Robert McCloskey famous quotes

Because its hard to realize now that that was the end of the great depression, you know. All of a sudden all of this is in front of me and I'm solvent, you know. I'm making some money and I know where my next meal is coming from, and I have a new pair of shoes and that's it.
-- Robert McCloskey

#Shoes #Next #Pairs

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant.
-- Robert McCloskey

#Communication #Believe #Knowledge

I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street.
-- Robert McCloskey

#Children #Ducks #World

That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out!
-- Robert McCloskey

#Book #Acceptance #Paper

I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
-- Robert McCloskey

#Believe #Communication #Knowledge

When I step into a character's shoes, I don't judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know?

You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don't step on my blue suede shoes.

Seem like a lot of people wear shoes they can't walk in.

The sweetness of this life is found in remembering Allah; the sweetness of the next life will be found in seeing Him.

I had two thoughts about it. One was I could do that, and the next one was I'll never get to do that.

Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.

The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.

One more sign of how perfect Damen is—he keeps a pair of trunks in his car.

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.