Barbara Park Quotes
There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.Barbara Park
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler -
When I talk to young girls about clothes, I tell them to show a lot of brains.
Rachel Roy -
When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
W. Somerset Maugham -
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde -
When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
H. R. Giger
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
Frances McDormand -
I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.
Eden Sher -
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
Sam Levenson -
The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
P. J. O'Rourke -
When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.
Victoria Abril -
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
Victor Hugo
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Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
Nate Berkus -
I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
Pat Conroy -
You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
Yami Gautam -
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
Dan Aykroyd -
I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
Rachel Kushner
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I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.
Imelda May -
Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
Fidel Castro -
Don't let anything morph you or push you around or have you be something you're not.
Christina Aguilera -
If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.
Marianne Williamson -
The kid that showed up (Maddox), that's incredible. I mean, she wasn't even on our radar. It's kind of interesting with us. Probably the best thing that happened to Temple was that their point guard went down, because then our brains went to sleep and we no longer focused on the guards. It was confusion, at the very least.
C. Vivian Stringer -
There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
Barbara Park