Lois Lowry Quotes
'Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.'Lois Lowry
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver -
The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
Lamar S. Smith -
I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
Ian Hislop -
My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
Ilyasah Shabazz -
I love a cool bralette paired with a high-waisted jean, maybe with Chanel suspenders and a good platform shoe.
Kat Graham -
You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
Daniel Clowes
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
Maiara Walsh -
The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.
J. Carter Brown -
This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
Harold Pinter -
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
Karl Marx -
You can think of all the things a Congress or a legislature does, and then you kind of overshadow that with the fact that a few people are going to make those decisions.
Dan Webster
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
Kangana Ranaut -
Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
Edith Widder -
Hemingway was a jerk.
Harold Robbins -
I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'
Quentin Tarantino -
I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
Paloma Faith -
Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Adrian Leon LeBlanc, my dad and my namesake, his keen joy in observing people and the world is the reason I became a journalist.
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc -
I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.
Benjamin F. Wade -
We've gone through rounds of tax cutting and rounds of tax increases in modern U.S. history. We haven't really had a big igniting of a trade war belligerence since the Depression era, and that's not an era that we want to repeat.
Austan Goolsbee -
I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.
Alfred Russel Wallace -
I like that the art world isn't regulated.
Jerry Saltz -
'Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.'
Lois Lowry