Stephen Leacock Quotes

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

Stephen Leacock

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: December 30, 1869 - March 28, 1944

Topics

SimplicityIdeasWritingYouDown

I've always admired sharks because they have a dimension of intelligence that is somewhat unique to that animal, and especially a great white. A great white has this organ called an ampullae of Lorenzini, and it can actually sense electromagnetic disturbances.

Jim Toomey

GreatIntelligenceAnimalUnique

I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment.

John Burnside

DisappointmentWorldRoutineWant

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.

Robert Smithson

EyeMuseumCollectionGeneralizations

Zombies sort of typify this ambiguity, that they're not dead and not alive.

Jeff Baena

AliveDeadAmbiguityZombiesSort

Being in love is the best feeling on the planet. I really believe that love makes the world go round.

Sonam Kapoor

LoveBestLove IsWorldBelieveGo

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.

Story Musgrave

PoetryWritingEnvironmentTalkOwn

The studio work is the nasty, tedious, hard and nerve-wracking part, interrupted by moments of exhilaration. Playing live is the chance to actually have some fun and get on a stage.

Tom Scholz

WorkLiveFunChanceMomentsHard

Well, I had a wonderful career.

Robert Duvall

CareerWonderfulWellHad

In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds and play a guy with AIDS, and you get rewarded. But, in life, doing what is courageous is quiet, and no one knows about it. Courage is someone making sacrifices for their family or making selfless decisions for what they hope or feel.

Rob Lowe

LifeFamilyHopeCourageTimeDoing

Net neutrality is the right thing for our democracy, economy, and global competitiveness. And Americans support an open Internet.

Marvin Ammori

SupportDemocracyInternetEconomy

I'm a religious fanatic? Yes, I am, actually.

Michael Moore

I AmYesReligiousFanaticActually

I always imagine people give succinct answers. I have no prepared thoughts on what I do.

Julia Davis

PeopleThoughtsAlwaysAnswersGive

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