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Me Quotes by Maurice Sendak
- I’m not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody’s gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won’t have…
- A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even as a kid, my sister,…
- There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.
- I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
- One of the few graces of getting old-and God knows there are few graces-is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the…
- I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and…
- If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me…
- I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you…
- I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around…
- Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you…
- When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's…
- You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These…
- Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters —…
- I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.
- Art has always been my salvation. And my gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my heart. And when…
- My being gay was something of not great interest to me.
- It dawned on me that art was the way I could survive.
- The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.
More Me Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale