Maurice Sendak Quotes

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

Maurice Sendak

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TruthHopeChildrenMyselfParents

You get a little picture that reflects the whole. You can get readers interested in the life of one guy, and he can reflect the whole life around him. And it's a better picture than the politicians give you.

Jimmy Breslin

LifeBetterPictureYouPoliticians

Saturday night is when my hair would be fixed up and that was my memory.

Jenifer Lewis

MemoryHairNightSaturdayUpWould

My three children played soccer and lacrosse. I grew up as a Green Bay Packers fan. I am not against sports. We want kids to play sports, but we want them to be safe.

Ann McKee

ChildrenSportsI AmGreenPlayUp

I'd been wanting to try a YA novel for years because I saw how exciting the genre was and how amazing, hungry, and curious the readers were.

Jeff Giles

CuriousAmazingTryYearsHungry

My life is about family and friends as well as work.

John Rocha

LifeWorkFamilyMy LifeFriends

It's always challenging when you're shooting a film. Shooting things out of order and keeping continuity on all levels is always for me the most challenging thing.

Amy Adams

MeYouAlwaysOutShootingFilm

I don't talk about my boyfriend because it's boring.

Suki Waterhouse

BoringTalkBecauseBoyfriendAbout

I love being an actor, especially in movies, because you get to be someone else.

Mason Cook

LoveSomeoneYouMoviesActorGet

Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.

Michael Winter

GoodWritingProblemThroughBrevity

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.

Josephine Hart

SoulSearchLandscapeGeographyOur

Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.

Jonathan Zittrain

TravelPhoneTurnMobileMicSwitch

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

Dilma Rousseff

WomenHopeLittle GirlsLookSay

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