"I pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything about shredded wheat."

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Source : Caldecott Medal acceptance speech for The Polar Express, polarexpress.com. 1986.

Chris Van Allsburg

#Cereal Quotes #Breakfast Quotes #Wheat Quotes

“I always cook meats on low and things like eggs or cakes on high, because things with eggs in them you want to cook through and through; and you don't want to put food in there that cooks so slowly that bacteria develops.”
“Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.”
“Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”

Source : Beyond Good and Evil Ch. 4
“The objective of a referee is not to get mentioned. I tell a lot of young referees that not being mentioned is king. If you can achieve that, that then it has been a pretty good game.”
“As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.”
“If your values are not used as the constitution of your organization, or if they are compromised, they become just words on paper.”
“Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensibl e earnest. By a power that is unfathomably secret, and holy, and fleet. There is nothing to be done about it, but ignore it, or see.”
“The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica. He didn't invent it, he just put it all in one package. You get twelve fat books there sitting in any library. Whereas... I think if Joshi thinks [H.P.] Lovecraft was doing anything like that, just throwing together all this stuff to form a kind of anti-mythology, that's where I would disagree with him.”

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