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Jon Scieszka Quotes

Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids reading by badmouthing other entertainment. Admit that TV and games can do things books can't.

Jon Scieszka

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: September 8, 1954

Topics

Reading Media Attention Television

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

Robert Lanza

Universe Biology Train Will Role

I think $100 at the end of the year doesn't mean a lot to me, but $100 from everyone in the state at the end of the year could mean lots of programs that could be good for Hawaii.

John Higgins

Good Me Think End Year Hawaii

I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy.

Ann Bancroft

Beautiful Health Time Think Healthy

My friends would howl if I claimed I was androgynous - I'm not tall enough!

Sophie McShera

Friends Enough Tall Would Howl

You write a book, it's out for however many years, and with the passing of time, you're not the same person. I'm not the same person I was when I wrote those books; I'm not even the same person I was when I started writing 'Beg.' I had many shifts spiritually, and one of them was in the use of language.

Rory Freedman

Time Writing Book Language You Out

There's no books out there articulating what the alt-right is. If they're such great philosophers, and they have such good ideas, and they're on the vanguard of intellectualism, where are their books? They don't have any.

Mike Cernovich

View Big Tent

French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.

Louis Leterrier

Great Think American Powerful Cinema

The good thing about 'Nuyorican Soul' is we get a little bit of everybody liking it.

Little Louie Vega

Good Soul Little Get Liking About

I don't think it's more important to preserve female friendship than a marriage. But I think that there's a place for female friendship that's really important in the lives of all the women I know. As I've gotten older, it's become much more important to me.

Diane English

Friendship Marriage Women Me Think

My mother and sisters cooked Italian food, and I never heard of half of the dishes you see in these Italian restaurants. I just go in and order spaghetti.

Dennis Farina

Mother Food You Go Never See

But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.

Christian Lous Lange

Hope Belief Certainty Lead Give

The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained when they are watched in a current, where they can be caught against a projecting edge and bent by the pressure of the current flowing past them.

August Krogh

Past Red Pressure Edge Evidence