Ally Carter Quotes

I wonder what kinds of songs Preston's father sang to him." Zach raised his eyebrows. "I wonder if he's in a cell humming them to himself right now." I should have said something-done something. He was in a dark place, there in the moonlight. But before I could say a word, Zach took a deep breath and looked up at the fortress. "I wonder if I should join him.

Ally Carter

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• So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Up
  • Time
  • Father

• The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Guy
  • Influence
  • Songs

• I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Father

• I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • World
  • Attention
  • Songs

• I have a tweet that said, 'I want to be a Calvin Klein model,' and that was in 2011. And then I modeled for Calvin Klein. And then I had a tweet like, 'I wonder what it's like to be in front of thousands of fans,' and I've been in front of thousands of fans.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Want
  • Wonder
  • Model

• I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Music
  • Father
  • Roots

• I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Father

• I said on numerous occasions how I feel about my father. I love him with all my heart.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Love
  • Father
  • Feel

• I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Life
  • School
  • Mother

• With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • Past
  • Best

• Our Heavenly Father continues to communicate with us through revelation. These revelations are communications of divine directions. They may come to us personally or through the voice of the Lord's chosen servants, the prophets, seers, and revelators.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • May
  • Father
  • Voice

• Since the day I was born, wrestling has sustained me and my family. It's the way my father fed me; it's the way I feed my kids. More importantly, wrestling is my greatest release. It's been such a blessing for me. I can step into the ring and let it all go - all my anger, all my frustration, all my pain.

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Father

• My pump-up songs before I compete are not the usual. They're more girly songs. I love 'The Climb' by Miley Cyrus. It's about the journey and savoring every moment. I have 'The World's Greatest' by R. Kelly on my playlist, too.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • World
  • Journey
  • Moment

• I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• My mother is chairman of a bank called the Indo-Zambia Bank. It's a joint venture between Zambia and India. My father runs Integrity Foundation, an anticorruption organization.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Organization

• My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Father
  • Me
  • Nice

• We became the songs we wrote.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Songs
  • Wrote
  • Became

• I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Done
  • Want
  • Evil

• Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

  

  Joe Rogan
  • Art
  • Comedy

• Experiences such as, 'I went; I came; I was; I did,' come naturally to everyone. From these experiences, does it not appear that the consciousness 'I' is the subject of those various acts? Enquiry into the true nature of that consciousness, and remaining as oneself, is the way to understand, through enquiry, one's true nature.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • True
  • Nature
  • Understand

• It's a lot of work to make a marriage work. Just because you have been married for a while doesn't mean you can sit back and relax. You still have to be on your toes. A marriage needs constant attention.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Marriage

• Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.

  

  Sigmar Polke
  • Painter
  • Connect
  • Comparisons

• I wonder what kinds of songs Preston's father sang to him." Zach raised his eyebrows. "I wonder if he's in a cell humming them to himself right now." I should have said something-done something. He was in a dark place, there in the moonlight. But before I could say a word, Zach took a deep breath and looked up at the fortress. "I wonder if I should join him.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Father
  • Wonder
  • Songs