R. J. Palacio Quotes

I eat like a tortoise eats, if you've ever seen a tortoise eating. Like some prehistoric swamp thing.

R. J. Palacio

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• I think polo players are at their best in their 30s. You've got the talent and the experience. You play with your head - you learn to lose and how to win.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Experience
  • Best
  • Win

• I think the legacy is really the company that we built. That's what makes me happy. I'm a very simple person, so that's all I really need.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Happy
  • Me
  • Simple

• The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • Party
  • Government

• During my first round of law school applications, I didn't even apply to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford - the mystical 'top three' schools. I didn't think I had a chance at those places. More important, I didn't think it mattered; all lawyers get good jobs, I assumed.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Good
  • Important
  • School

• English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Different
  • Culture
  • English

• Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Age
  • Community
  • Moral

• In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • May
  • Intelligence
  • Stronger

• I think it's clear that Planned Parenthood has worked to mislead the public about who they are... they do not provide mammograms. They are the middleman, or middle woman, if you will.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Think
  • You
  • Woman

• In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Why
  • Me
  • Lost

• The hand has the richest articulation of space.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Space
  • Hand
  • Articulation

• Michael John's music is soul-stirring. It gets inside the deepest part of you; it's almost a chemical reaction.

  

  Kate Baldwin
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Inside

• Hopefully it will be possible to get all our other albums in American shops one day so if people are interested they can hear it but I'm hoping that people are going to be interested in what we are going to do, not just what we've done.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • People
  • Done
  • American

• If you are not moving closer to what you want, you probably aren't doing enough asking. And you're probably not asking the single most important question that can help you achieve a higher level of success and personal fulfillment: How am I doing?

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Important
  • Help
  • Success

• I have been into Odissi for over a decade now. I started around the time I was in standard X. I started dancing with Meenakshi Seshadri. My guru Pandit Ravindra Attibuthi has also taught Meenakshi and Hema Malini.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Time

• That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life

• Harmonious interstate relations will be guided by the paradigm of Symbiotic Realism that stresses the importance of absolute rather than relative gains.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan

• Ron Rosenbaum: Why are you doing what you're doing?Bob Dylan: Pause Because I don't know anything else to do. I'm good at it.Ron Rosenbaum: How would you describe 'it'?Bob Dylan: I'm an artist. I try to create art.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Good
  • Why
  • Art

• Blepsidemus: There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold! (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Gold

• Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Women
  • Stop
  • Violence

• I didn't really see a way to make a living on the farm. I always loved writing. I was the guy who won the D.A.R. essay contest and things like that, and it was the era of Watergate, and I decided I would be the next Woodward and Bernstein, and then retire to the farm.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Writing
  • Guy

• I hope people will see how harmful words are and how irresponsible we can be when saying the wrong things at the wrong time to certain people.

  

  John David Washington
  • People
  • Time
  • Hope

• Through faith, the weak times can become peak times.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Faith
  • Times
  • Weak

• Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its practices.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • War

• I eat like a tortoise eats, if you've ever seen a tortoise eating. Like some prehistoric swamp thing.

  

  R. J. Palacio