Lloyd Alexander Quotes

A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.

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• Twitter is an amazing thing; it brings footballers closer to the fans because so many of them are on there. I was cynical about it to begin with, but I have been converted.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Amazing
  • Fans
  • Cynical

• Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Life
  • Art
  • Energy

• All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Money
  • Government
  • Problems

• A movie set actually can be a good place to have a family atmosphere.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Family
  • Movie

• Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Experience
  • Day
  • New

• We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Time
  • War

• In sport, all my fellow riders and trainers and the people I meet and deal with have just accepted the fact that I'm here forever.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Forever
  • Fact
  • Sport

• My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • School
  • Soul
  • Parents

• Is it true that the American people are war-weary? Absolutely. We are tired of sending our sons and daughters to distant lands year after year after year, to give their lives trying to transform foreign nations.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Trying
  • American

• Penmanship means a lot to me. I don't have cursive penmanship, though. I've created my own penmanship. It's very clear. Everyone can read it. I write things down all day long.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Me
  • Write
  • Read

• When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Happy
  • Help
  • Hope

• Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Doing

• Political pundits in Delhi and Islamabad have berated the West for its relativism and double-standards. After all why should Britain have a nuclear arsenal but not India? It is a reasonable question.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Why
  • Political
  • Question

• Before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Amazing
  • Impossible
  • White

• Temple is an intensely moral creature. She has a passionate sense of right and wrong, for example, in regard to the treatment of animals; and law, for her, is clearly not just the law of the land but, in some far deeper sense, a divine or cosmic law, whose violation can have disastrous effects-seeming breakdowns in the course of nature itself.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • She
  • Nature
  • Law

• A mother’s traditional role prepared her to love her family by being with the family she loved.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Family
  • She
  • Mother

• But when you're standing at a crossroad, there's a choice you've got to make.

  

  Carrie Underwood

• Our book is Genesis. Their book is Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the original environmental hoax.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Book
  • Spring

• I think what's dangerous about marriage is the way it can make you feel like you've got it all wrapped up. Like you're done: you've found your spouse, you've married him or her, and you don't need to think too much more about it.

  

  Ariel Levy
  • Up
  • Done
  • Marriage

• Silence came before creation, and the heavens were spread without a word

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Silence
  • Creation
  • Heavens

• Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Mystery
  • Willing
  • Vulnerable

• There was one point where my mother was dying of lung cancer, and a journalist dressed up as a nurse and got in the house to get a picture of her, dying of lung cancer and stuff like that, and then you realise the fame's not all it's cracked up to be.

  

  Pete Burns
  • Up
  • Mother
  • House

• Ripe summer's sweetness dripped in pearls from every tree and into my opened heart a little drop ran down.

  

  Edith Södergran
  • Heart
  • Drop
  • Pearls

• A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.

  

  Lloyd Alexander