Lagerkvist The Dwarf Quotes

#1. I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I'd been in a band called the Iguanas. And when this boss wanted to embarrass and demean me, he'd say, 'Iggy, get me a coffee, light.'

Iggy Pop

#2. Platitudes are poor substitutes for emotions, this negative space hollowed out and without words. I know the shape of you and it has no name. I know the sound of you and the smell of you and the touch and sight and taste of you. But language departed the same day you did, leaving my mouth empty.

Tania De Rozario

#3. If there is anything I've learned being the mother of many children, it's that you'd better laugh at yourself, because everyone else already is.

Chris Jordan

#4. A tiger never loses sleep over the opinion of sheep.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#5. I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to think of it. We want them to be happy [but] childhood is a very tough time.

Maurice Sendak

#6. My technique of working is I go around with my iPhone and with my sketchbook. I take thousands and thousands and thousands of iPhone photos. I also draw from life. I can draw really, really, really fast. It's a way that I build a rapport with people.

Molly Crabapple

#7. To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

Pat Riley

#8. Most of them won't have a book in the house, though, when they have to, they'll talk about the latest book that's selling millions of copies around the world. Our readers may not read books, but they are fascinated by great eccentric painters who sell for billions.

Umberto Eco

#9. Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face.

Richard Chenevix Trench

#10. Work smart, stay informed, never give up, and great things will happen.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#11. I've always been more of a nerdy, academic type. I loved 'Star Wars' growing up. I have three older brothers, so they were a big influence on me. We loved 'Danger Mouse,' and we love 'Monty Python'. We loved any kind of British comedy and 'Wallace and Gromit' and all of that stuff.

Mara Wilson

#12. I'm not sure my belly button is exactly in the middle. I wonder what that means..

Graham Parke

#13. There are widows who long for friendly voices and that spirit of anxious concern which speaks of love.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#14. As a person, I do not like tension in squabbles; I also do not like being on tenterhooks. When I am in love, it's the same. Especially with regards to love, I want very much to protect it.

Joo Won

#15. I had a weimaraner for 11 years called China, and he was a great dog, a bit mad. They're massive, weimaraners; they've got big floppy ears. They look like a pointer, but they're liver-coloured.

Phil Daniels