John Leonard Quotes

• Our studies indicate the drug has activity.

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• As the Silks walk around the Establishment and poke it with a stick flocks of multicolored anecdotes rise into the air on flapping wings, and, occasionally, a bee stings.

  John Leonard

• Isn’t it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

  John Leonard

• Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.

  John Leonard

• Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.

  John Leonard

• His memoir is a splendid artichoke of anecdotes, in which not merely the heart and leaves but the thistles as well are edible.

  John Leonard

• There are too many ironies in the fire.

  John Leonard

• In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.

  John Leonard

• A lollipop speaking baby talk.

  John Leonard

• He seems to have gone to his icebox, pulled out all the cold obsessions, mixed them in a bowl, beat too lightly and baked too long.

  John Leonard

• Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

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• Television is a corporate vulgarity.

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Today's Anniversary - 15th March

Births

• 1932 - Alan Bean
• 1978 - Takeru Kobayashi
• 1943 - Rosabeth Moss Kanter
• 1975 - Eva Longoria
• 1919 - Lawrence Tierney

Deaths

• 1950 - Alice Stone Blackwell
• 2003 - Thora Hird
• 2009 - Ron Silver
• 1983 - Rebecca West
• 1934 - Davidson Black