Leyse Quotes & Sayings

I love high heels and pretty dresses, but honestly, sometimes I want sweat pants — Emma Hart

internal commotion engines — Elisa Howard

I have learned from my own experience that if you work hard you will succeed. — Dalia Grybauskaite

If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes. — Ernest Hemingway,

You must be thinking of stories from other cultures. Irish women tend to kick ass and do whatever they want. For exhibits A, B, and C, I give you the Morrigan, Brighid, and Flidais.
Fair enough. So who's the god of cooking among the Tuatha De Danann?
I don't think there is one.
So the ancient Irish had a god of brewing but not cooking?
We had our priorities straight. — Kevin Hearne

Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see . — Charles Lindbergh

We were wonderful, but we were not flawless. We knew excellence because we knew failure. We were human beings. — Daniel Black

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz. — Stan Getz

My great-aunt ... said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens ... She was right. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community. — Henry Rollins

Robert Scott Leyse channels Baudelaire's Queen of Spades and Jack of Hearts, speaking darkly of dead loves, in this new book. He also reminds me of James Purdy's notorious eccentricity. There's plenty of middlebrow stuff if you want it. Self-Murder isn't that. — Kris Saknussemm

On every thing are traced decay and change. Look! how the shifting seasons slip away. — Isaac McLellan