S. E. Hinton Quotes

Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs.

S. E. Hinton

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• After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • People
  • Character
  • Better

• All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Responsibility

• I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.

  

  Adam Jones
  • People
  • Think
  • Boring

• I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Jokes
  • Stolen
  • References

• Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Mind
  • Church
  • Force

• I read about human psychology, practise balance, and accept that everything and everyone in our lives is transient. One day, people will criticise you, and the next day, they will praise you.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Day
  • Balance

• To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Meaningful

• September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • Own
  • Tragedy
  • September

• It's smarter to look at portions than to count calories.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Look
  • Count
  • Smarter

• I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.

  

  Valeria Mazza
  • Life
  • Important
  • Values

• I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Passion
  • English
  • Literature

• I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Children
  • Family
  • Wife

• Remember the diner in 'Happy Days?' I do want to do a show like that. But an updated version.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Remember
  • Happy
  • Want

• I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Different
  • Everyone
  • Assumption

• You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Opportunities

• I started rejecting the proper way to sing and I started singing.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Way
  • Singing
  • Started

• Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Win
  • Lose
  • Win Or Lose

• It takes so much toll on your body physically, and I think everybody knows mentally and emotionally it really takes it out of you, so I'll see how I go next year.

  

  Andrew Johns
  • Body
  • Toll

• Nutrition is important, training is important - but so are rest and recovery, massages, acupuncture. Your body is your temple, and you've got to take care of it.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Important
  • Rest
  • Training

• Remember that a good football novel has to have the same ingredients as any other good novel: drama, convincing and interesting characters, a strong story-line, and some kind of magic in the writing.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Remember

• There will be no security in our world, no release from agonizing tension, no genuine progress, no enduring peace, until, in Shelley's fine words, 'reason's voice, loud as the voice of nature, shall have waked the nations'.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • World
  • Nature
  • Words

• I love the spiritual side of religion, but the church, for me, is a place where I feel very repressed.

  

  Julia Davis
  • Church
  • Feel
  • Repressed

• Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs.

  

  S. E. Hinton