Lesky Quotes & Sayings

'm very conscious about how the viewing situation [of the Biennale] creates a situation for the viewer who feels pressured. I don't really have any concept of who looks at my work online. I don't think it's viewed that much online. — Frances Stark

For their size, crows are among the brainiest organisms on Earth, outclassing not only other birds (with the possible exception of parrots), but also most mammals. — Candace Savage

We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad. — John F. Kennedy

In every remodelling of the present, the existing condition of things must be supplanted by a new one. Now every variety of circumstances in which men find themselves, every object which surrounds them, communicates a definite form and impress to their internal nature. This form is not such that it can change and adapt itself to any other a man may choose to receive; and the end is foiled, while the power is destroyed, when we attempt to impose upon that which is already stamped in the soul a form which disagrees with it. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Walt Disney was my great hero. — Stanislav Grof

Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know. — Marvin Minsky

Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men [e.g., Bruno Snell, Albin Lesky, Denys Page] in the German and British academic tradition. — Camille Paglia

[T]here is really nothing 'out there' to get because, already, within this moment, everything is whole and complete. — Steve Hagen

Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification. — Sydney Thompson Dobell

He balled up my discarded sweatshirt and put it against his shoulder. "Go on," he said. "I don't bite." "And from what I hear, that's a good thing." He gave a rumbling chuckle. "Yeah, it is." I leaned against his shoulder. — Kelley Armstrong

I love inspiring people and helping them to reach their potential. — Richard Hatch

The last time I saw you, I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle! — Lemony Snicket