Lois Lowry Quotes

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

Lois Lowry

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 20, 1937

Topics

LiveMoralWantWhyPrecisionKids

The fear of mistakes is the fast track to irrelevance.

Joe Gebbia

FearMistakesFastTrack

The music is fun. The big difference performing it live is that we might get a little more heated, not as subdued, we'll stretch things out more. It's how you stay fresh after such a long time in the business.

John Abercrombie

LiveBusinessMusicTimeFunYou

North Carolina's approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the acknowledged leader in addressing predatory lending.

Mel Watt

LeaderBestLawCreationPossible

Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes packaged and summarized in a word like 'emo' or 'grunge'... or 'folk music.' I think that's just language itself, trying to understand the mysteries of the world.

Sufjan Stevens

MusicCultureWorldThinkLanguage

I probably watch less than one hour of television a week. And when I do watch television, it's usually a football game. Sometimes I'll watch a news broadcast for a few minutes. Otherwise, I don't have time.

Tommy Lee Jones

TimeFootballGameWeekTelevision

I've always had the wish, the need, and the obsession to become a public poet.

Tony Harrison

WishBecomeNeedAlwaysPoetPublic

I adopted England as least as much as England adopted me.

Tom Stoppard

MeEnglandMuchLeastAdopted

If I can raise more money for charities, or get more Canadian kids to play golf, the green jacket will mean even more.

Mike Weir

MoneyGreenGolfI CanPlayJacket

I love buildings that aren't purpose-built.

Miranda Otto

LoveBuildingsI Love

I had a lot of fun with Val Kilmer. He's like a big kid.

Derek Luke

FunKidBigLikeHeHad

Try not to be either intimidated by or a captive of jargon. Even though it's language, and language is about communication, it often exists actually to obfuscate and to control power and not to communicate.

Christie Hefner

CommunicationPowerControlLanguage

I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956.

Bruce Dern

TeamMakeTriedI TriedOlympics

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