The convergence of the Rhone and Saone. Paul Bocuse. The birthplace of cinema. Chateauneuf-du-Pape j...
LEONARD SLATKIN I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.
LEONARD SLATKIN On the corner of 57th and 7th Avenue sits the most famous concert hall in the world. No less a figur...
LEONARD SLATKIN The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing futur...
LEONARD SLATKIN The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is t...
LEONARD SLATKIN In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, ...
LEONARD SLATKIN I'm not particularly lucid after a concert. I'm not very lucid before, either.
LEONARD SLATKIN A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficul...
LEONARD SLATKIN NSO management made the recommendation to the executive committee of the board, who made the appoint...
LEONARD SLATKIN Imagine putting reading on at 3:30,
LEONARD SLATKIN My first strong musical memory is of the Villa-Lobos Sixth Quartet which my parents were rehearsing....
LEONARD SLATKIN Randy Newman and I grew up together in Los Angeles. We are both products of the film studio era. Ran...
LEONARD SLATKIN How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?
LEONARD SLATKIN The stories behind the music make it come alive for kids,
LEONARD SLATKIN I've come to the conclusion that a long, personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ult...
LEONARD SLATKIN I'm beginning to see that just knowing the piece is not enough. Having a clear technique is not ...
LEONARD SLATKIN I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outs...
LEONARD SLATKIN To my mind and ear, there is simply nothing that compares to the musical sophistication of a late Be...
LEONARD SLATKIN 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 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 Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHEN I like life on the road. It's a lot easier than civilian life. You kind of feel like you're ...
LEONARD COHEN Music is the emotional life of most people.
LEONARD COHEN It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
JOHN LEONARD As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepa...
LEONARD BOSWELL This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments ...
LEONARD COHEN A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
LEONARD COHEN The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and ...
LEONARD BOSWELL Evolution is among the most well-established theories in the scientific community. To doubt it sound...
LEONARD MLODINOW I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot...
LEONARD COHEN I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall w...
LEONARD NIMOY Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, gr...
LEONARD SUSSKIND I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chantin...
LEONARD COHEN Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin m...
LEONARD MALTIN The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control ...
LEONARD BOSWELL Writing on the beach is not what it's cracked up to be. The sand blows, and you perspire, and th...
ELMORE LEONARD Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the ex...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my e...
LEONARD COHEN The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers...
ELMORE LEONARD A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.
LEONARD MALTIN You can't serve up hearts like cherries jubilee.
LEONARD BAILEY Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added...
LEONARD NIMOY There were a lot of terms you had to learn, as opposed to the shylock business where all you had to ...
ELMORE LEONARD Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chor...
LEONARD COHEN We're the underdogs and that's a good position to be in.
AMY LEONARD They had a lot of confidence coming in and they came in on a streak. A lot of people didn't give us ...
AMY LEONARD We couldn't really stop Clemens. Jessica was tough and you had two good teams playing and one had to...
AMY LEONARD She spent a lot of her own time working individually on her skills, her footwork, getting to the bas...
AMY LEONARD We stepped it up quite a bit in the third.
AMY LEONARD In the first half we shot OK, but we missed some easy put-backs and stuff like that. We came out in ...
AMY LEONARD I'm not going to assume anything over anybody. It's girls basketball, on any given day it can go any...
AMY LEONARD The dark energy is not exactly zero, but the first 122 decimal points are zero. That's crazy. Th...
LEONARD SUSSKIND I remember being a teenager and watching 40-year-old Michael Jordan compete in his final All-Star ga...
KAWHI LEONARD You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.
LEONARD NIMOY More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resou...
LEONARD BAILEY The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made t...
LEONARD BOSWELL I'll never try to win an award. I'm out there just playing for my team.
KAWHI LEONARD That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unk...
LEONARD NIMOY I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they hav...
LEONARD NIMOY What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was ...
LEONARD PELTIER Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the...
LEONARD WOODCOCK In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre m...
JOSHUA LEONARD Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of ou...
LEONARD MLODINOW I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. ...
LEONARD COHEN But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty dee...
LEONARD NIMOY Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.
LEONARD MALTIN I want the kids to know that it's not a myth that somebody from their city plays and wins in the...
KAWHI LEONARD Never open a book with weather. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ...
ELMORE LEONARD The bailout of Fannie Mae is completely off the books. It's going to cost us hundreds of billion...
LEONARD LANCE I can make a couple of good sandwiches: tuna salad and chopped egg salad. And Greek bean soup. I was...
LEONARD COHEN Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
LEONARD WOOLF In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of...
JOHN LEONARD The bad guys are the fun guys. The only people I have trouble with are the so-called normal types. T...
ELMORE LEONARD I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations a...
LEONARD ORR Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.
HUGH LEONARD I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better lookin...
HUGH LEONARD The FBI has always supported big business and big government.
LEONARD PELTIER I'd rather be a big fish in a specialized pond than a little, little fish in a more generalized ...
LEONARD LAUDER I also do my own processing, so it means a big commitment in lab time.
LEONARD NIMOY This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly t...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, a...
LEONARD SUSSKIND I only wish I could have played in the big leagues when I was young enough to show what I could do. ...
BUCK LEONARD A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.
LEONARD RAVENHILL I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us: you don't write the songs anyhow. So if y...
LEONARD COHEN I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish...
LEONARD COHEN I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, b...
LEONARD COHEN I happen to like Precisionism. It talks to me because I collect Cubism.
LEONARD LAUDER For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urg...
LEONARD BOSWELL I think I definitely have to improve my 3-point shot and my defense. There's probably a lot of thing...
BRITTANY LEONARD My dad is probably the biggest reason why I'm going there. He got to coach Tiffany and my brother (T...
BRITTANY LEONARD I wanted to go to a junior college for two years so that I'd have a better chance to go to a bigger ...
BRITTANY LEONARD The third quarter is our quarter. Our main focus is to come out strong.
BRITTANY LEONARD I know everybody is yelling and wanting me to miss, but I always try to go up to the line confident ...
BRITTANY LEONARD Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played w...
JOHN LEONARD In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the c...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN The March on Washington was a culmination of years of hard work and dedication of many individuals.
LEONARD BOSWELL My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
HUGH LEONARD ... i didn't fall in love of course
it's never up to you
but she was walking back and fort...
LEONARD COHEN There's tightness in supplies in certain areas and people are definitely chasing the marketplace aga...
BRIAN LEONARD We believe that the integrated solution from Sun and Websense Web Security Ecosystem offers a compre...
BRIAN LEONARD It was excellent. After our loss last week, that's probably the most students I've ever seen in a ga...
BRIAN LEONARD