Scoopers Quotes & Sayings

They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon. — Hans Blix

Around fourth grade something similar happens with eyes. The baby eyes don't drop out, nor are there eye fairies around to leave quarters under pillows, but new eyes do arrive nevertheless. Big-kid eyes replace little-kid eyes. Little-kid eyes are scoopers. They just scoop up everything they see and swallow it whole, no questions asked. Big-kid eyes are picky. They notice things that little-kid eyes never bothered with: the way a teacher blows her nose, the way a kid dresses or pronounces a word. — Jerry Spinelli

Everything, all the time, is causing everything else. — Joseph Campbell

From now on I hope Always to stay Alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out. — Ray Bradbury

You know, at parties, people always ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi! — Emo Philips

Look at me, he said to her. His arms and legs jerked. Look at me. You got your wish. I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me. The old woman turned and hobbled away. Come back, thought Edward. Fix me — Kate DiCamillo

Women. They are a complete mystery. — Stephen Hawking

I love this mansion, though it is too many windows
... to open halfway each morning
... to close halfway each night. — Jim Carroll