Brian Selznick Quotes

The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family, every intelligent child thinks: 'How did I come to be born to these parents?' - it is about finding your place in the world.

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• You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• There's such a strong community element in country - it's like a family. So I don't want to do anything that can come off, even if I'm not intentionally doing it, as giving the perception that I'm trying to abandon that family.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Family

• I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Happy
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• As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • History
  • Always
  • English

• When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere.

  

  Dan Harmon
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• All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • World
  • History
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• Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • World
  • Think
  • Best

• I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Family
  • Money
  • Done

• I have written to Israel's friends around the world, including the U.S. Congress and the E.U., and asked them to make funding for the United Nations dependent on ending blatant discrimination against Israel at the U.N. Human Rights Council.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Friends
  • Ending

• I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Together
  • House

• Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• There are no friends at cards or world politics.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • World
  • Friends
  • Politics

• The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • World
  • Best
  • Evil

• I have to take care of my family, my team, and my legacy.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Family
  • Team
  • Legacy

• The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Reading

• Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

  

  Jack Welch
  • World
  • Job
  • True

• Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • World
  • Country
  • Drama

• I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.

  

  Kaskade
  • World
  • Best
  • Always

• I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane.

  

  Faith Ford
  • Parents
  • Hurricane
  • Spoken

• I'm very comfortable, of course, just with my family.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • Family

• Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness.

  

  Frederica Mathewes-Green
  • Life
  • Children
  • Fear

• The fundamental issue is: In the world of the Internet, is there a place for a packager of services? Does the customer want to go surf the Net and go to every one of 50,000 Web sites? Or will people pay a reasonable amount for somebody to go out and preselect and package what they want? My guess is they will both coexist.

  

  Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
  • People
  • World

• I'm too young to have kids, but I really want to be a mom. I don't know if it's a Latin thing, but I love kids.

  

  Alice Braga
  • Kids
  • Mom
  • Latin

• The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family, every intelligent child thinks: 'How did I come to be born to these parents?' - it is about finding your place in the world.

  

  Brian Selznick
  • World
  • Children
  • Family