Shaw Lee Quotes

I remember specifically, in the summer of 2002, the rate of women infected with HIV/AIDS was beginning to match the rate of men, and nobody was talking about it. It was as if it was on nobody else's radar. I had made up my mind to do something about it. ~ Sheryl Lee Ralph

Don't accept less than what it is that you know that you want. Don't allow someone to be a jerk. Don't allow someone to disrespect you. Listen to the bigger voice in your head telling you that you deserve the best, whatever that is whatever that is you decide you like for yourself. It may differ from what I like or what is ideal for me. But the bottom line is to never accept less than what you know you deserve. ~ Kimora Lee Simmons

Arys raised his head to look at me. His expression took on an intensity that held me transfixed. "I've spent over a century knowing I'd likely never know you. I've been waiting for you for a hundred years. Being with you is surreal. We were created as one. The moments that bring jealousy and pain, they're temporary. We are forever. ~ Trina M. Lee

Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis ... you know in the '60s. ~ Joe Cocker

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding. ~ George Bernard Shaw

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically. ~ Lee Krasner

People were not what they said. They were not what they thought. They were not what they promised. People were what they did. When the final tally was done, nothing else mattered. ~ James Lee Burke

Speech is the best show a man puts on. ~ Benjamin Lee Whorf

Being married to two extremely high profile, you know, actresses, and being sort of chased by, you know, paparazzi and people, it's a whole different dynamic happens to a relationship when that happens. All of a sudden, things get a little crazy, a little crazy. ~ Tommy Lee

It's the so-called small habits that matter the most. How you talk to yourself. The books you choose to read. Who you share your energy with. Who you allow to have access to you. These are the habits that ultimately shape your life. ~ Clyde Lee Dennis

The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Would you ever have thought I might choose a lie for the sake of my own happiness? The Whisperer's version of happiness is an illusion
it doesn't take away your fears, it only lies about them, makes you temporarily believe you don't have them. And I know it's a lie, but what a powerful one! Maybe I'm not who I always thought myself to be. Maybe I'm the sort of person who will do anything to hear what I want to believe ... ~ Trenton Lee Stewart

Behind all political success is attention to detail." LARRY O'BRIEN, adviser to John F. Kennedy ~ Catherine Shaw

I guess I am in handsome - in certain parts of the world. If I was, like, in Mongolia, living on a mountain and in my village, I could be the hottest guy. In L.A., I'm ... average? ~ Bobby Lee

Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor. ~ Tanith Lee

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly. ~ Tommy Lee Jones

Feel your connection with the Source of life through a simple touch of your belly button. ~ Ilchi Lee

I think I can work with any type of actor. ~ Ang Lee

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world. ~ Bill Lee

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Regarding 'Jabez's Prayer', I will say at once that I am a very poor Christian, and indeed a bad man. My besetting sins are many, and the least of them are the fleshlier ones: the really deadly ones are pride and intellectual arrogance. But I can honestly say I have never sunk to confusing prayer: the soul's colloquy with the Creator, mortal man's dialogue with the Deity: with magical incantation and the ritual of the 'spell. ~ Markham Shaw Pyle

A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I do a lot of touring, yes, and I have my whole life ever since I was 19 years old, when I used to tour with Al Jarreau, Rickie Lee Jones, and Jackson Browne as a side musician. ~ Vonda Shepard

Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Bagel in the morning is the ultimate breakfast for me; they're just good. ~ Lee DeWyze

You cannot be anything but who you are, and you are not a killer. I am a killer, all I need to know is who you need for me to kill. ~ James Lee Nathan III

I think poetry is best read to oneself. ~ Rickie Lee Jones

It's not that I'm retired; I just no longer accept acting work. ~ Jamie Lee Curtis

Boring! I'm laughing on the outside, but snoring on the inside. ~ Jay Lee

Every time you write a poem it's apocalyptic. You're revealing who you really are to yourself. ~ Li-Young Lee

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching. ~ Tommy Shaw

I have the biggest sweet tooth, and just recently a doughnut shop in Portland called Pip's Original introduced a doughnut inspired by me called the 'Dirty Wu.' It is a cinnamon-sugar doughnut with sea salt, drizzled with honey and Nutella. ~ Reggie Lee

Using no way as way. Having no limitation as your only limitation. ~ Bruce Lee

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests. ~ Tanith Lee

I walk with a dual longing
for life and for death. ~ Melissa Lee-Houghton

Then she walked away, like Helen of Troy turning her back on Attica. A gust of warm wind blew newspapers along the boulevard into the sky. The light was orange and bleeding out of the clouds in the west, the horizon darkening, the waves crashing on the beach just the other side of Seawall Boulevard, the palm trees rattling dryly in the wind. I could smell the salt and the seaweed and the tiny shellfish that had dried on the beach, like the smell of birth. I ~ James Lee Burke

The fear factor actually brings the genuineness. ~ Ang Lee

For four centuries now, the American people have resigned themselves to natural disasters and acts of God: floods, prairie fires, blizzards, tornados, hurricanes, dust bowls, epidemics, academics, lawyers, and politicians. ~ Markham Shaw Pyle

Most of the managers are lifetime .220 hitters. For years pitchers have been getting these managers out 75% of the time and that's why they don't like us. ~ Bill Lee

At first a golfer excuses a dismal performance by claiming bad lies. With experience, he covers up with better ones. ~ Lee P. Brown

I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night. ~ Spike Lee

Writing is like going underwater - thank you for being there when I come back up. ~ Ali Shaw