Kate DiCamillo Quotes

'Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.'

Kate DiCamillo

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• Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Good
  • Long
  • Health

• My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Culture
  • Pop
  • Pop Culture

• I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Brilliant
  • Rude
  • Outrageous

• Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Home
  • Purpose
  • Ownership

• I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Work
  • Real
  • Movie

• Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don't want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Winning
  • Seed

• If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Church
  • Ignorance

• The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • World
  • Great
  • Space

• Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Weird
  • Doing
  • Ways

• When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Mickey Mouse

• I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Real
  • Job
  • Got

• Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.

  

  Ippy Aiona
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Single
  • Information
  • Changes

• If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Lose
  • Sight

• During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Men
  • Community
  • Service

• In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

  

  Florence King
  • Moral
  • Snake
  • Bee

• You're always going to have terrorism.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • You
  • Always
  • Terrorism

• Persons who would never think of announcing boldly to the world, 'I am a scholar,' 'I am a great artist,' 'I am a beautiful woman,' nevertheless seem to think it wholly within the bounds of good taste to announce that they are Christians!

  

  Georgia Harkness
  • Women
  • Artist
  • Christians

• Vice, by comparison with terrible accidents, has its own peculiar explanation. For, in a way, it does occur in accordance with the rationale of nature, and its occurrence is not, so to speak, useless in relation to the whole world. For otherwise, the good would not exist, either.

  

  Chrysippus
  • World
  • Good
  • Nature

• What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice,Of Attic taste?

  

  John Milton
  • Light

• In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto.

  

  Jose Mourinho
  • Italian

• There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.

  

  David Chase

• 'Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.'

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • World
  • Light
  • Dark