#leonard

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. ↗

— Marvin Hagler

#even #feel #fight #heart #i

Leonardo DiCaprio is a very serious young actor. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#dicaprio #leonardo #leonardo dicaprio #serious #very

He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#leonard-cohen #beauty

I laugh when Floyd Mayweather says that if he went back in time he would beat us all. I'll tell you this: if he was in the same era as Hagler and Hearns and Leonard and me, I don't think he would be such a big name. There is too much talk. ↗

— Roberto Duran

#beat #big #era #floyd #floyd mayweather

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second. ↗

— John Lasseter

#also #art #art forms #cartoons #control

My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#cello #contemporaries #great #grew #him

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#bob #bob dylan #cohen #dylan #friends

Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#ali #anyone #being #came #close

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#i #i love #leonard #like #love

She looked... She looked young, and- and--" I glanced down at Rossana gazing up at me, lips parted, eyes shining, her hair loose around her shoulders, and the next words I spoke were intended with no artifice at all. "She is almost as beautiful as you." There was laughter, and I looked up, confused. "If you wish to pay court to my daughter, Matteo, you must first speak to me," Captain dell'Orte said in mock severity. Rossana's face colored pink. "Elizabetta is also very beautiful," I said quickly, thinking to cover any embarassment, but also because it was true. The adults roared with laughter. "Now Matteo seeks to woo both girls with one compliment. ↗

— Theresa Breslin

#humor #leonardo-da-vinci #matteo #ten-year-old-boy #beauty