El Konigsburg Quotes & Sayings

Come and have a go, if you think you're hard enough — Derek Landy

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules. — Tina Turner

Judging is the cause that creates the effect of choosing. — Joey Lawsin

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos. — William Irwin Thompson

This notion of rest, it's attractive to her, but I don't think she would like it. They are all like that, these women. Waiting for the ease, the space that need not be filled with anything other than the drift of their own thoughts. But they wouldn't like it. They are busy and thinking of ways to be busier because such a space of nothing pressing to do would knock them down. No fields of cowslips will rush into that opening, nor mornings free of flies and heat when the light is shy. No. Not at all. They fill their mind and hands with soap and repair and dicey confrontations because what is waiting for them, in a suddenly idle moment, is the seep of rage. Molten. Thick and slow-moving. Mindful and particular about what in its path it chooses to bury. Or else, into a beat of time, and sideways under their breasts, slips a sorrow they don't know where from. — Toni Morrison

Suppose you were working at your job one day, and you made a little mistake. Then all of a sudden a red light went on over your desk, and fifteen thousand people stood up and yelled at you that you sucked? — Jacques Plante

It's an incredibly supportive and friendly field. Older people want to foster and help younger people. Which is not true of all creative fields, but it is true of comics, and it is true of radio. — Jessica Abel

You can get busy living, get busy dying, or get busy writing. — Anon

When you put ungodly people in office you put ungodly principles in office. God can't bless ungodly principles therefore God can't bless you for promoting ungodly principles. If you put Godly people in office you put Godly in office God can bless Godly principles therefore he can bless you for promoting Godly principles. — David Barton

One partner is always more in love than the other. — Francoise Sagan

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria. — Bill Gates

The only thing certain is nothing is certain. — Michel De Montaigne

Meaning is not found in things; meaning is what you make of things. — Robert Holden

I've often wondered about people that come to the profession late in life. I've wanted to be an actor since the first grade. I watched a play being performed by the third grade class, and it was ... magic. — William Christopher