Patricia McCormick Quotes

My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas.

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• The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Never
  • Race
  • Curse

• I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Stupid

• Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

  

  Larry Page
  • Believe
  • Business
  • History

• I enjoy building more than managing.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Enjoy
  • Building
  • More

• A teacher should have a creative mind.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Mind
  • Teacher
  • Creative

• I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.

  

  Questlove
  • Time
  • Love
  • Future

• On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Experience
  • Nature
  • Know

• I have felt that connection and stewardship for Earth for as long as I can remember. And not just for Earth, but the whole universe.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Earth

• When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Men
  • Free
  • Speak

• We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Choice

• I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Star
  • Doing
  • Working

• It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Clever

• When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Men
  • Women
  • Black

• Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Career
  • Wish

• Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I got through college.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • College
  • Through
  • Got

• My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Writing
  • America

• Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.'s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Focus
  • Better
  • New

• Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Information
  • Charge
  • Flow

• Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?

  

  William Golding
  • Thinking
  • Reason
  • Beast

• Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.

  

  Arne Duncan
  • People
  • Money

• When the media's attacking me, when the establishment Republicans are attacking me and the Democrats are attacking me, that means I'm the 'We the People' person, and I'm on the right course as far as I'm concerned.

  

  Paul Broun
  • People

• You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas.

  

  Patricia McCormick
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