College Library Essay Quotes & Sayings

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. — Samuel Johnson

Sometimes kids ask how I've been able to write so many books. The answer is simple: one word at a time. Which is another good lesson, I think. You don't have to do everything at once. You don't have to know how every story is going to end. You just have to take that next step, look for that next idea, write that next word. — Andrew Clements

One day Samuel strained his back lifting a bale of hay, and it hurt his feelings more than his back, for he could not imagine a life in which Sam Hamilton was not privileged to lift a bale of hay. He felt insulted by his back, almost as he would have been if one of his children had been dishonest — John Steinbeck

He asked for a specific. I gave him a specific. I'm sorry it wasn't puppies. — Maggie Stiefvater

We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II. — Ian Anderson

He who truly seeks God has found Him. — John Wooden

When the life left a person, it wasn't by degrees. It was instant, like someone pulling down a shade on a window. The — Jodi Picoult

I am the man who is going to collect your soul and fuck your woman. Not necessarily in that order, but both will involve screaming. — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq. — Peter DeFazio

The problem, as Randolph has realized, is that the best way for a young person to build character is for him to attempt something where there is a real and serious possibility of failure. In a high-risk endeavor, whether it's in business or athletics or the arts, you are more likely to experience colossal defeat than in a low-risk one - but you're also more likely to achieve real and original success. "The idea of building grit and building self-control is that you get that through failure," Randolph explained. — Paul Tough