Lois Lowry Quotes

So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.

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• If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Road
  • Internet
  • Name

• If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Party
  • Choose
  • Election

• If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Nature
  • Words
  • Opinion

• You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • You
  • Realize

• When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Man
  • Kind
  • Enjoy

• People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • People
  • Girl
  • Myself

• Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Fall
  • Face
  • Afraid

• Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Life
  • Career
  • Medicine

• News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Society
  • Start
  • News

• I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Friends
  • Beautiful

• The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Attention

• What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.

  

  Zendaya
  • Done
  • She
  • Think

• We expect 'Narcos' will be an enormous success throughout everywhere in the world and maybe out-index in Latin America, given the Brazilian star and Brazilian director and heavy Latin American cast and that we shot the show entirely on location in Colombia.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • American
  • America

• 'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Work
  • Past
  • Present

• I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Kids
  • Never
  • Now

• Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Power
  • Remember
  • Political

• Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Woman
  • Silence
  • Own

• I love to win, honestly... If you love to win, you should say it. And honestly, I'm hooked on it.

  

  Ashley Wagner

• Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.

  

  Maureen Forrester
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• Careful writing is important for many reasons, not least that intelligent but hurried reporters will trust the presser, resulting in a cascade of secondary damage.

  

  Dave deBronkart
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Trust

• My first project was to build an ionization gauge control circuit for Professor Edgar Everhart's Cockcroft-Walton accelerator. In those days, vacuum tubes were the active components in electronic circuits. I can still recall the warm orange glow of the vacuum tube filaments and the cool blue glow of the thyratron tubes.

  

  David Lee
  • Control
  • Cool
  • Blue

• With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to serve as a graphic identity. After a number of sketches, I went into my own abstract vernacular of drawn lines and shapes to create the composition for the poster design.

  

  John Van Hamersveld
  • Design
  • Identity
  • Drawing

• So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.

  

  Lois Lowry
  • Important