Maurice Sendak Quotes
One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you’ve worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is the splendid grace. And I think that is what’s happening to me.
Maurice Sendak
Quotes to Explore
At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
Finn Wittrock
I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
Laura Linney
Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.
Taraji P. Henson
Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life goes on, and the European Union as well goes on.
Federica Mogherini
You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
Randy Jackson
Breakfast Club
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
Harold Brodkey
My whole heart and soul are stirred and incensed against the Turks and Mohammed, when I see this intolerable raging of the Devil. Therefore I shall pray and cry to God, nor rest until I know that my cry is heard in heaven.
Martin Luther
It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
R. C. Sproul
A lot of young black people in America, and even in Africa and Brazil, would say that they are telling their story, but most of the films are like application forms with the formulaic ideas of Hollywood.
Haile Gerima
It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn't stop! I just could not stop picking!
J. D. Salinger
One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you’ve worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is the splendid grace. And I think that is what’s happening to me.
Maurice Sendak
