Leo Kottke Quotes

There are nights when you can feel stale because you've fallen into a pattern by touring too much, but it's easy to get out of it by deliberately getting in trouble and playing yourself into a corner to then see if you can get out of it.

Leo Kottke

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• If elected, I would not be the mere president of a party - I would endeavor to act independent of party domination and should feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Party
  • Government
  • Feel

• I always thought I should be treated like a star.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Always
  • Star
  • Thought

• I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Game

• I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia for five weeks. My family had a chance to come over and we really loved it, particularly the island of Pangkor.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Family
  • Chance
  • Loved

• The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.

  

  Finn Jones
  • People
  • Power
  • Small

• I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Writing
  • Myself

• I've read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words, which is enough for him to have his own Twitter account.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Words
  • Dog
  • Him

• I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Run
  • Truck
  • Quit

• I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.

  

  J. Cole
  • Want
  • Like
  • Something

• How many people in the world is, each of them is individual. And I like to eat bread, somebody don't like that. You know this is the same in gymnastics.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • People
  • World
  • Same

• Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Sleep
  • Tired
  • Plan

• It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power... I think when Universal goes up over 40 percent market share, I don't see how reasonable regulators can countenance. It will impact not just labels, but artists and cultural diversity.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Up
  • Power
  • Diversity

• When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • World
  • Race
  • London

• My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They're very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Children
  • Church
  • Spiritual

• I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Success

• Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• At some point in the past, this person was (arguably) your best friend.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Past
  • Friend

• A disciple said to him, 'I am ready, in the quest for God, to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a person give up?' The Master calmly replied, 'One's beliefs about God.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• Only Love can explain itself.

  

  Rumi
  • Love
  • Explain
  • Itself

• Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou shalts” and “thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Real
  • Powerful
  • Lying

• My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Parents
  • Education
  • Me

• I think coming off of "Blame", I've been talking a lot about directing. It's something that I really love and connect with. I truly consider it what I was born to do. That kind of loops in with filmmaking on the whole, because when you create something, you're also wearing a lot more hats than just director. At the same time, I also think acting is something that's very powerful in my life.

  

  Quinn Shephard
  • Life
  • Time
  • Powerful

• Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what's inside will change your life, but sometimes you don't even have to read it. Sometimes it's a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven't even had their spines cracked. 'Why do you buy books you don't even read?' our daughter asks us. That's like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Book
  • Attention
  • Sometimes

• There are nights when you can feel stale because you've fallen into a pattern by touring too much, but it's easy to get out of it by deliberately getting in trouble and playing yourself into a corner to then see if you can get out of it.

  

  Leo Kottke