Leroy Quotes

For scientific researchers, charitable donations are enormous engines of new opportunities ... ~ Leroy Hood

Breast cancer isn't one disease - it's probably four or five different types, and without knowing what type a person has, you can't optimize treatment for them. ~ Leroy Hood

Falling in love with Renée was not the kind of thing you walk away from in one piece. I had no chance. She put a hitch in my git-along. She would
wake up in the middle of the night and say things like "What if Bad Bad Leroy Brown was a girl?" or "Why don't they have commercials for salt like
they do for milk?" Then she would fall back to sleep, while I would lie awake and give thanks for this alien creature beside whom I rested. ~ Rob Sheffield

If a startup stays in Microsoft, it does not have a chance, because all it tries to do goes against what Microsoft is about. ~ Leroy Hood

I wasn't feeling well in the first half. I felt down, man. I had three slices of pizza before the game and the food took me down. ~ Leroy Loggins

We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally is we have an utter total obligation to make sure we have an environment that not only is good for us but is good for all living organisms. ~ Leroy Hood

We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music. ~ Alain LeRoy Locke

All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage. ~ Alain LeRoy Locke

Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature. ~ Leroy Chiao

Read like no one is watching.... ~ Leroy Henry

You know what I like about San Francisco? The women are beautiful, fashionable and smart. San Francisco is one of the only cities I like to visit. I love New York and Chicago - I studied there, and L.A. has the same people as New York. ~ LeRoy Neiman

But life doesn't wait - it trickles between your fingers, trickles away.... ~ Margaret Leroy

Each form of Alzheimer's disease should perturb different brain networks and so influence the concentration of different proteins that can be measured in the blood. ~ Leroy Hood

Genes are natural resources. ~ Leroy Hood

The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on! ~ LeRoy Neiman

The secret of success is concentrating interest in life, interest in sports and good times, interest in your studies, interest in your fellow students, interest in the small things of nature, insects, birds, flowers, leaves, etc. In other words to be fully awake to everything about you & the more you learn the more you can appreciate & get a full measure of joy & happiness out of life. ~ LeRoy Pollock

Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction. ~ Leroy Chiao

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't ... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas. ~ LeRoy Neiman

Sometimes I feel as though the real things are passing me by. As though I've been pushed to the margins of life. ~ Margaret Leroy

Mom asked Dad "where is Mickey?" Dad said that the hogs are him, that's when the pot of beans went flying through the air. Uncle Leroy said, "I think I'll go back home now. ~ Mickey R. Mullen

I remember when I saw Peter Pan when I was little. After all the other kids wanted to reenact the battles of the lost boys, pirates, and Indians, and all I could think about was the part where Peter Pan sits still while Wendy takes a sharp needle and, with concern and maybe love, sews his shadow onto his feet. And I wonder if the pain excited him as much as it excited me to watch. I hang here, the voices still bleeding in my ears. I watch my shadow, solid like a murdered body's outline, and I pray. Maybe one more slice, just one more, will sever it forever. ~ J.T. LeRoy

If you look at healthcare today, it's all about disease. It's not about understanding wellness at all. ~ Leroy Hood

You never let go of your dreams. They're meant to be pursued. And even though it might be hard reaching them, they'll pay off in the end. ~ Atle Jarnaes Leroy

1314h.: I am now seated back in Deck 8's Rainbow Room watching "Ernst," the Nadir's mysterious and ubiquitous Art Auctioneer, 118 mediate spirited bidding for a signed Leroy Neiman print. Let me iterate this. Bidding is spirited and fast approaching four figures for a signed Leroy Neiman print - not a signed Leroy Neiman, a signed Leroy Neiman print. ~ David Foster Wallace

All the blood shed as a result of secession could be wiped up with a handkerchief. ~ LeRoy Pope Walker

My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge. ~ Leroy Hood

I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.' ~ LeRoy Neiman

I wonder what causes you most regret, in the final years of your life: the undone things-- or the things you did that you ought not to have done. ~ Margaret Leroy

Soul Food
I say, I say
Hey, Hey Mr. Devil, let me level with you --
As I'm goin' to hell to make my debut
As the baddest motherfucker from 10th Avenue --
I just wants to know before I meet you below
Is you gonna' fricasee this poor ol' Negro.
I heard Leroy say to my man the other day
That you Devils fricasee the black folk come your way.
No you got to admit that this here spade on a spit
Is a damn ugly sight that may make you vomit.
So let's make a deal about changin' your meal
Because my black ass on a skewer
Serves fewer than veal ~ Beryl Dov

From self alone expect applause. ~ Marion LeRoy Burton

When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development. ~ LeRoy Neiman

Life is a process of evolution. ~ Leroy Hood

I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.' ~ LeRoy Neiman

Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth. ~ Mary Griffith

A restaurant is a fantasy-a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast. ~ Warner LeRoy

My running ambition is to keep doing it until I'm way past the point where I have any business running. Just to keep doing it throughout my whole life - to stay fit and feel good. ~ Leroy Chiao

I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse. ~ LeRoy Neiman

As I turn 91 this June 8th, I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished. ~ LeRoy Neiman

Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not. ~ LeRoy Neiman

One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye. ~ Leroy Chiao

Sorrow is allowed, sorrow is advised; all we have to do is let go, all we have to do is love. ~ Gregoire Delacourt

If you know the mother's genome and the father's genome, and you see that the children have some genes that neither parent has, then you know that difference is either a mutation or a processing error. ~ Leroy Hood

Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80 percent chance of breast cancer by the time you are 50, but if you take a preventive drug starting when you are 40, the chance will drop to 2 percent. ~ Leroy Hood

Borrowing a line from Jim Croce's "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," Watts dubbed Ritter the Junkyard Dog - and, ever the literalist, gave him a dog collar and junk cart. ~ David Shoemaker

Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines. ~ Leroy Hood

My lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight. She has always been there throughout my career and continues to be at my side. ~ LeRoy Neiman

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist. ~ LeRoy Neiman

He flipped through channels until he found reruns of NCIS.
"Understanding murder is simple compared to understanding a woman, Leroy Jethro Gibbs. You been married a bunch of times. What advice would you give me?"
He talked to the character on the television.
Gibbs said, "Grab your gear. ~ Carolyn Brown

Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them. ~ Leroy Hood

He's bad, bad Leroy Brown, baddest dude in the whole damn town, badder than old King Kong, and meaner than a junk yard dog. ~ Jim Croce

I learned to love the unlovable, to forgive the unforgivable, to reach the unreachable, and to teach the unteachable. ~ Leroy McClure

What's the meaning in life? The answer is: YOU're the meaning. ~ Atle Jarnaes Leroy

My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy. ~ Arsenio Hall

There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life, it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's spiritual. It's a belief, it's a calling. If you're an artist, doing your own thing on your own, it's while you're doing it that counts. It's a process. If you get too elated, you can get too depressed. ~ LeRoy Neiman

I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader. ~ Leroy Chiao

Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance. ~ Marion LeRoy Burton

An important finding is that by determining the genome sequences of an entire family, one can identify many DNA sequencing errors and thus greatly increase the accuracy of the data. This will ultimately help us understand the role of genetic variations in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. ~ Leroy Hood

I can easily ignore my detractors and feel the people who respond favorably. ~ LeRoy Neiman

I take you as you were, as you are, and who you'll become ~ Atle Jarnaes Leroy

The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market. ~ Leroy Hood

The systems approach to biology will be the dominant theme in medicine. ~ Leroy Hood

The more I train the more I realize I have more speed in me. ~ Leroy Burrell

My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful. ~ Leroy Hood

Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, and a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intempe diet. ~ Marion LeRoy Burton

I spent a lot of my time working in the American module, and he would stay in the Russian segment working on his things, and we'd meet up at meal times. So it actually worked out very well. ~ Leroy Chiao

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.' ~ LeRoy Neiman

He cast his eyes upon her and the trouble soon began, cause Leroy Brown learned a lesson about messing with the wife of a jealous man. ~ Jim Croce

I lived in a big bunkhouse of thirty farm workers with Leroy, who was a stranger to me in many ways because he was always talking about unions and unity. But he had a way of explaining the meanings of words in utter simplicity, like "work" which he translated into "power," and "power" into "security." I was drawn to him because I felt that he had lived in many places where the courage of men was tested with the cruelest weapons conceivable. ~ Carlos Bulosan

The younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses ... Each generation ... will have its creed. ~ Alain LeRoy Locke

Data-intensive graph problems abound in the Life Science drug discovery and development process. ~ Leroy Hood

You will never finish your novels if you don't take it one word at a time ~ Terrence LeRoy Baker

I was so raw I didn't know about the Lambeau Leap-a Packer player celebrates catching a touchdown by leaping into the stands. It was started by Leroy Butler years before and has been copied by players all over the league. Don't be fooled, though. The only legitimate Lambeau Leap is celebrated by a Packer at Lambeau Field. ~ Donald Driver

Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same. ~ LeRoy Neiman

Going home to Millie; and the little boy who I know will rush into my arms when I get there; whose grey eyes will shine when he looks at me, who will smile with Gunther's smile. ~ Margaret Leroy

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough. ~ Rita Mae Brown

I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft. ~ Leroy Chiao

As we've mentioned already, it is fairly easy to misread body language. ~ Leroy Jackson

It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and includes Wynton Marsalis. ~ LeRoy Neiman

The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers. ~ LeRoy Neiman

Lord, I never seen blue hair on a black woman before or since. Leroy say you look like a cracker from outer space. ~ Kathryn Stockett

'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself. ~ LeRoy Neiman

It's him," I said. "Typhon."
I was seriously hoping Chiron would say something good, like 'No, that's our huge friend Leroy! He's going to help us! ~ Rick Riordan

Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy. ~ Leroy Chiao

I hope that China will continue with space exploration. It would be logical to have international co-operation. I hope that it will come about and that I can be involved in it. ~ Leroy Chiao

We don't argue if drug companies create drugs that can cure humans and charge lots of money for them, even though we all have these diseases. It will be pretty hard to make a different argument for genes. ~ Leroy Hood

Leroy helped me process the reality that when we engage in the messiness and tension of a suffering community, we experience the positive and negative ways that people respond to that suffering. As a result, we live in the tension between desperation and excess; while we live in the black, others fight for survival in the red. This becomes a real aspect of community: struggling through loving our neighbors when our neighbors do not enjoy the same blessings we do. ~ Jeff Shinabarger

So you've got no name?" I asked. "They couldn't think of one ugly enough?"
The creature snarled, stepping over the unconscious policeman.
"Set animal is too hard to say," I decided. "I'll call you Leroy."
Apparently, Leroy didn't like his name. He lunged. ~ Rick Riordan

Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems. ~ Leroy Hood

Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into. ~ Leroy Hood

LeRoy says there's something you should know, not everybody has a place to go. And home is just a place to hang your head, and dream of things to do in Denver when you're dead. ~ Warren Zevon

I have good genes, and I also do lots of exercises. ~ Leroy Hood

It is a pity that no one in Paris bothered to quote Coleridge, who wrote, long before cubism, that the true poet is able to reduce 'succession to an instant.' Simultaneity in this sense is the property of all great poetry. ~ LeRoy C. Breunig

Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver. ~ Alain LeRoy Locke

There are times when silence has the loudest voice. ~ Leroy Brownlow

It's a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence - the best in man. My subject is very valid. It's about people, and about life. ~ LeRoy Neiman

At the concession stand, Leroy Ninker said, "Thank you very much!" He said, "Extra butter on that?" He also said, "Yippie-i-oh." Leroy Ninker said "Yippie-i-oh" because Leroy Ninker had a dream. He wanted to be a cowboy. On Wednesday nights, the Bijou Drive-In Theater ran a Western double feature, and Leroy Ninker stood and watched in wonder as the great white expanse of the Bijou screen filled with purple mountains, wide-open plains, and cowboys. The cowboys wore ten-gallon hats. They wore boots. They carried lassos. The cowboys were ~ Kate DiCamillo

The Set animal's jaws were pried open so fast that it yelped and let go of my arm. I stood, now encased in a magical barrier twice my normal size, and kicked Leroy into a wall.
Good! said Horus. Now dispatch the beast to the netherworld!
Quiet man. I'm doing all the work. ~ Rick Riordan

I hold doors open for all the women. Men can open the doors for themselves. ~ LeRoy Neiman

If use is not an appropriate criterion for decision making in the academic life, what is? Love ... The virtues of love as a criterion for choosing a college major ... it is not pretentious. "Use" is pretentious because it claims to know something about the future that it doesn't really know. Love is immediate ... [love] guarantees that you will work to your highest potential ... it is part of who you are, and not just something you think, often wrongly, that you can use. ~ Leroy S Rouner