Donna Leon Quotes

I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now.

Donna Leon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 29, 1942

Topics

MemoryMeBookRememberKnowNow

I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.

Jim Doyle

FamilyGoodPoliticsChildSuffering

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

Jeremy Rifkin

AgeStepFirst StepPhysicsBiology

Got to build that business base and then you can fund all the things people want: education, health care, strong law enforcement, roads, bridges, infrastructure - all those things flow from that economic base.

John Hoeven

EducationBusinessHealthRoadsLaw

I bombed the LSAT and quickly discovered that law school wasn't for me.

John Schnatter

SchoolMeLawLaw SchoolQuickly

Achieving a balance between career and children doesn't necessarily mean the time is split evenly. Successful parents understand there will be times when their family will need more attention and times when a career will demand more energy.

Amy Morin

FamilyChildrenTimeBalanceParents

Believe in yourself when nobody else does.

Mary J. Blige

Believe In YourselfYourselfBelieve

My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.

Mickey Gilley

FailureBeachBusyRestaurantYear

I'm a very goal-oriented person, so I look at the specific demands of a certain race and tailor my training towards that.

Lizzie Armitstead

TrainingLookPersonRaceTailor

I knew that if I worked hard, I could have both - I could have a family, because that was important to me, and I could have a career.

Judy Sheindlin

FamilyMeCareerImportantHard

I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl. If she wrote a whole page back, I knew she liked me, too. If she wrote back like two words, then I figured I'd move on.

Devon Werkheiser

GirlWordsMeBackMove OnPage

When I did my spacewalks, it was during space station construction. So the shuttle was docked to the fledgling ISS at the time. So we would always stay tethered.

Chris Hadfield

TimeSpaceConstructionAlwaysStay

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.

Shia LaBeouf

ParentsMeMeetingsKnowYoungUp

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