Meg Rosoff Quotes

The truth about love is that you don't always fall in love with whom you are supposed to fall in love with. Love just hits you. It is a transcendent thing. Sometimes it is your best friend's husband and sometimes it's your father. It's weird. But that's a fact of life.

Meg Rosoff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 16, 1956

Topics

LifeLoveFriendFatherTruthBest

The house was big enough for my brother and me to have firecracker wars at one end and leave Mom and Dad undisturbed at the other. When firecrackers weren't available, we attacked each other with pennies and marbles and clumps of Crisco, which made brilliant greasy asterisks when you missed and hit the wall.

John Dickerson

BrotherMeMomEndEnoughYou

I'm not particularly interested in my phone. I'm interested in human contact. I think phones have created a certain social incapacity; it's made people socially deficient.

Maya Hawke

PeopleThinkPhoneHumanPhones

When the state was going to tell you what your future would be, science fiction was irrelevant.

Robert J. Sawyer

FutureScienceYouScience Fiction

Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

Matthew Desmond

PovertyDebateNowOutBeenWord

It's hard enough to coach in this league when you're doing what you believe in. But when you have to try to coach something you may not be sold on, it becomes even more of a challenge. It's really hard.

Jeff Van Gundy

ChallengeBelieveDoingEnoughYou

I grew up with 'Star Wars' and was a massive fan of the original films.

Andy Serkis

UpOriginalStarFanWarsMassive

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

Jeff Goodell

SuccessStupidOilAlwaysPropaganda

I don't speak English, so I'll just have to win the trust and confidence of the fans with my performance on the field.

Masahiro Tanaka

ConfidenceTrustWinPerformance

If there was going to be a pioneer of the plus-size girl of my shape on TV, why not me?

Chrissy Metz

GirlMeWhyShapeGoingPioneer

Voter fraud is a reality in American elections, but it is typical of the candidate to confuse anecdote with data and turn allegation into conspiracy.

Bret Stephens

RealityAmericanDataFraudTurn

I should say that I usually have a good experience on Amtrak. Still, if Amtrak could replace electric horns with steam whistles, they could make big strides. A horn is a horn is a horn, but a steam whistle is a voice and a song. People used to know which engineer was running which engine based on the call of the whistle.

Brian Floca

GoodExperiencePeopleSongVoice

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

Bruce Springsteen

TimePurposeConsistencyActionLong

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