H. T. Leslie Quotes

I'm strong, I'm tough, I still wear my eyeliner.

As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

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

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

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

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

I wish I had a funny story.

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

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.

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

The key to the utilization of atomic energy for world peace will be found in the will of all people to restrict its use for the betterment of mankind.

I think death is a tremendous adventure- a gateway into a new life, in which you have further powers, deeper joys, and wonderful horizons.

When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.

As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again.

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

Just because a person spends her time making a piece of something does not mean that she becomes that - a piece of something.

But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.

I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

Find a woman who cares about nothing but loving, serving, honoring, and glorifying Jesus Christ, and you will see who truly is the 'fairest of them all.'

The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing.

My right to be me is tied with a thousand threads to your right to be you.

People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war.

Because if you weren't born white, you were forced to see differences; or if you weren't born what they called normal, or if you got injured, then you were left to explore the world of the different.

Thinking doesn't guarantee that we won't make mistakes. But not thinking guarantees that we will.

I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.

Whenever you surrender the most precious areas of your life to GOD, it's like trading in a pile of worthless pebbles for a truckload of priceless jewels.

The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance.

[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.

Stop trying to fit [Christ] into your life; instead, build your life around [Him].

It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is: kill her.

[I]t is tragic that the forces for destruction that we unleashed are stronger than man's present ability to control them.

Like a midget at a urinal I was going to have to stay on my toes.

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

Doing nothing is very tough to do because you never know when you're finished. The upside is that from the moment you wake up in the morning, you're on the job.

I went to Kerala in India, to learn Ayurveda, which was fantastic.

Indeed, the opposite of joy is not sorrow. The opposite of joy is unbelief.

God gives His best to those who leave the choice to Him.

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

the ancient people perceived the world and themselves within that world as part of an ancient continuous story composed of innumerable bundles of other stories.

But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.

Empathy isn’t just something that happens to us — a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain — it’s also a choice we make: to pay attention, to extend ourselves.

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

You're more than just neither, honey. There's other ways to be than either-or. It's not so simple. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many people who don't fit.

surrenderin is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival!