Leonard Cohen Quotes

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.

Leonard Cohen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: September 21, 1934 - November 7, 2016

Topics

RestTryingLookWantGenuineReal

For a seriously autistic kid, the best prognosis might be getting into a mainstream school without being too much of a shadow. For a moderately autistic kid the best prognosis is full recovery.

Jenny McCarthy

BestShadowSchoolToo MuchRecovery

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Ambrose Bierce

FutureHappinessTimeFriendsTrue

Being a chef would be too much hard work.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

WorkHard WorkChefToo MuchHard

I do not want to be misunderstood that you need a dose of persecution in order, really, to have a sense of your identity. Otherwise, you know, there would be no American Jews. Even if you're not strictly, fiercely Orthodox, you commit yourselves to a community of memory.

Simon Schama

CommunityIdentityMemoryAmerican

I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.

Mike Thompson

TalentPeopleLuckPaintingThink

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

Mickey Hart

MusicSoulNothingUpliftLike

I find that I get most of the same things I loved about performing in the ring when I do my live shows around the world.

Mick Foley

LiveWorldLovedFindRingSame

Digitally enabled supply chains initially increased efficiency and dramatically shortened lead times. Capital was mobile; labor, less so. Economic activity (production, research, design, etc.) moved to any accessible country or region that had relatively inexpensive labor and human capital.

Michael Spence

ResearchDesignEfficiencyLabor

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Christopher Lasch

KnowledgeRealityCopyUsGet

It's fun to just be an awful human being.

Colleen Ballinger

FunHumanHuman BeingBeingJust

I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.

Bradley Cooper

LiveWorldBelieveThinkYouSuffer

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.

Arthur C. Clarke

LifeBestDaySpaceHideOne Day

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