Melissa de la Cruz Quotes

Every Valentine's Day, the student council sponsered a holiday fundraiser by selling roses that would be delievered in class. The roses came in four colors:white, yellow, red, pink, and the subtleties of thier meaning were parsed and analyzed by the female population to no end. Mimi had always understood it thus:white for love, yellow for friendship, red for passion, and pink for a secret crush.

Melissa de la Cruz

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• One of my favorite things about playing Avery Jennings on 'Dog With a Blog' is that I get to play a real teenager who deals with everyday issues.

  

  G. Hannelius
  • Real
  • Play
  • Dog

• My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Power
  • Husband
  • Wedding

• I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Always
  • Coffee
  • Breakfast

• In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • You
  • Everything
  • Without

• There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Morning
  • Distance
  • View

• It's the irrational things that interest me.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Me
  • Things
  • Interest

• Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Present
  • Influence
  • More

• When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.

  

  Barry White
  • Heart
  • Know
  • Hand

• My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • She
  • Mother
  • Parents

• While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

  

  Quintilian
  • Truth
  • Sometimes
  • Find

• Whites, like ourselves, belong to our country. They are compatriots, fellow citizens... we see them as Africans.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Country
  • See
  • Belong

• When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Time
  • Work
  • Think

• You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like, I sound just like my dad. But that's literally my vocal chords. I can't sound like anything else... I sound like him, but I act like myself.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • People
  • Dad
  • Myself

• I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Think
  • Stop
  • Play

• We regard America and Europe as old friends. We keep old friends, but we make new friends in Japan, India, and China.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Friends
  • America
  • Old Friends

• Ah, Scotland. I am three-parts Scottish and terribly proud of it, although maybe we should divide it into eighths, because my two-eighths are Danish and English, the Lumley part. But the bulk of the rest of me is Scottish - and Scottish ministers especially.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Proud
  • Rest
  • English

• Movies alone have the hideous capacity to do everything for you. So in directing movies, you have to figure how to leave things out - because when you leave things out, you evoke the imaginative participation of the audience.

  

  Alison Owen
  • Alone

• Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.

  

  Klaus Schulze Ash Ra Tempel

• Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Prayer
  • Answered
  • Ceases

• Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.

  

  Aristotle
  • Work
  • Marriage
  • Sex

• The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Technology
  • Accepting
  • Class

• Every Valentine's Day, the student council sponsered a holiday fundraiser by selling roses that would be delievered in class. The roses came in four colors:white, yellow, red, pink, and the subtleties of thier meaning were parsed and analyzed by the female population to no end. Mimi had always understood it thus:white for love, yellow for friendship, red for passion, and pink for a secret crush.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Friendship
  • Meaning
  • Class