Erin McKean Quotes

People say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it. That makes it real.

Erin McKean

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• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • California
  • Environmental

• Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Democracy
  • Ignore
  • Nation

• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Work
  • Own
  • Work Hard

• You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Work
  • Know
  • Acting

• I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Earth
  • Car
  • Truck

• Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Animal
  • Chaos
  • WIld

• Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Violence

• The reform process began with the historic consensus on the Charter of National Action, in which the Bahraini people decided on a new chapter of their history.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • History
  • Action

• Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • Affection

• Hugh Jackman is just the nicest person in the world. I know everybody says that, and it's almost boring to hear, but he is really, really perfect.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • World
  • Know
  • Perfect

• I honestly think that kids should not exercise: they should keep fit through play. The most important age is zero to seven, both for the kid and the parent - for parents, because this is the time when your kid learns how to walk, talk and other behaviour.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Time
  • Important
  • Kids

• Most babies know how to win us over. We cannot help but smile at them and watch them smile back.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Help
  • Win
  • Smile

• A friend of mine and I would go to this dirty little bar in Toronto that has karaoke every Tuesday night, and one night, we noticed that the only other person in there was Derek Jeter.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Night
  • Friend
  • Dirty

• Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • May
  • Poetry
  • Painting

• May it please our great Author that I may demonstrate the nature of man and his customs, in the way I describe his figure.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Great
  • May
  • Nature

• I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • School
  • Today

• Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • Control
  • Grit

• My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can. Children are naive - they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.

  

  Frank Zappa
  • Children
  • School
  • Bad

• It seems like everything is so polarized. You get the caricatures of people, the caricatures of their beliefs. "I hate this kind of person" or "I love this kind of person." But actually, there's a lot of great things about them. There are things to like. There's possibility of change.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • People
  • Great
  • Hate

• Thom Browne, Michael Bastian... all these people that I love, when I finally get to meet them, I'm like, 'You're a cool guy!'

  

  Brad Goreski
  • People
  • Guy
  • Cool

• It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging from the arch.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Age
  • Fall
  • Veils

• People say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it. That makes it real.

  

  Erin McKean
  • People
  • Children
  • motivation