The Emperor S New Clothes Quotes

#1. In the Emperor's New Clothes, they got a different celebrity to do each voice. They drew up a picture of each character and then each actor wrote their own part.

Melissa Joan Hart

#2. I couldn't stand living in a society that admires the emperor's new clothes, when I see so clearly that he is naked.

Patricia McConnell

#3. To be soft is to be powerful

Rupi Kaur

#4. I want to be like the air. The good-hearted person whose kindness overflows and people realize how important she was to them, once she is gone. I want to be that kind of person.

Aya Kito

#5. Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Robert A. Heinlein

#6. I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.

Liv Ullmann

#7. There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.

Larry Niven

#8. The emperor is naked!"
The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted:
"No, he isn't. The emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle!

James Finn Garner

#9. You have to admit you're a jerk and that everything was all your fault." "So, like, what men are supposed to do in general," I said.

Gillian Flynn

#10. Easy, son," Wrath said. "Jesus Christ - " "Actually it's Lassiter," the man said, "in case you forgot.

J.R. Ward

#11. When I was your age - about, ooh, a thousand years ago - I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics.

Mark Gatiss

#12. I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.

Rachel Kushner

#13. I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

#14. If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.

James Franco

#15. Sleep deprivation made his life an imaginary thing, his days a ribbon floating aimlessly in water. - Whelk

Maggie Stiefvater

#16. People have become less discriminating listeners, which is tragic, really. There's a lot of emperor's new clothes out there, whether they're female or male solo acts. That bothers me. It's hard to break through, and it's like climbing Mount Everest if you actually do.

Paula Cole

#17. Nothing mitigated failure except the knowledge that it did not matter.

Elizabeth Goudge

#18. The devil is a bad devil.

Pedro Okoro

#19. Everything around me inspires and influences me. Mainly love - falling in it, losing it, loving it and hating it.

Christina Perri

#20. It is not always a question of the Emperor having no clothes on. Sometimes it is, 'Is that an Emperor at all?

Idries Shah