Lois Lowry Quotes

When I was a kid in the '50s, during the Eisenhower years, everything seemed to be working fine. I don't recall as a teenager ever worrying about the state of the future world.

Lois Lowry

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• I'm a character actor.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Character
  • Actor

• If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Kids
  • Light

• My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • School
  • Fun
  • High

• I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Fan
  • Absolutely
  • Ron

• I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Unexpected

• I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Movie
  • You

• There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Money
  • Art
  • Forgive

• When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Best

• You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Long
  • Live
  • Yourself

• I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • People
  • Help
  • Vision

• If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Plan

• A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Man
  • Day
  • Woman

• My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Period
  • Professional
  • Intelligent

• Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Important
  • Know
  • Thought

• If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Game
  • Day
  • Baseball

• If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Good
  • Long
  • Man

• Some companies simply aren't meant to be bigger than they are. They provide products and services that satisfy their customers in a way that pays the bills, produces reasonable profits, and allows them to keep their people employed and fulfilled. And there's nothing whatsoever wrong with that.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Wrong
  • Meant To Be

• Only by understanding the wisdom of natural foods and their effects on the body, shall we attain mastery of disease and pain, which shall enable us to relieve the burden of mankind.

  

  William Harvey
  • Age
  • Pain
  • Understanding

• Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis' own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

  

  Idries Shah
  • World
  • Book
  • Learning

• Fashions fade, style is eternal. - Yves Saint-LaurentThe most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you've got to have a good spirit on the inside. That's what's really going to make you look like you're ready to rock the world. - Alicia KeysIt's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• I'm living my life and I found a woman who I love.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Found

• There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.

  

  Steven Brust
  • Excuse
  • Manners
  • Reflexes

• When I was a kid in the '50s, during the Eisenhower years, everything seemed to be working fine. I don't recall as a teenager ever worrying about the state of the future world.

  

  Lois Lowry
  • World
  • Future
  • Teenager