Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

Each book I write is a shout into the silence and a prayer and a plea for change.

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• Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Why
  • Name
  • Last

• A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Experience
  • Way
  • Better

• People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Happy
  • Crazy

• Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Period
  • Teen
  • Intense

• I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Day
  • Confidence
  • Deep

• The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.

  

  Gaston Caperton
  • Great
  • Country
  • Society

• When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Job
  • Black
  • Know

• When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Me
  • Eyes
  • Accident

• I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Done
  • Wonder
  • Tough

• I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Me

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.

  

  Orlando Brown
  • World
  • Music
  • Animals

• I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Past
  • Kind
  • Player

• The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Free
  • Design
  • Sky

• When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Work
  • Money
  • Change

• I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Art
  • Business
  • Think

• If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Enough
  • Train
  • Nervous

• I can only hope that my future movies will do well.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Movies

• The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century.

  

  Charles Bass
  • Past
  • Military
  • Chinese

• One final thing a director needs: The ability to say 'I am wrong' or 'I was wrong.' Not as easy as it sounds. But in many situations, these 3 words, honestly spoken, will save the day.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Words
  • Director
  • Sounds

• A light exists in Spring Not present in the year at any other period When March is scarcely here.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Light
  • Spring

• A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

  

  Pope Francis
  • Good
  • Prayer
  • Catholic

• Nerd herd, focus. You're here to help the fledglings. Dour One and Dour Two aren't important," said Aphrodite. "Dr. Seuss reference. I like it," Stark said, giving me a check-me-out-I've-always-read-books hottie grin. Aphrodite frowned at him. "I said focus, not flirt.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Important
  • Book
  • Help

• Each book I write is a shout into the silence and a prayer and a plea for change.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Book
  • Prayer
  • Silence