Jonathan Kozol Quotes

I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.

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• I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Good
  • Why
  • Book

• I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Improve
  • Manners
  • Sugar

• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Lie
  • Measure
  • Tape

• There is no sin except stupidity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Sin
  • Stupidity
  • Except

• I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Country
  • Military
  • Start

• Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • True
  • Me
  • Mom

• Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Women
  • True
  • Dream

• I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.

  

  Kat Dahlia
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Pretty
  • Much
  • Thrift

• The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Age
  • Yourself
  • Curiosity

• Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Thought
  • Only
  • Medals

• I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Up
  • Know
  • Thought

• I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Up
  • Look
  • Definitely

• When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • Future
  • Write
  • I Write

• The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!

  

  Lady Gregory
  • She
  • Bad
  • Government

• I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Running

• E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Fighting
  • See

• I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Challenge

• I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Up
  • War
  • Culture

• I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout.

  

  M. C. Gainey
  • City
  • Car
  • Jump

• At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights debates with the West. They had their arguments ready.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • War
  • Cold

• American exceptionalism is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • People
  • Important
  • American

• That's kind of just the nature of our business, is that you're really putting a lot of energy and time and care into something that isn't necessarily going to last forever.

  

  Phillipa Soo
  • Time
  • Business
  • Nature

• I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
  • Energy
  • Moments