Leo Kottke Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
-
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
-
Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
-
I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
-
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
-
If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
-
Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
-
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
-
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
-
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
-
I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.
-
I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
-
Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
-
Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
-
I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
-
Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
-
Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
-
Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
-
People are just like farm equipment. They rust out quicker than they wear out.
-
This deranged jungle of ironies coinhabits my skull like feathers and fireworks. My heart fills with stones. I am the mad aunt who laughs her head off at the funeral. There rises in me the most inappropriate hysteria in this most somber of places.
-
In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.
-
That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is one of the seminal art works of the twentieth century.
-
For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life - namely myself.
-
Yeah, the first thing that comes to mind is not to try too hard.
