Kathi Appelt Quotes
An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
-
She's been on more laps than a napkin.
-
You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
-
The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
-
I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
-
I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
-
If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
-
Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
-
I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
-
Time was God's first creation.
-
I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
-
I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
-
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
-
Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
-
If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
-
I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
-
I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
-
It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
-
I'm not a huge gym person, so I try to stay away from the gym. But I love to run on the beach or go for a walk. It's better than riding a stationary bike.
-
Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
-
You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
-
I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back. When you don't enjoy it, that's the time to pack it in.
-
I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.
Elliott Erwitt -
An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.
