Arnold Lobel Quotes

The question is which one of us is the frog and which is the toad,' Willem had said after they'd first seen the show, in JB's studio, and read the kindhearted books to each other late that night, laughing helplessly as they did.
He'd smiled; they had been lying in bed. 'Obviously, I'm the toad,' he said.
'No,' Willem said, 'I think you're the frog; your eyes are the same color as his skin.'
Willem sounded so serious that he grinned. 'That's your evidence?' he asked. 'And so what do you have in common with the toad?'
'I think I actually have a jacket like the one he has,' Willem said, and they began laughing again. ~ Hanya Yanagihara

We must stop eating!' cried Toad as he ate another. ~ Arnold Lobel

I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children. ~ Arnold Lobel

Come back and wake me up.....half past May! (the Toad) ~ Arnold Lobel

Love can be its own reward. ~ Arnold Lobel

Frog said, 'I wrote 'Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend. Your best friend, Frog.' 'Oh,' said Toad, 'that makes a very good letter.'Then Frog and Toad went out onto the front porch to wait for the mail. They sat there, feeling happy together. ~ Arnold Lobel

After I put on my bathing suit, you must not look at me until I get into the water.'

'Why not?' asked Frog.

'Because I look funny in my bathing suit. That is why.' said Toad. ~ Arnold Lobel

Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery. ~ Arnold Lobel

Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation. ~ Arnold Lobel

Wishes on their way to coming true will not be rushed. ~ Arnold Lobel

Satisfaction will come to those who please themselves. ~ Arnold Lobel

Winter is beautiful, but bed is better. ~ Arnold Lobel

The photo had been taken at the opening of JB's fifth, long-delayed show, 'Frog and Toad,' which had been exclusively images of the two of them, but very blurred, and more abstract than JB's previous work. (They hadn't quite known what to think of the series title, though JB had claimed it was affectionate. 'Arnold Lobel?' he had screeched at them when they asked him about it. 'Hello?!' But neither he nor Willem had read Lobel's books as children, and they'd had to go out and buy them to make sense of the reference.) ~ Hanya Yanagihara

Blah, said Toad. ~ Arnold Lobel

To be making books for children is to be in a sort of state of grace. ~ Arnold Lobel

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. ~ Arnold Lobel

You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake. ~ Arnold Lobel

I would not have been able to accomplish a lot of what I did professionally had I not learned to fly myself and owned an airplane. For example, I was able to fly to an exhibition for the day and be back home in time for dinner. I never would have been able to do that flying commercially. ~ Arnold Palmer

Women; can't live with em, can't kill em ~ Tom Arnold

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done. ~ Matthew Arnold

Milk are for babies, when you get older you drink beer. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold was a dog's dog. Whenever he shuffled along walks and through alleyways, he always gave the impression of being on to something big. ~ Martha Grimes

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all. ~ Bill Maher

I went from being the Terminator to being the governator. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

XXI. But Arnold Bros (est. 1905) said, This is the Sign I give you:
XXII. If You Do Not See What You Require, Please Ask.
From The Book of Nome, Regulations v. XXI-XXII ~ Terry Pratchett

I am the most helpful and open up doors for everyone and I like to share. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'm fascinated with what an audience will take away from an image. ~ Andrea Arnold

[Jack Nicklaus] was the first to bring in course management. He could go to a course and tell you within one stroke what was going to win. He used to set his sights on that because he could shoot it. He was the only player I know who, if he decided he wanted to win a tournament, could go out and do it. No one will ever be as popular as Arnold Palmer and no one will ever come close to Jack as a player. ~ Lee Trevino

Obviously, I've made statements that were ludicrous and crazy and outrageous and all those things, because that's the way I always was. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind. ~ Arnold Bennett

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. ~ Arnold J. Toynbee

I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered ... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening. ~ Eve Arnold

There are people who believe once somebody gets you a job in show business you are set and the truth is you have to fight for every job. People opened the doors for me for sure and hopefully I've helped open the door for some people but when you're there it's on you and you better be ready for it. ~ Tom Arnold

The respect of those you respect is worth more than the applause of the multitudes ~ Arnold Glosow

Father Arnold finished the ceremony and asked if anybody had any final words for the dearly departed.
"Final words?" Chess asked, "I don't know if I'll ever be able to stop talking about this. ~ Sherman Alexie

A wounded love carries a scar to the grave. ~ Arnold Haultain

Rest, let your body relax and grow. Work up gradually and don't blow it. Sometimes you can do so much your mind gets sick of it. Remember what I said earlier: Keep your mind hungry. People have a tendency to overdo things at first and then sluff off. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Help is help to anyone, Mary. Even if they don't know they're asking for it." I said that made a whole lot of sense, because it did. And it still does. Here's the thing, Iz: my mom needs help right now. And I know it, even if she doesn't. ~ David Arnold

Is it possible that mathematical pathology, i.e. chaos, is health? And that mathematical health, which is the predictability and differentiability of this kind of a structure, is disease? ~ Arnold Mandel

It's pretty lonely and sad to be single. Every night was the same for me, I'd go home and curl up in bed with my favorite book. Well, actually it was a magazine. ~ Tom Arnold

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner. ~ Matthew Arnold

Pain makes people who they are. ~ David Arnold

If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon. ~ Krafft Arnold Ehricke

Because of the economies of scale in data, the cloud giants are increasingly powerful. And because they're so susceptible to regulation, these companies have a vested interest in keeping government entities happy. When the Justice Department requested billions of search records from AOL, Yahoo, and MSN in 2006, the three companies quickly complied. (Google, to its credit, opted to fight the request.) Stephen Arnold, an IT expert who worked at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, says that Google at one point housed three officers of "an unnamed intelligence agency" at its headquarters in Mountain View. And Google and the CIA have invested together in a firm called Recorded Future, which focuses on using data connections to predict future real-world events. ~ Eli Pariser

When you play by the rules, defy mental demons, overcome every challenge, and enjoy a walk in the country at the same time - that's being alive. ~ Arnold Palmer

Everything sounds better on vinyl. It's not a trend. It's a fact. I ~ David Arnold

Only
but this is rare
When a beloved hand is laid in ours,
When, jaded with the rush and glare
Of the interminable hours,
Our eyes can in another's eyes read clear,
When our world-deafen'd ear
Is by the tones of a loved voice caress'd
A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast,
And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again.
The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain,
And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know.
A man becomes aware of his life's flow,
And hears its winding murmur; and he sees
The meadows where it glides, the sun, the breeze. ~ Matthew Arnold

And we forget because we must ~ Matthew Arnold

Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile. ~ Edwin Arnold

Most bodybuilders only have a hazy notion of what they want to look like. They do not say, 'I am going to be a winner.' The negative impulses around the gym can be incredible. I would hear bodybuilders complaining, 'Oh,no! Not another set!' That destroyed them. I have always believed that if you're training for nothing, you're wasting your effort! ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

The average man," explained the late Dr. Ernst Jokl, "loses fifty percent of his muscle mass between the ages of eighteen and sixty-five. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Many women seem to have hang-ups about going out with me because they feel they have to be in the same shape that I am. If they're overweight, they're insecure, because they don't understand that I don't look at women the same way I look at myself. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

In [my] youth I was smacked around. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

I will never apologize for my Southern accent...it just may be my greatest asset. ~ Lola Faye Arnold

I want to be a Kid Reporter because I would like to meet interesting people, and I also love being in front of the camera! As a Kid Reporter, I would love to learn how to be a better writer and interview people. ~ Charlotte Arnold

My whole life everyone always said 'it can't be done', 'you'll never do it', 'you will fail', 'no one has ever gone from Austria and become a Mr Universe, blah, blah, blah', or when I ran for governor people were sceptical. It was 'you're going to lose' and 'people don't take people from show-business seriously in politics'. So, I've heard all the 'it's impossible' thing but I didn't pay any attention because I believed that I could do it. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Most people sleep themselves stupid. ~ Arnold Bennett

The art of handling university students is to make oneself appear, and this almost ostentatiously, to be treating them as adults ... ~ Arnold Joseph Toynbee

I never go on a movie set as the star. I always go as the guy who just does his job, like the electrician does his job and the hairdresser does her job. Let's all work together and make this happen, rather than have the star treatment. I don't do that. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

One thing was very clear and I made it always very clear at the beginning when I got into the governorship, and that was that I wasn't trying to become a career politician. This was not like I was going to be governor for seven years and then I was going to run for the Senate and then for Congress. That was never my interest. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

If something is wrong with anyone, look first to the stomach. ~ Arnold Ehret

When your characters are really living they tell you what they do. ~ Andrea Arnold

The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel the same way about Tiger Woods. ~ Gary Player

Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row. ~ Kareena Kapoor Khan