Quentin Blake Quotes
With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.Quentin Blake
Quotes to Explore
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
Abigail Breslin -
I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
Haley Bennett -
Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
Candice Bergen -
In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.
Haile Gebrselassie -
In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
Lady Gregory
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
Wayne Rogers -
Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
Nargis Fakhri -
If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
Manoj Bhargava -
I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
Iain McGilchrist
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I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you are, you know, and what your place in life is.
Barry Jenkins -
I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
Ralph Bunche -
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
R. Kelly -
A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
Harlan Coben
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
Imelda May -
Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.
Isaac Barrow -
I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.
Fabiola Gianotti -
I'm not trying to compete with any other revival soul acts. It's just Leon Bridges, a kid from Fort Worth trying to be himself and give people hope. It's great music to dance to and just love.
Leon Bridges -
What must never be lost sight of is that a public functionary, in his capacity as functionary, produces absolutely nothing; that, on the contrary, he exists only on the products of the industrious class; and that he can consume nothing that has not been taken from the producers.
Charles Dunoyer -
With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
Quentin Blake