Ned Vizzini Quotes
I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.
Ned Vizzini
Quotes to Explore
Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
Jackie Evancho
The future is much like the present, only longer.
Dan Quisenberry
Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.
Gary Paulsen
Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
Larry Elder
I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
Faye Marsay
Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
Walt Mossberg
Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.
Sam Kinison
My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
Fantasia Barrino
Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
Uta Hagen
If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a score showing who's a good connector. That'd be useful, right?
Paige Craig
We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.
Gale Norton
If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.
Laura Dern
It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.
Natalie Massenet
Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
Malorie Blackman
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
Kara Walker
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
W. Somerset Maugham
I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.
Gary Locke
That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
Dana Carvey
