One City One Book Program Quotes & Sayings

As Dave was ruffling my hair and Greg was slapping me five we heard the sound of sneakers skidding to a halt on the slick hospital floor. I looked up in time to see a three-J pile up.
"What the hell is this?" Jesse asked.
"Back the freak up off our woman," Josh ordered. — Kelly Oram

A Gryffindor would say that people don't become who they should be, because they're afraid. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

We're all stories in the end. Just make a good one, eh? — The Doctor

On her breast size increase during pregnancy: I even make Jordan look normal. — Kerry Katona

People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils from private life; but it seems to me to be always dropping diaphanous but blinding veils between men and men. The Yellow Press is abused for exposing facts which are private; I wish the Yellow Press did anything so valuable. It is exactly the decisive individual touches that it never gives; and a proof of this is that after one has met a man a million times in the newspapers it is always a complete shock and reversal to meet him in real life. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid. — J. C. Watts

I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one. — Jay Roach

When completed, Disney's California Adventure will feel more immersive and richer. It will have more heart. — Jay Rasulo

all right we are two nations — John Dos Passos

My whole life has been a bit like a Nintendo game. — Robin Gibb

What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart?
It is too heavy. It will always show.
Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn. — Jean Cocteau

Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing. — Bob Woodward

Have you finished your column for tomorrow's headline?" It was Vee. She came up beside me, jotting notes on the notepad she carried everywhere. "I'm thinking of writing mine on the injustice of seating charts. I got paired with a girl who said she just finished lice treatment this morning. — Becca Fitzpatrick

She didn't know what would happen because of this. But she knew that today, she would hurt no one. She threw back her blankets and though only of today. — Kristin Cashore

I think it's really important to live in the moment. — Abbie Cornish