#being

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#beginner #being #call #comic #even

The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#being #comedian #comedians #fun #get

The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today. ↗

— Bud Selig

#being #country #greatest #greatest country #history

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#capable #driver #given #i #i think

I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#beautiful #being #book #gogh #i

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#being #child #creature #escape #i

It's no fun being lonely. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#fun #lonely

Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#children #human #human beings #mothers #sometimes

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#aware #being #death #did #die

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#human #human being #kindness #opportunity #wherever