Margaret Haddix Quotes

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

Margaret Haddix

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TryingWriteStartedSecondThird

Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.

Joe Torre

BaseballThinkDoingYouGoingLast

What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.

Jenna McCarthy

WomenMenTogetherDeathBackQuiet

For many Europeans the next decade looks to be filled with threats rather than opportunities.

John Hutton

OpportunitiesLooksDecadeNextThan

Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he sings with white soul. He's singing and he's writing songs from the bottom of his gut.

Robin Thicke

SoulWritingSingingWhiteGutSing

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

Robyn Hitchcock

JealousAttentionMoreAlways

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

Robert W. Service

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Santa Monica, where I have always lived, is not a town where you will find storefront Church of God in Christ churches. So, the whole idea of gospel quartet singing is something I never knew existed until I began to hear it on record.

Ry Cooder

GodSingingChurchYouFindNever

Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated.

Chief Joseph

GreatManPeopleWhiteCountrySaid

Most films, when you finish as an actor, you just go home.

Christopher Guest

HomeYouGoActorFinishJust

It's true in most movies I don't use my own voice.

Christopher Walken

VoiceMoviesTrueMy OwnOwnMost

You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.

Craig Brown

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The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

Auguste Comte

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