Quotes & Sayings About Frindle

Your aunt Rose is dying," Petranilla said as soon as he was close. "May God bless her soul. Mother Cecilia told me." "You look shocked - but you know how ill she is." "It's not Aunt Rose. I've had other bad news." He swallowed. "I can't go to Oxford. — Ken Follett

At the Serima Mission, in Victoria Province, I am shown around by an enchantingly pretty African nun called Sister Balbina ... She cannot be more than 25, and has the most delightful figure. How poignant that she should have dedicated her life in this way.
When we come to the bell tower, I ask her to climb up the ladder in front of me.It was rather a caddish request, I suppose, but I had often wondered. Black petticoats and pink knickers. To think I had to come all this way to find out. — Auberon Waugh

The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror. — Theodor Haecker

Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros. — Nolan Ryan

I guess men like me - somebody out there must think I'm hot. — Jennifer Sky

Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others. — David Macaulay

She was too quiet, or she was too loud. She took things too seriously, or not seriously at all. She was too sensitive, or too cold-hearted. She hated with every fiber of her being, or loved with all her heart. There was no in-between for her. It was either all or nothing. She wanted everything, but in the end, she settled for nothing. — Stacey T. Hunt

The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to come running by. — John Steinbeck

I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer. — Frida Giannini

Don't bring an anchor, on a sinking boat. — Anthony Liccione

It's lovely having grass and trees and flowers(Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest).Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers(Of course Some People like the city best)! — Arthur Guiterman

Things are not working for us because our focus is lost — Sunday Adelaja

The world was at her feet, and she didn't even know it. None of them did - the normal ones; the ones who didn't have to worry about the day to day, hour to hour, and minute to minute; the masses of people who woke up each and every day not fearing the hours ahead and the day that would follow; or those who didn't have to wonder if they'd be around to celebrate the next holiday.
How easily people took life for granted when it had so easily been given.
How I wished for such simplicity. — J.L. Berg

Part of positive psychology is about being positive, but sometimes laughter and clowns are not appropriate. Some people don't want to be happy, and that's okay. They want meaningful lives, and those are not always the same as happy lives. — Eric Weiner