Top 271 Leonard Peacock Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Men's clothes are becoming kind of mod. They're becoming more colorful and more flamboyant, and the male peacock is beginning to show his true plumage.

I study Floyd Mayweather, Mike Tyson, Roy Jones Jr and Sugar Ray Leonard.

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

Leonard Cohen kept his Jew name. He's so cool. It's too bad he died.

Animals use a broad range of strategies to advertise themselves in the mating market. In some instances, visual cues highlight a morphological feature - for example, the peacock's tail.

Dad was in the First World War in the Royal Field Artillery from 1914 to 1918, as well as uncle Leonard.

I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

For someone like me, who has grown up with Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, it's hard not to invest a lot of myself in what I do.

Just as people behave to me, so do I behave to them. When I see that a person despises me and treats me with contempt, I can be as proud as any peacock.

I actually was a musician in college, a composer and singer, and really intended to be the second coming of Leonard Bernstein when I got out.

To cast Mr. Spock, I made a phone call to Leonard, and he came in. That was it.

Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.

I don't really think about retiring. I will retire just before people start saying, 'I knew Leonard Slatkin when he conducted well.'

That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up.

My first boxing memory is watching Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard on television.

I do own CDs by Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell, but I don't think of them as being major influences on my writing.

It's, 'Honey, where's the peacock outfit? What about my leather pants?' You have to swat them clean with a brush. And when the makeup artist passed out, I had to finish. That's why Todd would have two different kinds of eye makeup on.

I fear I must agree," Magnus murmured. He pressed a hand over his heart and his new peacock-blue waistcoast. "I strive to find some respect in my heart for you, but alas! It seems an impossible quest.

Geoff Leonard knows more about me than I know myself.

Very little other than Elmore Leonard's crime writing inspiring me on my Batman run.

I'm looking forward to partnering with TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners. This transaction is a clear endorsement of J. Crew and the hard work and dedication of all of our associates.

Leonard Cohen is probably the greatest lyricist for music that's ever lived, you know?

You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.

If Justin Beiber was 7 feet tall, he'd look like [Meyers Leonard] that.

Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy.

Let it Ride channels Elmore Leonard at the height of his powers, with dialogue Quentin Tarantino would kill for.

From a pure basketball standpoint, it's hard to say you wouldn't want Kawhi Leonard on your team.

I was taught to fighter like Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali when I was growing up.

As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered.

When you fall ill, people send you CDs. Very often, in my experience, these are by Leonard Cohen

I think 'Westworld' and 'Hap and Leonard' are two of the greatest things that you can do with this oversized pool of the television medium.

I'm an enormous fan of American literature, and especially the great novels of Larry McMurtry, 'Lonesome Dove,' Cormac McCarthy, Elmore Leonard.

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

Oscar De La Hoya is unique. Even Ray Leonard didn't have the star power Oscar has.

I must have listened to at least 10 covers of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' - Jeff Buckley's cover is usually my go-to song.

I liked Roy Jones, Sugar Ray Leonard, Ali... those were the guys I was looking at growing up.

Other great fighters like Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali have fallen to the canvas. Why not Julio Cesar Chavez?

It was a superlative joy of my long life to have worked with Leonard Nimoy, who became my friend, and many others at 'Star Trek.'

I admire writers such as Elmore Leonard who can nail a character in three or four lines of dialogue, so he doesn't need pages of back story or clumsy exposition.

Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.

No one is the same after I fought them - Hearns, Duran, Leonard. All of them.

Sometimes I feel like Leonard Cohen when he went off to become a Buddhist.

Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.

When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.

Choose upholstery that makes a big statement with texture, colour and design to define the space and colour that demands attention. Peacock blue with creams and warm woods looks amazing!

Even though the outcome wasn't the way it should have been, publicly I still feel in my heart I won the Sugar Ray Leonard fight.

I've always played acoustically - it's how I learned. I grew up listening to Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Dylan and what have you.

I know exactly how strong he is... He is like a peacock, spreading his feathers and squawking loudly to distract you from the back that his body is but weak." -Jason to Mahiya

Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".

People always talk about the lyrics of Leonard Cohen, but I like his melodies. They are very defined and original.

My philosophy on what makeup is...it's very different from what a woman's is. Makeup came from a very psychological place - of the peacock.

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

I wrote an ITV drama in the 1960s, a satire on management theory that starred Leonard Rossiter. I'm also a poet and have had work in the 'Spectator.'

What was special about Leonard Cohen's work was its calm mystery.

Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation.

I don't really think about retiring. I will retire just before people start saying, 'I knew Leonard Slatkin when he conducted well.

Sugar Ray Leonard's retirements last about as long as Elizabeth Taylor's marriages.

I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing songs.