Great Quotes by Michael Leunig

10 Great quotes by Michael Leunig

Leunig’s reflections on greatness are light‑hearted and subtly profound. These ten short lines blend his quirky humor with a calm outlook.

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Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view.

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There are moments when great music can be the greatest service and charity.

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As a child, I dreamed that my bed could fly and glide and swoop and hover high over the countryside near my…

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There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured…

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Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness:…

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I think we live in delusional times, whether it's with a great ability to totally distract ourselves with technology, or with speed…

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The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is…

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In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn't partake in…

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As a cartoonist, I am not interested in defending the dominant, the powerful, the well-resourced and the well-armed because such groups are…

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At last, after completing year 12, I failed the great final examination, repeated the following year and failed again even more dismally…

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I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default.

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I never really understood who the Magi were as a child. What is a Magi? Not a word I would use, but a magpie…

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God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And sinks within a minute.…

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I'm totally deaf in my right ear, yeah.

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Emotional stability has not been America's gift to the world.

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Life seems sadly mishandled by humans, as if it's all too much for them - they spend so much time and energy hurting each…

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