Shusterman Books Quotes & Sayings

Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a single line, the line would go all the way around the world? Actually, I made that up, but doesn't it sound like it should be true? — Neal Shusterman

Ignore all of your enemies and haters to achieve a success in life. — Jaydeep Shah

Life is beautiful, life is wonderful; we just have to see it. — Debasish Mridha

It is all knowing what to start with. If you start in the right place and follow all the steps, you will get to the right end. — Elizabeth Moon

I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their last performance or your favourite of their performances. — Christopher Nolan

I want to play everything. I want to be like Christian Bale: I want to be able to be Batman and then, like, his character in 'The Fighter.' That is what is so impressive about really good actors, that they can be character actors and leading men at the same time. — Ansel Elgort

Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could wander the library for hours and still have no idea how to find anything. For them, the Dewey Decimal System might as well be advanced calculus. — Neal Shusterman

I want to have schools and libraries and other institutions named after me. I tell my daughter that all the time. — Kam Williams

All we think about in the cycle of violence is men.
If we miss the oestrogen factor we cannot solve the cycle of violence. We cannot bring peace to the world unless we hold women accountable and morally responsible, particularly for their attacks upon children. — Stefan Molyneux

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable. — James Nachtwey

An assistant could be just what the witch doctor ordered. — Darren Shan

It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past ... — C.S. Lewis

He [Jesus] was the greatest human being who has ever lived. He was a moral genius. His ethical sense was unique. He was the intrinsically wisest person that I've ever encountered in my life or in my reading. His commitment was total and led to his own death, much to the detriment of the world ... — Charles Templeton

Jace reached up to unzip his jacket.
Simon-I dont care how hungry I am, I am not going to drink your blood again.
Jace-Like I would let you. — Cassandra Clare

Cities are never random.
No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a problem, that in turn creates more problems that need more solutions, until towers rise, roads widen, bridges are built, and millions of people are caught up in a mad race to feed the problem-solving, problem-creating frenzy. — Neal Shusterman

When someone tells me not to do something, I'll do it more. — Lindsay Lohan

Take that one thing you don't like about yourself and more often than not that's the one thing that makes you more special. Whether it's that gap in your teeth, or that mole you never liked, or your skin color. — Shay Mitchell