Leonato Character Quotes & Sayings

I've always thought of myself as an 80 percenter. I like to throw myself passionately into a sport or activity until I reach about an 80 percent proficiency level. To go beyond that requires an obsession that doesn't appeal to me. Once I reach 80 percent level I like to go off and do something totally different; that probably explains the diversity of the Patagonia product like - and why our versatile, multifaceted clothes are the most successful. — Yvon Chouinard

And when you think about it, poets always want us to be moved by something, until in the end, you begin to suspect a poet is someone who is moved by everything, who just stands in front of the world and weeps and laughs and laughs and weeps (the mysteries, said Aristotle, are the saying of many ridiculous and many serious things). — Mary Ruefle

You know what else the average girl who's acting out does?" Duke asks quietly. I glance once at Laila, but it's obvious she can't hear us. "What?" "She starts spending all her time with a boy who's no good for her. — Kasie West

I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting. — David Ginola

I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules. — Mark Twain

In my heart of hearts I knew I was wrong. The World Cup was about to begin in the United States. The planet was interested in nothing else. And in any case, whatever happened in Rwanda, it would always be the same old story of blacks beating up on each other. Even Africans would say, during half-time of every match, "They're embarrassing us, they should stop killing each other like that." Then they'll go on to something else. [9-10] — Boubacar Boris Diop

When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water. — Yahya Jammeh

Symbols are something [the writer] uses simply as a matter of course. You might say that theses are details that, while having their essential place in the literal level of the story, operate in depth as well as on the surface, increasing the story in every direction ... the truer the symbol, the deeper it leads you, the more meaning it opens up — Flannery O'Connor

Who wants to miss their opportunity of playing in a Major ... A golfer's career is all about it. The lesson I have learnt is that I will tee up for the Majors only when I am 100 percent fit. — Jeev Milkha Singh

Early America does not deserve to be considered uniquely, distinctly or even predominantly Christian ... There is no lost Golden Age to which American Christians may return. — Mark Noll

The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement. — Sigmund Freud

Sometimes you need to look at life from a different perspective. — Inas Chahboun

Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study. — David Pilbeam