Quentin Blake Quotes

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

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• I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Development

• After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Money
  • Success
  • Kind

• I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Time
  • Important
  • Children

• Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Yourself

• You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • High
  • Want
  • You

• I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.

  

  Jack Horner
  • People
  • Why
  • Want

• My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Why
  • Mom

• It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Science
  • Right
  • Scientific

• I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Wish

• Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • World
  • May

• The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Up
  • Band
  • Strength

• Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Perfect
  • Desire
  • Universe

• Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Country
  • Energy

• To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • You
  • Win
  • Luck

• When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Listen
  • Take
  • Drive

• When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Bitcoin
  • Blockchain
  • Wed

• New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Together
  • Age

• I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Better
  • Grow
  • Comfort Zone

• I don't drink occasionally. I don't drink on the holidays. I don't drink alcohol, period. Not wine, not nothing.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Period
  • Wine
  • Alcohol

• If I had to give you one piece of advice, it would be this: don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • People
  • Advice

• One falls in and out of love, but when one loves that is an entirely different matter, for that lasts through life and beyond, and is a rare thing.

  

  Betty Neels
  • Life
  • Different
  • Fall In Love

• I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.

  

  Philip Larkin
  • Poetry

• You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Life
  • Look
  • Window