Leilene Smiley Quotes & Sayings

Egon Schiele is my favorite painter. There's just something about art - photography, painting, music, plays - whatever you see, sometimes there's a gut reaction that's more important or more visceral than what your brain is thinking about. You can't explain that reaction. It's like what happens when you fall in love. — Albert Hammond Jr.

He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. — Sun Tzu

There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile. — Irwin Redlener

Intelligence once meant more than what any artificial intelligence does. It used to include sensibility, sensitivity, awareness, discernment, reason, acumen, and wit. — Sherry Turkle

If you treat editing like you're making an abridged version of your book, it can help determine what's vital vs what can be cut. — Kira Hawke

He wished they could just be naked in his bed and not worry about words. Talking was overrated anyway. — Savannah Stuart

The universe is the baby of time. — Jon Jones

The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind
a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house. — Woody Allen

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you. — Leonard Cohen

There are moments when your heart breaks and melts at the same time. When there's so much love flooding your soul that you're drowning in the tide. This is that moment with Noah. — Katie McGarry

My point is,' Jamie continued, 'not everything's perfect, especially at the beginning. And it's all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it ... that's when you get into trouble.'
pg 169-170 — Sarah Dessen

If we are merely a chance product of 'random happenstance' and nothing more, doesn't it strike you as a bit odd that we have the ability to contemplate the question of 'random happenstance' with such methodical complexity? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I don't think of myself as a role model, but I can see that I am. — Jennifer Doudna

When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right. — Evelyn Glennie