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Rodman Philbrick Quotes

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

Rodman Philbrick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1951

Topics

Good Children Imagination Write

The whole purpose was to say that it doesn't have to be a zero sum. It's not the environment or jobs. You can have both. You can help the auto industry achieve that if you have investment in plants.

Jennifer Granholm

Purpose Plants Environment Help You

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

Aneurin Bevan

Sympathy Small Cold Warm Alive Than

I was told that my best-case scenario would likely consist of writing my memoir and then disappearing.

Amanda Knox

Writing Memoir Would Disappearing

A career is forward planning.

Stephen Morris

Forward Planning Career

In the past, a blow to the international system's strongest power would have been welcomed by its rivals. In the wake of September 11, however, every significant government in the world declared its support for the United States.

Michael Mandelbaum

Power Past Government Support World

I have always preferred to keep things to myself rather than sharing them with anyone, but I am learning that if you let it go, you feel better for it. Don't keep it all bottled up inside; don't take it all on alone.

Luis Suarez

Learning Alone Myself I Am Better

Sonia Gandhi and her husband have always been persons I look at with a lot of respect. Of course, one of the reasons we look at India with a lot of sympathy and enthusiasm is Sonia Gandhi. Now she is Indian, not Italian, but she will always represent a myth for Italians.

Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

Respect Sympathy Husband Look India

I read 'Pushing the Limit' and 'Dare You To' by Katie McGarry. Fantastic stuff. I had never read young adult before, but now I'm a believer.

Lori Foster

You Dare Young Now Never Limit

I think being raised by a single mother put me on the outside, and I would watch my mother's married friends and think, 'Why does she put him down in public?' or, 'Why is he so rude to her?' It seemed to me that there were very few marriages where the couple were genuinely in a supportive, loving partnership.

Cherie Lunghi

Mother Me Think Friends Partnership

Being offended is part of being in the real world.

Courtney Love

World Offended Real Being Real World

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

Brendan Behan

Love Woman Man Him Halfway Who

Obviously, a lot of non-profits live on donations, and that's a wonderful thing. But higher education can't exist on donations only because, if that were the case, we would have a hard time paying teachers adequate salaries.

Sebastian Thrun

Education Live Time Higher Education