Jerry Spinelli Quotes

I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.

Jerry Spinelli

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 1, 1941

Topics

WarCollegeWritingFamousBattle

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

Andy Warhol

BusinessBestEmployeesYouAlways

An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a brilliant discussion. The first seems sometimes even to undermine the second.

Stacy Schiff

MeBookInterestingSometimesFirst

American economists can't understand the German fear of inflation and the effects of inflation when dealing with the world economic crisis. They wonder why Germany pursues such a different course - 'Why can't they agree with us?' I would have thought it was fairly obvious.

Simon Rattle

FearWorldThoughtAmericanWonder

I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.

Mike Birbiglia

FailureMarriageFearFeelRejection

You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate improvisations over a long period, as you know.

Mike Leigh

CameraLongYouFindKnowWill

I didn't know initially whether I'd like doing TV and whether I'd be able to work with other people. I've always done my own thing. I've never put myself into that situation, but it's the most fun I've had in years.

Dolores O'Riordan

WorkMyselfFunPeopleDoingKnow

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

Dawn Powell

LovePowerDeathManWarGreed

I'm a girl who's curvy, and I'm Latvian, but I don't have hips, and I have a tiny waist.

Debi Mazar

GirlCurvyWaistHipsTiny

There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason.

Alice Walker

PrisonReasonNo ReasonVirtually

What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?

Alfred Russel Wallace

BirdsMoreBillsThanFormed

When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

Philip Roth

WorldBookYouPublish

I always believed there's a fine line between love and hate.

Susan Blommaert

LoveHateLove And HateAlwaysLine

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