Beverly Cleary Quotes
I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
Quotes to Explore
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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Stability cannot occur without a Palestinian Spring through the full implementation of the Palestinians' right to self-determination on their land.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
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The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.
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Growing up, everybody told me I was good. I was playing ping-pong with my father, and he'd say, 'That's a good shot,' but I'd mess up the next one, and I'd yell, 'Don't tell me that! I'll mess up! Just don't say anything!' You know, if someone says, 'You can't do that,' then I'm going to be, 'Yeah, you watch me.'
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I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.
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I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.
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I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
