Caroline Corr Quotes

I really like to have a bit of direction, you know?

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• Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Book
  • Hands
  • Saying

• It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Age
  • Guilty
  • Conscience

• My voice is distinctive: there's a rhythm to it, and also, it's funny. I was just blessed with a funny-sounding voice.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Funny
  • Voice
  • Blessed

• I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Think
  • Irish

• I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Read
  • Surprised

• The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What works is engaging them and letting them do things and discover things.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Work
  • Kids
  • You

• The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Truth
  • Earth

• Religious traditions are easy to lose sight of in today's marketing frenzy. Make sure you take time to gently usher your little ones into the rituals that have special meaning for you.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • Today
  • Religious

• Children are all foreigners.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Children
  • Foreigners

• Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Life
  • You
  • Easy

• I teach at the Stanford Business School, and about half of my students are foreign, many of whom, I hope, will stay and build businesses in U.S. But I must tell you that they also have opportunities to come back to India and start great companies and operations.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Great
  • School
  • Business

• When I was living in the projects, I had a mop stick for my horse. I wanted to be Gene Autry or Roy Rogers, so I would ride my mop through the projects.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Horse
  • Living
  • Ride

• I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

  

  Walter Alston
  • Job
  • Game
  • Worry

• What I really honestly want is just to be working steadily... I would love to just be on a great TV show and have it run for awhile.

  

  Carla Gallo
  • Great
  • Love
  • Want

• Creating sustainable jobs means doubling down on Baltimore's formidable strengths.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Down
  • Creating
  • Sustainable

• You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • You
  • Challenge

• I moderated a panel focusing just on women and the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs face. And we found that around the world, the challenges are the same, whether it is gaining access to capital, risk-taking, or the ability to expand beyond a small business and grow.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • World
  • Women
  • Business

• It's very difficult to escape your background. You know, I don't think it's necessary to even try to escape it. More and more, I start to think that it's necessary to see exactly what it is that you inherited on both ends of the stick: your timidity, your courage, your self-deceit, and your honesty - and all the rest of it.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Rest
  • Courage
  • Start

• When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Feeling

• I just called to say, 'I love you.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Love
  • Say
  • Just

• My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than I, since as a little girl she went to school in French Switzerland.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • School
  • She
  • Pretty

• I know it's really square but I'm one of those people who piles on the factor 50 as soon as I'm outside.

  

  Freema Agyeman
  • People

• Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

  

  Plato
  • Truth
  • Learn
  • Silent

• I really like to have a bit of direction, you know?

  

  Caroline Corr