There should have been public consultation. It should have been debated in the House.
ALAN SILVERSTEIN He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any grea...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN I cannot go to school today"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
"I have the measles and the mump...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN True story
This morning I jumped on my horse
And went for a ride,
And some wild outla...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN EARLY BIRD
Oh, if you’re a bird, be an early bird
And catch the worm for your breakfast ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Magic
Sandra’s seen a leprechaun,
Eddie touched a troll,
Laurie danced with witches...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN I will not play at tug o' war.
I'd rather play at hug o' war,
Where everyone hugs
Ins...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Do a loony-goony dance
'Cross the kitchen floor,
Put something silly in the world
...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN i made myself a snowball
As perfect as can be.
I thought I'd keep it as a pet,
And le...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depe...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN He wasted his wishes on wishing.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN If you are a dreamer come in
If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A hoper a pray-er a magi...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN The Voice

There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel th...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Listen to the mustn'ts child.
Listen to the don'ts.
Listen to the shouldn't haves, the impossi...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN I will not play at tug o' war.
I'd rather play at hug o' war,
Where everyone hugs
Instead o...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Draw a crazy picture,
Write a nutty poem,
Sing a mumble-gumble song,
Whistle through your c...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Oh the thumb-sucker's thumb
May look wrinkled and wet
And withered, and white as the snow,
...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN I asked the zebra,
Are you black with white strips?
Or white with black strips?
And the zeb...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive,...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle<...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN I'm making a list
I'm making a list of things I must say
For politeness,
And goodness...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN POINT OF VIEW Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless Christmas dinner's dark and blue When you sto...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell m...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN It's always a nice feeling, having people think that you feel things much deeper than you're...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's eno...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Ol' man Simon, planted a diamond. Grew hisself a garden the likes of none. Sprouts all growin' comin...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN And the tree was happy
SHEL SILVERSTEIN I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don'...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN It's amazing the difference
A bit of sky can make.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN The Little Boy and the Old Man

Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon."
Sai...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the on...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Said the little boy, Sometimes I drop my spoon.
Said the little old man, I do that too.
The li...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN I've discovered a way to stay friends forever -
There's really nothing to it.
I simply t...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN We can't find the cat,
We don't know where she's at,
Oh, where did she go?
Does anyon...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN I'd rather play tennis than go to the dentist.
I'd rather play soccer than go to the doctor. SHEL SILVERSTEIN I keep meeting all the right people
At all the wrong times.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Standing is stupid,
Crawling's a curse,
Skipping is silly,
Walking is worse.
H...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN How much good inside a day?
Depends how good you live ‘em.
How much love inside a friend...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep,
And if I die before I wake, SHEL SILVERSTEIN If we meet and I say, "Hi,"
That's a salutation.
If you ask me how I feel,
That's a c...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN There are no happy endings, endings are sad-so let's have a happy beginning and a happy middle.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN It's all the same to the clam.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN There's a Polar Bear
In our Frigidaire--
He likes it 'cause it's cold in there.
With ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN One day he said, "I'll tell this town
How it feels to be an unfunny clown."
And he told th...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN FROZEN DREAM

I'll take the dream I had last night
And put it in my freezer,
So ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN If you have to dry the dishes
(Such an awful boring chore)
If you have to dry the dishes<...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN He was almost there, when...Smash! Crash! Bash! He slid down and mashed into engine hash the little ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN It certainly seems they're casting a net much more widely than would be necessary to thwart somethin...
MARK SILVERSTEIN I myself do not believe in explaining anything.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the F...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Rockabye Baby, in the treetopDont you know a treetopis no safe place to rock?And who put you up ther...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Ricky was "L" but he's home with the flu,
Lizzie, our "O," had some homework to do,
Mitchell...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Our girls have their confidence back. Now we're hoping to go play good tennis in Maryland.
DAN SILVERSTEIN I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of t...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Underneath my outside face
There's a face that none can see.
A little less smiley,
A ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN She had blue skin,
And so did he.
He kept it hid
And so did she.
They searched f...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN ... and she loved a boy very, very much-- even more than she loved herself.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN A Light in the Attic,
SHEL SILVERSTEIN God says to me with kind of a smile,"Hey how would you like to be God awhileAnd steer the world?""Ok...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!
SHEL SILVERSTEIN God says to me with kind of a smile,
"Hey how would you like to be God awhile
And steer the ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Rockabye Baby, in the treetop
Dont you know a treetop
is no safe place to rock?
And who ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN All The Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
Layin' In The Sun,
Talkin' 'Bout The Things
They Woulda-C...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN "There Is A Voice Inside Of You
That Whispers All Day Long,
"I Feel That This Is Right For M...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Rockabye Baby, in the treetop
Dont you know a treetop
is no safe place to rock?
And w...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN When the light turns green, you go.When the light turns red, you stop.But what do you do when the li...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Why is the FBI conducting surveillance of a bookstore, monitoring the persons who gather there, and ...
MARK SILVERSTEIN Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN The only thing I could see in here that would stimulate sexual functioning is caffeine because it im...
JUDITH SILVERSTEIN If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do:
You must learn how to make a perfect ch...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN If you look around Denver, you see many of the buildings Al Cohen erected.
LARRY SILVERSTEIN Teddy said it was a hat, So I put it on. Now dad is saying, "where the heck's the toilet plunger gon...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN The baby bat
Screamed out in fright,
'Turn on the dark,
I'm afraid of the light.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN This bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gyp...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN I know a way to stay friends forever, There's really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, And you d...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Have you been to The Land of Happy,Where everyone's happy all day,Where they joke and they singOf th...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN All The Woulda-Coulda-ShouldasLayin' In The Sun,Talkin' 'Bout The ThingsThey Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda D...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN If you are a dreamer,come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bea...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Ricky was "L" but he's home with the flu,Lizzie, our "O," had some homework to do,Mitchell, "E" prob...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!
SHEL SILVERSTEIN The hens they all cackle, the roosters all beg, But I will not hatch, I will not hatch. For I hear a...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN There Is A Voice Inside Of YouThat Whispers All Day Long,"I Feel That This Is Right For Me,I Know Th...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where e...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN There is a place where the sidewalk ends.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN TREE HOUSE
A tree house, a free house,
A secret you and me house,
A high up in the le...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN ​Listen to the MUSTN'TS, child,
Listen to the DON'TS
Listen to the SHOULDN'TS
The I...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN If you were only one inch tall, you'd ride a worm to school.
The teardrop of a crying ant would...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN This boat that we just built is just fine -
And don't try to tell us it's not
The sides ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends.
Past t...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN I opened my eyes
And looked up at the rain,
And it dripped in my head
And flowed into...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN INVISIBLE BOY
And here we see the invisible boy
In his lovely invisible house,
Feedin...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN But all the magic I have known
I've had to make myself.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Just Me, Just Me

Sweet Marie, she loves just me
(She also loves Maurice McGhee).
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Ricky was "L" but he's home with the flu,
Lizzie, our "O," had some homework to do,
Mitche...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN My beard grows down to my toes,
I never wears no clothes,
I wraps my hair
Around my b...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN ALICE
She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME
And she grew so tall,
She ate from a pl...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN If you are a dreamer, come in,
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-e...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Are wild strawberries really wild? Will they scratch an adult, will they snap at a child? Should you...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN If the track is tough and the hill is rough,
THINKING you can just ain't enough!
SHEL SILVERSTEIN And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN So I'm all of love that could make it today.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Once I spoke the language of the flowers,
Once I understood each word the caterpillar said,
SHEL SILVERSTEIN She had blue skin. And so did he. He kept it hid, And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Draw a crazy picture,
Write a nutty poem,
Sing a mumble-gumble song,
Whistle throug...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN All The Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
Layin' In The Sun,
Talkin' 'Bout The Things
They Would...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN My skin is kind of sort of brownish pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, but ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Anything is possible. Anything can be.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Norman Foster understands how to design a bold urban icon while simultaneously enhancing the environ...
LARRY SILVERSTEIN They've effectively cut off public participation at Town Board meetings. Now the public doesn't get ...
CAROL SILVERSTEIN When the Town Board passes a bond for $2.55 million and then it goes up to $4.25 million, that's fis...
CAROL SILVERSTEIN Nobody loves me, nobody cares,
Nobody picks me peaches and pears.
Nobody offers me candy a...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN If you are a dreamer, come in,
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-e...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN My guess is (it will be) about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your local reference l...
CRAIG SILVERSTEIN There's no question that the next series we have will not be at the same level as the first 13 match...
DAN SILVERSTEIN We feel good about the win and know that even when we were losing, we were playing good tennis. We f...
DAN SILVERSTEIN why can't you see i'm a kid', said the kid.
Why try to make me like you?
Why are you hurt ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN The bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gyps...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Although I cannot see your face
As you flip these poems awhile,
Somewhere from some far-of...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN You don't have to shoot me," says the young lion. "I will be your rug and I will lie in front of you...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN There is a place where the sidewalk ends,
And before the street begins,
And there the gr...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN No Difference

Small as a peanut,
Big as a giant,
We're all the same size
W...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN I don't really know the man my mother fell in love with. My dad was not a big part of my life for a ...
JAMIE SILVERSTEIN I know a way to stay friends forever,
There's really nothing to it,
I tell you what to do,...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN I asked the Zebra,
are you black with white stripes?
Or white with black stripes?
...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Tell my I'm clever,
Tell me I'm kind,
Tell me I'm talented,
Tell me I'm cute,
Te...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN It was cool. I was surprised how relaxed I was. I broke my lace, so I didn't have time to worry abou...
JAMIE SILVERSTEIN Whirlwind is putting it nicely.
JAMIE SILVERSTEIN It was fun. I think for us this is really about the experience, and we're here to root on the other ...
JAMIE SILVERSTEIN I feel cool. I was surprised how relaxed I was.
JAMIE SILVERSTEIN I haven't experienced needing to be at such a high level for so long time, so it's been overwhelming...
JAMIE SILVERSTEIN I mean you looked at me, and you could tell something was wrong. But I also lied through my teeth. B...
JAMIE SILVERSTEIN I'm just thrilled; not everyone gets another chance to be a part of something really special.
JAMIE SILVERSTEIN Wow, I can't even talk. We really, really wanted it. I'm almost afraid to say how much we wanted it.
JAMIE SILVERSTEIN We really, really wanted this. We were afraid to say how much we wanted this.
JAMIE SILVERSTEIN A spider lives inside my head
Who weaves a strange and wondrous web
Of silken threads and ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN If you're sloppy, that's just fine.
If you're moody, I won't mind.
If you're fat, that's f...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN So what if nobody came?
I’ll have all the ice cream and tea,
And I’ll laugh with mys...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN The Colorado statute, however, applies only to American flags, which raises another constitutional i...
MARK SILVERSTEIN Knock! knock!
who's there?
me!
me who?
that's right?
what's right?
mee...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Pirate Captain Jim
"Walk the plank," says Pirate Jim
"But Captain Jim, I cannot swim."
SHEL SILVERSTEIN THE ONE WHO STAYED
You should have heard the old men cry,
You should have heard the biddie...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN One sister for sale,
One sister for sale,
One crying and spying young sister for sale
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Talked my head off
Worked my tail off
Cried my eyes out
Walked my feet off
Sang ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN It is not practical to build super-tall office buildings in the post-9/11 world,
LARRY SILVERSTEIN only concern right now is designing a safe and spectacular Freedom Tower in keeping with the well-es...
LARRY SILVERSTEIN to the extent the demand is there.
LARRY SILVERSTEIN I am thrilled with today's victory. But this is a win for all New Yorkers. Today's decision means an...
LARRY SILVERSTEIN I would assume it will not look completely different,
LARRY SILVERSTEIN Al Cohen was a builder of high-rise office buildings - buildings of consequence.
LARRY SILVERSTEIN We have zero commitments for 7 because it is too early,
LARRY SILVERSTEIN The mayor has frequently urged us to proceed as quickly as possible, ... I believe that New Yorkers ...
LARRY SILVERSTEIN The city is not dead and can't be allowed to die, ... We owe [rebuilding] to our children and to our...
LARRY SILVERSTEIN Talked my head off
Worked my tail off
Cried my eyes out
Walked my feet off
Sang ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Sex sells, and those are great marketing, great advertising. There's no regulation of things like dr...
JUDITH SILVERSTEIN I don't see anything in here that would cause sexual arousal or desire.
JUDITH SILVERSTEIN There could have been some background to the rumor. And if not, Burma right now is at a point where ...
JOSEF SILVERSTEIN The Burmese are retreating from the outside world. They are isolating themselves in a bunker mentali...
JOSEF SILVERSTEIN That Janet Bacon was a criminal trespasser has been proved beyond a reasonable doubt. We must assess...
JEFFREY SILVERSTEIN My client felt horrid about what happened, but he truly believed he acted appropriately at the time.
JEFFREY SILVERSTEIN I'm really pleased that he is going to be returned to his family. Obviously, this incident was terri...
JEFFREY SILVERSTEIN What's he doing here?
ROB SILVERSTEIN Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
ALAN No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
ALAN WATTS I think most people have that crazy uncle they sit at Thanksgiving dinner with: someone they disagre...
ALAN COLMES Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLIS Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest po...
ALAN STERN Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETT I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETT I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
ALAN BENNETT We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me ch...
ALAN BENNETT I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.
ALAN BENNETT I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu...
ALAN BENNETT I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fall...
ALAN BENNETT I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
ALAN BENNETT I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that...
ALAN BENNETT All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
ALAN BENNETT We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's...
ALAN BENNETT Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
ALAN BENNETT I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The...
ALAN BENNETT Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
ALAN BENNETT Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
ALAN BENNETT Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception...
ALAN BENNETT Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETT Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; o...
ALAN BENNETT Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
ALAN BENNETT If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
ALAN KING I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.
ALAN TURING I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don'...
ALAN TURING I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature co...
ALAN TURING Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two ...
ALAN TURING No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brai...
ALAN TURING I want to enjoy not getting recognised while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can...
ALAN WALKER