
Top 17 Oliver Jeffers Quotes
#1. I keep writing children's books, I keep making children's books, because I still have them inside of me.
Oliver Jeffers
#2. I took a breath, seeing from across the room the rain on his eyelashes. A sudden need to brush them free filled me. I could almost feel the dampness of the rain on my fingers, how soft it would feel.
Kim Harrison
#3. There's a thin line between destruction and creation.
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#4. One always got the same shock of recognition and delight when someone's words swam up to meet a thought or name a picture.
Mary Stewart
#7. Everything we know has come from stories that have been told over and over again as truth. Those stories turn into history.
Oliver Jeffers
#8. My aunt Safiyah might be blood, but Jin I knew. And I didn't want to leave him. He made the world bigger. I wanted to go to the countries he'd been to. And more than anything I wanted him to ask me to go with him. But we were running out of time together.
Alwyn Hamilton
#9. Although, I do have to say, it was difficult to imagine him
Donna Tartt
#10. We were two miles from Bunker Hill, in the east part of town, in the section of factories and breweries. She
John Fante
#11. Then the boy realised,the penguin wasn't lost,he was just lonely.
Oliver Jeffers
#12. Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair.
Paula Cole
#13. In truth, nothing was the same. She forgot about the stars ... and taking notice of the sea. She was no longer filled with all the curiosities of the world and didn't take much notice of anything ... other than how heavy ... and awkward the bottle had become.
Oliver Jeffers
#14. There can be little doubt that many egalitarians are motivated at least partly by envy.
Henry Hazlitt
#15. I make figurative portraits as a way to explore theories of quantum physics.
Oliver Jeffers
#16. The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very strange.
Oliver Jeffers
#17. I'm interested in how we define things by how we choose to observe them, and how everywhere in our lives, and in every moment we experience, there are forces at work that we don't fully understand. Couple this curiosity with a love of portraiture painting, and that's how this project was born.
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