Michael Leunig Quotes

There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd say, 'Yeah well, that's not me. I'm just interested in that because I think it makes a funny drawing.' But later I understood it was me in many respects; my hand was doing it ahead of the head's understanding.

Michael Leunig

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• Understanding
• Lonely
• Loneliness
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• It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Solution

• I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • End
  • See
  • Special

• My degree was in theater administration. So I can sell the hell out of a ticket at the box office.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Hell
  • Office
  • Box

• The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • People
  • Driving
  • Hatred

• The dose makes the poison.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Poison
  • Makes
  • Dose

• My thing is, I don't get in nobody's business or nothing like that or try to bash anybody for what they do. I've got cousins who are gay. To me, there's just no difference. We always chill and have family functions the way we always have. It's not a problem.

  

  Warren G
  • Family
  • Business
  • Gay

• All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Value
  • Things
  • Human

• You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Son

• Everybody likes each other until things get tough. Then you will find out what kind of team you have, and I understand that as much as anyone.

  

  Doc Rivers
  • Team

• My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Great
  • Why
  • Air

• I like that because the fans want to see onstage what they know so well from the big screen.

  

  Frankie Avalon

• When I was very young, it was all, 'Here's little Johnny,' and I got stuck with it, but I prefer John. There comes a time in a man's life when he shouldn't have a name ending in 'y'.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Life
  • Time

• So much to do, so little done, such things to be.

  

  Elizabeth Taylor
  • Done

• Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know - not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that's kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I really believe that the more informed you are about the benefits of a healthy bite versus the chain reaction that you're going to put into effect in your body when you take that bite - you just suddenly don't want to make that choice for yourself anymore. It's beyond willpower at that point; it's become a desire to do something good for yourself.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Desire

• I think Ray Liotta in 'Goodfellas' is the best ever. Given that it was two hours, it was a little bit more theatrical, and I mean that in the most positive way.

  

  Boyd Holbrook
  • Positive

• Music videos, to me, are like an extension of a song.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Music
  • Song

• The way I see it, any attention I get, for whatever reason, just draws more eyes to the causes that I believe in.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Believe
  • Attention
  • Eyes

• Certainly, there's a possibility of an amendment, that's something we're looking at.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Possibility
  • Amendment

• In your loneliness, you hear the word from far away and then, in gratitude, look at it so closely that you cannot but drown in it.

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • Gratitude
  • Loneliness
  • Drown

• There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd say, 'Yeah well, that's not me. I'm just interested in that because I think it makes a funny drawing.' But later I understood it was me in many respects; my hand was doing it ahead of the head's understanding.

  

  Michael Leunig
  • Character
  • Understanding
  • Lonely