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Quotes About Leon

Actually, I didn't listen to country music very much in Oklahoma. I listened to blues and rock n' roll.
~ Leon Russell
but Leon wasn't due any disability. Wasn't, their mother said, like he could claim to have caught the dumbfuck there. Not
~ William Gibson
Virgina Woolf versus Edward Lear." "Christ Alive," said Billy. "Are those my only choices?" "I went for Lear," said Leon. "Partly out of fidelity to the letter L. Partly because given the choice between nonsense and boojy wittering you blatantly have to choose nonsense.
~ China Mieville
He had since forever been working on a book called Uncanny Blossom. When Leon had told him, Billy had said, "I had no idea you were entering the Shit Title Olympics." "If you didn't swim in your sump of ignorance you'd know that title's designed to fuck with the French. Neither word's translatable into their ridiculous language.
~ China Mieville
Frankincense allows us to remain focused on the tasks at hand by keeping us calm, cool and collected when chaos is all around us.
~ Leon Green
He saw that, ultimately, only possibilities for events and their probabilities of occurring, with intrinsic uncertainties, exist. This was the emerging new reality of quantum physics.
~ Leon M. Lederman
The Born interpretation of the Schrödinger equation is the single most dramatic and major change in our world view since Newton.
~ Leon M. Lederman
Schrodinger, for one, rejected it vehemently, regretting having devised the equation that gave rise to it.
~ Leon M. Lederman
[To the Mensheviks:] You are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on—into the dustbin of history!
~ Leon Trotsky
The vengeance of history is more terrible than the vengeance of the most powerful General Secretary.
~ Leon Trotsky
Democritus's work on the void was revolutionary.
~ Leon M. Lederman
Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.
~ Leon Trotsky
I like that old style of country music - it seems to me that a lot of the modern country music is rehashed rock n' roll.
~ Leon Russell
I don't think I should penalize people who were doing their duty.
~ Leon Panetta
Drugs were suspected, though the article, in the manner of the Gazzettino, didn't bother to specify what they were suspected of.
~ Donna Leon
Brunetti had forgotten to ask Bocchese if the report said where Pad was from.
~ Donna Leon
from exerting his full force out of consideration for what it would do to Brunetti's hand.
~ Donna Leon
Logic was my favorite class in school. I like it because it's a way to see HOW what someone says is nonsense.
~ Donna Leon
averaging the bids to arrive at a final price, the Leon
~ Marcus Sakey
Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt.
~ Leon M. Lederman
Artos, she thought. A king. In Caer Leon. The words rang in her head like a bell, like a scent of the lake, like the bright clean shimmer of the Companions.
~ Nicola Griffith