Leslie Charteris Quotes

He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can.

Leslie Charteris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: May 12, 1907 - April 15, 1993

Topics

LifeBestManSituationLivingWay

I don't know anybody that doesn't own a gun.

Joe Manchin

GunKnowOwnAnybody

Courtesy is a lady's armor.

Sophie Turner

LadyCourtesyArmor

People want to listen to a lot of music and do whatever they want with it. They don't want DRM, they don't want subscriptions. They don't want a player that only can do this but can't do that and you only have one copy. They don't want that. You know? I don't want that.

Trent Reznor

MusicPeopleYouCopyKnowWant

Israel has incredible entrepreneurial spirit and a deep bench of technology talent.

Roelof Botha

TechnologyTalentDeepSpiritBench

The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.

Rush Limbaugh

WorkJobPeopleYouEnemyStriving

I hang out with my grandma, go to sleep at 8:30, and that's it.

Molly Bloom

SleepGoOutHangGrandma

My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.

Lucy Alibar

EducationHappinessMomMagicPoor

My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.

Jude Deveraux

LoveArtArchitectureDrawingHouse

I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town.

Chelsea Cain

ChildhoodCityEarlyBornOutside

Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.

Christie Brinkley

LifeHappinessSpacePeopleThink

People don't believe they've experienced the event unless they've taken a photograph.

Princess Anne

PeopleBelievePhotographEvent

In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had inflicted them on the national soul, challenging Americans' belief that they were a uniquely noble and honorable people.

Thurston Clarke

SoulWarPeopleAmericaMoralThree

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