Maurice Sendak Quotes

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.

Maurice Sendak

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimeTrustChildYouKnowBelieving

I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don't get sick as much. They don't lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.

Jello Biafra

LifeHealthPeopleWorldSickCare

A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and quiet, and isn't entitled to perfect conditions or the perfect spot.

Robert J. Sawyer

PeaceWaitPerfectQuietSheNeed

The bedroom in my apartment is far too small to hold a nightstand. There is, however, this bookshelf. Yes, I stow whatever I'm reading on the lower shelf, but more importantly, it's where I keep a collection of ghost books.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

SmallReadingMoreBedroomWhatever

The most important tip is to find a workout that you love - one that you're excited to go to. And do it with a group of friends. That's one of the reasons I created Happy Hour. It's effective, but it's also really fun to dance together under a disco ball.

Anna Kaiser

LoveTogetherDanceFunHappyYou

It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.

Michael Bloomberg

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The first books I remember having an impact on me when I was a kid were L. Frank Baum's 'Oz' books, which were much stranger than the movie: at once rather whimsical and really dark.

Steve Erickson

MeImpactRememberDarkFirstKid

As I got older, I had a bunch of friends that were various teen stars. I've always known people in the spotlight and people who just grew up in L.A. and had nothing to do with the industry. It's not a glamorous thing to me. It's just a different type of business.

Troian Bellisario

StarsBusinessTeenPeopleMe

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Rudyard Kipling

MadMoreEveryonePointLess

There were a lot of manufacturing jobs lost over a long period of time and particularly after - during the Great Recession. We've had some recovery in manufacturing employment as the economy's recovered.

Janet Yellen

GreatTimeLongLostManufacturing

The first serious applications were in triterpenoid chemistry.

Derek Harold Richard Barton

SeriousChemistryFirstWere

I'm a girl who's curvy, and I'm Latvian, but I don't have hips, and I have a tiny waist.

Debi Mazar

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My god! It's a hamster with explosives taped around it's waist!

Colin Mochrie

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