"Don't eat me. I am an inchworm. I am useful. I measure things."

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Source : Leo Lionni (1960). “Inch by Inch”

Leo Lionni

#Sure Thing Quotes

“I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can.”

Source : "The College Professor I’ll Never Forget" by Renee Olstead, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2012.
“No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction , a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”

Source : "The Life and Work of Martha Graham". Book by Agnes de Mille, p. 264, 1991.
“You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.”
“If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].”
“Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent love which she had lost and still secretly mourned; from anguished joy over the pale, luminous love which drew her to the farthest boundaries of life on this earth. Through the great darkness that would come, she saw the gleam of another, gentler sun, and she sensed the fragrance of the herbs in the garden at world's end.”
“Instead of criticizing, find out how to help.”
“When a man goes into the ring, he's going to war....”
“Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.”

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