Jerry Spinelli Quotes

Actually, between books is precisely when I do give myself vacations.

Jerry Spinelli

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• The Wonder Woman that you see in 'Batman v Superman' is a woman who has been around, and she's very experienced. She understands a lot about man. Whereas, in the standalone movie, we are telling the grown-up story, Diana becoming Wonder Woman, and this was a story that was never told before.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Up
  • She
  • Movie

• Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Attention
  • Start

• Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • World
  • Go
  • Royalty

• The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Time
  • History
  • Education

• I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • Running

• I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Intellectuals
  • Condescending
  • Demeanour

• I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • She
  • Want
  • Me

• Glamour is fun! Spending time to get ready isn't about being fussy; it's about taking care of myself.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Myself

• I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Me
  • Dark
  • Matter

• A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Challenge

• You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • World
  • You
  • Without

• John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted droning guitar instrumentals, which I listened to heavily in my teens and twenties; I even produced an hour or so of banjo music in an imitative John Fahey style.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Music
  • Crazy
  • Style

• I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Speak

• Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Human
  • Cat
  • Lion

• I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Want
  • Find

• I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more!

  

  Faith Hill
  • Up
  • Good
  • Food

• I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Know
  • Religion
  • Philosophy

• You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • You
  • Evil
  • Meant To Be

• Make Jesus Christ your theme! I have seen preachers espouse causes and champion movements, and when the cause died and the movement collapsed, the preacher vanished too. But the man who glories in Christ never grows stale.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Jesus
  • Champion

• I can't imagine that I will ever be on anything like 'M*A*S*H' again.

  

  Jamie Farr

• There are a whole bunch of people who don't like to shop. But there are also people, maybe, who even do like to shop but are very time pressured. And so shopping online can save people time.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • People
  • Online
  • Shop

• I like very confused people. The more confused, the more fun for me.

  

  Cory Michael Smith
  • People
  • Fun
  • Confused

• I think, in fact, there's a plus and a minus to knowing my prior work, Happiness and so forth. The plus is of course you can see how I play with the characters, the storylines, and the way things play off each other. And the minus is that it makes you a little bit more self-conscious, that you're not able to enter the movie as it exists and lives and breathes, because you're so busy making references, connections that you're not able to release yourself from and take the film on your own terms.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Character
  • Film
  • Breathe

• Actually, between books is precisely when I do give myself vacations.

  

  Jerry Spinelli