Ann Hood Quotes

Through the eight books in 'The Treasure Chest' series, readers will meet twins Maisie and Felix and learn the secrets and rules of time travel, where they will encounter some of these famous and forgotten people. In Book 1, Clara Barton, then Alexander Hamilton, Pearl Buck, Harry Houdini, and on and on.

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• Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Imagination
  • Enemy
  • Politics

• I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Good
  • Art
  • Preparation

• Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • World
  • Men
  • Woman

• The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Girl
  • Know
  • Revenge

• I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Karma

• It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • President
  • Laws
  • Principle

• My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Up
  • Fashion
  • Car

• The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • World
  • Country
  • History

• I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Create
  • Break

• I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Wife
  • Morning

• All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • May
  • Truth

• When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Parents
  • Baby
  • Born

• I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • Time
  • Want

• I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Believe
  • Easy

• My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • World
  • Country
  • Want

• 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.

  

  B. B. King
  • Great
  • She
  • Song

• We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • World
  • Only
  • Cookbook

• If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.

  

  George Pataki
  • World

• Kids started coming to my concert, and I realized that I had sense of responsibility.

  

  Pepa DJ Spinderella
  • Kids
  • Responsibility

• I think that it will be the mobile technologies, both from the enterprise and the consumer side, where super unicorns will come from. I still believe that social networking in combination with mobile will create opportunities for super unicorns.

  

  David Sze
  • Believe

• Sometimes leaders slide from the role of freedom fighter into the presidency, which they may be unsuited for, but everyone accepts it until they hit the bump in the road.

  

  Kofi Annan
  • May
  • Freedom
  • Road

• Through the eight books in 'The Treasure Chest' series, readers will meet twins Maisie and Felix and learn the secrets and rules of time travel, where they will encounter some of these famous and forgotten people. In Book 1, Clara Barton, then Alexander Hamilton, Pearl Buck, Harry Houdini, and on and on.

  

  Ann Hood
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