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“When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.”
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“I still love to see the ballet. And I love to boogie.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Everone has a pain thermometer that goes from zero to ten. No one will make a change until they reach ten. Nine won't do it. At nine you are still afraid. Only ten will move you, and when you're there, you'll know. No one can make that decision for you.”
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“Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.”
Source : 'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 3 (14 December 1770)
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“A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.”
Source : "A Wonderful Life : 50 Eulogies to Lift the Spirit" by Cyrus M. Copeland, (p. 190), 2006.
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“I have never squandered an opportunity to read.”
Source : Joe Queenan (2012). “One for the Books”, p.7, Penguin
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“If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.”
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“Telling the complete story of VeggieTales would require much more time than we have before us tonight. Since this is Yale, I decided to craft a shorter version of the story, using very large words. Remembering though that I was kicked out of Bible College before I'd had a chance to learn many very large words, I concluded that my only remaining option was to tell the story simply, using simple words, and chance the consequences.”
Source : "The Philosophical Implications of Talking Vegetables". Speech at Yale University, March 02, 2005.
