Margaret Haddix Quotes

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe.

Margaret Haddix

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 19, 1964

Topics

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When you're an established name, you know that a children's book will have a pretty good chance of getting picked up. Like Madonna. It's not that I had this great idea. Actually, in my case, it was a great idea.

Jo Nesbo

GoodChildrenGreatBookChanceYou

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

MenKnowingOtherSelf-Knowledge

Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights and Spectacles'; she thinks in print, but she doesn't have a real feel for the stage.

John Lahr

FeelObservationAdmireSheStage

I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.

John Pople

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I was born on an even keel. Family lore says I never cried, even at birth. I felt at ease on earth, in the right place. And like many children, I took comfort in life's regularity: Every few days it rained, the school bus came and went, and my parents were rooted in their union.

Amity Gaige

LifeFamilyChildrenSchoolParents

Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.

Stephen Jay Gould

EvolutionThreeTwoMostFascinating

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Robert Frost

MotherWomanFoolManBoyHim

I am a professional when I get in the ring.

Rob Van Dam

I AmProfessionalRingGetAm

I think there is widespread agreement that there is a crisis in public education.

Mitch Kapor

EducationThinkPublic Education

I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it's not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own.

Louise Mensch

SupportAmazingMeHelpMy OwnHard

Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time.

Bradley Chicho

TimeOceanPeacefulShyOyster

HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.

Annie Lennox

BoundariesNo Boundaries

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