Katherine Paterson Quotes
Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.Katherine Paterson
Quotes to Explore
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Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.
Walter Kirn -
I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
Cameron Diaz -
I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.
Daisy Ridley -
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln -
I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
Hailey Gates -
Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
Rachele Brooke Smith
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
Zoe Foster Blake -
All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
Nancy Gibbs -
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
R. Lee Ermey -
I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
Hanoi Hannah -
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh -
When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
Harold MacMillan
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
Frances McDormand -
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch Spinoza -
When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
J. Michael Straczynski -
What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
Barry Diller -
I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
Ed Helms -
Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.
Zac Efron
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I am not an African. I am an American.
Albert Murray -
I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.
Gary Johnson -
The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
Fernando Pessoa -
I once ran away from home because I was upset with my parents! I didn't get farther than a few feet into the woods, where I hid behind a tree. Sometimes you feel like you should just go out and rebel, and then you realize it's not the right thing to do. You've got to stay true to your family.
Max Schneider -
The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
Thomas Sowell -
Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.
Katherine Paterson