Leading Quotes

The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.

It's good to be able to be a leading lady, to be a romantic lead, to play opposite people who are talented, and charismatic and stuff.

I'd love to talk to Joaquin Phoenix because he's a very private guy. Also, he's creating a new kind of sexy leading man. To me, his face is new and might be legendary someday.

Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.

If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.

Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's leading energy innovator.

I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality of the time. I think that was understood and felt and experienced.

My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.

But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government.

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis.

Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn-around.

I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.

The idea that so many kids eat rubbish and sit on computers all day long appals me and getting them into sport is a major way of getting them off computers and leading healthier lives.

Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.

We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to be a very important six months for NATO.

In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for.

Well, mines was a sub machine gun. That was my personal weapon with being the first person in the patrol. I used to lead the patrol. Used to have a leading scout, a second scout and then the officer. The officer would be third. As I say, it was educational.

Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.

What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!

The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.

A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situations leading to what the ultimate payoff would be for that character.

But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear weapons.

Denzel has been that leading man, but it took him a while to get to Training Day and Hurricane Carter.

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area.

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.