Geraldine McCaughrean Quotes

Well, unfortunately, my father passed away before my first book was published, so he never lived to see me as an author. But I think my mum was suitably pleased because she was mad about words. If she ever came across a word that she didn't know, she would always look it up in the dictionary.

Geraldine McCaughrean

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When people love you for your cultural contributions, geographical boundaries become nonexistent.

Adnan Sami

LovePeopleYouBecomeBoundaries

The power of 'no' means you're educating people in how to treat you.

Jessica Chastain

PowerPeopleTreatYouMeansHow

I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits.

Mercedes McCambridge

TroubleMoreAlwaysThanTruthsHad

It's really fun to write something for kids. You can make it a little bit more extreme and crazy than you would for adults.

Stephen McCauley

FunCrazyYouMoreWriteLittle

People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same as having a broad knowledge of personal finance.

Sophie Kinsella

KnowledgeFinancePeopleEconomics

Though we live in the world, we must not be of the world.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

LiveWorldMustThough

I talked to the general counsel of the DNC, and he assures me that every step along the way, when we were notified of these issues, that we changed systems, changed procedures, but these hackers are so sophisticated that they changed procedures.

Donna Brazile

StepMeWayAlongCounselHackers

In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.

Art Linkletter

LightTeenWorldSecretTopTurn

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

Antonio Tabucchi

InterestingSaltCivilizationMixture

I would never get married in a conventional way; I'd have the 'Curb' music as the union music.

Annabelle Wallis

MusicWayNeverGetUnionWould

India has the sanction of her own past glory and future vision to become strong - in every sense of the term.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

FutureVisionPastStrongIndiaOwn

Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nation's culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere.

Sherwin B. Nuland

CultureMedicalEthicsConstitution

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