Leffingwell Quotes & Sayings

I'm fascinated by documentaries, to begin with. Because of the nature of television, as opposed to theatrical, documentaries can be in this long form and take you on a journey. — Barry Levinson

Staying alive was what we did to pass the time. — Meg Rosoff

He took the mess that was Macbeth and fixed it, and I wonder if he might, in some small way, be able to do the same for me. — Sarah Dessen

We ignored the fact that many customers don't know what they want. We ignored that fact that even when they know what they want, they can't describe it. We ignored the fact that even when they can describe it, they often describe a proposed solution rather than the real need. — Dean Leffingwell

Please dinna tell me ye are taking a bath...naked...because I'm getting a hard-on just thinking about watching ye."
"Isna that how one takes a bath? Naked? — Vonnie Davis

Don't try to describe an orgasm if you've never had one. — Marty Rubin

All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another. — William, Saroyan

neighborhood - his name's pronounced 'Kirry,' but it's spelt 'C-i-r-e.' — Diana Gabaldon

I'll be back to shave your head while you're sleeping." Kenji looks genuinely terrified for the first time. "You wouldn't. — Tahereh Mafi

Old Mr. Bob Ewell accused him of rapin' his girl an' had him arrested an' put in jail - " "Mr. — Harper Lee

There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These are, in the end, inseparable. Those who would destroy freedom have only first to destroy the hope of gain, the profit of enterprise and risk-taking, the hope of accumulating capital, the hope to save something for one's old age and for one's children. For a community of men without property, and without the hope of getting it by honest effort, is a community of slaves of a despotic State. — Russell Cornell Leffingwell

You can't rely on the acting to tell the story. — David Mamet

Nothing irrevocable had yet been spoken, but there was only the barest margin of safety left them, each of them moving delicately along the outskirts of an open question, and, once spoken, such a question-as "Do you love me?" -could never be answered or forgotten. They walked slowly, meditating, wondering, and the path sloped down from their feet and they followed, walking side by side in the most extreme intimacy of expectation; their feinting and hesitation done with, they could only await passively for resolution. Each knew, almost within a breath, what the other was thinking and wanting to say; each of them almost wept for the other. They perceived at the same moment the change in the path and each knew then the other's knowledge of it; Theodora took Eleanor's arm and, afraid to stop, they moved on slowly, close together, and ahead of them the path widened and blackened and curved. — Shirley Jackson

There is nothing more rewarding than taking care of yourself! — Denise Austin

Real liars don't lie about anything," Hanna said. "They just lie. 'About' is a word liars use to justify their lying, to make it seem like a localized problem." "You've made quite a study," Grace said, trying to sound light and wry. "But I still don't know," Hanna said. "And that upsets me. With a liar, you can never know the whole truth, ever. You can't ever be sure that this version is the real version. There is no end, no bottom. Sometimes I wonder if the whole thing was a hoax. — Rebecca Scherm

The Irish sea is a chasm, and it just depends who's been holding the whip for 800 years and who's been under it for 800 years. — Noam Chomsky

Eventually he kicked the bristles and gave a long intake of breath, a sort of reverse whistle, which is the secret sign of craftsmen across the universe and means that something expensive is about to happen. — Terry Pratchett