Yertle The Turtle And Other Stories Quotes & Sayings

In films, you are a commodity. You are a look, something that the camera really likes, something that has struck an audience in a certain way. It's not really so much about transforming yourself the way actors do onstage. I think there's a difference between the skill of acting in movies and onstage. — Brooke Adams

You can receive $900 or even $1,000 but when you don't appreaciate this money they don't have value. — Deyth Banger

I don't think we should ever accept the idea that someone can come along and take away our safety and our freedom. — Barack Obama

It took Lucy forty hours to die and we hardly left her side ... We spent those last hours kissing her frequently and telling her how deeply we loved her. Then I began to read Leah's children's books out loud to her. She had lived a storyless childhood, so I read in the last day of her life the books she had missed. I told her about Winnie the Pooh and Yertle the Turtle, took her Where the Wild Things Are, introduced her to Peter Rabbit and Alice in Wonderland. Each of us took turns reading to her out of Grimm's Fairy Tales, and, at the very last, Leah insisted that I tell all the Great Dog Chippie stories I had told her during our year of exile from the family in Rome. — Pat Conroy

Self-education is a sacred act. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Any learned man is worth hearing, and who needs enemies? — Julie Berry

Indian food is like classical music raga- it takes time to build up to a crescendo. — Shobhaa De

When you work for me, you don't say good things about Ali. — Joe Frazier

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies. — Walter Lippmann

Thought is the greatest of pleasures - pleasure itself is only imagination - have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams? — Gustave Flaubert