Bill Konigsberg Quotes

For dessert, Mom ordered us carob-chip cookies sweetened with fruit juice, which were about as delectable as that sounds. After we finished eating, we made sure to give the waitress all our food and dirty napkins so they could be composted.

Bill Konigsberg

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• I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Hope

• Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Intelligent
  • Facts
  • Debate

• Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Help
  • Day
  • Own

• Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • War
  • Civil War

• Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Wait
  • Anniversary
  • Bride

• To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Dream
  • Focus
  • Justice

• We as the governments, workers, employers and civil society must declare a war on child labour. This war cannot be won without strong, committed, coherent, and well-resourced worldwide movement. Equally needed is a genuine and active coordination between intergovernmental agencies at the highest level.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • War
  • Society
  • Strong

• If you rent, that's it. You don't have to pay any interest to anybody. You don't have to pay any maintenance costs to anybody. You don't have to worry about whether the boiler is going to break down. While if you own your own home, you have a hundred aggravations.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Home
  • Worry
  • Down

• Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Future
  • Poetry
  • Language

• All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• You must understand the texture of your hair before you choose a style.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Style
  • Hair
  • Choose

• The pain is always bringing me a lesson. If I listen to the lesson when the pain is manageable, the pain won't get gargantuan and flatten me entirely, because I will have received the message at the center. I receive it as gently as I can, because the cruelest thing that I do to myself is try to push myself through an experience.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • Experience
  • Pain
  • Lesson

• To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Good
  • Cutting
  • Scary

• It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • People
  • Up
  • Amazing

• When the system does not recognize me I'm not devastated.

  

  Haile Gerima
  • Doe
  • Devastated

• Remember, what may appear to be the source of one's strength can often also be the source of one's weakness.

  

  Chin-Ning Chu
  • May
  • Remember
  • Strength

• We need to learn how to love each other. If we cannot do that, then we need to learn to respect one another. If we can't manage to do that, then we must learn to tolerate each other.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Respect
  • Needs
  • Tolerate

• I'm lucky in that I travel a lot for work. I also manage several holidays a year. I'm not someone who sits in the sun or goes sightseeing, though. If I go away, it will be for fishing or something like that.

  

  Vinnie Jones
  • Lucky
  • Fishing
  • Manage

• Not seeing is half-believing.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Believe
  • inspirational
  • Half

• Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Dream
  • Path
  • King

• "I think you have to be ready to quit within yourself. If you're not, it doesn't matter what rehab you go to."

  

  Leif Garrett
  • Yourself
  • Quit
  • rahab

• Our platform is a one-stop shop, from marketing and promotion through to ticketing. But even in the early days, in 2006-07, when we were mostly carrying shortform video, we became the premier movie marketing platform.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Movie
  • Stop
  • Marketing

• I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Great
  • Direction
  • Eating

• For dessert, Mom ordered us carob-chip cookies sweetened with fruit juice, which were about as delectable as that sounds. After we finished eating, we made sure to give the waitress all our food and dirty napkins so they could be composted.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Eating
  • Sounds
  • Dessert