Scarry Quotes

#1. The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#2. If your job wasn't performed by a cat or a boa constrictor in a Richard Scarry book I'm not sure I believe it's necessary

Tim Krieder

#3. Everything has an educational value if you look for it. But it's the fun I want to get across.

Richard Scarry

#4. Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently produced on the way to producing something else but is the relentless object of all military activity.

Elaine Scarry

#5. There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

Richard Scarry

#6. Beauty always takes place in the particular.

Elaine Scarry

#7. Artists paint pictures. The best artists paint pictures for children's books.

Richard Scarry

#8. In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the NHS: from a culture responsive mainly to orders from the top down to one responsive to patients, in which patient safety is put first.

Andrew Lansley

#9. It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought.

Richard Scarry

#10. Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us like a fugitive bird unable to fly, unable to land.

Elaine Scarry

#11. I didn't really have a plan of attack when I got in college.

Carrot Top

#12. How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

Elaine Scarry

#13. Never judge anyone by their appearance, or the car they drive, or the house they live in, or even by the words they say. judge people by their actions. that's how you know whether they're bad or good. - perfect Summer

Luanne Rice

#14. Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.

Richard Scarry

#15. I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.

Christopher Hitchens

#16. To have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.

Elaine Scarry

#17. To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed.

Elaine Scarry

#18. What is striking about such unmediated juxtapositions, and relevant to the way in which at the end of war opened bodies and verbal issues are placed side by side, is that in most instances the verbal assertion has no source of substantiation other than the body.

Elaine Scarry

#19. Beauty brings copies of itself into being.

Elaine Scarry

#20. The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato's Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someone beautiful, the whole body wants to reproduce the person.

Elaine Scarry

#21. When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5 and you know he can afford less than that, thank him profusely. When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5,000 and you know he could afford five times that, say "that will help."

Thomas Watson Jr.

#22. I am very happy when people write that they have worn out my books, or that they are held together by Scotch tape. I consider that the ultimate compliment.

Richard Scarry

#23. I never fear my opponent, for me he only represents a new challenge to conquer.

Lyoto Machida

#24. I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten.

Richard Scarry

#25. When we see too many battlefields, it breaks something inside of a person and they lose the ability to distinguish between cruelty and necessity.

Laila Blake

#26. And in my spine, at the very core of me, I am a tiger. Passionate and daring, impetuous, longing to rebel. Unpredictable and quick-tempered. But also determined and as obstinate as a solid wall of shidan--stone.

Cameron Dokey

#27. I think I've explained earlier on in the year that I kind of underestimated how important experience was in this series, especially when you're up against such good quality drivers.

Dan Wheldon

#28. Well, that was enough crazy for one night," she said. "What was that? Greasers verses Socs?

Becca Fitzpatrick

#29. The God of popular religion is not holy.

R.C. Sproul

#30. Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

Benjamin Franklin

#31. When we come upon beautiful things they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space.

Elaine Scarry

#32. Wherever I go, I'm watching. Even on vacation, when I'm in an airport or a railroad station, I look around, snap pictures, and find out how people do things.

Richard Scarry

#33. I learned not to go in the sun early on in my career. A tan lasts for a week or two before it fades, and the sun is so damaging - it's not worth it. I put sunscreen on my kids every day before school and before they play outside. They know the routine.

Heidi Klum

#34. I don't envision a long life for myself. Like, I think my life will run out before my work does, y'know? I've designed it that way.

Townes Van Zandt