Chris Riddell Quotes
When I left art school and went in search of work, visiting publishers and showing them my drawings and illustrations, I was met with a polite and sometimes enthusiastic response but no commissions.Chris Riddell
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
Sam Waterston -
Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
Garry Moore -
There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
Gail Collins -
I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
Kajal Aggarwal -
Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
Walt Mossberg -
We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
Gale Sayers
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
A. J. Langer -
It's great that people are interested in Mars.
Jack Schmitt -
Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
Haley Reinhart -
Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
Harold Pinter -
Your belief system saturates the space around you.
Aaron Huey -
When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
Carlo Collodi
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It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
Wendell Willkie -
Netflix is something I watch.
Famke Janssen -
I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
Larry Wilmore -
I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.
Barry McGuire -
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Viktor E. Frankl -
I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
Joanne Rowling
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Some white Milwakeeans still referred to the North side as 'the cire', as they did in the 1960s, and if they ventured into it, they saw street after street of sagging duplexes, fading murals, twenty-four hour daycares, and corner stores with 'WIC Accepted Here' signs.
Matthew Desmond -
New York has always embraced me.
Bernardo Bertolucci -
With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present a more unfavorable aspect for the future preservation of that good understanding which it has ever been our desire to cultivate.
Martin Van Buren -
And if you get caught up in combing the Internet for what people think of you or how people perceive you, I think that's a slippery slope.
Adam Scott -
The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but that preservation is impossible because the perfection is only ever an instant passed through. Love like travel is a series of moments that we immediately leave behind. Still we try to hold on and embalm against all evidence and common sense proclaiming our promises and plans. The more I loved him the more I felt hope. But hope acknowledges uncertainty and so I also felt my first premonitions of loss.
Elisabeth Eaves -
When I left art school and went in search of work, visiting publishers and showing them my drawings and illustrations, I was met with a polite and sometimes enthusiastic response but no commissions.
Chris Riddell