Angleberger Tom Quotes & Sayings

Field trips, everything can change — Tom Angleberger

I was like, what the heck is going on, I've never been in trouble with the guards, and I am answering my interrogators and cooperating with them. But I missed that cooperation meant telling your interrogators whatever they want to hear. — Mohamedou Ould Slahi

You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

The guy [Bill Clinton] was a known, let's say, "raconteur." — Rush Limbaugh

Didn't Gandalf say "With great power comes great responsibility"? (If it wasn't Gandalf, maybe it was Thomas Jefferson. Or Spider-Man's uncle.) — Tom Angleberger

Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire! — Hugo Chavez

I love to read books! There are so many authors that I think are really fun to read. — Tom Angleberger

They call him the Streak, he likes to turn the other cheek. He's always making the news, wearing just his tennis shoes. — Ray Stevens

All the modern inconveniences ... — Mark Twain

You see, the lives of servants are not lived by clocks, but by the ringing of their masters' bells. — Tom Angleberger

Always carry with you into the pulpit a sense of the immense consequences which may depend on your full and faithful presentation of the truth. — Richard Salter Storrs

Sometimes I wonder if all my friends are insane. — Tom Angleberger

I sighed. I hated the maze of bureaucracy with a passion, but I've found the best way to deal with it is to smile and act stupid. That way, no one gets confused. — Kim Harrison

There in the dim light, staring at the shadow on the wall, I poured out the story of my life. ( ... ) How nothing touched me. And I touched nothing. How I'd lost track of what mattered. How I worked like a fool for things that didn't. How it didn't make a difference either way. — Haruki Murakami

The Force- always may it be with you. — Tom Angleberger

The things people tease you for are not your weaknesses, they are your superpowers! — Tom Angleberger

Is it not indeed a pleasure to acquire knowledge and constantly to exercise oneself therein? — Confucius

To win, one must be strong when an opponent is weak — Tom Angleberger

Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface. — Osip Mandelstam

For some reason, anytime an adult decides you are 'representing' something, they decide you should represent it by being as quiet and boring as possible. — Tom Angleberger

The disgraced Usurer Yankel D took the baby girl home that evening ... He made a bed of crumpled newspaper in a deep baking pan and gently tucked it in the oven, so that she wouldn't be disturbed by the noise of the small falls outside ... When he pulled her out to feed her or just hold her, her body was tattooed with the newsprint ... Sometimes he would rock her to sleep in his arms, and read her left to right, and know everything he needed to know about the world. If it wasn't written on her, it wasn't important to him. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Mental bearing (calmness), not skill, is the sign of a matured samurai. A Samurai therefore should neither be pompous nor arrogant. — Tsukahara Bokuden

We're all just kids who grew up way too fast. — Luke Hemmings

Kitchen boys cost extra. A lot extra. They often turn out to be plucky little heroes with hearts of gold and a grim determination to see justice done. — Tom Angleberger

Let fear defeat you not.

- Origami Yoda — Tom Angleberger

Ignorance and evil-an ugly alliance. — Tom Angleberger

He piled fib on top of lie on top of exaggeration and cemented it all with hyperbole. — Tom Angleberger

A school library is like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the lair of a superhero.

True, the superhero is more likely to be wearing a cardigan than a batsuit, but still... — Tom Angleberger

The choices politicians make must be based on values - not an arbitrary, axe-wielding approach to public spending or a dismal exchange between Gordon Brown and David Cameron about percentages that sounds like an argument between different book-keepers. — Nick Clegg

It pays to be nice. Maybe not right away, but someday. — Tom Angleberger