Mckissack Quotes & Sayings

Startups that succeed are those that manage to iterate enough times before running out of resources. — Ash Maurya

Marry me, Lou," Nietzsche bent down on one knee, his knees creaked. He peered over top of his glasses with a gaze of pitiful defeat. He had met his match with Lou. She was brilliant, shrewd, and brave. Taking risks that other women dare not.

"Get up, Friedrich," she responded, "You know that I won't marry you or anyone else. — Dylan Callens

I woke up in the hospital. Doctor Cunningham was bending over me. I thought, "We have to stop meeting like this," but didn't even try to say it out loud.
"You've lost blood and had your stitches redone. Do you think you can stay in here long enough for me
to actually release you this time?"
I think I smiled. "Yes, Doctor."
"Just in case you got any funny ideas about leaving, I've doped you up with enough pain killers to make you feel really good. So sleep, and I'll see you in the morning."
My eyes fluttered shut once, then opened. Edward was there. He bent over me and whispered, "Crawling through bushes on your belly, threatening to cut off a man's balls. Such a hard ass."
My voice came faintly even to me. "Had to save your ass."
He bent over me and kissed on my forehead. — Laurell K. Hamilton

It has become unecesssary for the police to ban books: their price alone bans them. — Eduardo Galeano

I aine never seen a fox before. So, why should I be scared of you and I don't even-now know you a real fox for a fact? — Patricia C. McKissack

Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable
the rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars. — Rodney Stark

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred; since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other; only the indolence of human nature finds it so hard to pierce through to the other side. — Elizabeth Goudge

It was much more than bricks and stone - It was an idea. — Patricia C. McKissack

I'd definitely be into doing some zombie slaying music. That'd be cool. — J Mascis

Hidden Highlands was maybe a little richer but not that different from many of the other small, wealthy and scared enclaves nestled in the hills and valleys around Los Angeles. Walls and gates, guardhouses and private security forces were the secret ingredients of the so-called melting pot of southern California. — Michael Connelly

You've been mine for a long fucking time, baby. You just didn't know it. — Aurora Rose Reynolds

But as anyone worth his salt knows, it's best to get a look at a place before it gets a look at you. — Clare Vanderpool

I like the world. — Pharrell Williams

Armageddon chickens. — Ransom Riggs

Somehow the fact of enormous privilege and freedom carries with it a sense of impotence, which is a strange, but striking, phenomenon. The fact is, we can do just about anything. There is no difficulty, wherever you are, in finding groups that are working hard on things that concern you. — Noam Chomsky