Sharon Creech Quotes

Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.

Sharon Creech

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• I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Work
  • Film
  • Stars

• Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • World
  • Great
  • Art

• The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Believe
  • Age
  • Know

• A lot of times, people are ashamed of feeling weak and being rejected - so it's liberating to be able to sing about those things. And it's amazing when other people don't feel alone because they hear it.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Alone

• Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Good
  • Live
  • Peace

• I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Power
  • Help
  • Man

• I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.

  

  Zara Cox
  • Shows
  • Favorite
  • TV Shows

• I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Inspiration
  • Conversation
  • Conflict

• Yes, I think I am a realist. Because I make what I see. It's only the problem of seeing it. If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space - then you can make it, and tout de suite you're a realist. The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Once you imagine it, you can be realistic about reproducing it.

  

  Alexander Calder
  • Up
  • Real
  • Space

• Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Age

• I think some people who say they're not Christians can behave in a more godly fashion than people who call themselves Christians.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • People
  • Fashion

• A world where people do not care about the quality of their experience is not a good world for Apple. A world where people care about those details and want to complain about them is the world where our values shine.

  

  Craig Federighi
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I think I would just want to say that I do view serving in government as an honor, and I do view it as a responsibility.

  

  Cheryl Mills
  • Responsibility
  • Honor

• At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • World
  • House
  • Violence

• I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • People
  • Respect
  • Atheist

• I was very dramatic - very, like, 'It's never going to happen. My life is over at 16 because I'm not already famous. I'm not going to get my record deal. I'm not going to be able to sing for a living.'

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Life
  • Famous

• We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Future
  • Mirror

• I learned from my dad that when you walk in front of an audience, they are the kings and queens, and you're but the jester.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Dad

• Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

  

  Yannis Stournaras
  • Difficult
  • Patience
  • Lie

• I talked to a lot of employers who just are, are fearful of what's coming next out of Washington. It's all the spending, it's all the debt. It's their national energy tax, they want to call it cap and trade - more mandates, higher costs, more taxes. Their healthcare bill - more mandates, higher costs, higher taxes.

  

  John Boehner
  • Energy
  • Health care

• You can't expect to be on MTV and critique George Bush. You can't expect to be on BET or the cover of 'The Source' advocating Jesus Christ or Buddha or Hindu Krishna or Moses. As a conscious rap artist, you have to play in the arena that you're supposed to be in. What is that arena? That arena is the college market. The conscious rap artist woos the college market, even though the college market is the wildest, most sexed-out, drug-driven market in the country, possibly the world.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Country
  • College
  • Jesus

• My favorite thing in the world is to have just a big dinner with friends and just sit and talk about their life and their difficulties and all of that.

  

  Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson
  • Life
  • World
  • Friends

• I was raised in a family where we were taught that the best thing you could do with your life was to really kind of push the cause of progress and justice and human rights forward.

  

  Benjamin Jealous
  • Life
  • Family
  • Justice

• Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.

  

  Sharon Creech
  • Life
  • Spaghetti
  • Meatballs