Quotes About Steig

#1. If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood to Max Hastings. There's Jane Austen and Tom Perrotta and volumes of letters from Civil War privates. It's pretty eclectic.

Chris Bohjalian

#2. I am shocked that we seemed to have learned nothing, absolutely nothing, from Vietnam.

Michael Dirda

#3. I'm aware of what you've done for me, and I'm not ungrateful. I appreciate that you actually showed yourself to be greater than your prejudices and have given me a chance here. But I don't want you for my lover, and you're not my father.

Steig Larsson

#4. He began to develop an obstinate patience.

William Steig

#5. Why did the world go on being so beautiful in spite of the ugliness he had experienced? The lake was beautiful, serenely beautiful. The forest was beautiful, greenly beautiful. Lake and forest, the whole shimmering world was painfully beautiful. He loved this world, but he was too hurt to enjoy it.

William Steig

#6. I think I feel a little differently than other people do. For some reason I've never felt grown up.

William Steig

#7. Their relationship was built on friendship, and in matters of friendship he was boundlessly loyal. It was a relationship that would survive the harshest test.

Steig Larsson

#8. Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.

Katie Lowes

#9. My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lot of energy on these kids, having the same break I had as a high school girl.

Sally Kirkland

#10. His mother was ugly and his father was ugly, but Shrek was uglier than the two of them put together. By the time he toddled, Shrek could spit flame a full ninety-nine yards and vent smoke from either ear.

William Steig

#11. How deeply one felt when alone.

William Steig

#12. The world was all magic, and he had a special bottle of it in his right hand.

William Steig

#13. I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.

William Steig

#14. How did the world ever manage without me before I was born?' he wondered. 'Didn't they feel something was missing?

William Steig

#15. I do like Christmas on the whole ... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.

E. M. Forster

#16. When they had eventually calmed down a bit, and had gotten home, Mr. Duncan put the magic pebble in an iron safe. Some day they might want to use it, but really, for now, what more could they wish for? They all had all that they wanted.

William Steig

#17. People are no damned good.

William Steig

#18. People are no damn good.

William Steig

#19. Never had he been subjected to such rude treatment. How long could it last? How long, he wondered, could he abide it?

William Steig

#20. The stubbornness of his character stood him now in good stead. He refused to consider himself defeated.

William Steig

#21. The damp occupants of the cave stood close together in the vaulted entrance like actors who had played their parts and could now watch the rest of the show from the wings.

William Steig

#22. If I'm writing about my life, I'm already thinking of anyone in my life who might be reading it, and I'm keeping that as a kind of censorship voice in my head. And then, commenters - I'm keeping that in my head, too.

Mandy Stadtmiller

#23. Did you ever see anybody so disgusting: said lightning to thunder, "never," growled thunder, "let's give him the works.

William Steig

#24. Abel also kept busy taking it easy. Only when taking it easy, he'd learned, could one properly do one's wondering.

William Steig

#25. Otchky-potchky, itchky-pitch,
Pay attention to this witch.
A donkey takes you to a knight
Him you conquer in a fight.
Then you wed a princess who
Is even uglier than you.
Ha ha ha and cockadoodle,
The magic words are 'Apple Strudel

William Steig

#26. To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

William Steig

#27. He was able to love them again, but he loved them now in a wiser way, knowing their weakness.

William Steig

#28. Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.

William Steig

#29. I don't cover golf tournaments anymore - I preside over them.

Dan Jenkins

#30. And they lived horribly ever after, scaring the socks off all who fell afoul of them.

William Steig

#31. I wish I were a rock,' he said, and he became a rock.

William Steig

#32. Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King himself often looking sad? Was anyone completely happy?

William Steig