Leccisotti Quotes & Sayings

Force is a physical power; I do not see how its effects could produce morality. To yield to force is an act of necessity, not of will; it is at best an act of prudence. In what sense can it be a moral duty? — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater. — Trevor Nunn

Moon like a large stainedglass window that breaks on the ocean. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe. But what you have to offer is your own sensibility, maybe your own sense of humor or insider pathos or meaning. All of us can sing the same song, and there will still be four billion different renditions. — Anne Lamott

Matter begins evolving back to Spirit and, when it's reached, the whole process begins over again for the billionth time. — Ken Wilber

If only there were a game whose winning required a gift for the identification of missed opportunities and of things lost and irrecoverable, a knack for the belated recognition of truths, for the exploitation of chances in imagination after it's too late! — Michael Chabon

As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses. — George Bernard Shaw

Ritual and ceremony are powerful bonding tools. They result in a sense of community, a feeling of unity far beyond what you might expect. — Del Suggs

How is it possible to defeat not the authors but the functions of the author, the idea that behind each book there is someone who guarantees a truth in that world of ghosts and inventions by the mere fact of having invested in it his own truth, of having identified himself with that construction of words? — Italo Calvino

I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good. — Eleanor Catton

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix. — Eddie Van Halen