But the wild things cried, “Oh please don’t go - we’ll eat you up - we love you so!”
And Max said, “No!”
The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye.


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It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.
MAURICE GIBB
I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to th...
MAURICE ASHLEY
America? They had a good girl singer, Janis Joplin.
MAURICE GIBB
The lion is the king of the jungle. The track is my jungle. And the word GOAT is here... it stands f...
MAURICE GREENE
In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the mu...
MAURICE JARRE
I thought Chicago had more energy, that's for sure.
MAURICE CHEEKS
(The game) got away when Pierce hit those two threes.
MAURICE CHEEKS
Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, we paint the semblance of a form divine.
MAURICE MAETERLINCK
The horrors he saw but could not prevent, as well as some he may have directly participated in -- it...
MAURICE ELIAS
She tried to get out but the more she tried to get out, the deeper she sank.
MAURICE LUQUE
Should we not invariably act in this life as though the God whom our heart desires with its highest ...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK
We are also very pleased we could reach an amicable settlement with Prudential,
MAURICE GREENBERG
He is playing the game at a faster pace now. He gets the ball off quicker, he can check out of plays...
MAURICE DREW
Normally, the chief counsel of the FDA is someone who comes up through the ranks, ... He has a backg...
MAURICE HINCHEY
They just pulled the hose off the engine and doused it with foam.
MAURICE LUQUE
This town was known as being a tough, little, hard-nosed little town, and there's still some extraor...
MAURICE LAMEE
Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet.
MAURICE SAATCHI
Freedom is having to comply with nothing, but our heart.
MAURICE SPEES
And it is because we all of us know of this sombre power and its perilous manifestations, that we st...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK
Nobody knew exactly what it was going to do, I mean it didn't have big promotion or anything, it jus...
MAURICE GIBB
People accuse us of being nothing more than a disco band now, but they don't know what they're talki...
MAURICE GIBB
Technology keeps busy to make us totally occupy our constantly growing minds, so that we lose grip o...
MAURICE SPEES
The results were spectacular. The region associated with aversion was activated the moment the subje...
MAURICE PTITO
The politician is an acrobat; he keeps his balance by doing the opposite of what he says.
MAURICE BARRES
I'm a faithful Catholic, but they are not my voice. They are a small number of Catholics who have li...
MAURICE HEALY
We walked out of the gate looking like we were the ones in the mud and they were a lot quicker than ...
MAURICE CHEEKS
The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surround...
MAURICE JARRE
I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.
MAURICE MAETERLINCK
I've always felt that we were at our best in the most dire situations this year.
PAUL MAURICE
Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to ...
MAURICE GREENE
I think the vulgarity of it shouldn't have been directed at anyone.
MAURICE WILSON
That's the end of the search, unless we get a missing-person report. Then it would be more of a reco...
MAURICE LUQUE
The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.
MAURICE CHEVALIER
An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.
MAURICE CHEVALIER
I know there is nothing to say to change my situation. I want to apologize to Laura's father and mot...
MAURICE CHEVALIER
Now that I live the life I want to live, I dedicate my time to the part I want to give, to help othe...
MAURICE SPEES
Support: OK now that I have to constantly admit "I am not a robot" filling in forms to connect to yo...
MAURICE SPEES
Strangers do not exist; we simply create strange situations when being together.
MAURICE SPEES
My approach has never been to start from theories to arrive at facts, but on the contrary, to try to...
MAURICE ALLAIS
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
MAURICE MAETERLINCK
We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained. - The Way ...
MAURICE HULST
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
MAURICE CHEVALIER
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
MAURICE CHEVALIER
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. -Maurice Chevalier.
MAURICE CHEVALIER
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
MAURICE BARING
Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything,...
MAURICE ASHLEY
I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incid...
MAURICE ASHLEY