Maurice Sendak Quotes
I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.

Quotes to Explore
-
You cannot do only one thing.
-
Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
-
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
-
My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
-
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
-
I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
-
I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
-
I was a little too young to be a hippie.
-
Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
-
I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
-
No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
-
Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
-
She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
-
I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.
-
Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.
-
I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
-
Everything that I design I would wear myself.
-
Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
-
Some people ask, 'Why the word 'feminist'? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?' Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general - but to choose to use the vague expression 'human rights' is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender.
-
I think that saving a little childAnd bringing him to his own,Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.
-
Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a contract with them and you were almost like a commodity.
-
There’s no narcotic like exhaustion.
-
I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.