Daniel Pinkwater Quotes
I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him.
Daniel Pinkwater
Quotes to Explore
Elves are cool, man.
Orlando Bloom
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
Felicity Kendal
My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
Faith Evans
As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
Abby Wambach
Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
Federica Mogherini
Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
Ian Fleming
I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
Washed Out
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
Baruch Spinoza
If you look at the beginning of this country, when the pilgrims came to this country, the first year they had a communistic experiment. They said, 'OK, we're going to take the land, we're going to work the land together and share in the fruits of our labor.' They almost starved to death. Almost half of them died that first year.
Rafael Cruz
Why are the heavens not filled with light? Why is the universe plunged into darkness?
Edward Robert Harrison
When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
Dan Quayle
It’s not how much time you spend doing what you love. It’s how little time you spend doing what you hate.
Casey Neistat
Watch out world, we're here to change ya!
Hal Elrod
Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.
Homer
I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him.
Daniel Pinkwater
