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Michael Leunig Quotes

The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is his oyster, or any other thing he wants it to be.

Michael Leunig

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: cartoonist
Nationality: australian
Birth: June 2, 1945

Topics

Life Knowledge Great Child World

I don't think too far ahead because I want to appreciate what's happening now.

Jessie Ware

Think Appreciate Now Want Ahead Far

Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails.

Jessica Stockholder

Painting Skin Nails Plumbing Paint

When you're 89, dementia develops. I mean, I've told a story onstage, and I'm telling it with a full heart, and I forgot the damn punch line.

Jerry Lewis

Heart Story You Damn Mean Line

If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored.

Andre Benjamin

Football You Look Pictures Now Old

'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish I could write like that. It helped that my models as a writer were dead over a hundred years before I began to write.

John Irving

Great Me Expectations Wish Important

You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played.

Jeff Tweedy

Time Yourself Swimming Energy You

Very, very rarely do you find bands underpricing.

Michael Cohl

You Find Very Bands Rarely

Ja Rule not doing '2 Fast 2 Furious' changed Ludacris's life.

John Singleton

Life Doing Fast Rule Changed

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

Stephen Hawking

Science Black Think Information Used

You have to be very specific on the technical part of the acting.

Stephanie Corneliussen

You Acting Technical Part Specific

18 to 19 is definitely a brilliant age. Equally, 50 or 60 should be good. Everything is done; you can relax a bit.

Sophie Winkleman

Good Age Relax You Done Brilliant

Clearly, if you go abroad to a top club, it means one more step in your development.

Toni Kroos

Step You Go Development More Top