"The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious……" — Michael Leunig
"The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination."
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108 Quotes by Michael Leunig
Michael Leunig has 108 quotes on this site.
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If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and…
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There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed."…
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When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the…
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Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and…
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Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is…
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There is some suffering that awaits us all.
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The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power…
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God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And…
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At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature.…
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For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something…
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I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.
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Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting…
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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast…
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What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.
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Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
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There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously…
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I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini…
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May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb…
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The Christian life is stamped by 'moral spontaneous originality,' consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus…
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What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun…
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And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the…
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Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.
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Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your…
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They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells…
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