John Leonard Quotes (23 Quotes)


    The story is that one of the four trained dolphins deployed in Iraq met a wild dolphin and swam off.

    It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

    His memoir is a splendid artichoke of anecdotes, in which not merely the heart and leaves but the thistles as well are edible.

    He was one lucky guy because he got to come to work everyday and be with his family. (His daughter) managed his practice in this building that we're in and his two sons also operated their practice out of this building.

    In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.


    may take the opportunity to bring in some new management blood.

    Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.

    He seems to have gone to his icebox, pulled out all the cold obsessions, mixed them in a bowl, beat too lightly and baked too long.

    Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.


    From Credit Suisse's point of view I don't think there are major strategic requirements to be in the insurance business, ... From their perspective, I'd see it much more as an interesting financial investment.

    Revenue has been under pressure as these Internet options become available.


    Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.


    The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

    It's an employee with access to the water supply of 800,000 New Jersey residents. The answer can't be, 'We gave it the old college try and now we have to move on.' We have someone we already know is capable of murder with access to the water supply.

    This doesn't make them a Merrill Lynch in the U. S. - the main difference is that PaineWebber doesn't have an investment bank. But this brings in the wealthy client.

    We have fashioned a style for accommodating our guilt, for eating statistics. We haven't yet been able, and hopefully never will be, to posture successfully in front of a real person.

    He just simply doesn't want to go through the hassle any more. I don't blame him. It would be almost unjust to go further.

    Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

    This is when we lose the credibility of sport. Parents make decisions on their children, and their perception becomes that after a certain level, anybody playing sports must be drugged to be any good.

    As the Silks walk around the Establishment and poke it with a stick flocks of multicolored anecdotes rise into the air on flapping wings, and, occasionally, a bee stings.


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