Leading Quotes

Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.

We're doing a lot of inspection on the leading edge of our wing on 114 and 121, the first two flights.

No movement finding itself in this stage of struggle can operate by getting authority from the leading body of the political organs for even minor action that is taken and we don't even know in the case of the actions which have publicize whether they are in fact our people.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.

Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.

Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them.

The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me.

I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is.

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.

Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.

Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.

Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

My life will change, because I want it to change; and also because this is something I'm committed to doing and that I believe my life has been leading towards.

You can't always be a leading lady.

I understand what my gift is, which is making people laugh, hopefully. It's more on that level. I don't need to be a leading man, I'm fine with that.

We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.

At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.

Moderates shouldn't be nervous about Newt because he has a vision, he's laid it forward. He's fundamentally leading us in the way that middle class Americans want to go.

The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.

In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already.

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.