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.

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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.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • People
  • Love
  • Faith

• I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • Want
  • Years
  • Holiday

• 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.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Think
  • Acting
  • Relax

• If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Sex
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• 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.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• The independence project in Catalonia is... a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Revolution
  • Independence
  • Peaceful

• I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.

  

  Van Cliburn
  • Success
  • Sensation

• I actually really love British and European cinema, but you have to go where the work is, and for me, it's in America.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Work
  • America
  • Really

• 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.

  

  Raini Rodriguez
  • Fun
  • Fault
  • Bullying

• 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.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Joy
  • Smile
  • Tears

• It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Lazy
  • Easier
  • Fast

• Compliment three people every day.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • People
  • Day
  • Everyday

• 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?

  

  Barry Williams
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Black

• 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.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Idea
  • Girls
  • Awful

• When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • Death
  • Choose

• I am the Attributeless, Absolute, Nirguna. I have no name, no residence.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Name
  • Absolute
  • Residence

• As languages go, English is pretty user friendly. If you look at a tiny language spoken somewhere that most of us have never heard of, chances are it's going to be so complicated that you have a hard time imagining how people can walk around speaking it without having a stroke.

  

  John McWhorter
  • People
  • Time
  • Pretty

• One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Up
  • Free
  • Morning

• The thing that we need in the world today, is a group of men and women who will stand up for right and be opposed to wrong, wherever it is. A group of people who have come to see that some things are wrong, whether they’re never caught up with. Some things are right, whether nobody sees you doing them or not.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • World
  • Women
  • Opposed

• When you work in such a surreal environment as movies, just listening to some tunes or hanging out with friends is what you crave. Even time alone.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Time
  • Work
  • Friends

• When I was a young person, when I was in high school, we did a very emotional and wonderful - for us, life-changing - production of 'Godspell.' It really, really was the highlight of my high school time, and it was for everybody else in the cast, too.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Life
  • Time
  • School

• 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.

  

  Meg Rosoff