Maurice Sendak Quotes

Yes, there have to be places for safe wonderful stories.

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• I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Life
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Song
  • Thought
  • Guitar

• Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Today
  • Progress
  • Computers

• We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • High
  • English

• If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • Country
  • Know

• Don't take 'no' for an answer.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Answer
  • Take

• I think I might become a pescatarian. I love sushi, couldn't give it up.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Think
  • Give
  • Become

• Mapping and visualization is a huge area of work and is of interest to many people. We're working on reinventing a new kind of 3D cartography to make it easier to tell stories with 3D maps.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Work
  • Kind

• Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Done
  • Power
  • Politics

• I don't think I ever intend to provoke outrage, but I don't mind being provocative in content.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Content

• I've never asked for special treatment along the way. And I'm never going to hide the fact that I'm a girl, ever. That's obvious, isn't it?

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Girl
  • Never
  • Special

• For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden's motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Work
  • Said
  • Motives

• So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Good
  • Long
  • Friends

• What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're creative, you find more ways to cheat and still yourself a story about why this is okay.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • Why
  • Yourself

• I like teff, an Ethiopian grain. It's not so popular in the States yet, but it's really good, almost like a porridge. And I love sushi, but it's not always that healthy, so I don't keep it at home.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Home
  • Like
  • Popular

• Statesmen remember things selectively.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Remember

• Man, if he is to remain man, must advance by way of consciousness. There is no road leading backward. ... We can no longer veil reality from ourselves by renouncing self-consciousness without simultaneously excluding ourselves from the historical course of human existence.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Reality
  • Road

• The adventurous state of / mind is a high house // To enjoy life the adventurous / state of mind must be / grasped and maintained // The essential feature of adventure is that it is a / going forward into / unknown territory // The joy of adventure is unaccountable // This is the attractiveness of / art work. It is adventurous, / strenuous and joyful.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mind

• It's hard for me to figure out where I want to be. But it's definitely in New York. I feel like New York throws different challenges at you and you can be more creative.

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • Different
  • Creative
  • Challenges

• I like directors who come ready to challenge you to ask the right questions about your character, and I know that directors appreciate that in actors as well.

  

  Joshua Henry
  • Character
  • Challenge
  • Directors

• The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political.

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
  • Political
  • Religious

• The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • People
  • Funny
  • inspirational

• Most of our lives we live closed up in ourselves, with a longing not to be alone, to include others in that life that is invisible and intangible. To make it visible and tangible, we need light and material, any material. And any material can take on the burden of what had been brewing in our consciousness or subconsciousness, in our awareness or in our dreams.

  

  Anni Albers
  • Life
  • Dreams
  • Consciousness

• Yes, there have to be places for safe wonderful stories.

  

  Maurice Sendak