Meg Rosoff Quotes

My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.

Meg Rosoff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeMindMeSisterWritingShort

Surprisingly, it was not an American but a British company that opened an amusement park in 2007 called Dickens World, located in the English county of Kent, complete with an Ebenezer Scrooge Haunted House, a Great Expectations Boat Ride and the as-advertised 'costumed Dickensian characters.'

Matthew Pearl

GreatRideWorldExpectationsBoat

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

Ann Landers

PersonBeliefRightEvidenceDestroy

Massive self-confidence is boring.

Simon Conway Morris

Self-ConfidenceBoringMassive

Being a teenager is chaotic because you're kind of coming into your own, but you're not an adult; you're fighting with your parents over responsibilities and freedom.

Troian Bellisario

FreedomParentsFightingYouKind

Cloud computing is the third wave of the digital revolution.

Lowell McAdam

RevolutionWaveCloudDigitalThird

I am the oldest of three girls and the only one not named after one of my father's ex-girlfriends.

Lisa Jewell

FatherI AmThreeOnlyOldestAfter

I did radio for a year and did some TV things, and I was already in place at ESPN before 'The Bachelorette' started.

Jordan Rodgers

YearPlaceRadioThingsStartedDid

Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can't do every dream that I have.

Brian McKnight

BestJobBasketballThinkDreamGo

We have laws against torture. The Constitution says nothing whatever about torture. It speaks of punishment; 'cruel and unusual' punishments are forbidden.

Antonin Scalia

ConstitutionNothingPunishmentCruel

Some people just need something to be mad about.

Syd

PeopleMadSome PeopleNeedJust

So we're going to do a Battlestar Galactica themed bike and bring another one of the bikes.

Noah Hathaway

BikeBringGoingBikesAnother

Without the ambition to raise oneself to life's challenges, growth and innovation would never happen.

Mark Goulston

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