Leeky Quotes & Sayings

Fortunate are the nations that can build wooden houses. Because wood breathes, transforms, deteriorates, like us. It is also important to have flowers and plants where we live, because they breathe, too. Contemplating a flower for three seconds can be a captivating solitary journey back to original geometry, which is always revitalizing. — Henryk Skolimowski

Repudiating the vulnerability I felt had wrecked the lives of women around me, I modelled myself on my controlled father. I wanted his freedom and his focus. To him, a family was an aquarium: controlled, contained. To the women I knew, a family was everything. — Antonella Gambotto-Burke

Leeky Shortz says "Live life like your arse is on fire! — Maxine Mansfield

Nothing is so much fun as business. I do not expect to do anything but work as long as I can stand up. — William Wrigley Jr.

A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy. — Thomas Brooks

I define success as being the best, authentic me that I can be. — Leeky Behrman

Don't expect to be paid a dollar an hour for your working hours when you then use your leisure hours as though they were not worth five cents a dozen. — Henry Latham Doherty

Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony between ourselves and the outside world, and if we happen to become aware-like Stravinsky- of a volcano within us, we will compensate by urging restraint. By that same token, someone who bore a glacier within them might urge passionate abandon. The danger is, as Bergman points out, that a glacial personality in need of passionate abandon may read Stravinsky and apply restraint instead. — Walter Murch

When I tried to remember her voice saying, 'Don't worry,' I found I had no memory for sounds. I couldn't imitate her voice. I couldn't even caricature it: when I tried to remember it, it was anonymous - just any woman's voice.
The process of forgetting her had set in. We should keep gramophone records as we keep photographs. — Graham Greene

I'd like to see twenty-one links completed when I return. Threats on your well-being are poor excuses for missing homework!

He drew a happy face after that - two dots and a curving line - and signed his name. — Charlie N. Holmberg

After the miners' rally, when I saw how emotional everyone got when I sang, I thought I might get somewhere with singing — Aselin Debison

There are already people in line over there," he said. "Have you seen them? Just three miserable dorks sitting on the sidewalk."
Elena smiled brightly. "That's us!"
"What?"
"We're the three dorks - well, two of the three."
The barista was mortified; he gave them their coffee for free. "May the Force be with you!" Elena said. — Rainbow Rowell