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Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

I think maybe I might have to do what some other authors do, which is do a variation on my name, just to send readers the message that, 'Yep, this is me, but this is a different part of me. So brace yourself.'

Laurie Halse Anderson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 23, 1961

Topics

Yourself Me Think Name Different

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Robert H. Schuller

Motivational Great Succeed Nothing

Charles Schultz is a really interesting case. He wrote that comic strip and drew it himself from beginning to end, and it's a work of genius. It's very simply drawn, but it has some really deep emotions that you don't expect in a silly-looking comic strip.

Matt Groening

Work Beginning Deep End Interesting

The Internet really lets people connect that wouldn't have in the past, and lets conversations happen and connections happen.

Ann Leckie

Past People Connections Internet

We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

Jean Guitton

Numbers Only Ourselves Primary

But we did the best we could and in the end some of us had to get day jobs and start fresh.

Steve Brown

Best Day Start End Fresh In The End

I don't avoid any particular food. But I don't eat too much.

Robert Budi Hartono

Food Too Much Eat Avoid Much Any

My parents were fine at 85. So 85's nothing. 100 is another thing. I have a friend whose mother is about to turn 101, and it's not great.

Roz Chast

Friend Mother Great Parents Nothing

My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.

Michael Strahan

Job Ambition Salary Take Craziest

I'm from Cleveland, Ohio. And I'll tell you a real quick thing: we didn't have a pro hockey team when I was growing up, so I adopted the Red Wings as my hockey team just so I could, you know, be amused and enjoy playoff hockey every single year. I really get into it. Detroit is my team.

Dolph Ziggler

Red Team Growing Up Hockey Year You

It was hard for my friends to equate me with a picture like 'The Omen.'

David Seltzer

Me Picture Friends Hard Like Omen

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Bob Dylan

Myself Never Singer Saw Folk

Let me just try to give you sort of the intuitive one here on the stimulus funds. If you have a two-person economy - let's imagine we have two farms, and that's the whole world, just two farms. If one of those farmers gets unemployment benefits, who do you think pays for him? Am I going way over your heads today?

Arthur Laffer

Today Me World Think You Way