Michael Leunig Quotes

A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light.

Michael Leunig

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FailureLightSoulNightStreetOut

You want experimentation. Every once in awhile, you stumble upon something that blows your mind.

Jeremy Stoppelman

MindYouWantStumbleSomething

Larry David is such an incredible talent.

Jenn Lyon

TalentIncredibleDavidLarry

Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive group of high-tech companies already doing business in our region.

Roger Wicker

BusinessDoingPlansGroupBuild

Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery or angry, and they can have catchy and satisfying melodies. There's nothing wrong with songs.

Russell Smith

LoveGreatAngryWrongSometimes

Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We'll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We'll be able to modify life in the future.

Michio Kaku

LifeFuturePowerFlyingThinkBody

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.

Joseph Jacobs

FateFairEmpireBritishGreeks

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

Dick Gregory

GoodFatherMotherGodMomEnough

One game, one pitch can change everything for a hitter. The way I like to approach it is that every at-bat is its own unique opportunity to go out there and do something really good.

Anthony Rizzo

ChangeGoodOpportunityGameUnique

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

Audrey Hepburn

FunnyDanceFaceMadActThings

eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.

Pierre Omidyar

BusinessTrustSomeoneMeasureFirst

I adore kids. I enjoy everything that they bring to the party. They just say what they think.

Prince Harry

ThinkEnjoyPartySayEverything

Women are not automatically second-class citizens because they live in Islamic countries. We cannot judge the position of women in Islam aright if we take the most conservative Islamic states as representative of the whole.

Prince Charles

WomenLiveJudgeIslamConservative

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