Leonard Cohen Quotes

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

Leonard Cohen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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More people go to Tate Modern than watch the Arsenal.

Melvyn Bragg

PeopleGoMoreWatchModernThan

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Max Planck

TruthScienceLightGenerationDie

I am extremely proud to have the surname Ambani. I am proud to be a Gujarati, and above all, an extremely proud Indian.

Anil Ambani

I AmProudAboveIndianAm

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

John Ruskin

WorkAgeBestPeopleDoingPowerful

What the study I chaired actually said was we needed tougher regulation of cash and capital in banks, as credit was too easy. Events proved that right.

John Redwood

CreditEasySaidEventsRightStudy

I am afraid that, like Timon of Athens, I just cannot let go of my friendships.

Spike Milligan

I AmGoAfraidLet GoAthensJust

When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.

Rory Kinnear

LoveExperiencePoetryFateTalking

Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the twenty-first century, space scientists are setting Darwin in a grander cosmic context - probing the origins of Earth, stars, atoms and the universe itself.

Martin Rees

NatureStarsSpaceUniverseHumanity

Listener and reader input is every bit as important as anything any of us can say. We'd be like crazy people chattering in the middle of that empty field that Joe Biden thinks we should stand in to be safe from swine flu if it weren't for the calls, the letters, the blogs, and the reaction from our audience.

Mike Gallagher

PeopleCrazyStandImportantSay

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Louise L. Hay

ExperienceResponsibleExperiences

I'm always surprised when people talk about strong female characters because I feel like we all are.

Lotte Verbeek

PeopleStrongFeelTalkAlwaysLike

Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date.

Cher

PastMeCoolYearOverEveryone

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