Barbara Cooney Quotes

She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.

Barbara Cooney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 6, 1917 - March 10, 2000

Topics

MotherArtMeLessonCleanShe

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.

Jesse Jackson

DreamsMemoriesStrongerMustThan

I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the precipice.

Jessica Lange

MomentFallEdgeOutPlayingOff

While I've never asked my publisher to pull one of my books off the shelves, I have deleted tweets or blog posts that have drawn criticism.

Andrew Shaffer

CriticismNeverOffBooksPullBlog

Rio 2016 is definitely on my mind, and I would really like to go to some more World Championships before that.

McKayla Maroney

MindWorldGoMoreChampionships

You don't want to give kids an idea that they might not have thought of.

John Walters

ThoughtYouWantGiveIdeaKids

I have no idea what my draw is for science fiction. I hope they come to me because they like complicated women. But I've never played the Bionic Woman. In 'Sarah Connor' and 'Lost,' I am not the orchestrator of what happens. I've played quite peripheral people.

Sonya Walger

WomenHopeScienceWomanI AmMe

I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.

Mitch Hedberg

GoodTimeYouWhyTryWasting Time

I believe when hard-working citizens have earned their pension, it's wrong for Washington bureaucrats and politicians to take their pensions away.

Josh Mandel

BelieveWrongWashingtonI Believe

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

Jonathan Winters

ImpossibleNothingOthersThings

I love my kids. I'm crazy about them.

Colin Farrell

LoveCrazyKidsAboutThemI Love

I didn't understand when somebody thanked me for writing a good sketch, because it was something I wanted to do, but now I totally get it, because when someone writes something great for me, I'm so appreciative.

Colin Jost

GoodGreatMeWritingSomeoneNow

After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might think the economy would be chugging along at a pretty good clip. But, it just isn't so, and the light at the end of the tunnel is pretty dim. Just ask a small business owner.

Bob Beauprez

GoodBusinessLightSmallThinkEnd

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