History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.
LEONARD LOUIS LEVINSON He's a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.
LEONARD LOUIS LEVINSON A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shr...
LEONARD LOUIS LEVINSON I wish I'd known you when you were alive
LEONARD LOUIS LEVINSON Fame: putting someone on a pedestal so you can see his clay feet
LEONARD LOUIS LEVINSON A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shru...
LEONARD L. LEVINSON Education, n. One of the few thing a fellow is willing to pay for and not get.
LEONARD L. LEVINSON Book - what they make a movie out of for television.
LEONARD L. LEVINSON A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.
LEONARD L. LEVINSON History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.
LEONARD L. LEVINSON Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee.
LEONARD L. LEVINSON All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and e...
BARRY LEVINSON Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some...
BARRY LEVINSON First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct...
BARRY LEVINSON I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
BARRY LEVINSON I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exerci...
BARRY LEVINSON I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked...
BARRY LEVINSON I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking ...
BARRY LEVINSON The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc...
BARRY LEVINSON It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the...
BARRY LEVINSON Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.
BARRY LEVINSON You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
BARRY LEVINSON Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so ...
BARRY LEVINSON Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. A...
BARRY LEVINSON I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down...
BARRY LEVINSON A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you ...
BARRY LEVINSON It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of l...
BARRY LEVINSON If you don't believe in your product, of if you're not consistent and regular in the way you promote...
JAY LEVINSON In order to sell a product or a service, a company must establish a relationship with the consumer. ...
JAY LEVINSON Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be...
SAM LEVINSON I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds there is a woman giving ...
SAM LEVINSON When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which be...
BARRY LEVINSON Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so ...
BARRY LEVINSON All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and e...
BARRY LEVINSON A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expe...
BARRY LEVINSON They're intimidating the networks and levying these fines, so the networks are not sure of what they...
BARRY LEVINSON Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation. All I tr...
BARRY LEVINSON Personally and professionally, we had a great relationship. It was just a perfect fit. He shared a s...
BARRY LEVINSON Put simply, the governor does not support tax increases and is opposed to Proposition 82 because it ...
KATIE LEVINSON In the public's mind, when you become famous in any way, you can go into politics,
PAUL LEVINSON Today's audiences are vastly more savvy than even audiences of 10 years ago, thanks to all the movie...
PAUL LEVINSON The media rose to the occasion, shone their light on the desolation and the needy, and kept it focus...
PAUL LEVINSON This time, the media was right on the story, right on the scene, right away.
PAUL LEVINSON If your handwriting is barely legible, it makes them think that you are not really an organized pers...
ADAM LEVINSON It's like night and day when you compare this to 9-11, when the national trauma was so severe that t...
PAUL LEVINSON Today, if knowledge of a movie is out there for a while, it may increase its appeal. It builds up a ...
PAUL LEVINSON But I think it would be tougher for Walken than it was for Reagan. His weird roles might harm him.
PAUL LEVINSON It's part of our heritage, part of our culture. The more we move into cities, the more cool we try t...
PAUL LEVINSON The last thing you want to do, if you are investing dreams, energy and money into a city edition, is...
PAUL LEVINSON This goes back to ancient Greek drama. This has always been the role of fiction and entertainment to...
PAUL LEVINSON She will certainly bring a fresh face to the program. But a woman serving as sole anchor on an eveni...
PAUL LEVINSON 'The Fox Report' is the youngest, most exciting presentation of news that we now have on television....
PAUL LEVINSON I think there will be a more serious, thoughtful treatment of September 11 [in the future].
PAUL LEVINSON It used to be catch as catch can, ... But now with the Internet, we're in an environment where all t...
PAUL LEVINSON What he did down in New Orleans was really an extraordinary accomplishment, which goes way beyond wh...
PAUL LEVINSON If any good comes from the catastrophe, it will be that it signaled the beginning of the media's rea...
PAUL LEVINSON You expressed concern regarding mismanagement of Lake Grove Facilities, putting residents at risk, a...
DANIEL LEVINSON We were, overall, pretty pleased with what we saw. The proof will be if in one or two year's time, w...
JOSH LEVINSON Forty percent of new AIDS cases can be traced back to a dirty needle.
JOSH LEVINSON Who would have thought 25 years into the epidemic, one of the biggest problems would be that we don'...
JOSH LEVINSON Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future
BARRY LEVINSON What's tomorrow going to be like?
BARRY LEVINSON A View From the Bridge
BARRY LEVINSON You have to be looking at substance abuse; you have to be looking at mental health issues; you have ...
JOSH LEVINSON His big insight was that the customer doesn't care how you're shipping the goods. The customer wants...
MARC LEVINSON This office is tremendously concerned about the possible abuse and neglect of hospital patients and ...
DANIEL LEVINSON I don't think the First Amendment entitles journalists to take advantage of illegal activities.
PAUL LEVINSON With HIV, it can't be done quietly. You have to be loud, you have to be vocal, because at the end of...
JOSH LEVINSON When the story broke, she, again, chose to support Frey. Loyalty is important, but she should have l...
PAUL LEVINSON There was no language that required or forced mergers in those counties, but clearly if funding were...
ADAM LEVINSON The Sept. 11 period really was an aberration - hurricane Katrina has reawakened the sleeping giant, ...
PAUL LEVINSON The only thing I can say is that it's unjustifiable and inconceivable to think that fairness is achi...
SETH LEVINSON It was probably bothering her, ... She was aggravated about what she feels is not a completely accur...
PAUL LEVINSON Those who had no wish to go international, who sought only to serve their local clientele, learned t...
MARC LEVINSON Before the container, transporting goods was expensive. So expensive that it did not pay to ship man...
MARC LEVINSON The administration is taking a different strategy because it got a lot of flak last year for trying ...
ELLEN LEVINSON The upshot is that US AID is making plans to eliminate about 17 countries out of 32 for the food aid...
ELLEN LEVINSON To fund the program adequately, $2 billion is needed, so a targeted program for vulnerable populatio...
ELLEN LEVINSON We share your concerns,
DANIEL LEVINSON If significant noncompliance with the standards is found, it may be necessary to perform additional ...
DANIEL LEVINSON I think this has been a big deal for Houston. It really helped make the port there a major league po...
MARC LEVINSON A lot of the policy discussion seems to assume that once this bill is passed, some of the undocument...
MARC LEVINSON By far the biggest expense in this process was shifting the cargo from land transport to ship at the...
MARC LEVINSON They were trying to get at the root causes of poverty, and the root causes were, as we felt it to be...
LARRY LEVINSON The governor's numbers are moving in the right direction. One thing is certain, that voters will hav...
KATIE LEVINSON It is clear from this instance this is a calculated campaign strategy.
KATIE LEVINSON We are confident we will have all of the resources necessary to effectively communicate the governor...
KATIE LEVINSON This isn't a demand. It's simply a respectful request to satisfy his desire to be closer to home.
SETH LEVINSON At the celebration at the Shiite shrine, a cleric gave a scathing speech in the mosque's courtyard. ...
CORRESPONDENT CHARLES LEVINSON Investors have been very patient with the biotech industry, which has been one of the biggest money-...
ARTHUR D. LEVINSON With the potential to launch as many as six new products or new indications for existing products in...
ARTHUR D. LEVINSON Our solid first-quarter performance is in line with our expectations for the quarter and demonstrate...
ARTHUR D. LEVINSON Our performance continues to be driven by robust sales of our innovative oncology products which hav...
ARTHUR D. LEVINSON This is an old issue and one on which we took corrective action back in 1994.
ARTHUR D. LEVINSON It seems he never bothered to put it back after the most recent explosion. He says the windows will ...
CORRESPONDENT CHARLES LEVINSON But since then, I have stumbled across a number of other people with very similar stories, people wh...
CORRESPONDENT CHARLES LEVINSON It's a sort of grim realization that they are raking in profits from the misfortune of others. They ...
CORRESPONDENT CHARLES LEVINSON This is the pain that will inform all other pains from now on. You have lost your mother. That is th...
DAVID SAMUEL LEVINSON I like being the underdog so they don't expect what's going to happen. It pushes me to work ...
KAWHI LEONARD There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or o...
ELMORE LEONARD When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
LEONARD COHEN At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challeng...
LEONARD COHEN This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have t...
LEONARD COHEN If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
LEONARD COHEN And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.
LEONARD COHEN I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass d...
LEONARD COHEN My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca.
LEONARD COHEN Success is survival.
LEONARD COHEN We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. A...
LEONARD COHEN We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're p...
LEONARD COHEN When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That'...
LEONARD COHEN There were times that I thought I was good looking.
LEONARD COHEN I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd...
LEONARD COHEN I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to ...
LEONARD COHEN Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
LEONARD COHEN There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN The convergence of the Rhone and Saone. Paul Bocuse. The birthplace of cinema. Chateauneuf-du-Pape j...
LEONARD SLATKIN I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections.
LEONARD LAUDER That which is alike will be called same. That which is not same is different.
LEONARD BLOOMFIELD Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won...
LYDIA LEONARD Is the universe 'elegant,' as Brian Greene tells us? Not as far as I can tell, not the usual...
LEONARD SUSSKIND During one of my early seminars, there were a bunch of seminar junkies there.
LEONARD ORR We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having t...
LEONARD COHEN Obviously, I like guys that can defend other positions. Draymond Green is doing a great job with Gol...
KAWHI LEONARD To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everythi...
LEONARD COHEN The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I'...
LEONARD NIMOY Non-human primates spend hours a day grooming each other. And with humans, touching is also importan...
LEONARD MLODINOW My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, w...
LEONARD NIMOY When judging a product, we rarely have exhaustive scientific data to go by. As a result, if we are t...
LEONARD MLODINOW If you kneel before God, you will stand before men.
LEONARD RAVENHILL It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple
LEONARD COHEN Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in ever...
LEONARD COHEN There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language h...
LEONARD COHEN I know that there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do...
LEONARD COHEN Psychopaths... people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don't give a shit. That'...
ELMORE LEONARD Live Long and Prosper
LEONARD NIMOY If I meet God, I hope she's female. I'm touched by the power of women. I'm married to a feminist. An...
LEONARD NIMOY I'm only human, and I have no doubt Spock will outlive me by many years. I can only hope that, once ...
LEONARD NIMOY I AM CONVINCED

I am convinced
That if all mankind
Could only gather together LEONARD NIMOY The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
LEONARD NIMOY Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
LEONARD NIMOY It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.
ELMORE LEONARD My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all ...
ELMORE LEONARD Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and comm...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.
GEORGE LEONARD What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person ...
LEONARD COHEN Men give advice; God gives guidance.
LEONARD RAVENHILL In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The be...
GEORGE LEONARD Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.
LEONARD BRANDWEIN Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.
GEORGE LEONARD “The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that...
LEONARD RAVENHILL It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.
LEONARD ORR While we often huddle in groups of like-minded people, those with faith blaze a trail that threatens...
LEONARD RAVENHILL The growth of affluence, the growth of education, has led to a shortage of morons.
LEONARD NEAL The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, ...
GEORGE LEONARD There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a pa...
GEORGE LEONARD If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twen...
STEW LEONARD I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does ...
LEONARD COHEN I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jac...
LEONARD COHEN The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...
LEONARD COHEN The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
LEONARD COHEN The ages of seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled th...
LEONARD COHEN He lay beside her, an insomniac with visions of vastness. He thought of desert stretches so huge no ...
LEONARD COHEN The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
GLORIA LEONARD Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep ...
LEONARD COHEN Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must ...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are ...
LEONARD COHEN The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense t...
LEONARD COHEN In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
LEONARD COHEN A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, a...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the co...
LEONARD COHEN When the thunder rumbles,
Now the age of gold is dead.
When the dreams we've clung to
Tryin...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of th...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN A customer who complains is my best friend.
STEW LEONARD Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule n...
STEVE LEONARD The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense ...
LEONARD COHEN I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
GLORIA LEONARD Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of th...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN Clarity affords focus.
THOMAS LEONARD Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship ...
LEONARD COHEN Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we ha...
LEONARD MLODINOW My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregati...
LEONARD NIMOY A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen ho...
LEONARD SUSSKIND It was a great feeling to be named an All-Star starter, to know that my hard work is paying off and ...
KAWHI LEONARD Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands ou...
LEONARD COHEN Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which show...
LEONARD WOODCOCK If tomorrow all of America were to become paternalistic, we would beat the Japanese every day of the...
LEONARD LAUDER I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me...
LEONARD COHEN It seems hopelessly improbable that any particular rules accidentally led to the miracle of intellig...
LEONARD SUSSKIND 'Subliminal' is about how we misinterpret our behavior because we're unaware of what our...
LEONARD MLODINOW Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very impo...
LEONARD NIMOY Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land busines...
LEONARD BOSWELL Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly des...
LEONARD COHEN Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when t...
LEONARD COHEN