Frightening Quote by Maurice Sendak Download Open image “I wanted my wild things to be frightening.” — Maurice Sendak ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Frightening Wanted Wild things
“I am drawn to the notion of wildness—how it shapes our fears and dreams, and how those fears and dreams can, in turn, reshape… — Monte Reel Copy Share Image
I had weird dreams full of barnyard animals. Most of them wanted to kill me. The rest wanted food. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When I was younger I did some pretty wild things with the limited options I had. — Alok Nath Copy Share Image
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When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
After 'Spring Awakening,' I wanted to do things that are really challenging and outside my comfort zone: things that scare me a little and… — Jonathan Groff Copy Share Image
I never thought of Bumble-Ardy in that way. But I still have that same deep feeling for children who are in dire trouble. I see Bumble-Ardy as a lonely, unhappy kid who is doing the very best he can to be in the world, to have a party. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share
I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had,… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“May I ask what you have in your black leather bag with gold buckles?" "Everything." They were climbing a narrow staircase. Rhoda stopped to… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way. It's no good being an illustrator who is saying a lot that is on his or her mind, if it has nothing to do with the text. . . the artist must override the story, but he must… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share
I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn't have found… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their view… — Timothy Leary Copy Share
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Missing: A teenaged girl with lanky, blonde hair and a sunburst tattoo on her cheek. The holographic posters, brighter than day itself, lit up… — Amy L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better disguise could there be than to get your image enshrined in the culture of the mass media? Anything that's described in artistic terms and shown in the movies stops being frightening and mysterious. For real horror you need… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share
Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I understand that change is frightening for people, especially if there's nothing to go to. It's best to stay where you are. I understand… — Princess Diana Copy Share Image
It's a question of dropping the armor and getting up and doing the work you want to do. And film at first is frightening… — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory. — Zoe Lister-Jones Copy Share Image
