Meg Rosoff Quotes
As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.
Quotes to Explore
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I had good skills, but my lack of size and speed kept me a little behind the best kids in the other sports. Golf offered a more level field. I would have rather played other sports, but golf picked me.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.
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I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.
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I'm opening gyms around the world to encourage people to get in shape and feel good about themselves; bringing art through dance to gyms to make my gyms different from other people's.
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The independence project in Catalonia is... a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie.
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I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.
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I actually really love British and European cinema, but you have to go where the work is, and for me, it's in America.
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Bullying is never fun, it's a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever.
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I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I do things because good jazz is improvisation and draws elements from all different cultures. And that's the way I do everything - the way I dress and decorate.
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.
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Compliment three people every day.
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I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and other groups. I believe that many politicians think this has been the way it has always been, so what's the problem?
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A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me.
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When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.
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I am the Attributeless, Absolute, Nirguna. I have no name, no residence.
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I don't know anyone male or female who can quote-unquote have it all. It's a made-up idea. Men don't have it all. They may have it better because they get paid more for the same work, but they don't have it all.
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Every day is an adventure.
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I have tons of pictures of myself as a kid with my medals, and they were never gold medals.
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I could easily say that, for quite a long time before I became mayor, I had obeyed all laws.
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The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.
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As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.
