Printz Property Quotes & Sayings

No, of course not. He'd been so distant lately. He wasn't even looking at her. Instead, he was staring down at a playing card in his hands, folding it. Nothing strange about that. Like their parents, Rhys and his twin brother, Max, were always fiddling with some kind of magic trick. He was particularly fond of making coins disappear. Sometimes she wished he could make her crush on him disappear just as easily, but first she'd have to admit it to him. That was so never going to happen. She'd seen the types of girls he and Max were attracted to, and plain, chubby tomboys need not apply. — Virna DePaul

But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it. — Yann Martel

It's extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journalists write millions of words every week trying to do it, so your chances of avoiding cliche are very slim. And you're trying to write fiction, not a match report. — Mal Peet

Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent. — Plato

Make a decision, and don't turn back."
"What if it's wrong?"
"I don't know." He winks at me over his shoulder. "It's never happened. — Amanda Bouchet

You can market your ass off, but if your product sucks, you're dead. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Is this how you repay my goodness
with badness?" cried the boy. "Of course," said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. "That is the way of the world. — Alex Haley

But even the strongest tree can have a weak branch. — Cassandra Clare

The friends you make in college are friends you'll have for life, even if you don't talk for years at a time. — Jessica Park

When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a major sports colosseum at the heart of their capital. Our fate can be different; but only if we start doing things differently. — Thomas L. Friedman

I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life. — Margaret Thatcher

One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf left all by itself in the air and it does not speak of loneliness or death. One leaf and it spends itself in swaying mildly in the breeze. — David Ignatow

She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her. — Zora Neale Hurston