Leaves Quotes

With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
Vincent D'Onofrio

Character, Everything, While

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
William Godwin

Life, Him, Himself

The greatness of Mac Rebennack, alias, Dr. John, also known as John Crieux, rests on his command of the musical use of idiomatic expression. Not a technically well-endowed singer, nor a great songwriter, he leaves his mark through the discipline and control he exerts over all that he touches.
Jon Landau

Great, Control, Through

In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she always leaves her mark - first, on the music, then on us.
Jon Landau

Music, End, Her

We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy.
Mitch McConnell

Morning, Father, Parents

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'
Joshua Foer

Words, Through, Process

No one leaves the edit room thinking, 'Yeah, I nailed that one!' Everyone I know goes into their first premiere or their first screening thinking, 'I screwed up so bad. I'm sorry, I messed up.' It's just a real common feeling.
Mike Mills

Sorry, Bad, Feeling

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.
Janis Ian

Time, Off, Road

We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.
Bobby Jindal

Energy, Break, Mercy

Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky, it turns and turns to say Good-by!
Alexander Selkirk

Sky, Whenever, Snowflake

This disease leaves people bedridden. I've gone through phases where I couldn't roll over in bed. I couldn't speak. To have it called 'fatigue' is a gross misnomer.
Laura Hillenbrand

Through, Speak, Gone

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.
Mary McCarthy

Work, Human, Behind

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
Robert Dale Owen

God, Courage, Wisdom

I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable.
James McGreevey

Secret, Office, Vulnerable

It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.
Virgil Goode

Legal, Voting, Times

I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth.
Abbas Kiarostami

Grateful, Start, Earth

My feeling is that scientific method has the power to account for and interlink all phenomena in the universe, including its origin, using the laws of nature. But that still leaves the laws unexplained.
Paul Davies

Nature, Power, Feeling

I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
Edward Albee

Happy, Play, Rather

In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold.
Klaus Kinski

Everything, Cold, Movie

In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in their code it won't mean that somebody hacks your computer. It will mean that somebody takes control of your servant robot and it stands in your bedroom doorway sharpening a knife and watching you sleep.
Daniel H. Wilson

Future, Sleep, Mean

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
Thomas Beecham

Music, Great, Memory

Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.
Dmitri Mendeleev

Work, Yourself, Joy

When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18.
Alicia Silverstone

Life, School, Old

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
Georg Brandes

Time, Truth, Humanity

I have never connected with 'Gone With the Wind.' 'Lawrence of Arabia' leaves me cold.
Stephen Hunter

Wind, Cold, Gone

The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.
Jhumpa Lahiri

Cold, Reaction, Chemical

We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves.
Robert Fortune

Free, Wood, Formation

The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.
Niklaus Wirth

Decision, Problem, Point

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.
Julian Casablancas

Friend, Old, Unless

Sugar leaves you stranded; I make sure I have the proper amount of protein before I work out.
Evander Holyfield

Work, Before, Sure

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