Anthony Browne Quotes

Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at 'proper' books, which means books without pictures.

Anthony Browne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 11, 1946

Topics

ChildrenPictureLookPicturesGet

If I had stayed in Belfast, my life there wouldn't have as easy as it was in Scotland. I see the strain on the people who stayed. Always worrying about the safety of their children.

Joan Lingard

LifeChildrenPeopleSafetyMy Life

I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it.

Jeremy Northam

LovedLivingWithoutSureWouldMet

A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not a share in a business, but a view of the Elysian Fields. A financier is a creative artist. Our function is to stimulate the imagination. We are poets!

Jean Giraudoux

BusinessImaginationCreativeView

The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.

Alton Brown

ScienceHistoryFoodKitchenPhysics

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

Stephen Gardiner

NewCreationCaveMeanSomething

If you can't play under pressure, you shouldn't be at a World Cup.

Romelu Lukaku

WorldPressureYouPlayCup

I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws.

Chris Isaak

FlawsMy OwnWriteSeeOwnOnly

Pennsylvania is home to some of the hardest-working, toughest, most decent people in America.

Bob Casey, Jr.

HomePeopleAmericaDecentMost

I connect with very few close friends in real life.

Pratyusha Banerjee

LifeFriendsRealReal LifeConnect

Performing live was something that I had to really work at.

Syd

WorkLiveSomethingPerformingHad

If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music.

Peabo Bryson

LifeMusicThinkYouKindSet

I was learning to track rhinoceroses in Africa and tracked right up on an animal that really I thought was going to kill me.

Martha Beck

LearningAnimalMeThoughtAfrica

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