Jon Scieszka Quotes

When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time I was three, I had finished 212 short stories, 38 novels, 730 poems, and one very funny limerick, all before breakfast.

Jon Scieszka

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there's a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There's a beautiful side to her; she's not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

Angelina Jolie

BeautifulChildrenPastThinkDark

I don't need to be rich anymore; I don't need to be a millionaire.

Sia

RichNeedMillionaireAnymore

As a Christian, I know my life is in God's hands. He has a plan for me. Therefore, I never worry about tomorrow or never worry about winning or losing football games. That knowledge gives me a lot of composure in tough situations.

Tom Landry

LifeGodKnowledgeFootballLosing

I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.

Tom Cruise

WorkMoneyChoicesYouDoneNothing

Might we... be doing something with our brains that cannot be described in computational terms at all? How do our feelings of conscious awareness - of happiness, pain, love, aesthetic sensibility, will, understanding, etc. - fit into such a computational picture?

Roger Penrose

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It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Miguel de Unamuno

LoveSadTo LoveAbleMuchSadder

The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

Mick Jagger

NatureLoveYouFleetingSeeGone

I still think I'm writing Nancy Drew with a mortgage.

Lisa Scottoline

WritingThinkMortgageStillDrew

I think characters are going to be, if not a reflection of the author, at least some refraction of some part of their personality.

Diana Gabaldon

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My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the century. He was killed in the line of duty. My father, who was 16, was the oldest son, so he had to quit school and go to work to support his mother.

Bonnie Bedelia

WorkFatherMotherSonSchoolCity

I hate to lose.

Bobby Lashley

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I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.

Thomas Perry

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