Lofting Quotes

#1. Whether or not anybody had invented the category in his lifetime, Babe Ruth was surely the Greatest Living Yankee almost immediately upon lofting home runs at the Polo Grounds, allowing the Yankees to build their own palace across the Harlem River.

George Vecsey

#2. There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.

Hugh Lofting

#3. Great decisions often take no more than a moment in the making.

Hugh Lofting

#4. No matter the joy in heaven, its coldness will make you bask beside the flames of hell.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#5. It means nothing to cry, all you can you is fly, expand your wings take flight, and never return.

Alysha Millet

#6. I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.

Hugh Lofting

#7. Was it the Twilight of Magic? Perhaps. But only today's. Magic could never die while the sun had the power to rise again and man had the wish to seek.

Hugh Lofting

#8. The waist is a terrible thing to mind.

Tom Wilson

#9. Not that I'm crazy or anything, I just want some proof that death isn't the end. Even if crazed zombies grabbed me in some dark hall one night, even if they tore me apart, at least that wouldn't be the absolute end. There would be some comfort in that.

Chuck Palahniuk

#10. I suppose once you've been accused of being a witch, you're never really safe. People may blame all sorts of accidents and misfortunes on you.

Hugh Lofting

#11. Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others.

Hugh Lofting

#12. The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Eden Phillpotts

#13. Women without men, I realized then, are totally different creatures.

Shashi Deshpande

#14. The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.

Hugh Lofting

#15. Equality before the enemy - first precondition for an honest duel.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. I don't believe in a lot of baggage. It's such a nuisance. Life's too short to fuss with it. And it isn't really necessary

Hugh Lofting

#17. If I had my way ... there wouldn't be a single lion or tiger in captivity anywhere in the world. They never take to it. They're never happy. They never settle down ... You can see it in their eyes ...

Hugh Lofting

#18. Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What - suddenly you've magically turned into Noam Chomsky?

Douglas Coupland

#19. Money," he said, "is a terrible nuisance. But it's nice not to have to worry.

Hugh Lofting

#20. You stupid piece of warm bacon.

Hugh Lofting

#21. Dear me, what an unsatisfactory world it was! When one did find a nice kind of life something or somebody always seemed to shove you out of it just as you were beginning to enjoy it.

Hugh Lofting