Mackenzie Lee Quotes

We're not courting trouble. Flirting with it, at most. (Monty in The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue) ~ Mackenzi Lee

I think the Europeans are a lot more spontaneous, more artistic to some degree. But I don't think they have the technical talent we do here in the states. Here people have been trained much more specifically - they know exactly what they're doing. The Europeans are perhaps slower, but in the end damn near as good. ~ Lee Van Cleef

To live a truly spiritual life, you need to take time at least once a day to bring your vision inward, to connect with your true self, your attention having been focused outside all day. ~ Ilchi Lee

The comfort and nostalgia of the past you once knew does not exist anymore, but in the subjective experiences of your memory. You can not go back; you can not live there anymore, for you are here.
You are now.
If you linger in the past, you find you are really nowhere at all. A ghost trapped between two worlds. A shadow of your True self.
And who knows the future, except God, the great 'I Am'?
So, why not create fond memories today? ~ Mac MacKenzie

The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics. ~ Lee Gutkind

Samsung's future hinges on new businesses, new products and new technologies. We should make our corporate culture more open, flexible and innovative. ~ Lee Kun-hee

Smoking's a way to let you down slowly from a ballgame. It also makes you use less of the resources around. It makes people better in the way they act towards society. Everybody's nicer. It's hard to be mean when you're stoned. ~ Bill Lee

I wanted all of him.
The angel and the demon.
The heaven and the hell.
He was my curse and my salvation. ~ Geneva Lee

Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. ~ Robert E.Lee

To change someone's mind, requires only that you speak a more compelling narrative about their situation than their current one. ~ L.R.W. Lee

The only thing worse than saying something boring is to quote someone else's boring saying ~ Lee Owens

I've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got reams of notes for. ~ Bryan Lee O'Malley

You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do. ~ Jonny Lee Miller

I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir. ~ Jamie Lee Curtis

What I focus upon becomes reality.
I have the power to choose. ~ Richard Lee Orey

Without the proper care, there's no beauty. Without beauty, there's no boyfriend. ~ Lee Bo-na

Be a gold-medal multitasker. You should be able to discuss the new Ludacris video while correcting the merchandising spreadsheets, picking the right shade of snakeskin for next season's mini-purses and catching the dog at the same time! ~ Kimora Lee Simmons

Feel the energy, starting with your hands, and if you maintain the sensation of being connected to that energy as you pray, you can be more deeply immersed in your prayer. The reason is that the entire universe is composed of the energy you're feeling with your hands right now. When you maintain that feeling of connection with the universe as you pray for the great hopes and dreams cherished by your soul, you are broadcasting your prayer to the entire universe as your audience. If the whole universe is resonating with your dream and working with you to make your dream come true, wouldn't that lend great strength to you? ~ Ilchi Lee

I drank from colored water fountains and from the white water fountain just to see what it was like when I was a kid. What shocks me is that these kids today don't realize that this happened in many of our lifetimes. ~ Lee Daniels

There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day. ~ Mackenzie Astin

A military policeman deals with military lawbreakers. Those lawbreakers are service guys. Highly trained in weapons, sabotage, unarmed combat. Rangers, Green Berets, marines. Not just killers. Trained killers. Extremely well trained, at huge public expense. So the military policeman is trained even better. Better with weapons. Better unarmed. ~ Lee Child

Even if I did climb to the top of that mountain one day, people will never stop seeing my color first, before me. ~ Stacey Lee

To develop the creative attitude, analyze and focus on the wanted SOLUTION; seek out and fill your mind with the FACTS; write down ideas, both sensible and seemingly wild; let the facts and ideas simmer in your mind; evaluate, recheck, settle on the creative ideas. ~ Bruce Lee

I just write ... if it's really good, it's going on the record. If it's average, it's going in the trash. ~ Tommy Lee

But all the if onlys in the world could not change the events of that day, and he had accepted that long ago. ~ Janet Lee Barton

And most of the time, when you're young and dumb - you know everything! Charles Freeman Lee bebop pianist and trumpeter ~ Annette Johnson

This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth. ~ Lee Grant

Staring isn't difficult. I can do it all day long. Without blinking, if I want to, which is sometimes painful, but always useful. The trick is to not really look at them, but to focus ten yards beyond, on nothing, which produces a glassy effect, which makes them worry, mostly about what's going on behind your empty eyes. ~ Lee Child

If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next. ~ James Lee Burke

Some say," Auntabelle said, "that it was because of the Roman's brutality and the Roman Emperors' cruelty, especially to the Christians, who were slaughtered in masses at this very place for the entertainment of the Roman citizens, that Rome fell." - Auntabelle, Amazon Lee and the Ancient Undead of Rome by Kira G. and Kailin Gow ~ Kailin Gow

Life can be difficult for kids born with a gold spoon in their mouth, because they never really get to find out if they're able to work hard and make it on their own. ~ Lee Iacocca

The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors. ~ Lee Scott

There were crooked photos on the wall of Della Lee as a child, with dark hair and eyes. Josey wondered when she started dyeing her hair blond. In one photo she was standing on top of a jungle gym. In another she was diving not the public pool from the high dive. She looked like she was daring the world to hurt her. ~ Sarah Addison Allen

I don't really picture anyone when I'm drawing. They just become their own completed person with googly eyes. ~ Bryan Lee O'Malley

A thousand years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, they knew the Earth was flat. Fifteen minutes ago, you knew we humans were alone on it. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow. ~ Tommy Lee Jones

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can. ~ Bruce Lee

My wealth came from growing businesses. I had wealth, but not liquidity. Basically I transferred illiquid shares of AIC for liquid shares of Manulife. Now I'm the biggest individual shareholder of Manulife. ~ Michael Lee-Chin

Also, isolation leads to chronically lowered levels of the feel-good neurotransmitter serotonin. It is one of the bizarre ironies of major depression that being depressed causes people to withdraw from the most powerful antidepressant known - rich and varied social contact. However therein lies a rich lesson also - in some cases one of the quickest and most effective ways to reverse depression is to socialize. ~ James Lee

As an experience, as a listener, for me, I miss the record store. I miss going in and knowing the guy at the counter and being like, "Hey," knowing that he was going to hate the record I put on the counter, and still buying it. That takes some guts. ~ Amos Lee

The drive of many people drives a whole new world - Andrew Lee ~ Andrew Lee

Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is. ~ Ang Lee

The problem is to keep the monkey mind from running off into all kinds of thoughts. ~ Lee Kuan Yew

Sometimes, it's never an insult to be called what someone thinks is a bad name. ~ Harper Lee

For you never know till it's out of your head and on paper... ~ Jasmine Lee

Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena. ~ Lee Smolin

I kissed her like she was my Annabel Lee, and in some ways, in some places in my heart, I think that I'm kissing her still. ~ Seanan McGuire

As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. It's a different pace. ~ Lee Daniels