Joel Chandler Harris Quotes

Licker talks mighty loud w'en it gits loose from de jug.

Joel Chandler Harris

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• It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Book
  • Funny
  • Simple

• We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Think
  • Cancer
  • Need

• I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Love
  • Attack
  • Worse

• My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Job
  • Day
  • First

• I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.

  

  Larry King
  • Up
  • Know
  • Grow

• This man who was my father's age hit me hard on my head when I was 17. I started bleeding. I took out my sandal and hit his head hard, and he started to bleed, too.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Age
  • Father
  • Man

• I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Together
  • Feeling
  • Language

• I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Think
  • Borders

• No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Long
  • Peace
  • Violence

• Once I'm working on something, I don't do anything else. I'm mono-track.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Working
  • Something
  • Once

• I wake when my wife wakes, at 7:30 A.M. I'd like to sleep longer, but she has to go off to work, and I'd be plagued with guilt.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Work
  • She
  • Wife

• I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.

  

  Ed Emberley
  • Great
  • Book
  • Brain

• Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Money
  • Growing
  • Space

• In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!

  

  Wally Amos
  • Reading
  • Areas
  • Cookies

• Teaching was my first job after leaving university. It was a challenge, but I enjoyed it. Some of the kids were disruptive, but I could deal with it because I was only 24 at the time, and my own school memories were still fresh.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Time
  • School
  • Job

• Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking

• I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Beginning
  • Just
  • Fingers

• Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.

  

  Daniel Goleman
  • Emotional

• People vary. You change your style, your hair, and the way you dress. Talking differently will be a part of that.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • People
  • Style
  • Hair

• For the most part, I was surprised by the representation of female characters onscreen. I do hope that when we include more female storytellers, we will have more of the women that I recognize in my day to day life.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • Life
  • Women
  • Hope

• You must know that Iran has a great number of productions. Many films are released. Most of them, like in the rest of the world, are commercial and shallow films. These are the most popular ones. And there are a few ones that actually develop more profound and thoughtful aspects of life. Only some of these films travel out of Iran.

  

  Asghar Farhadi
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• There were considerably over 100 prisoners now. It was a problem to get them back safely to our own lines. There were so many of them, there was danger of our own artillery mistaking us for a German counterattack and opening upon us. I sure was relieved when we ran into the relief squads that had been sent forward through the brush to help us.

  

  Alvin C. York
  • Help
  • Danger
  • Prisoners

• Licker talks mighty loud w'en it gits loose from de jug.

  

  Joel Chandler Harris