Jon Scieszka Quotes

We're promoting such a narrow version of literacy that we're not including what a lot of boys like.

Jon Scieszka

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• Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.

  

  Victor Mature
  • Actor
  • Critics
  • Golfer

• Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Guy
  • You
  • Fighting

• People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• I don't do things that are illegal.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Things
  • Illegal

• We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.

  

  Manal al-Sharif
  • Stop
  • Woman
  • First

• I was kind of lost for several years.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Lost
  • Kind
  • Years

• I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Know
  • Responsibility
  • Fans

• I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Believe
  • Impossible
  • Say

• TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Beautiful
  • TV
  • Ugliness

• I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Men
  • Man
  • Black

• Oh, I love Nottingham. I know some people go, 'Oh God, there's not much going off there,' but I like staying in and going round to my mum and dad's for a Sunday roast.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Know
  • Dad

• More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Tears
  • More
  • Over

• I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Different
  • School
  • High

• Well, honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Fan
  • Well
  • Courtroom

• Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Future
  • Want
  • Death

• And the heavy night hung dark,The hills and waters o'er,When a band of exiles moored their barkOn the wild New England shore.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Night
  • Band
  • Dark

• Music a pederast might hum when raping a choirboy.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Music

• Spot the falsehood of history and find out the truth.

  

  Aesop
  • Truth
  • History

• Very often we see coaches who have not been successful being recycled, instead of looking to a new face or a new name who has demonstrated the ability to handle the job.

  

  Lynn Swann
  • Job

• Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.

  

  John Stuart Mill

• I'm not a very technical musician at all.

  

  Washed Out
  • Musician
  • Very
  • Technical

• All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • People
  • Morality
  • Homeless

• He could make our decision easy - one way or another.

  

  Alan Trammell
  • Decision
  • Easy
  • Make

• We're promoting such a narrow version of literacy that we're not including what a lot of boys like.

  

  Jon Scieszka