Leshner Mills Quotes & Sayings

I don't know anybody. I turn sentences around, and that's it. — Philip Roth

Vulnerability is not a weakness, a passing indisposition, or something we can arrange to do without. Vulnerability is not a choice. Vulnerability is the underlying, ever-present, and abiding undercurrent of our natural state. To run from vulnerability is to run from the essence of our nature. The attempt to be invulnerable is the vain attempt to become something we are not, and most especially, to close off our understanding of the grief of others. More seriously, in refusing our vulnerability, we refuse the help needed at every turn of our existence and immobilize the essential title and conversational foundations of our identity. — David Whyte

As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality of the geologist of essential importance in the way he analyzes the past. — Reinout Willem Van Bemmelen

When you're a screenwriter working on a film, you're not really even welcome on set, even if you know ... When I wrote 'Elizabeth' and Shekhar Kapur was a friend of mine, but I wasn't really welcome on set, because the director is God and it's a very difficult position for a screenwriter who's put so much passion into that, into the writing. — Michael Hirst

I want to be able to separate the average from the good and from the great. I want to separate the ordinary from the extraordinary. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky. — Paul Auster

He called me a jew, and in a heated fashion, offensively. So I, without deviating from plain facts in the least, told him his God, I mean Christ, was a jew too, and all his family, like me, though in reality I'm not. That was one for him. A soft answer turns away wrath. He hadn't a word to say for himself as everyone saw. Am I not right? — James Joyce

Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end. — Laozi