"My father could be very witty, even if……" — Maurice Sendak
"My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony."
—
Maurice Sendak
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
146 Quotes by Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak has 146 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I…
-
I would infinitely prefer a daughter.
-
I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of…
-
I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But…
-
There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm…
-
It is a blessing to get old. It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to…
-
Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not…
-
I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing,…
-
I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the…
-
I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'
-
I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.
-
As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of…
See all 146 quotes by Maurice Sendak »
More Darker Quotes
This quote is filed under Darker Quotes,
one of 286 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.
— Eric Bana
-
I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to... really not. I'm not manic depressive, but I can really go…
— Selma Blair
-
One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker…
— Kenneth Branagh
-
I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We're…
— Benjamin Carson
-
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
-
As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous…
— Felix Dennis
-
Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses…
— Ronald Reagan
-
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of…
— Michael Caine
-
This is a darker Lex too, because he's been in prison and he wants revenge. He's not playing around.
— Bryan Singer
-
The gift of sight to see beyond The darker clouds of now!
— John McLeod
-
When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
-
And as we kept driving north, the whole family in the care together, it got darker, and snowier, until finally…
— John Green
See all 286 Darker Quotes »