Chris Van Allsburg Quotes

I believe that there will be many things that happen to me in my life that I will not be able to explain. Some of those might be magic. I'm not sure.

Chris Van Allsburg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeMeBelieveMy LifeMagicWill

I seem to go through phases with collecting stuff: vintage Japanese men's magazines, coconut monkey carvings, '70s belt buckles.

Michael Bastian

MenVintageGoMonkeyCoconutSeem

Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.

Althea Gibson

QueenHandsLongWayBusGoing

There is a special sensation in getting good wood on the ball and driving a double down the left-field line as the crowd in the ballpark rises to its feet and cheers. But, I also remember how much fun I had as a skinny barefoot kid hitting a tennis ball with a broomstick on a quiet, dusty street in Panama.

Rod Carew

GoodFunFeetDrivingRememberDown

In many ways, playing a real person is slightly easier because you have a road map. When you're playing someone fictitious, there's myriad ways in. With a real person, there's boundaries, and that sometimes makes the work easier.

Ruth Negga

WorkRoadSomeoneYouPersonMap

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

Martin Scorsese

LifeExperienceTogetherPeopleGo

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.

Michael Porter

ChoicesBe DifferentStrategyMaking

We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date.

Michael W. Smith

FirstDateEngagedWereAfterWeeks

Yeah, I have a tough-girl image.

Miranda Lambert

ImageYeah

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

Joyce Kilmer

NatureTreeThinkNeverLovelySee

With the headset and motion tracker and all kinds of different future tracking technologies that we are R&Ding, there is just a huge amount of intelligence that has to be created. So we are looking at hiring some of the brightest minds out there to tackle some of those challenges and deliver the very best experience possible for the consumer.

Brendan Iribe

FutureBestExperienceIntelligence

Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.

Bruce Beresford

SingingDramaPlayWayOperaGet

Unless they've had some experience with it, the hospice is still a mystery to most people. Because hospice deals with death, people tend not to talk about it.

Art Buchwald

ExperienceDeathPeopleMysteryTalk

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