Leo Lionni quotes

Leo Lionni quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Don't eat me. I am an inchworm. I am useful. I measure things.”
-- Leo Lionni

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

#Sure Thing Quotes
“In our everyday garden grow the rosemary, juniper, ferns and plane trees, perfectly tangible and visible. For these plants that have an illusory relationship with us, which in no way alters their existentiality, we are merely an event, an accident, and our presence, which seems so solid, laden with gravity, is to them no more than a momentary void in motion through the air. Reality is a quality that belongs to them, and we can exercise no rights over it.”
-- Leo Lionni

Source : Leo Lionni (1977). “Parallel botany”, Random House Inc

#Exercise Quotes #Reality Quotes #Garden Quotes
“The good designer aims at a perfect fusion of the various considerations which enter into his design. He aims at an untortured unity-a direct whole. He arranges his levels consciously or subconsciously, adhearing to the requisites of the problem he is asked to solve or to his own inclination. Some designers see total act through a disc of aesthetic considerations-others, more practical minded, may put economic considerations at top level.”
-- Leo Lionni

#Perfect Quotes #Design Quotes #Unity Quotes
“I believe that a good children's book should appeal to all people who have not completely lost their original joy and wonder in life. The fact is that I don't make books for children at all. I make them for that part of us, of myself and of my friends, which has never changed, which is still a child.”
-- Leo Lionni

#Children Quotes #Believe Quotes #Book Quotes
“From time to time, from the endless flow of our mental imagery, there emerges unexpectedly something that, vague though it may be, seems to carry the promise of a form, a meaning, and, more important, an irresistible poetic charge.”
-- Leo Lionni

#Promise Quotes #Important Quotes #May Quotes
“The Domino Effect could stand for anything. It could be just the simple game of the domino rocks falling off one after another, all kinds of decision we make that come back to our face. For example take an anorexic model that stops eating until she dies, or the bombs that a are thrown in a war and the effect they have on people, or even something simple as listening to a record that you like until you get bored of it and leave it in your shelf.”
-- Leo Lionni

#War Quotes #Fall Quotes #Simple Quotes

“The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.”
“The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.”
“I'm an artist, and I like the risk - I'm not in it for the sure things.”

Source : "Cee Lo Green: 'I'd do a lot more damage if I could'" by Angus Batey, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2010.
“Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.”

Source : "The Book of Quotes". Book by Barbara Rowes, 1979.
“Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.”
“Don't eat me. I am an inchworm. I am useful. I measure things.”

Source : Leo Lionni (1960). “Inch by Inch”
“A sure thing is no fun.”
“No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.”
“There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.”
“Sure things are going to get sketchy, but when your having the time of your life whats sketchy?”

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