Thomas Leary Quotes & Sayings

Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars. From now on its chief purpose must be to avert them. It can have almost no other useful purpose. — Bernard Brodie

We shot that in all the real places where Van Gogh worked. — Vincente Minnelli

If global warming is because of weather changes - which a lot of people believe - there's not much we can do to change the weather pattern. — Ron Paul

She looked at me like I was stupid, the same look the girls in JC used to give me when I hadn't heard of the latest boy band, or turned up at Zouk wearing unfashionable clothes. — Jeremy Tiang

But falling for a guy like Grayson Dunn is like trying to wait out a hurricane by taking shelter in the eye of the storm. — Julie Johnson

I named all the nothings after you. Because, my darling Nora ... no matter where I traveled, you were always what was missing. — Tessa Dare

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language. — Alan Rudolph

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms — Jorge Luis Borges

The thing with movies is, because you have so little time, I always feel like there are more things we could've done with the character. If we'd done a sequel to 'The Thomas Crown Affair,' what would that have been like? But for the most part, you try not to think of that, because it's just going to break your heart. — Denis Leary

This warmth over the telephone. Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place? Bridgette used to be home to me. Maybe St. Clair is my new home.
I mull this over as our voices grow tired and we stop talking. We just keep each other company. My breath. His breath. My breath. His breath.
I could never tell him, but it's true.
This is home. The two of us. — Stephanie Perkins

He worries a lot and often suffers from feelings of self-doubt. He has a natural attraction to the melancholy side of life. He is drawn to the rain, the minor key, and to suffering. Hardship, infirmity, and misery gain his attention and fuel his passion for healing. — Sandra Nichols

Effie Seabright, we've been fated to meet you for a long time. — Rosie Pugh

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole. — Barack Obama

There is no place in contemporary Karate-do for different schools. Some instructors, I know, claim to have invented new and unusual kata, and so they arrogate to themselves the right to be called founders of "schools". Indeed, I have heard myself and my colleagues referred to as the Shoto-kan school, but I strongly object to this attempt at classification. My belief is that all these "schools" should be amalgamated into one so that Karate-do may pursue and orderly and useful progress into man's future. — Gichin Funakoshi

I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight. — S.E. Hinton