Louis Sachar Quotes

School just speeds things up... Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count.

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• A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Sleep

• I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Leader
  • Disney
  • Commercial

• I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • World
  • Done
  • History

• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• I was authorized to do everything that I did.

  

  Oliver North
  • Everything
  • Did
  • Authorized

• I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Different
  • Myself

• I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Want
  • You
  • Living

• The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Think
  • Personality
  • I Think

• I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I can't even imagine life without music!

  

  Manika
  • Life
  • Music
  • Imagine

• Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Control
  • Simple
  • Humble

• Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Man
  • Happiness
  • End

• To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Life
  • May
  • Free

• And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Good
  • Day
  • End

• The crises in North Korea, Iran, the Middle East, show how quickly things can change and how they can go wrong. We must be prepared. And right now the Army is not.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Change
  • Army
  • Be Prepared

• I believe I can get faster because I have trained for it, and I'm doing faster times I've ever done in training.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Training

• 'Until Friday Night' is the first book in my new young adult series, 'The Field Party.'

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Book
  • Night
  • Party

• Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Change
  • Die
  • Old

• I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Nature

• There's no chance of cheering him up, sir. He likes being miserable, so he does, and the bastard will get over it.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Up

• I want her everywhere and if she's beside me I know I need never care. But to love her is to need her Everywhere, knowing that love is to share each one believing that love never dies watching her eyes and hoping I'm always there.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • She
  • Eyes

• There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden.

  

  Bill Skarsgard
  • June

• When I first saw California, it was extraordinary. Because I came from old, black, dark England, still recovering from World War II. I grew up with bomb sites everywhere.

  

  Geoffrey West
  • Up
  • World
  • War

• School just speeds things up... Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Up
  • School
  • Sadness