Leon Edel Quotes

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

Leon Edel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 9, 1907 - September 5, 1997

Topics

LifeAgeOld AgeMindBuildingBusy

I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and riding donkeys that we shouldn't have been riding.

Jo Brand

WoodsRidingTwoFallingPlaying

My parents couldn't afford physical therapy, so they sent me to dancing school. I learned how to dance in heels, which means I can walk in heels. And I'm from Jersey, and we are really concerned with being chic, so if my friends wore heels, so did I.

Maysoon Zayid

WalkDanceSchoolParentsMeI Can

If I had to pick a favorite album, 'El Malo' would be one of them. That music is good old-fashioned medicine.

John Ortiz

GoodMusicMedicineOld-Fashioned

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.

Milos Forman

HumorMeSurviveYouKnowImportant

By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

Chuck Eddy

MusicGivingLateGiving UpUpRap

When you are captain, you are never speaking for yourself.

Brian O'Driscoll

YourselfYouCaptainNeverSpeaking

Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something.

Brian Setzer

RoadThinkYouGoDoneSomething

I am quite sure that a little man who braves ridicule to improve the lot of his fellow men, and is thanked by their jibes, is an interesting character.

Preston Sturges

CharacterMenManI AmInteresting

It's hard to get fluffed up about love anymore. I've lived it. I try to avoid it. If I'm extremely fond of a woman, if I think I might really wind up walking down the aisle again... I go in another direction.

Phil Everly

LoveWomanWindDirectionThinkGo

If you're embarking around the world in a hot-air balloon, don't forget the toilet paper.

Richard Branson

WorldYouForgetBalloonToilet

The first year was kind of hard for me. There was just too much attention, too much going on, and I really just wanted to focus on basketball.

Kristaps Porzingis

FocusMeBasketballYearAttention

Great brands are meant to be great aggregators.

Kevin Plank

GreatMeant To BeMeantBrands

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