Beatrice Schenk de Regniers quotes

“Good Advice If your best friend's feeling tearful, Try not to be too cheerful. Just let her fill your ear full Of sad tales by the score. And when she is through, She'll feel as good as new. Now you'll be feeling blue. But that's what friends are for!”
-- Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

Source : "Week in the Life of Best Friends".

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“I think of writing--particularly of writing picture books--as a kind of choreography. A picture book must have pace and movement and pattern. Pictures and text should, together, create the pattern, rather than simply run parallel.”
-- Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

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“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”

“Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.”

“I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.”

“If artists do see fields blue they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them blue, they are criminals and should go to prison.”

“It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.”

“Don't get caught up on 'I'm brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.' You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492? All these names we're using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.”

Source : "The Man Who Invented Hip Hop". Interview with Zack O'Malley Greenburg, www.forbes.com. July 9, 2009.

“I got an attitude, that's rude because I walked over Elvis' grave in some blue suede shoes.”

Source : Song: The Bomb, Album: Vagina Diner, 1993

“The window doesn't open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven't been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.”

“It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.”

“I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.”