Jon Scieszka Quotes
When I read the 'Dick and Jane' stories, I thought they were afraid they might forget each other's names because they always said each other's names - a lot. So if Jane didn't see the dog, Dick would say, 'Look Jane, look. There is the dog next to Sally, Jane. The dog is also next to mother, Jane. The dog is next to father, Jane.'
Jon Scieszka
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
Vanessa Mae
When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
Ma Huateng
When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
Carine Roitfeld
My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
Okky Madasari
I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.
Daniel Cormier
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell
Every time I see somebody behaving truly insanely in real life, I think, 'Yes! I'm not over the top after all!'
John Lithgow
For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
Rachel Cusk
The presidency has a funny way of making a person feel the need to pray.
Barack Obama
My mother is a Telugu, so I have been familiar with the language since childhood.
Armaan Malik
I've got nine dogs, eight birds, turtles, fish and I had wallabies at one point.
Gloria Estefan
Miami Sound Machine
When I read the 'Dick and Jane' stories, I thought they were afraid they might forget each other's names because they always said each other's names - a lot. So if Jane didn't see the dog, Dick would say, 'Look Jane, look. There is the dog next to Sally, Jane. The dog is also next to mother, Jane. The dog is next to father, Jane.'
Jon Scieszka