Louis Sachar Quotes

'The Cardturner,' while it has bridge in it, you certainly don't need to know how to play bridge to read it. It's basically a book about relationships - between Alton and his great-uncle, and Alton and his friends, and how it changes his life.

Louis Sachar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 20, 1954

Topics

LifeBridgeBookFriendsYouPlay

Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.

Jim Hightower

LifePoliticalMy LifeEnoughYears

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

Jewel

VisionRespectCommitmentMostHad

When I was 17, I was at La Coupole brasserie, and Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir asked me to join them at their table. They were fascinated that I'd watched their programme on existentialism back home and wanted to understand nothingness and being.

Jerry Hall

HomeMeBackTableUnderstandBeing

I'm sure there was some part of his soul was intrinsically happy, but he probably had to go through some permutations to really get that to blossom. I'm sure Dad had his challenges, but I think that joy was there from the beginning and he had to find a way to make his life support that and express that.

Jennifer Grant

LifeBeginningSoulJoySupport

Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.

Jeff Mangum

CreativityPeopleThinkFeelDown

Our first record didn't come out on vinyl, so I think that might have had something to do with actually being in a position to make sure that it came out in vinyl this time. It sounds way better.

Jeff Ament

TimeThinkBetterWayFirstOut

I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.

Aminatta Forna

YouUpWhereHouseholdStood

I wasn't always the most fashionable, and I would come to school with cauliflower ear and ringworm. I got made fun of a lot. People called me 'Miss Man' and 'Guns,' and people directed a lot of karate jokes at me. I wish that I was at school now that MMA and martial arts is cool, but back when I was in school, people associated it with nerdy stuff.

Ronda Rousey

ManSchoolFunPeopleMeCool

I think it's always a good time to be in a political film in America because there's so much material for comedy.

Jason Bateman

GoodTimeThinkPoliticalComedy

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.

Joseph Epstein

CultureExperienceReadingBetter

Many of my favourite hotels are in London. I like the Covent Garden Hotel and I stayed at Blakes last time I was in London. I like the feeling of warmth and homeliness that you get from both of those places.

Diego Luna

TimeHotelYouFeelingGardenGet

The technology actually seemed to come at just the right time to make the Hulk - Mark Ruffalo was really able to play both characters.

Clark Gregg

TechnologyTimeRight TimePlayMark

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