Maurice Sendak Quotes

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad.

Maurice Sendak

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• I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Films

• You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Cold

• I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

  

  O. Henry
  • Life
  • Smiles
  • Sniffles

• When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Hope
  • Freedom

• Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Great
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Finger

• It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Know
  • Stupid
  • Doing

• It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Time
  • Different
  • Language

• Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Free
  • Motion
  • Friction

• I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Done
  • Why

• Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Morning

• 'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Grow
  • Finding
  • Exploring

• I am a big fan of the Gallagher brothers. At Liverpool, they came a few times; they are friends of Steven Gerrard. It was nice to meet them. When I was in Spain, I couldn't speak English, so I couldn't understand the lyrics. When I came to England, I started studying music and trying to understand what my favourite songs said.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Music
  • Friends
  • English

• I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Dreams

• Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.

  

  Hack Wilson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Advice

• Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Important
  • True
  • Self

• Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

  

  Diogenes
  • Wise

• I want to challenge myself in new mediums; I want to leave myself open to different things.

  

  John Rocha
  • Different
  • Challenge

• It's one of the bases of all human existence - the relation between parents and children, whether biologically or metaphorically. It's something we can never get away from, even in a civilization where we're controlled by robots. It's the basic relationship between mature people who represent paternal and maternal figures and young people. It's universal - it's part of human existence. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way if humans remain around.

  

  Eugene Green
  • People
  • Children
  • Parent

• Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Children
  • Real
  • Parents