Maurice Sendak Quotes

Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them.

Maurice Sendak

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 10, 1928 - May 8, 2012

Topics

BestEnjoyGoKnowWhyUp

I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.

John Lee Hooker

TodayTimeThinkYouHereStaying

Belief in liberal freedom and democracy is always belief in it in a particular place, in a national home with histories that only those who are born in a place or who adopt its citizenship can hope to understand.

Michael Ignatieff

HomeHopeFreedomDemocracyBorn

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

Lord John Russell

WisdomWitManyProverb

It is an Englishman who turns out to be the real villain of 'The Moonstone.' By contrast, the three Indian priests who dedicate their lives to returning the jewel to its proper home in the temple, though they have nothing personal to gain by doing so, are positively heroic.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

HomeVillainDoingThreePersonal

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Confucius

FriendshipManBetterNeverContract

I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.

Boz Scaggs

MeElectricityTryingOldConcert

You can watch TV and see experts of all different colours and hues. But the minute you get past nine o'clock and you're in primetime drama land, it's like entering another world, one that doesn't reflect the diversity of the society that we have in Britain in 2016.

Art Malik

PastDiversityWorldSocietyYou

I am not the one who has to try to beat me.

Ashton Eaton

I AmMeTryBeatWhoAm

I'd love it if every company could give raises to the average worker for doing good work.

Shawn Achor

WorkLoveGoodGood WorkDoingGive

I want to tell Jamaica, Happy 50th Anniversary.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

AnniversaryHappyWantTellJamaica

When Ukrainians kill Ukrainians, I believe this is as close to a civil war as you can get.

Sergei Lavrov

WarBelieveYouI BelieveCivil War

You can never turn your back on the ocean.

Rip Torn

OceanYouBackNeverTurnYour

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