#leonard

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

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

Being illegitimate is a technicality. It does not mean that there is anything wrong with you. Men use "bastard" as a curse. But to use the term thus is to show that they themselves are less than a proper human being. ↗

— Theresa Breslin

#children #leonardo-da-vinci #matteo #value-of-life #life

I am a huge Leonard Cohen person. ↗

— Michelle Williams

#cohen #huge #i #i am #leonard

For that little incident had impressed the three women more than might be supposed. It remained as a goblin footfall, as a hint that all is not for the best in the best of all possible worlds, and that beneath these superstructures of wealth and art there wanders an ill-fed boy, who has recovered his umbrella indeed, but who has left no address behind him, and no name. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#art

I have to say you don't look anything like a policewoman." Maxia's perfect eyebrows arched as she gave Eve's dress a quick scan. "Leonardo dresses you, doesn't he?" "No, I usually do it myself. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#eve-dallas #leonardo #death