E. L. Konigsburg Quotes
Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.E. L. Konigsburg
Quotes to Explore
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I loved the world of imagination.
R. A. Salvatore -
The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
Natasha Trethewey -
Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
Gary Paulsen -
Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
Karen Allen -
If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5.5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country.
Veerappa Moily
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
Sam Kinison -
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
Gary Larson -
Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
Sam Shepard -
The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
Walter Martin -
Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
Hans Jonas -
I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
C. K. Williams
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
Wayne Rogers -
I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
Nadia Comaneci -
Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be ending up. I hope this term 'street artist' falls from the face of the earth, in my honest opinion.
Barry McGee -
Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
Maggie Hassan -
It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
Adam Cohen -
Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
J. Courtney Sullivan
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I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
Nelson Mandela -
Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.
Mark Haddon -
In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
Hanna Rosin -
True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents' worth of time.
Orison Swett Marden -
Avicii's been a supporter of my music for years, and we've been writing songs together for a long time.
Mike Posner -
Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.
E. L. Konigsburg