Maurice Sendak Quotes

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad.

Maurice Sendak

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildrenParentsMomYouKnowWant

I think probably the first time I recorded anything was mid-2010.

Jim James

TimeThinkFirst TimeFirstAnything

I don't change. The things around me change.

Jeremy Renner

ChangeMeThingsAround

You've got to love yourself first. You've got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.

Jennifer Lopez

LoveYourselfLove YourselfYouOkay

RevitaLash. Beyond obsessed. We don't use fake lashes anymore for me at work... they are SO long!

Meghan Markle

WorkMeFakeLongBeyondLashes

A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it.

Matthew Barney

WorkEgoWayUpStomachJust

I was a Republican before Donald Trump was a Republican. I was a Republican when Donald Trump was a Democrat. I was a Republican when Donald Trump was an independent. And I'm going to be a Republican when Donald Trump gets tired of being a Republican.

Ana Navarro

TiredDonald TrumpIndependentGoing

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.

Sophocles

FearManPeopleStandNeverLaws

I like the notion of making stuff up or letting your imagination go away with you.

Stevie Jackson

ImaginationYouGoUpGo AwayStuff

People today expect too much from marriage. Getting married is really like taking on a big new job.

Rosamunde Pilcher

MarriageTodayJobPeopleToo Much

When Harvey Weinstein threatened to sue me, it was like the scene in 'Harry Potter' where an invitation to Hogwarts is coming in through every window and fireplace and every opening in the house.

Ronan Farrow

MeWindowHouseFireplaceOpening

You can always tell gifted and highly intelligent people as they always turn to the past. Any young person who knows anything that happened before 1980, or 1990, or 2000 for that matter, is immediately someone who is intelligent, probably creative, maybe a writer. Nobody who is drawn to the past and learning about the past is not gifted.

Mike Nichols

LearningPastCreativePeopleYou

I started to write when I was eighteen or nineteen. However, until I was about twenty-three, I didn't take it that seriously.

Joseph Brodsky

SeriouslyWriteTakeStartedUntil

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