Maurice Sendak Quotes

I don't have kids at all and I thank God that I never did.

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• Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Never
  • Doing
  • Morals

• It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Year

• The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Dad

• The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Look
  • Him

• Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Money
  • Fighting
  • Measure

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• 'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Up
  • World
  • Heart

• This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Earth
  • Hot

• To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Me
  • Easy
  • Cat

• If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Look
  • Talking
  • Tenderness

• We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • American
  • Pilots

• I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Bad
  • Feeling

• For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Want

• My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

  

  Banks
  • Music
  • Me
  • Everything

• Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!

  

  Ted Williams
  • Future
  • Game
  • Question

• Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Science
  • Planning
  • Economic

• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
  • Reward
  • Box

• When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.

  

  Laura Dern
  • You
  • Care
  • Parent

• I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Great
  • Night
  • Me

• In the current FIDE World Championship, on the knock-out system, weaker players have good chances. Those, who in a long match would practically have no chance, here may creep through.

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
  • World
  • Long
  • Player

• I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Science
  • Never
  • Fiction

• A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance - you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Life
  • Free
  • Ignorance

• I had done one failed pilot. I remember, when it failed, I was like, 'Oh my God, how does someone survive this? That's it - that's the end of my career; it's over.'

  

  John Krasinski
  • God
  • Done
  • Remember

• I don't have kids at all and I thank God that I never did.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • God
  • Kids