Leonard Quotes

That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up. (Jeffrey Eugenides)

Even though the outcome wasn't the way it should have been, publicly I still feel in my heart I won the Sugar Ray Leonard fight.

Marvin Hagler

Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.

Solomon Burke

Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.

James Frey

Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. By true I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies and in the end, isn't that the truth? The answer is no.

Leonard Nimoy

When I think of the people who have been there, and the people I grew up admiring - the likes of Muhammad Ali, Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Leonard... it's just incredible that I'm in the same sort of club.

Barry McGuigan

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.

Kazuo Ishiguro

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

Michael Cunningham

Of all the fighters today, I have to say that Mayweather reminds me most of me," Leonard told Irish boxing writer Brian Doogan in describing the incident. "The kid has every gift and physical attribute, but if he continues to be the kind of person he is, he'll never be one of us. He'll never make it.

Sugar Ray Leonard

We even copied the way the Americans walked, though Father Leonard didn't like that bit of admiration. He disapproved of rolling buttocks.

Tom Baker

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie. (Quentin Tarantino)

I laugh when Floyd Mayweather says that if he went back in time he would beat us all. I'll tell you this: if he was in the same era as Hagler and Hearns and Leonard and me, I don't think he would be such a big name. There is too much talk.

Roberto Durán

You might have mentioned this to me Molly,” said Leonard. "The fact that there are hostile natives on the island.” "I forgot,” said Molly. "You forgot?” said Leonard. "There's been a lot happening,” said Molly.

Dave Barry

Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld So I can sigh eternally.

Kurt Cobain

I am a huge Leonard Cohen person.

Michelle Williams

When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.

Michelle Williams

I'm always looking to rock out. But it isn't really about rocking out versus being mellow, in terms of your personal satisfaction. In the end, you just want to be good. When you look at something that's really good, it might be Iggy Pop or it might be Leonard Cohen. Whatever it is, you want it to be really good.

Black Francis

Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali.

Dick Schaap

And for some reason, when I'm sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that's actually reflecting my mood, as opposed to sticking on Motown, which might actually bring my mood up.

Glen Hansard

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

Jake Shimabukuro

I don't really think about retiring. I will retire just before people start saying, 'I knew Leonard Slatkin when he conducted well. (Leonard Slatkin)

Geoff Leonard knows more about me than I know myself.

John Barry

The likes of Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Tommy Hearns were true champions. There were some incredible fights between us, and I was happy to give them all an opportunity to fight me.

Marvin Hagler

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.

Vivienne Westwood

My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.

Yo-Yo Ma

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