Sharon Draper (Sharon Mills Draper) Quotes

A person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.

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• There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • You
  • Person
  • Then

• For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.

  

  Lance Gross
  • You
  • Like
  • Person

• The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Best
  • Effort
  • Person

• My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Up
  • Me
  • Dad

• They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Power
  • Man
  • Name

• When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Person
  • Place
  • Homeless

• Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Person
  • Himself
  • Uneducated

• The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Person

• My full name's Jonathan Kimble, but my parents didn't want to call me either. So for a while, I went by Kim, which is a name for a girl or a Korean person.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Parents
  • Girl
  • Name

• For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Relationship
  • Person
  • Jealous

• God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.

  

  Oral Roberts
  • God
  • You
  • Person

• I'm an iPod person.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Person
  • iPod

• Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

  

  Hannah Arendt
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  • Name
  • Without

• I'm the most competitive person you'll ever meet.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • You
  • Person
  • Competitive

• I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Person

• The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implementation, however, it would appear a more appropriate name would be the Bailed Out Bank Refinancing Fund.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Business
  • Small
  • Name

• On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Passion
  • Poetry
  • Person

• My name is Bolt, Lightning Bolt.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Name
  • Lightning
  • Bolt

• I am a very complicated person.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Person
  • Complicated

• I've always been a person with patience, and I don't like to force things.

  

  Harry Shum, Jr.
  • Person
  • Patience
  • Force things

• It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Better

• If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.

  

  Garth Nix
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• Speaking of trust, ever since I wrote this book, 'Liespotting,' no one wants to meet me in person anymore - no, no, no, no, no. They say, 'It's okay. We'll email you.' I can't even get a coffee date at Starbucks. My husband's like, 'Honey, deception? Maybe you could have focused on cooking. How about French cooking?'

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Book
  • Trust
  • Husband

• A person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.

  

  Sharon Draper
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