Maurice Sendak Quotes

Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.

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• I'm very self-critical.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Very
  • Self-Critical

• So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.

  

  Mae West
  • Never
  • Two
  • Take

• I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Bad
  • Places
  • Penny

• Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Money
  • Justice
  • Progress

• You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Game
  • Care
  • Teammates

• I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Black
  • Reading
  • Deep

• I'm not the girl next door.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Door
  • Girl Next Door

• As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Men
  • Women
  • Daughter

• My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

  

  Daisy Ashford
  • Idea
  • Wind
  • My Own

• Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Man
  • Nothing
  • Own

• You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Good
  • Year
  • Opportunities

• Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Time
  • Long
  • Today

• There are no second acts in American lives.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • American
  • Lives
  • Second

• People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • People
  • Question
  • Supposed

• I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.

  

  Kali Hawk
  • Character
  • Play
  • Actor

• I think basically I'm lazy, but I have a housewife's mentality when I go about my job.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Job
  • Think
  • Lazy

• It's always exciting to see different cities I love, and go on tour buses. It's so much fun to travel. My favorite part is being able to perform live in front of all these amazing people; being able to connect with them and seeing their reaction makes me feel very special.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • People
  • Fun
  • Amazing

• A 3K word story might well be done in some caffeine-and-nicotine-fuelled 36 hour session, and at the end of it, there'll be a few passes of editing required, but I basically have a polished draft.

  

  Hal Duncan
  • Done

• I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.

  

  Frank Ocean

• Produce great men, the rest follows.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • Men
  • Rest

• I encourage women to wear color, wear stripes, wear sequins - just wear what makes you feel confident and strong. If it looks good and fits well, you'll look great and feel great, too.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Good
  • Great
  • Women

• Taking drugs on a recreation level is one thing. But taking them while you're working on a stage is, I don't think it was that great. It's the control factor. And the thing about being on stage, you really want to feel that you're sort of in control a lot. It's not a place where you want to be out of control.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Great
  • Control
  • Drugs

• Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Great