Brian Selznick Quotes

For most of my career I illustrated books for other people.

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• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Camera

• I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Soul
  • Single
  • Heaven

• I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Work
  • America
  • Team

• I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Life
  • Important
  • Opportunity

• I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

  

  Barbara McClintock
  • Great
  • Pleasure
  • Plants

• What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Style
  • Rock
  • Guitar

• Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Power
  • Man
  • Moral

• I'm going to continue to work to be the best player in the world, and whenever that doesn't sound fun to me anymore, that's when it's over.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • World
  • Work
  • Fun

• Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.

  

  Dan Gable
  • People
  • Different
  • May

• Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Wise
  • Circumstances
  • Weak

• I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Want
  • Face
  • France

• Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?

  

  F. E. Smith
  • Good
  • God
  • Place

• The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • History
  • Today
  • Nation

• Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Up
  • Good
  • Job

• I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Wish
  • Morning

• We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Say
  • Mental
  • Cognitive

• I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Up
  • Day
  • Week

• In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Being
  • Nation
  • Unfortunate

• On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Time
  • World
  • Done

• I can tell when men are threatened by my height.

  

  Allison Janney
  • Men

• Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

  

  John Heywood

• I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Way
  • Waiting
  • Flying

• People will come at me telling me to wear this or wear that. If I don't like it, I don't like it. They couldn't pay me to wear it. If it's something I can rock with, I'll rock it. I'm more interested in being completely authentic to me. In my opinion, being myself is making a statement.

  

  Jaylen Brown
  • People
  • Rock
  • Opinion

• For most of my career I illustrated books for other people.

  

  Brian Selznick
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