Jack Zipes Quotes

The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because the division we make today of children's literature didn't exist then. The idea of protecting children from tales with violence didn't occur until the earlier part of the 19th century.

Jack Zipes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

TodayChildrenLiteratureViolence

Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met? Bill Clinton.

Jimmy Carter

FarmerYouKnowPresidentFirstWho

I just go out and play my best tennis.

Angelique Kerber

BestPlayGoTennisOutJust

There are certain things you learn to do as a parent - using every single part of your body because you're multitasking all the time. You're holding the baby and you're closing the door with your left foot.

Amy Ryan

TimeBabyDoorParentLearnBody

When I was 7, an old lady was driving too fast in my neighborhood and hit me with her car. I was running out of the house, and when I got halfway into the street, my mom saw the car and yelled for me to run back. As I turned around the car hit me, dragged me five houses down the road, and I fractured my collarbone.

Rutina Wesley

CarMeMomRoadDrivingHouse

When I look at 'Napoleon Dynamite's style I'm reminded of how I spoke when I was an eight-year-old boy. It was just like capturing the essence of, 'Duh!' It was just like the stuff that I would say when I was like eight, nine, ten years old.

Jason Reitman

StyleTen YearsLookSayBoyOld

I remember when 'I'm Moving On' came out, and we got the response we did, I thought, 'Man, this could be for real.' That was the first time it dawned on me what we had.

Jay DeMarcus

TimeMoving OnManMeMovingFirst

'The Wall' is a reaction to 'Edge of Tomorrow,' where I was like, 'I don't need time travel and aliens to take a hero and pin them down in an impossible situation. I can do it in a much simpler way.' And that was 'The Wall.'

Doug Liman

TimeHeroTravelTomorrowImpossible

Loss is universal. I've lost grandparents that I dearly adored, lost animals that were like brothers to me. Many of us have gone through terrible breakups.

Peter Heller

MeLossLostAnimalsGrandparents

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

Mark Strand

LifePoetryPoemTurned

While one can't always begrudge the wealth of people who have at least produced something of value, the rich of the financial world don't make anything but more money. They're not creative, aside from, perhaps, in accounting.

Lionel Shriver

MoneyCreativeValuePeopleWorld

The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a 'big business man' and very busy, he does not neglect; he is busy with politics, oh, very busy and very businesslike.

Lincoln Steffens

BusinessPoliticsManBusyAmerican

You have to draw on your unconscious when you make a film - you can't worry about whether it's costing a lot of money.

Guillaume Canet

MoneyWorryYouFilmMakeYour

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Jack Zipes