Jon Scieszka Quotes

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

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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

• Mrs. Oliver in her own opinion was famous for her intuition. One intuition succeeded another with remarkable rapidity, and Mrs. Oliver always claimed the right to justify the particular intuition which turned out to be right!

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Opinion
  • Famous
  • Intuition

• I've always been a ravenous consumer of opinion. When I was in my high school library and my college library, I would read 'National Review' and I would read 'The Nation' and I would read 'The American Spectator' and I would read 'Mother Jones.'

  

  Jake Tapper
  • School
  • American
  • Mother

• Her only way home was to betray her friend.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Home
  • Friend
  • Betray

• My mother is French, my father is Texan.

  

  Mireille Enos
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Texan

• I don't believe there's an afterlife - but I don't believe there's an end to life. Consciousness goes beyond the bounds of your body.

  

  Lily Cole
  • Life
  • Believe

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

  

  Jon Scieszka