Michael Leunig Quotes
God help us to live slowly: To move simply: To look softly: To allow emptiness: To let the heart create for us. Amen.
Quotes to Explore
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.
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You realize mortality is everywhere.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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The blessing is that my kids have a lot of strong men and strong marriages around them, so I feel like they are getting what they need as far as role modeling. So I don't feel the pressure for them.
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Failing to plan is planning to fail. Plan Each Day, Each Week, Each Semester. You can always change your plan, but only once you have one!
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Beyond his own sure knowledge, he had not a shred of proof.
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I'm not an idiot: I know that I can sing and I know that I can act.
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I knew that my hair was falling out and I had really weird skin. My face looked really weird and I was getting this fuzz on my face and I was always cold - always to the point of uncontrollably shaking. I was more scared that 85 lbs. wasn't good enough. I wanted to be lower.
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I thought Oasis were great.
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Uh? They don't like me over here, either.
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The Beauty which old Greece or RomeSung, painted, wrought, lies close at home.
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Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all, no rest until all has been fulfilled.
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Clearly, it's going to affect the Gulf Coast economy quite a bit.
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It had a profound impact on me as a human being, and I did a lot of growing within that, so that will always be a defining moment in my life, a defining time.
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I have lots of ideas and put pressure on myself to action them all. This can make life very busy so organisation can sometimes be crazy.
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It has taken me so many years to finally be in my bed and fall asleep for six hours.
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God help us to live slowly: To move simply: To look softly: To allow emptiness: To let the heart create for us. Amen.
