Quotes of Lee - somelinesforyou

“ Robert E. Lee Prewitt. Isn't that a silly old name. ”

- Donna Reed

“ Lee and Herring frequently had me dressed in lycra. I suppose it just looks funny on a fat bloke. I find it a bit inconvenient because you're all zipped in and can never go for a slash. ”

- Paul Putner

“ Lee was such a fine, high-class boy. If my son killed the president he would have said so. That's the way he was brought up. ”

- Marguerite Oswald

“ You're like a crack enhanced Kathie Lee! ”

- Matthew

“ I learned Lightnin' Hopkins style, and John Lee Hooker's style, Jimmy Reed's style, and Fred McDowell a bit. It's been a part of my environment around here for a really long time. ”

- Alex Chilton

“ Every day before school, I would bang away on Czerny, Bach, Beethoven and Mozart-and throw in a little Jerry Lee Lewis when I thought no one was around to correct me. ”

- Lamar Alexander

“ Wrecked on the lee shore of age. ”

- Sarah Orne Jewett

“ It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught. ”

- Henry James

“ People ask me if I'd like to be a teenager today, I'd have to say, Not really. I'd never have gotten to meet Frank Sinatra. I wouldn't have ever known Quinn, Gregory Peck, David Niven or Lee Thompson or Carl Foreman or Shelley Winters or Burl Ives. I wouldn't have known those people. ”

- James Darren

“ I met Little Walter before I started recording. He was around Chicago. He used to play Chicago in a place called Jew Town. That's on the streets. He was a great harp player but he didn't have the Walter style then, he had John Lee Williams, Sonny Boy, not Rice Miller, he was playin' on that style… ”

- Muddy Waters

“ Spike Lee always keeps a distance with actors. He's not always joking around; a lot of directors joke around to get close to the actor. He has a different style. You never know what he's thinking, and you're kind of nervous. When you're nervous, you're more devoted because you want to be good. ”

- Bai Ling

“ People tell me not to do a soap, but it was a great learning experience because I became familiar with the technical aspects of the business. Besides, look who came out of soaps - Julianne Moore, Demi Moore, Tommy Lee Jones, Parker Posey, Kathleen Turner… ”

- Sarah Michelle Gellar

“ I think there certainly was a milestone in the '90s with regards to the Internet achieving critical mass. There were several magical factors that came together: the creation of HTML by Tim Berners-Lee, the drop in the price of communications, and all the PCs out there that you could put this software into. ”

- Bill Gates

“ "Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death." But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace. ”

- Austin Farrer
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