Wendelin Van Draanen Quotes

'Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss….' He turned to me. 'But every once in a while you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.'

Wendelin Van Draanen

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• I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Often
  • Wizard

• I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Think
  • Boy
  • Back

• The fold is that place where He keeps His flock shut behind the hurdles of the Ten Commandments. Every now and then, a sheep leaps one of these hurdles or pushes his way between them and runs away into forbidden pastures. Then the Good Shepherd goes after the erring sheep and brings it back.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Good
  • Way
  • Sheep

• Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Money
  • Help
  • Attention

• Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Society
  • Teacher
  • Humility

• I've been so blessed to have the opportunities that I've had.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Blessed
  • Opportunities
  • Been

• The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Rock
  • Like
  • Record

• Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • God
  • Love
  • Free

• Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • History
  • Hurt
  • Patriotism

• I don't really look back or forward too much. That's not to say I live in the moment, because I struggle with that as well.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Live
  • Struggle
  • Moment

• I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am.

  

  Dan Wakefield
  • Metaphor
  • Studliness

• I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Money
  • More
  • Encouraging

• Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Parents

• 'Well, yes, surely I think everybody ought to enjoy life as much as it's humanly possible because that's why we exist. I believe.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Why

• All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Lost

• Hail hero, hail hero, child of the sun All covered with flowers still having your fun

  

  Gordon Lightfoot
  • Fun
  • Sun
  • Hero

• Enron Field in Houston, the Trans World Dome in St. Louis and PSINet Stadium in Baltimore are just three of the modern-day coliseums named for companies that have found new homes in bankruptcy court.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • World

• They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are dying. And even though we have some blue sky now in our country, the sky could become cloudy again very soon.

  

  Luc Montagnier
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• You can have a phenomenal technology with bad people; you're not gonna have much success. You can have mediocre technology with great people; they'll figure out a way to make a buck.

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • People
  • Great
  • Bad

• This is me telling the truth. It just so happens to be a very explosive truth.

  

  Corey Clark
  • Truth

• The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Mind
  • Respond
  • Servant

• Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me. The little we do understand, that grain of sand our minds are capable of grasping, those ideas such as God is good, God feels, God loves, God knows all, are enough to keep our hearts dwelling on His majesty and otherness forever.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Good
  • God
  • Faith

• All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Feelings
  • Drinking
  • Contact

• 'Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss….' He turned to me. 'But every once in a while you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.'

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen