Anthony Browne Quotes

Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.

Anthony Browne

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• My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Time
  • Everyday
  • Innovation

• Television is democracy at its ugliest.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Democracy
  • Politics
  • Ugliest

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Think
  • Way
  • Introduction

• I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Think
  • Television
  • Visual

• I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Pleasure
  • Really
  • Take

• We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Society
  • Fire
  • Sound

• It is a false choice to tell Israel that it has to choose between peace on the one hand and security on the other. The United Nations would not ask any other country to make that choice, and it should not ask it of Israel.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Hand

• I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • You
  • Famous
  • Theory

• I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Day
  • Religion
  • Gift

• Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Men
  • Think
  • Opinion

• There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Script

• But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Control
  • Myself
  • Win

• When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Day
  • Yourself
  • Year

• Eating-wise, I'm fairly disciplined. I have to be, because if you're not eating correctly, you're not giving your body the fuel it needs. So, I stay away from carbs after the morning, and I eat a lot of protein - fish, chicken, and no red meat.

  

  Kate Levering
  • Giving
  • Morning
  • Wise

• Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?

  

  Tecumseh
  • Great
  • Country
  • Children

• I study history in order to give an interpretation.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • History
  • Study
  • Give

• I would never do 'Playboy.'

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Never
  • Would
  • Playboy

• I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. It's helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • Think
  • Understanding
  • Values

• My father was into fame and leaving his mark. He was a city planner, sort of a genius in that world, the Robert Moses of Philadelphia. He was on the cover of 'Time' once, and I remember going to his office and seeing, like, two hundred copies, which he would hand out to people.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• When you are dealing with a serious compulsion or addictive pattern, then by definition self-will, self-discipline, and any other machinations of the conscious mind are not enough by themselves to handle the problem. It is like a breaker switch in your brain is simply flipped. Anybody who has had this kind of a problem knows that it doesn't matter how intelligent you are. Sigmund Freud said, "Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis."

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Mind
  • Problem
  • Brain

• Essentially, if you decide to sell a widget using BitPay, and you sell the widget for $100, in Bitcoin you get $100. And so it doesn't matter what the price does the next minute or the next hour.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • You
  • Matter
  • Decide

• As I said, it wasn't even a gay thing. But it made me think how hard some kids have it with their families. Me, I could show up as Lady GaGa dressed as Little Red Riding Hood, and Mom would be like, "How was your day, honey?" That's just not the case for most kids.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Kids
  • Gay
  • Families

• Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • Words
  • Picture
  • Design