Depaola Quotes & Sayings

Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent. — Immanuel Kant

I'am looking for the book "Pancakes for Breakfast" by Tomie dePaola to read online. Can you help me with this? — Tomie DePaola

Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done — Robert Hunter

The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces. — Bridget Riley

That was why he could not stop coming to her. She was for him what his wife was not; a nymph who craved his sexuality and seduced him with words, dress and behavior. He wondered why good women would draw in a husband and then when they married them, they would stop all erotic endeavors. It was as if the very thing that drew the man was turned off as soon as they were trapped in the marriage. It seemed that family killed the sexual drive of women. They became mothers with an inability to any longer be lovers. Men were fish caught and thrown into the boat, gills desperately sucking for the life-giving source of their simple and primal need. That was why Abishai felt it was so easy for him to go astray, because his vice seemed more primal than his virtue. — Brian Godawa

We need to receive empathy to give empathy. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

I try to be as clear and simple as I can be in my illustrations so that the child can tell what is going on and what the emotions are. — Tomie DePaola

I'm just thankful for everything, all the blessings in my life, trying to stay that way. I think that's the best way to start your day and finish your day. It keeps everything in perspective. — Tim Tebow

Until you change the way that you look at things,Those things will never change. — Pat Riley

I remember feeling guilty that I had a good childhood. I thought everybody who is famous has to have a desperate childhood and work his way out of it, but I had a great one. — Tomie DePaola

Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability. — Bill Bailey

You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I'm inclined to extravagance. — Tennessee Williams

Quite possibly the only infinite power in the universe may be the human capacity for self-deception. — Michel Templet

Most people don't realize the many steps that a pop-up goes through. There are a variety of "Dummies" (the sketch phase of the book). Then finally the pencil "dummy", then the finished art which is like painting pieces of a jig saw puzzle. — Tomie DePaola

In a town in Calabria, a long time ago, there lived an old lady everyone called Strega Nona, which meant "Grandma Witch". — Tomie DePaola

It is a dangerous thing to unbelieve something only because it frightens you. — Marissa Meyer

A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees. — Tomie DePaola

The night she'd been captured, she'd also snapped, and come SO CLOSE to killing the person she most wanted to destroy before someone knocked her out and she awoke in a rotting dungeon. She smiled bitterly as she opened her eyes. It was always the same story, the same loss. — Sarah J. Maas

A cover letter can connect the dots between where you've been, where you are, and where you're trying to go. — Sophia Amoruso

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything. — Tomie DePaola

Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence. — William Butler Yeats