'...
LESLIE MANN

Mum and Dad paid me 50 pence, which was a lot of money when I was 8 years old, not to dye my hair.
ROSE LESLIE

I had all the intentions of being the next Eddie Murphy.
LESLIE JONES

I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the tri...
LESLIE NIELSEN

Whether [CDC is] acquiring the right companies or not, the strategy makes sense.
LESLIE AMENT

Aberdeen research revealed that a majority of enterprises cited customer data integration and qualit...
LESLIE AMENT

For low-priced, commodity-type products, automation is the most realistic venue as profit margins di...
LESLIE AMENT

Organizations would do well to build decision trees and develop workflow processes to handle probabl...
LESLIE AMENT

For low-priced, commodity-type products, automation is the most realistic venue as profit margins di...
LESLIE AMENT

There is more communication within smaller organizations.
LESLIE AMENT

Organizations have spent millions capturing, analyzing and applying customer intelligence with the g...
LESLIE AMENT

Organizations are pressured to grow revenues, reduce costs, and provide higher levels of customer se...
LESLIE AMENT

This is going to steamroll.
LESLIE ALPERSTEIN

The stock market might be a variable, but I think it's totally trumped by other factors right now,
LESLIE ALPERSTEIN

This is going to steamroll,
LESLIE ALPERSTEIN

This problem with the President makes it even dimmer yet, ... He's hurt by this. No question.
LESLIE ALPERSTEIN

It's a fact that these perceptions lag reality -- it's not terribly uncommon for the economy to be d...
LESLIE ALPERSTEIN

As the rate of gain in corporate profits slows, even though the economy is booming, productivity is ...
LESLIE ALPERSTEIN

Clearly, it's a blow to the Gore camp.
LESLIE ALPERSTEIN

Really, the President was going to have to push to get it done. Others would have gone along,
LESLIE ALPERSTEIN

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back a...
LESLIE ALPERSTEIN

To the institutional investor, there's a lot at stake this year if Bush doesn't win re-election, ......
LESLIE ALPERSTEIN

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LESLIE ALLEN

When the kids go back to school, you start seeing a lot of backpacks.
LESLIE ALLEN

It might be donated to charity or it might be held at auction. Or if it's something in bad condition...
LESLIE ALLEN

A lot of times, people think that this is New York, and you're never going to find an honest person ...
LESLIE ALLEN

All these tests were ordered by the emergency department, ... I talked to radiologists at the hospit...
LESLIE ALLEN

There was a significant increase in the number of emergent CT scans performed after the release of t...
LESLIE ALLEN

We want to give a visual example of the project's intention, inspire other artists to submit proposa...
LESLIE ALLEN

We ...
LESLIE ALLEN

Sausalito is the gateway to Marin, with people arriving by car, by ferry and they hang out in parks ...
LESLIE ALLEN

Carroll Dawson has served this organization very well over the past 26 years, and he will continue t...
LESLIE ALEXANDER

Daryl will be a great addition to our organization. With the high level of competition in this leagu...
LESLIE ALEXANDER

I love Dennis. I want Dennis long-term. I love what Dennis does.
LESLIE ALEXANDER

CD is going to be with the organization for a long time. He will be a great adviser. He will remain ...
LESLIE ALEXANDER

I'm of the opinion that school systems in the United States are not funded properly. If a school nee...
LESLIE ALEXANDER

This is as important as anything I've done as an owner.
LESLIE ALEXANDER

I think he could become one of greatest players in the history of the game.
LESLIE ALEXANDER

This is an exciting time for the Rockets. Yao is going to be a part of the Rockets for a long time. ...
LESLIE ALEXANDER

We try to be good citizens in the NBA. The league thought we weren't good citizens, so we have to ab...
LESLIE ALEXANDER

It's as important as anything I've ever done as owner. To have the next great big man of the NBA, it...
LESLIE ALEXANDER

'Who are you and how did you get in here?' 'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.'
LESLIE NIELSEN

Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished.
LESLIE NIELSEN

Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French....
ROSE LESLIE

When he makes a play, he comes down the court with a big grin. He's loves being on the court.
DAVID LESLIE

For some, life is a trip in the daylight; for others, it's a journey through night.
LESLIE MIKLOSY

I never met a plausible excuse I didn't like.
LESLIE MIKLOSY

I certainly relate to Ygritte in the fact that she is so strong and also ruthless as well and I feel...
ROSE LESLIE

I don't take anything at face value. I always look for the reasons people are the way they are.
LESLIE MANN

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, n...
LESLIE FIEDLER

After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the ...
LESLIE COCKBURN

I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to...
LESLIE JAMISON

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are...
LESLIE FIEDLER

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the ...
LESLIE FIEDLER

For the first time in my life I tried whale. It was very chewy and quite fatty. My friend had had wh...
ROSE LESLIE

Indecent assault? What is that all about? Don't they know who I am? I would expect to face something...
JOHN LESLIE

It is important to separate the point products [released this week] from the compelling examples of ...
LESLIE FIERING

I wish I had a funny story.
LESLIE EASTERBROOK

I've always surrounded myself with funny people.
LESLIE MANN

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.
LESLIE FIEDLER

I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine...
LISA LESLIE

We think wireless is going to grow tremendously. Do I think people are going to watch an episode of ...
LESLIE MOONVES

The spark of a near-miss and the spark of a near-hit were once wed, and lived happily ever after.
LESLIE MIKLOSY

I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inch...
LESLIE MOONVES

I would love to do comedy, but you have to be phenomenally good. I'm not sure I'm there yet....
ROSE LESLIE

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader ...
LISA LESLIE

I feel like if you're a girl in the South, you know 'Gone with the Wind' better than any...
LESLIE BIBB

When we did this reboot, I thought 'Ghostbusters' fans would be so excited: 'They've...
LESLIE JONES

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.
LESLIE CARON

I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experienc...
LESLIE CARON

I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pi...
FRANK LESLIE

Evan is an exceptional pianist, and we're very happy he can take part in this concert.
LESLIE HARLOW

It's new revenue streams, and everything we do with our content has to be for new revenue streams. T...
LESLIE MOONVES

To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing.
LISA LESLIE

Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.
LISA LESLIE

As a role model for young girls and women, I just encourage them to continue their education and set...
LISA LESLIE

I love cheesecake and whipped cream. Those are my two downfalls.
LISA LESLIE

It's not a situation of panic, that's the last thing you want to do. You want to make sure that you ...
LESLIE CRANE

God did not like the idea of mistakes, and so He created variety.
LESLIE MIKLOSY

A dead end is the only way out of where you shouldn't be going.
LESLIE MIKLOSY

Fair is not fare, not in this life.
LESLIE MIKLOSY

We couldn't really explain it. We might have gotten a little cocky, because we were coming off such ...
LESLIE FRAZIER

She learned early on not to be overlooked.
LESLIE HEAPHY

Ambition's true reward can only be gotten without ambition's trade.
LESLIE MIKLOSY

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.
LESLIE CARON

When you have a situation that's destructive, when there's tremendous inhumanity everywhere,...
LESLIE COCKBURN

It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and i...
LESLIE FIEDLER

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.
LESLIE FIEDLER

Craig has done everything we expected since taking over 'The Late Late Show,' ... He has attracted m...
LESLIE MOONVES

Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female poi...
LESLIE FIEDLER

I've known my two best girlfriends since junior high school.
LESLIE MANN

Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.
LESLIE FIEDLER

I'd like to see us improving on what we had last year.
DAVID LESLIE

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Lau...
LESLIE NIELSEN

I adore him, he's been absolutely beautiful through this whole thing, so supportive and loving, he's...
MICHELLE LESLIE

My purpose in bringing the two ecstasy that my friend bought was to be used or consumed together at ...
MICHELLE LESLIE

I feel addicted and at a party, if I don't consume ecstasy, I can't enjoy the party,
MICHELLE LESLIE

IT'S like jumping into the lion's den and everybody trying to take a piece of you.
MICHELLE LESLIE

I can't even fathom how they must feel,
MICHELLE LESLIE

Whose importance is most important?
LESLIE MIKLOSY

That's who we want to play, and they want to play us.
LISA LESLIE

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

In boys, it's ingrained in their heads that to dunk is just the highlight of basketball, whereas for...
LISA LESLIE

We played slow tonight, ... You have give Houston credit because they came out and jumped on us. The...
LISA LESLIE

They did a good job of keeping us off the boards. We felt we needed this game. We did all you can as...
LISA LESLIE

I think this is an awesome opportunity for us as athletes to help and give back to the hurricane vic...
LISA LESLIE

I played on an all-boy's team in the 8th grade, but they wouldn't throw me the ball even though I wa...
LISA LESLIE

I've grown so much since 1996. I think that was the turning point of when I started to go to church ...
LISA LESLIE

We're going to the Olympics as favorite to win the gold, and every other team in the Olympics is goi...
LISA LESLIE

If we're not sharing the ball and moving it around, we're going to have a problem out there, ... If ...
LISA LESLIE

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. We're both role models who have made different choic...
LISA LESLIE

It's really not about the money. It's just about educating yourself.
LISA LESLIE

I enjoy being in school. I've learned so much already, with taking economics and law, and I have mar...
LISA LESLIE

Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way...
LISA LESLIE

Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for ...
LISA LESLIE

The story is untrue and hurtful and he didn't give them an interview.
LESLIE SLOANE

We were shocked by the results.
LESLIE LEINWAND

When you're empty, go with empty.
LESLIE MIKLOSY

Any movement toward solution gathers energy; any movement away from solution depletes energy. Act ac...
LESLIE MIKLOSY

It's our job to really sock it to you emotionally.
LESLIE BOUGHTON

This is an incredibly exciting evolution for CBS and network television — video on demand is the n...
LESLIE MOONVES

We only used the dining room table about once or twice a year.
LESLIE GROSS

I'm glad this whole success thing is happening now. I can't even imagine a 23-year-old Lesli...
LESLIE JONES

If you don't pray often, you won't gain a love for praying. Prayer is work, and therefore it is not ...
LESLIE LUDY

I've always been concerned about global warming. It seemed to me like working in nuclear power w...
LESLIE DEWAN

Women do not like CDs of live music. We only like the original recordings. If a song sounds differen...
LESLIE MANN

If you are ready to trade the hollow self-made beauty of this world for the glorious Christ-built be...
LESLIE LUDY

It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.
LESLIE WHAT

She was far too busy living out a passionate romance with Jesus Christ to be pining after an earthly...
LESLIE LUDY

For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.

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For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.

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