The best Quotes from Where the Wild Things Are

Judith

Happiness

Please don't go. We'll eat you up. We love you so.

Maurice Sendak

Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.

Maurice Sendak

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

Maurice Sendak

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It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it.

James Gandolfini

I just don't think I'm that interesting. I don't think what I have to say is that interesting. To hear me go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, who... cares?

James Gandolfini

I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.

James Gandolfini

New York City

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

James Gandolfini

I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.

James Gandolfini

Actors

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

Maurice Sendak

Children & Childhood Imagination

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 -- sometimes very hastily -- but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, 'Dear Jim: I loved your card." Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, 'Jim loved your card so much he ate it." That to me was one of the highest compliments I've ever received. He didn't care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

Maurice Sendak

There must be more to life than having everything.

Maurice Sendak

Life Greed

There is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality.

Maurice Sendak

Imagination Reality

I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.

Maurice Sendak

Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

Maurice Sendak

Children & Childhood Books Writing

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

John Lennon

Happiness

"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."

Astrid Lindgren in Pippi Longstocking

Age

People say "nothing is impossible", but I do nothing every day.

Winnie the Pooh in Christopher Robin

The Rainbow Fish shared his scales left and right. And the more he gave away, the more delighted he became.

Marcus Pfister in The Rainbow Fish

The beginning is always dark.

Michael Ende in The Neverending Story

Beginning

Once there was a boy. He was, let us say, something like fourteen years old; long and loose jointed and towheaded. He wasn't good for much, that boy. His chief delight was to eat and sleep, and after that he liked best to make mischief.

Selma Lagerlöf in Nils Holgersson - The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar.

Eric Carle in The Very Hungry Caterpillar

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

Theodor Seuss Geisel in The Lorax

You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot,
for The places and people you're lucky you're not!

Theodor Seuss Geisel in Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?

So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!

Theodor Seuss Geisel in Horton Hears a Who!

Voices Elections & Voting Mouth

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.

Roald Dahl in Matilda

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...

Theodor Seuss Geisel in Oh, the Places You'll Go

Character Self-Confidence

Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store
What if Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more!

Theodor Seuss Geisel in How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Christmas

Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.

Enid Blyton in The Famous Five - Five on a Hike Together

Kasperl and Seppel soon discover that even the best-laid plans can be foiled, especially when Hotzenplotz enlists the help of his wicked magician friend Petrosilius Zackleman, a gluttonous villain with a weakness for fried potatoes.

Otfried Preußler in The Robber Hotzenplotz

The FBI is now the prime functionary of the Deep State. The politicized leadership at the very top has turned it into a tool of surveillance and suppression of American citizens.

Kash Patel in Government Gangsters

FBI

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