Bruce Coville Quotes

Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.

Bruce Coville

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TeacherPeopleStartSellingWay

To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.

John McTiernan

IdeasFindHardProvocativeWorks

To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.

Jean Monnet

HistoryEyesTaskMeaninglessOnly

It is very satisfying to see that my dream of LED lighting has become a reality.

Shuji Nakamura

RealityDreamBecomeSeeLighting

I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor.

Toussaint Louverture

I AmHonorWillConscienceServeAm

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.

Robert Byrne

ServiceSomeonePartyFarewellLeft

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

Rupert Sheldrake

ScienceAtheistThroughDealAtheism

For men to be virgins, we think it's negative. We think that there's something wrong with them.

Joyce Brothers

MenNegativeThinkWrongSomething

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.

Joichi Ito

CompetitionIdeasDemocracyBelieve

Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.

Christine Lahti

GoodCompetitionBetterLongHealthy

Live today as if you don't have tomorrow: my husband was diagnosed and killed by cancer within six months.

Bozoma Saint John

LiveTodayTomorrowHusbandYouSix

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

William J. H. Boetcker

ManYouDownHimUpCannot

I sang in English my whole life; I just happened to decide that I had a passion for Latin music, and I wanted to jump into Latin music first.

Prince Royce

LifeMusicPassionJumpFirstWhole

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