Simone Elkeles Quotes

Two dads have sent me letters that said my books changed their daughters' lives. I send them packages with T-shirts and posters because, come on... that's the coolest.

Simone Elkeles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 24, 1970

Topics

MeSaidLettersTwoBecauseCome

Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the U.S. to Europe's wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

John Shelton Reed

DriveBarbecueChangesEuropeMiles

Me and my wife watch laser discs, and I collect old computers. And one of my regular models is a 1993 computer with Windows 98 on it. I just love old technology, and I don't know what you would call that. I'm just stuck in 1991, '92.

Shooter Jennings

LoveTechnologyWifeMeComputers

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.

Tom Robbins

UnexpectedResultsTrueSystemOrder

I.Q. deficiency. There are some people who are an order of fries short of a Happy Meal, and what is often a characteristic about every one of these people is that they don't know it. They have no idea how incompetent or stupid they are. It's the exact opposite. They have the loftiest, highest self-image.

Rush Limbaugh

HappyPeopleStupidShortKnowMeal

No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.

Mitch Daniels

OthersPresidencyUsDivideBeen

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

Lucretius

FlowersFountainWitSomethingMidst

In Peru, there is no theatre that produces an annual opera season, and though there is one orchestra in Lima, it's always struggling to survive. We shouldn't have just one orchestra, we should have 15, we should have 50! And you should start to build this from the children.

Juan Diego Florez

ChildrenTheatreSurviveStartYou

I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know, 'How do I get to be a serious actor?'

Jon Voight

DecisionTalentThoughtLearnYou

The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task.

Donal Henahan

MoreTaskSimplerDisastrous

You must have been a beautiful baby, 'Cos baby just look at you now.

Johnny Mercer

BeautifulBabyYouLookNowBeen

Good scripts have always been, I think, hard to find. Good storytelling, good writing - it's just not easy. I have made it a point that - if I'm going to put the energy into doing this work - I will wait until I find something I'm really happy with.

Chris Cooper

WorkGoodHappyWaitWritingEnergy

Sometimes one of us might be missing because we might be away or something, but there's always four or five.

Bruce Johnston

SometimesAlwaysMissingSomething

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