Michael Leunig Quotes

Love a single an additional and you will be satisfied. It really is as easy and as challenging as that.

Michael Leunig

• Challenges
• Easy
• Satisfied

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Stone
  • Rolling
  • Moss

• I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Creativity

• Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • Live
  • Community
  • Communication

• I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Make A Difference

• People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Fear
  • Value

• We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Problem
  • Suffering
  • Same

• I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I really had no preconceptions or expectations for myself or really any rules. It kind of represented, at least for me, a divergent path of creativity and self-discovery.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart.

  

  Said Nursi
  • World
  • Heart
  • Blow

• I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • School
  • Relationship

• I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Think
  • Moving
  • Enjoy

• The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • Care
  • Out

• From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody I've ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Father

• Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • People
  • Work
  • Game

• I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • People
  • Conflict
  • Themselves

• I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Woman

• There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Comedy

• If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.

  

  Victoria Smurfit
  • Family
  • Matter
  • Find

• My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Doing
  • Loved
  • Building

• I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Easy
  • Very
  • Through

• When I decided to stop using quotation marks, it presented technical challenges: you have to conceive of dialogue differently and structure it differently for this to work. So I had a new problem, which makes writing interesting again.

  

  Catherine Brady
  • Writing
  • Interesting
  • Problem

• I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy to account for.

  

  Charis Wilson
  • Feelings
  • Body
  • Easy

• Love a single an additional and you will be satisfied. It really is as easy and as challenging as that.

  

  Michael Leunig
  • Challenges
  • Easy
  • Satisfied