Maurice Sendak Quotes

Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid.

Maurice Sendak

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• I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Job
  • Write
  • Ever

• Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Brand
  • Lovely
  • Even

• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• 'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.

  

  Patrick Lussier
  • World
  • Work
  • Amazing

• All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Time
  • Art
  • Effort

• We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Men
  • Words
  • Happiness

• Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Here

• I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.

  

  Wayne Allard
  • Kind
  • Doing
  • Economy

• We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Life
  • You
  • Here

• I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Water
  • Cold

• I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Art
  • Worry

• I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.

  

  Edith Head
  • Job
  • Want
  • Try

• When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Writing
  • Lost
  • Down

• The Disney deal for us, we are very excited to be their Pay 1 partner, where we are a big licensing partner of Disney all over the world in all different windows.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • Different
  • Partner

• If I were to compare the Olympic decathlon to fatherhood, I would say fatherhood is a lot tougher.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Say
  • Compare
  • Fatherhood

• A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Bad
  • Girl
  • Start

• The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Business
  • Way
  • Write

• Between the ages of six and nine, my palette was taking shape as well as my identity as a chef. It was then that I learned the difference between salty, sweet, sour and even spicy.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Sweet
  • Identity

• For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.

  

  Euripides
  • Way
  • Blessedness
  • Attains

• We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.

  

  Rick Riordan
  • Children
  • Complicated
  • Families

• I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is truly heartwarming to see the compassion shown for those in need.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Proud
  • Compassion
  • Kindness

• Get out, realize your dream, and go for it

  

  Kai Greene
  • Dream
  • Realizing
  • Your Dreams

• Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Children