L. Frank Baum Quotes

'Then he was wrong to have been born at all. Cheek- eek-eek-eek, oo, hoo!' chuckled Rinkitink, his fat body shaking with merriment. 'But it's hard to prevent oneself from being born; there's no chance for protest, eh, Bilbil?'

L. Frank Baum

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• I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Remember

• It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Time
  • Dead
  • Quiet

• I think because Sport Lux has come in and leisure wear is a new thing, girls can sneak in hoodies and leggings and so on where they wouldn't normally - it has been proper legitimate fashion.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Think
  • Fashion
  • New

• If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Character
  • Job
  • Nice

• My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • Father
  • Face

• My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Home
  • Black
  • Clothes

• When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I'm draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Food
  • Stop
  • Perfect

• You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Children
  • Growing

• I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Security
  • Will

• I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Work
  • Always
  • Musician

• On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Decision
  • Waiting
  • Down

• When I was young, we had these parties, and they'd make me sing in front of the family all the time.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Time
  • Family
  • Me

• A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Wisdom
  • Hair
  • Wise

• The difficulty of rising into the air increases rapidly with the size of the apparatus. The uplifting of a single person, therefore, is more easily attained than that of a large flying machine loaded with several persons.

  

  Otto Lilienthal
  • Single
  • Air
  • Flying

• 'And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.'

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Nature
  • Moral

• Opportunities may come along for you to convert something-something that exists into something that didn't yet.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • May

• Mr. MADISON thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men. The reason of duties did not hold, as slaves are not like merchandize, consumed, &c

  

  James Madison
  • Men

• Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • People
  • Work
  • Style

• Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining. Copper is huge here, and now uranium. And then we have the federal government coming in, writing all these rules and regulations and telling us that we can't do this and we can't do that. We need concise, clear answers.

  

  Jan Brewer
  • Writing
  • Beautiful

• I feel a lot of cities are like, you go and you are trying to do your art, and there are so many other artists there who are so brilliant. And it's kind of like they stomp on the scene, and they are like, "You're not already Picasso? Get the hell out of here!" And Memphis is like, "Well, you'll get there one day!"

  

  Valerie June
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Cities

• Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things, and work with other instruments.

  

  Stewart Copeland The Police
  • Musician
  • Expand
  • Horizons

• By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that's how it should be.

  

  Billy Kennedy
  • Business
  • Parents
  • Athletes

• It's like people you see sometimes, and you can't imagine what it would be like to be that person, whether it's somebody in a wheelchair or somebody who can't talk. Only, I know that I'm that person to other people, maybe to every single person in that whole auditorium.

  

  R. J. Palacio
  • People
  • Kids
  • Single

• 'Then he was wrong to have been born at all. Cheek- eek-eek-eek, oo, hoo!' chuckled Rinkitink, his fat body shaking with merriment. 'But it's hard to prevent oneself from being born; there's no chance for protest, eh, Bilbil?'

  

  L. Frank Baum