Sideways Stories From Wayside School Quotes & Sayings

It's all about fair trade, and helping people eating locally grown stuff. We're recycling everything. We're trying to tour in the most conscious way possible, environmentally and socially. — Andrew Dost

If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend. — Heloise D'Argenteuil

When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate. — Sean Penn

The idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better. — William, Saroyan

When I wrote 'Sideways Stories from Wayside School' I never expected it to be published. It was kind of a hobby. Now, it's a job, but it's a job I like very much. — Louis Sachar

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so. — Andre Gide

When you buy things that are expensive, like a sofa or something that really feels like an investment, you need to keep it as plain as possible, as simple as possible. Make sure that it's a clean design that will work with whatever style you want it to. — Nate Berkus

The discrepancy between the modern observance and the prescriptions of the Rule had struck me ever since the novitiate, and no satisfactory explanation had ever been given to me. People said that man had changed: the weakness of people's health no longer allows us to fast. Was it true? — Adalbert De Vogue

We all imagine happy endings to such books, pick out the page, the paragraph, in which we would step in and pluck the innocents to safety. — Ada Palmer

Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something. — Daisaku Ikeda

There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen. — Charles Dickens

Childhood is a branch of cartography. — Michael Chabon

If we could see the beauty and miracle of transformation that happens to us every second, we would never complain again. — Debasish Mridha

I think it helps in any comedy room for a woman to have very strong, respected convictions, because then it opens the door up a little bit for other women to have that. — Paula Pell