Ungerer And Co Quotes & Sayings

I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted. — Diana Vreeland

Drawing is the most direct and personal kind of graphic expression. Unlike painting, it doesn't forgive. You put down your black line, and there it is - as inevitable as death. — Tomi Ungerer

If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change. — David W. Earle

Such cases deserve attention since they show that apes do not have to be prompted by experimental conditions concocted by us humans to plan for the future. They do so of their own accord. — Frans De Waal

Our laugh is a torment and our cry is a joy for the Satan! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice. — Tony Abbott

Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated in movements for social justice, speaking out on behalf of the workers, the poor, speaking out on behalf of racial justice. However when it came to the issue of gender they were as sexist as their conservative cohorts. — Bell Hooks

I've always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it's in daily life or in art. — Tomi Ungerer

Never," he spat out, "kick a man who is pointing a gun at you. — Julia Quinn

If I write a book I do it mostly for myself for the child in me and for the adult in me. The criterion for my children's books is: If I were a child would I like it That's very egotistical but it's the same thing with my books for adults. I wouldn't do a book if I didn't want to partake and share. With a book I can do both: I give and I share. — Tomi Ungerer

Some day, I hope to be quoted. — Ron Scheer

I've always been literally a lover of the absurd. I think the absurd gives a new dimension to reality and even to common sense. And life, you know, on an everyday basis, is absurd, or may turn out to be absurd. There's no reality without absurdity. — Tomi Ungerer

I enjoy storytelling. I like to write it, I like to direct it, I like to act in it, I like to produce it. I like to be around storytellers. That's what excites me. — Bryan Cranston

in Edward Glaeser, The Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier (New York: Penguin, 2011). 2. The Dictionary of Biblical Imagery (ed. Leland Ryken, James C. Wilhoit, and Tremper Longman III [Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1998], 150) speaks of the city as "humanity en masse" and therefore "humanity 'writ large.'" 3. The Dictionary of Biblical Imagery (p. 150) defines city as a "fortified habitation." 4. See Frank Frick, The City — Timothy J. Keller

I felt significantly insignificant, as if my presence in the world, albeit small, was still necessary. — Jewel E. Ann

Far Out is never far enough because one challenge, if it is worthy at all, has to be followed by a greater challenge. — Tomi Ungerer