Jerry Spinelli Quotes

Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to wear today?' doesn't mean that they don't wish it were different. Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

Jerry Spinelli

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MorningTodayWake UpPressureWish

Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic period or artistic movement.

Jim Lee

ArtDirectionYouBackMovement

My body parts are all I have left now that are only mine - the world owns everything else.

Megan Fox

WorldBodyNowEverythingLeftMine

I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.

Anna Deavere Smith

LifeFatherRememberImagePrism

In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades or platitudes at political conventions.

Amitava Kumar

PoetryPoliticalNostalgiaImmigrants

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

Alvin Toffler

ChangeFutureTimeStressShort

There's a different kind of comfort that comes from knowing that you are putting your best foot forward. It's called psychological comfort. Look at a picture of the Coney Island boardwalk in 1925. Men were in full-on three-piece suits, hats. They may have only had one suit. But they pressed it. They made it look as good as possible.

Tom Ford

GoodBestMenForwardSuitsPicture

There's a special joy you get having a show on the air that people are interested in and wanting to know what happens next. You really want to enjoy that while you have it.

Ronald D. Moore

JoyPeopleEnjoyYouKnowWant

If you experience that feeling of being in a rut in your life, then something's not right. A lot of people who feel that way don't take the time to say, 'O.K., well, what am I doing? Is that what I want to be doing? What is it making me feel this way?' You have to identify what specifically is making you feel stuck.

Joy Mangano

LifeTimeExperiencePeopleMeYou

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Denis Waitley

AloneTimeYouCareerEconomicYour

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Confucius

GovernmentTigerMoreThanFeared

My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to watch. I remember she said to me: 'Believe in yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.' I'm sure a lot of my success is due to her words of advice.

Bonnie Tyler

SuccessMotherBelieve In YourselfMe

I usually work 16-hour days.

Brooke Elliott

WorkDays

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