Mark Leslie quotes

“An actor without techies is a naked person standing in the dark trying to emote. A techie without actors is a person with marketable skills.”
-- Mark Leslie

#Dark Quotes #Skills Quotes #Theatre Quotes

“Do not ride in cars: they are responsible for 20% of all fatal accidents. Do not stay at home: 17% of all accidents occur in the home. Do not walk on the streets or pavements: 14% of all accidents occur to pedestrians. Do not travel by air, rail, or water: 16% of accidents happen on these. Only .001% of all deaths occur in worship services in church, and these are usually related to previous physical disorders. Hence the safest place for you to be at any time is at church!”
-- Mark Leslie

#Christian Quotes #Home Quotes #Air Quotes

“You ultimately have to find out who you are inside and develop a set of values that are truly yourself, and then express them,”
-- Mark Leslie

#Who You Are Quotes #Values Quotes

“I believe if you want to be trusted, you have to trust first. If you do that, you will be betrayed sometimes. But the value of engendering trust is greater than the cost of being betrayed sometimes.”
-- Mark Leslie

#Believe Quotes #Cost Quotes #Betrayed Quotes

“Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some sulfur dioxide. Once you've belched it out, you can't take it back. As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. The interesting this is, the less often I vocalize my negative thoughts, the fewer negative thoughts I cook up in the first place.”

“The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.”

“The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.”

Source : Abraham Kuyper (2007). “The Work of the Holy Spirit”, p.58, Cosimo, Inc.

“Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale dark energy effects. So dark energy could not be seen until we could measure things very, very far away.”

“It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.”

“Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.”

“Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.”

“Is she perverted like me? Would she go down on you in a theatre?”

“To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.”

Source : "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations". Book by James B. Simpson, 1988.

“Best performance of the year: Aston Villa v. Milan, September 1994”

Source : Alec Guinness (2001). “A Commonplace Book”