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Judith Viorst Quotes

My mother was born in June and later, feeling a vacancy, chose her birth month for her middle name. Marry to marry, had kids because that's what was done. Liked crossword puzzles, liked lilac trees, liked baking in the sun, and liked Bing Crosby.

Judith Viorst

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: February 2, 1932

Topics

Mother Sun Trees Name Baking Born

With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party.

Joe Bastianich

Me Dinner Restaurant Party Break

The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence.

John Boehner

Life Challenge Fight Choose Way Our

We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.

Andrew Wiles

Mathematics Problems Long Attention

Find something you're passionate about, and focus on it.

Mayte Garcia

Focus You Find Passionate Something

I sometimes lack confidence in public, although I am proud enough inwardly.

Robert Schumann

Confidence I Am Proud Enough Public

It's a big shame, because 'Trixter' in my mind were what a real rock n' roll band is all about.

Steve Brown

Mind Rock Shame Band Real Big

Technology business increasingly becomes difficult to predict because technology itself is accelerating in change, and human nature and markets are more stagnant and static. But the dynamic engine of technological innovation continues unabated.

Steve Jurvetson

Nature Change Business Technology

We like to try doing new things in the shows and doing things that we haven't done before.

St. Lucia

New Things Doing New Done Try Like

Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient points are.

Sugata Mitra

Knowledge Brain Financial Political

What would the infrastructure of the Internet look like if mass surveillance wasn't its business model?

Trevor Paglen

Business Internet Look Surveillance

If I'm reading a script, and I'm not buying it, I need to be able to relate to the character on some level, and they need to have more than one dimension. I need to have an idea of what this guy's thinking about when he's taking a shower not on camera. And if I can't picture him taking a shower and getting dressed, then he's not a real person.

Rory Culkin

Character Reading Thinking Picture

The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.

Ron Lewis

Education Opportunity College Need