Michael Leunig Quotes
If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates of materialism and secularity, then the raw spirit truth of our native land is alive and radiant by comparison. For joy and meaning we might well turn to our natural country and witness miracles of vitality and new life, of inspiration and profound beauty; all in some humble, quiet and improbable place.
Michael Leunig
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Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.
Ralph Marston
I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
Laura Linney
If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage girls. We need to think about things that are relevant to normal humans and not just the geeks we used to be.
Warren Spector
Outside the golf course, I feel the pressure, and I feel what everybody else is feeling. But on the golf course, it's just the golf ball and clubs. And when I have that, it just puts a lot of pressure off of me. It just makes me very calm looking at it, yeah.
Inbee Park
The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.
Ted Cruz
Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that's always been my motto.
Samuel Beckett
Frankly, I think there is something wrong with Jawlensky's dots in his paintings, then. Anybody can pick up that style if they want to.
Wassily Kandinsky
Cultural evolution is Lamarckian and very fast, whereas biological evolution is Darwinian and usually very slow.
E. O. Wilson
Honour is the mysticism of legality.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Ein Mittler ist derjenige, der Göttliches in sich wahrnimmt, und sich selbst vernichtend Preis giebt, um dieses Göttliche zu verkündigen, mitzutheilen, und darzustellen allen Menschen in Sitten und Thaten, in Worten und Werken.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Last time I had my hands on you, you felt like a bird - struggling to escape. You'll never escape now...
Agatha Christie
I actually played violin on 'E.T.' I used to be a violinist.
David Newman
Flannel shirts, denim, Converse, a guitar, messy hair? That's literally me.
Alessia Cara
Loyalty expanded is not loyalty betrayed!
Ethan Bennett Farnum
For me, the world is a stage, and we are all playing the character we have chosen to play on that stage. It is the job of the photographer to capture the drama of the performance.
Alix Smith
I love to roller skate.
Jane Krakowski
Nature's message is clear: we can't keep doing what we're doing now.
Kevin Spacey
If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates of materialism and secularity, then the raw spirit truth of our native land is alive and radiant by comparison. For joy and meaning we might well turn to our natural country and witness miracles of vitality and new life, of inspiration and profound beauty; all in some humble, quiet and improbable place.
Michael Leunig
