Chains By Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes & Sayings

What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that simple. You have to do more than go there and adopt a child or show us pictures of children with flies in their eyes. That simplifies Africa. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Everyone over 50 should be issued every week with a wet fish in a plastic bag by the Post Office so that, whenever you see someone young and happy, you can hit them as hard as you can across the face. — Richard Griffiths

How dumb do I think the Americans are? I bet you we could sell those idiots water. — Jim Gaffigan

Falling in love was not really a choice; it just struck me. — Helen Fisher

We had eight inches of snow last night. In any other part of the country, that would mean a snow day. Not in Syracuse. We never get snow days. It snows an inch in South Carolina, everything shuts down and they get on the six o'clock news. In our district, they plow early and often and put chains on the bus tires. — Laurie Halse Anderson

The fact is, that having once seen Alice Oke in the reality, it was quite impossible to remember that one could have fancied her at all different: there was something so complete, so completely unlike every one else, in her personality, that she seemed always to have been present in one's consciousness, although present, perhaps, as an enigma. — Vernon Lee

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light. — Roger Rosenblatt

When you think of a social network, you have these two-way interactions: "Are you my friend? Yes? No? Yes?" Like LinkedIn, it's business oriented, but it's all about establishing connections. You connect to me through my other connections, and that sort of thing, and you sort of define who your friends are. Twitter doesn't have that. — Biz Stone

The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely. — Lilith Saintcrow

The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up. — Laurie Halse Anderson

We all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people. So just punishing rich people is as bad for the economy as punishing anyone. Let's not punish anyone. Let's keep taxes low and let's cut spending. — Rand Paul

But someone will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without works, and I will show you faith from my works. — Anonymous

She looked up at him and loved what she saw. — Linda Lee Chaikin

Monopolies are bad and deserve their reputation when things are static and the monopolies function as toll collectors ... But I think they're quite positive when they're dynamic and do something new. — Peter Thiel

Feeding a lion will never make him your friend. — Matshona Dhliwayo

central problem is that birds rarely write more than ornithologists - Combining — Nassim Nicholas Taleb