Mattie Stepanek Quotes

The doctor said, 'He can't last a week.' And I did. And they said, 'There's no way this kid's going to last a month.' And I did. And so they said, 'Two years. He's not going to make it.' Two years. 'Five years. He can't do that.' I lived to be five years. 'He's never going to hit double digits.' And here I am, a new teenager.

Mattie Stepanek

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 17, 1990 - June 22, 2004

Topics

I AmDoctorWeekNewSaidWay

Writing careers are short. For every 100 writers, 99 never get published. Of those who do, only one in every hundred gets a career out of it, so I count myself as immensely privileged.

Jim Crace

MyselfWritingShortCareerNever

When you think blues, you think BB King. Even a young kid can look at a picture of BB King and say, 'the blues.' The man is more than a musician. He's a monument.

Joe Bonamassa

ManKingThinkPictureYouLook

I'd already put on a bit of weight before I got pregnant.

Jennifer Ellison

GotWeightBeforePregnantPutBit

In 1995, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

John E. Walker

SocietyRoyalFellowElected

I think the funny thing about acting for me - and I hold it in a very holy, spiritual way - not to be overly fundamentalist about it, but it's that important to me - is that it is an ancient healing art.

Melissa Leo

FunnyArtSpiritualHealingMeWay

Higher ebook prices don't benefit me, booksellers or readers, and that means something is really wrong.

Michael A. Stackpole

MeWrongSomethingMeansReaders

Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.

Sun Myung Moon

GreatMeWorldDownFoolishCause

We definitely have a Wii U. It gets pulled out whenever there's a new great game coming out.

Ron Funches

GreatGameNewOutComingWhenever

Wolverine is a world-weary old warrior. His rage issue notwithstanding, I see him as someone with the tortured soul of a poet, but one who has seen too many friends and lovers die. Even with that, he has grown into a leader and a true hero.

Jonathan Maberry

LeaderHeroSoulSomeoneDieTrue

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Douglas Adams

IntegrityImpossibleKindOften

I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks.

Claire McCaskill

ThinkDefeatedTakeDemocratLeft

I am very fortunate to be doing something I completely love, so it is certainly not hard to get motivated. Watching people sing along and put their hands in the air is a very powerful thing. I'm 63, but I don't feel it. I feel like I'm in my 40s. I enjoy life.

Bonnie Tyler

LifeLoveEnjoy LifeI AmPeople

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