Donna Leon Quotes

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

Donna Leon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WomenViolenceCrimeFictionPainful

People in West Virginia do have cars. We have indoor plumbing. We even use knives and forks.

John Kruk

PeoplePlumbingWestWest Virginia

In a financial crisis, only the Fed, as the lender of last resort, might stand between our economy and financial catastrophe. We must leave the Fed with the flexibility to provide liquidity in order to stop a financial panic.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

FinancialStandStopCrisisEconomy

I miss playing with Miles. I did play with him a little while before he left the planet, but even at that time I longed to maybe do some things together.

Sonny Rollins

TimeTogetherPlayHimPlanetLeft

My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.

Troian Bellisario

GoodSchoolNot Good EnoughEnough

Totalitarians always want to kill culture. But imagine life without football, Faulkner, or Bob Dylan. It's not life.

Rithy Panh

LifeCultureFootballWantWithout

I experienced what can never be duplicated in the private sector - the communal aspect of VA.

Robert Wilkie

NeverExperiencedCommunalPrivate

From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want.

Rupert Murdoch

BeginningGivingNewsWantReason

I gotta make money - it all tends to disappear in this field.

Josh Brolin

MoneyDisappearMakeFieldGotta

For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very proud of that. And with anything Roman or gladiators, they have an English accent. For an audience, it is an easy trick to hook people in.

Chris Hemsworth

PeopleProudEasyReasonAnything

If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

Christiaan Barnard

WorkBetterFindGoRunPoor

It took me three and a half years to become a mom, so it makes me feel so good to know I'm giving my baby the best chance I can to develop a strong immune system and live a healthy life.

Constance Marie

LifeGoodLiveBestBabyMom

Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.

Chuck Close

FatherAgeLosingMeImportantAble

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