Lean Quotes
585 quotes by 511 authors
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You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I…
— John Vanbrugh
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Do grant, oh my God, that when my lips approach Yours to kiss You, I may taste the gall that was given to You; when…
— Gemma Galgani
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I've played hockey most my life and I've never been badly injured...Three weeks into curling I've got bone chips in both my elbows. I still…
— James Allodi
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Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to…
— Hannah More
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It's still a lean back, enjoy or a lean forward, be involved, enjoy medium. It's real engagement, real emotion.
— Christopher Locke
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I had a choice to be lazy or lean - if I hadn't changed, thing probably would catch up with me.
— Jim Brown
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Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.
— Sol Stein
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Don't hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident. . . . Every little qualifier whittles away some fraction of the…
— William Zinsser
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Good writing is lean and confident.
— William Zinsser
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We've tried to keep as cheap and lean an operation as possible.
— David Karp
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The Baptist found him far too deep; The Deist sighed with saving sorrow; And the lean Levite went to sleep, And dreamed of tasting pork…
— Winthrop Mackworth Praed
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As a songwriter, I try not to be sloppy; same with the music. You can be very lean, very efficient, so you're not wasting a…
— John Fogerty
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Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because…
— Jamie Zawinski
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I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what…
— James Woods
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Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to…
— Henry Rollins
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Lean Pockets, I don't even wanna know what's in those. I wonder what the directions are on a box of Lean Pockets: 'Remove from box,…
— Jim Gaffigan
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I'm half Jewish, but no one believes me because my looks lean a little WASP-y... It's sometimes hard for me to get the roles I'm…
— Armie Hammer
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When you’re married to Miranda Lambert, you've gotta give her her room because she’s a powerful force. I think it’s more about just listening and…
— Blake Shelton
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I don't really know why, but danger has always been an important thing in my life - to see how far I could lean without…
— William Holden
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We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables.. You are what you eat, you know. When I'm 100 I'll still be doing pin-ups.
— Jayne Mansfield
Who Wrote These Lean Quotes
511 authors contributed a total of 585 Lean Quotes, led by these top contributors: