"And the wild things roared their terrible roars……" — Maurice Sendak
"And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws."
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146 Quotes by Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak has 146 quotes on this site.
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As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I…
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I would infinitely prefer a daughter.
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I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of…
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I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But…
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There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm…
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It is a blessing to get old. It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to…
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Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not…
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I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing,…
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I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the…
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I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'
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I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.
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As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of…
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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a…
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws…
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Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils…
— Oscar Wilde
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The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws…
— Lewis Carroll
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
— Wislawa Szymborska
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Nature, red in tooth and claw.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon…
— George Orwell
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To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a…
— Fred Bear
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If the claws didn't retract, cats would be like Velcro
— Bruce Fogle
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As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not…
— Thomas Huxley
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