Maurice Sendak Quotes

When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

Maurice Sendak

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifePurposeI AmMeKnowNeed

Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. That's it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.

Joanna Lumley

LifeNatureTimeFlowersBirdsYou

Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately.

Anna Camp

ThinkYouBornPersonTeachTalents

My mother is the most important person I know, and I try to be the same as she.

Trevante Rhodes

MotherPersonKnowImportantTry

Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens every time I threw.

Dazzy Vance

TimeHurtWrongHardRightThrow

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

Clint Eastwood

FunnyYouWantBuyGuarantee

If you have problems of conduct that are difficult and hard to settle, I will furnish you with solutions, for I not only know matters of practice and duty, but I even know them beforehand.

Apollonius of Tyana

PracticeProblemsYouKnowDuty

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

Winston Churchill

ManYouNothingCostsPolite

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

GoodPeopleUnderstandingWillMore

In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.

James Salter

LifeTravelAlwaysOutsiderThings

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

James Russell Lowell

GoodCharacterLuckGood LuckDuty

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Honore de Balzac

NatureSocietyFoolsDumbAnimals

Right now the long-term investors are telling us that they're not as concerned about inflation and so we're seeing these rates now move into the marketplace and out to the street - rates that individuals can get.

Franklin Raines

SeeingNowStreetRightOutUs

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