Ungerer Tomi Quotes & Sayings

To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted.
Until you loved a mortal. Then time became gold in a miser's hands, every bright year counted out carefully, infinitely precious, and each one slipping through your fingers. — Cassandra Clare

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

A long-running TV series is a beast in that it demands you stick to one character over a long haul. — Grant Bowler

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories. — Stanley Fish

Practicing Dharma is the supreme method for improving the quality of our human life. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Val and Ruth had been friends forever, for so long that Val was used to being the overshadowed one, the "normal" one, the one who set up the witty one-liners, not the one who delivered them. She liked that role; it made her feel safe. Robin to Ruth's Batman. Chewbaca to her Han Solo. — Holly Black

Nothing about you, my dear, has ever been lost on me. — Katie Cotugno

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

All the beauty of wisdom and knowledge resides in kindness. — Debasish Mridha

If you make a film set in London or in Pakistan or wherever, the thing that interests me is the relationships between individuals - individuals and society, individuals and their family, their girlfriend or boyfriend, it's all the same idea. — Michael Winterbottom

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

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

It's not wrong to be upset. It's not wrong to cry. It's not wrong to want attention. It's not even wrong to scream or throw a fit. What is wrong is to keep it all inside. What is wrong is to blame and punish yourself for simply being human. What is wrong is to never be heard and to be alone in your pain. Share it. Let it out. — Bryant H. McGill

I'm not in favor of the government mandating a prayer in school because our country was founded on the fact that no particular religious faith would have ascendance over or preferential treatment over any other. — Jimmy Carter

Experience is the Lord's school, and they who are taught by Him usually learn by the mistakes they make that in themselves they have no wisdom; and by their slips and falls, that they have no strength. — John Newton

... I doubt if this is God's doing. I suspect he'll keep right out of it as a consequence. — Stephen King

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free. — Sophocles

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

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go. — Richard Perle

You're going to have injuries, danger and glory in every sport. What makes football unique is that every person on that team needs to count on everybody else. It's the ultimate team game and you have to depend on your coaches, you have to depend on your support staff, you have to depend on your teammates. — Tim Tebow