Maurice Sendak Quotes

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know.

Maurice Sendak

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ParentsDownKnowEverythingTell

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.

John Berryman

LifeFriendsSayBoringMust

My record shows that I have put my country first, and I follow the philosophy and traditions of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.

John McCain

PhilosophyCountryFollowFirst

You need to agree with your boss about what you need to get done that week, what are the metrics of success. Sometimes you need more hours, sometimes you need fewer hours.

Robert Pozen

SuccessBossWeekYouSometimesGet

My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.

Jeanette Winterson

OutsideAlwaysSpotlightSomewhere

I write at a pace that suits me, and sometimes it's two books a year, but most often it's one.

Michael Connelly

MeSuitsYearSometimesWriteTwo

I've always been really ambitious, whatever I do. At school, I always wanted to be the best in the class - no, it wasn't enough to be the best in the class, I'd want to be the best in the country.

Sophia Myles

BestSchoolEnoughCountryWant

I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.

Martina Navratilova

HopePeopleThinkStopWillSomehow

Then I grew up and fell in love, I asked my sweetheart, 'what lies ahead?

Jay Livingston

LoveAheadUpLiesSweetheartThen

If you can have heart as well as the comedy, it takes you a lot further. I think that that's what we were trying to do with 'Gigi.'

Josh Gad

HeartThinkComedyTryingYouWell

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

Jean Cocteau

FriendshipGodBestMeFriendsLost

I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people.

Dermot Healy

HomeTimeBestPeopleColdYou

I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look at a list and see anything that I want, or almost anything, is like a kind of miracle.

Doris Lessing

WalkWarMeWorldRememberLook

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