Jim Henson Quotes
As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.
Quotes to Explore
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.
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We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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I'm a '90s baby.
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Kids have no sense of appropriateness. They can ask me whatever they want. You do develop a sense of intimacy with readers, and they tell you things about themselves. During a school year, I'll get e-mails asking about the books. I'll give them information, but I won't do their homework for them.
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A person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between. This is a sharp time, now, a precise time - we live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world.
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I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world.
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Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
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My worst hairstyle was a bowl cut parted down the middle. It was the '90s. It was what you did. I had that from 4th grade until freshman year in high school. I'm glad the pictures exist. I had great hair back then.
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As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.
