E. L. Konigsburg Quotes
By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.
Quotes to Explore
-
I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
-
Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
-
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
-
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
-
I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.
-
When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
-
I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
-
If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.
-
I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
-
There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That's obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions.
-
As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.
-
I watched Leicester City lose in the 1969 FA Cup final with my dad and granddad when I was eight and cried all the way home. I have seen them get promoted and relegated. I played for them for eight years. I even got a group of like-minded fans and friends to stump up a few quid to salvage the club when they went into liquidation.
-
I downloaded a Ricky Gervais podcast once at the persistent urging of a friend and found it funny but distracting – if I'm online, I'm surfing, which means I'm distracted from the podcast. So it's a form that doesn't really work for me.
-
If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself.
-
White racial grievance enjoys automatic credibility, and even when disproven, it is never disqualifying of its bearers.
-
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.
-
I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.
-
I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.
-
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.
-
The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
-
I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
-
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
-
I like to work from home. I do most of my writing in bed, late at night after everyone has gone to sleep. I need to be alone with my thoughts, and late at night is about the only time that can actually happen.
-
By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.
