Kelly Leak Quotes & Sayings

I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse. — Robert Metcalfe

In Allston, as generous as he was with his praise and encouragement, Sophia had come face-to-face with the male art establishment and its aesthetic. She had encountered it before when she was hustled out of Thomas Doughty's studio while a men's painting class was in session. More recently, at a gathering in the Reverend Channing's parlor, she had been stunned when the minister had quoted the influential British artist Henry Fuseli's sneering observation that there was "no fist" in women's painting - and then demanded Sophia's response. Flustered, Sophia had "sunk away into my shell," unable to speak, she confided in her journal. She had enough trouble summoning the confidence to paint each day, let alone defend women artists as a class. Channing's question struck to the heart of Sophia's ambivalence about taking the initiative to create original works of art. Virtually — Megan Marshall

I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying. — Jack Davenport

Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible ... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and see if you recognize your neighborhood. The right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question, what will this do to our community? tends toward the right answer for the world. — Wendell Berry

Evie narrowed her eyes. "A time limit. Four weeks of the swooniest, swellest romance New York City has ever seen. And then, kaput. Over and out. Off the air."
"Golly, when you say it like that, it sounds as if our love's not real, Lamb Chop. — Libba Bray

I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through. — Kirsten Gillibrand

Since people of necessity see things from their own perspective, much of what they say adds up to comforting ideas or outright propaganda for themselves and the groups to which they belong. — Patricia Crone

It's called being polite; they probably didn't teach you that at home. Doesn't mean I like you or anything. — Rachel Caine

If my dad was alive, I wouldn't have gone to boarding school, and I wouldn't have had the success I've had. — Jason Day

...I'm in a little bubble of warmth, just like I had with Ellis, a place I never thought I'd be again. — Kathleen Glasgow

Just because they say they're praying for you in your face, doesn't mean they aren't laughing at your struggle behind your back. — Trent Shelton

Here was a man who defied all odds, lived by himself, worked, created beautiful art. A complex mind stumped by some of the simplest tasks.
If he could, he would keep trying until there was only absolute failure or success.
How many people could say that? — Adrienne Wilder

Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful. — Harold Bloom

I HAVE TOLD you that a woman is to be loved, not understood. — Osho