Chris Van Allsburg Quotes

'The Polar Express' began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, 'What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?'

Chris Van Allsburg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 18, 1949

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AloneMyselfWoodsTrainGoBoy

It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs.

John Darnielle

StyleThinkingWriteJustSongs

A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.

Meghan O'Rourke

LifeMotherSkyWorldYouBecome

All the people on the Flickr team are committed to what we're doing, which is to be the eyes of the world.

Stewart Butterfield

EyesPeopleTeamWorldDoingWhich

Grit is that 'extra something' that separates the most successful people from the rest. It's the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.

Travis Bradberry

PerseveranceDreamsPassionPeople

Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod.

Robert T. Bakker

BirdsSmallLikeEvolved

We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves.

Martin O'Malley

AmericanLeftAgendaSinceLeast

In the course of my life, for more than half a century, June 1989 was the major turning point. Up to that point, I was a member of the first class to enter university when college entrance examinations were reinstated following the Cultural Revolution (Class of '77).

Liu Xiaobo

LifeCollegeRevolutionMy LifeMore

I'm a person who, when I set out to write, I write. It's just like when you set out to eat, you eat, or when you set out to sleep, you sleep. I don't do somersaults to write something. I just do it.

Juan Gabriel

SleepYouPersonWriteEatOut

Casting is storytelling.

Joss Whedon

StorytellingCasting

I happen to think, really, that I'm good at what I do.

Dinah Manoff

GoodThinkHappenReally

Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States in intelligence, law enforcement, or military matters. The co-operation is a two-way street. We share intelligence that has helped protect European countries from attack, helping save European lives.

Condoleezza Rice

IntelligenceLawLaw Enforcement

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

Nicolas Chamfort

ArtSocietySecretsGreatest

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