A9r10216 Quotes & Sayings

When I tell my family I want to be a writer, they smile and say, We see you in the backyard with your writing. They say, We hear you making up all those stories. And, We used to write poems. And, It's a good hobby, we see how quiet it keeps you. They say, But maybe you should be a teacher, a lawyer, do hair . . . I'll think about it, I say. And maybe all of us know this is just another one of my stories. — Jacqueline Woodson

If you put your mind to anything that you dream, you can achieve it. — Michael Phelps

Learn to tolerate your own different-ness from other people and learn to navigate your own waters — Daniel Gottlieb

There's been so much talk in the news lately about illegal aliens in the workplace. When was the last time an illegal alien stole your job? Oh yeah, that dream job of the Chinese Delivery man pedaling up Broadway delivering Chinese food for 40 cents an hour, or on the back of a landscaping truck with 15 others. — Greg Giraldo

A teacher in class is
like a man in the woods at night with a powerful flashlight in his hand.
Wherever he turns his light, the creatures on whom it shines are aware of it,
and do not behave as they do in the dark. Thus the mere fact of his watching
their behavior changes it into something very different. Shine where be will,
he can never know very much of the night life of the woods. — John Holt

She lived too close to despair to have any strength left for self-knowledge. She might have been able to acknowledge herself unloved but to know herself unloving was beyond her strength. — Elizabeth Goudge

True friendship must be akin to romance, I think; only without all the anguish and anxiety. — Jacqueline Carey

Enthusiasm, like the breath of God, transforms everything. — Gail Sher

They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enlightened. — Eoin Colfer

Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar. — Isaac Goldberg

Everything starts as somebody's dream. — Larry Niven

He laughed against her, his chest rumbling with the effort. Well, right now we're going to go eat breakfast and afterward I'm taking you shopping for some clothes. And if that doesn't say I love you, I don't know what does. I don't go shopping for anyone. — Maya Banks

Life is precious, fragile and will be gone before you know it. Do what you love now, while it's still possible. — Lori Lesko

I've whipped the Harvard graduate's ass. Nothing against Harvard - it's a hell of a school - but there I was, twenty five yards behind, wrapped in leg irons, and I beat him. — Don King