Hugh Leonard Quotes

My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.

Hugh Leonard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dramatist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: November 9, 1926 - February 12, 2009

Topics

FamilyFatherMotherStubbornShe

I've realized that no problem is as hopeless as it first may seem, I've learned how to live day to day and show others how to do the same, and most of all, I've learned how to just be.

Jessie Pavelka

LiveDayProblemHopelessOthers

You want to do good things, and once you've done a couple of good things in a row, you think 'Well gee, let's not mess this up.' But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

Jerry Seinfeld

LoveGoodI AmGood ThingsThink

Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.

John Leonard

WithoutAppetiteHeMuchWhich

I have two vintage typewriters. One just about works and the other hasn't a hope in hell, bless it. But they're both beautiful, and they'll stay with me just as long as there's a roof over my head.

Matt Roper

HopeBeautifulMeVintageHellLong

Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.

John Templeton

ChildrenSoulMedicalBodyKnow

We're having a good time. That's what I did last year. If you can't have a good time, you might as well stay home. I feel real good.

Sterling Marlin

GoodHomeTimeHaving A Good Time

We have three and a half acres, complete with duck pond and wildflower meadow and open annually by appointment as part of the National Gardens Scheme.

Mary Berry

DuckThreeOpenPondHalfComplete

It is important for me that I represent a brand that reflects my personality.

Liya Kebede

PersonalityMeBrandImportant

We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.

LL Cool J

MoneySocietyAmericanAwarenessBig

I'm never interested in movies where you don't care about the people you're watching, and that's my biggest quibble about horror, that kids have gotten stupider and stupider.

Joss Whedon

PeopleCareYouMoviesHorrorNever

There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to life in Paradise.

Janine di Giovanni

LifeRomanticParadiseBritishOften

It ended up taking eight years to finish college because I got deployed and went overseas.

Jon Huertas

CollegeFinishYearsUpGotBecause

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