A. A. Milne Quotes

'H–hup!' said Roo accidentally. 'Roo, dear!' said Kanga reproachfully. 'Was it me?' asked Roo, a little surprised.

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• I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highest principles of what it means to be a Jew, to be a Christian, to be a Muslim.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Live
  • Friends
  • Perfect

• I played cover gigs and traveled the country in my mom's old car, and my drummer and I set up a fake email and sent it out to agents. We pretended to be our own agent.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Country
  • Mom

• Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Great
  • Knowledge
  • Ocean

• Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• It's nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Nice
  • Beauty
  • Natural Beauty

• The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Needs
  • Everyone
  • Earn

• Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Hate

• We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Time
  • Care
  • Baby

• Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't understand what she was doing. I didn't see any of the Catholicism or any of the social stuff.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Understand
  • Young
  • Social

• I have friends who are science journalists, and I'm seeing stories of theirs or talking with them about ideas that they're pitching. Certain kinds of science are around me all the time, like climate change and biology.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Science

• I do what I do to inspire people. They can't be inspired by an ego, a big-headed person. It doesn't work. It doesn't match. And I really want to be that role model for people, for children. I want to be real. To my fans, I want them to view me as a real person. Don't put me on a pedestal. I'm human. I make mistakes, I cry, I hurt - just like you.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Work
  • Children

• Even though I'm an actor, I've gone to productions where there has been someone whose work is known in film, and you can't take your eyes off them. It unbalances the production. Whether they're good or not, it doesn't matter.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Work
  • Eyes

• Every gesture is a revolutionary act.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op Art. I haven't the slightest idea what that is, Op Art. I've been doing this work for thirty years now.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• Along with our passivity, we're entering a profoundly masochistic phase - everyone is a victim these days, of parents, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, even love itself. And how much we enjoy it. Our happiest moments are spent trying to think up new varieties of victimhood...

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Parents

• Zuvörderst nämlich wird eine Regierung nicht Leute besolden, um Dem, was sie durch tausend von ihr angestellte Priester, oder Religionslehrer, von allen Kanzeln verkünden läßt, direkt, oder auch nur indirekt, zu widersprechen. … Daher der Grundsatz improbant secus docentes.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

• I'm kind of a Luddite myself. I've got a bunch of typewriters at home. I'm a big fan of old technology.

  

  Kerry Bishe
  • Home
  • Technology

• The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Power
  • Change
  • Universal

• No one can tell me what to do on my skateboard. My skateboard is my safe spot. I can learn tricks, I can have fun, I can do whatever I want on my skateboard.

  

  Ryan Sheckler
  • Fun
  • Safe
  • Tricks

• As an actor, a lot of things you do, people don't see it.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • People
  • You
  • Actor

• I was about ten when I first got laughs playing Fagin in 'Oliver' at junior school in Offerton. It was the best feeling in the world, and I didn't want it to end.

  

  Daniel Rigby
  • World
  • School
  • Feeling

• She had a narrow face which could fall into an expression of belligerent suspicion of such power that her teachers said they could feel it even when they were hiding in the staff room. It was her stubbornness, coupled with this expression – and routine everyday low grade racism – that kept her constantly on the verge of a school suspension.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • School
  • Racism
  • Teachers

• 'H–hup!' said Roo accidentally. 'Roo, dear!' said Kanga reproachfully. 'Was it me?' asked Roo, a little surprised.

  

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