Jerry Spinelli Quotes
I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.
Jerry Spinelli
Quotes to Explore
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
Otto von Bismarck
Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
Mamata Banerjee
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
Ira Glass
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
Karin Slaughter
I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
Vincent Cassel
When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
Malorie Blackman
Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.
Yuna
Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
Ban Ki-moon
We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
Vicki Lawrence
It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
E. O. Wilson
