E. L. Konigsburg Quotes

I don't think there is any feeling I like more than the one that someone is glad to see me. —Connor Kane

E. L. Konigsburg

• Thinking
• Feeling
• Feelings
• Glad

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Relationship
  • Best
  • Healthy

• When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Different
  • Live

• If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Want
  • Name
  • Charity

• I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • Kid
  • Los Angeles

• For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Most
  • Page
  • Twitter

• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Baseball
  • Tragedy
  • Big

• I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Dad
  • Doing
  • Bored

• You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Real
  • You
  • Need

• Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
  • Everything
  • Out
  • Sobriety

• I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Should
  • Fiction
  • African

• When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Best

• Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Friend
  • Lonely
  • Meeting

• Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Saying
  • Expert

• There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Know
  • Write
  • Start

• Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Immigration

• I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Me
  • New
  • New York

• This is America, not a banana republic.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • America
  • Republic
  • Banana

• All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Money
  • Sometimes
  • London

• Grosser light vanishes into eternal raysOf all-pervading Cosmic Joy.From Joy we come,For Joy we live,In the sacred Joy we melt.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Live
  • Light
  • Joy

• I grew up in the large house and the larger garden of my parents in Altenberg. They were supremely tolerant of my inordinate love for animals.

  

  Konrad Lorenz
  • Up
  • House
  • Parents

• Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.

  

  Aristotle
  • Feelings
  • Virtue
  • Actions

• I don't think there is any feeling I like more than the one that someone is glad to see me. —Connor Kane

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Thinking
  • Feeling
  • Feelings