Schmoker Books Quotes & Sayings

Every marriage is weird! That's what it is - we just all need to start embracing the fact that there is no normal. — Richard LaGravenese

The number of books students read ... is among the best indicators of student reading development. — Mike Schmoker

I grew up in a life where the answer was always there, I guess. But now I'm out on my own and still looking for the answer. Nothing is solved for me. — Katy Perry

She seemed to have no inkling that life wasn't as orderly as her pencil case and that everything is chance and at any moment any number of remarkable things can happen that are totally beyond our control, events that rip up our maps and re-polarize our compasses - the madwoman walking towards us, the train falling off the bridge, the boy on the bicycle. — Kate Atkinson

Overall, people are reading less. — David Carson

No matter what I said, we both knew the hard truth. We do our best. We try. And usually, it makes no difference at all. — Leigh Bardugo

I really like knowing secrets, and once I do know that secret, I can keep it. But if I'm on the outside and I don't know the secret, that's a different story. I will try with all my power to get the secret out of the person who knows. — Ryan Lee

There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form. — Daphne Guinness

When you permit an outside agency to control your feelings and emotions at frequent intervals for a prolonged period, your system will soon get into the habit of submitting to the control of this outside agency, and will not respond any longer to any effort that the will may make to regain its original power of control. — Christian D. Larson

These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda - to complicate reading and literacy so that we will purchase its programs and materials. — Mike Schmoker

As he drove away from his handiwork, knowing he'd left no survivors, the killer looked at the rising smoke and gave himself a pat on the back for another assignment well done ... — Peprah Boasiako

Writing poetry requires frequent visits to the land of the dead. — Marty Rubin

You will find meaning in life
only if you create it.It is a poetry to be composed.
It is a song to be sung.It is a dance to be danced ... — Osho

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly. — Publilius Syrus

We must not depict socialism as if socialists will bring it to us on a plate all nicely dressed. That will never happen. Not a single problem of the class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence. When violence is exercised by the working people, by the mass of exploited against the exploiters
then we are for it! — Vladimir Lenin

To be adult is to be alone. — Jean Rostand