Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put on the page were the stories of people who looked like me.

Jacqueline Woodson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 12, 1963

Topics

PeopleMeWorldPageComingMidst

I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.

Meryl Streep

LifeTimeFriendsEnoughI CanKnow

Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am appalled when the federal government gets between my patients and their right to the full range of medical information and complete access to health care.

Ami Bera

HealthMedicalGovernmentI AmCare

Steve Jobs now rests with the sublime satisfaction of symbolic immortality.

Steve Jurvetson

SatisfactionNowImmortalitySublime

At first, I was saying to my rep, 'I don't know if this is really my thing.' I get heart palpitations just watching basic comedy-horror stuff.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

HeartSayingKnowFirstWatching

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

FriendshipWiseOilPolitenessApply

The idea of a memoir is to tell the truth. I know that often the truth hurts, but a lie hurts even more.

Rohan Marley

TruthLieKnowMoreTellMemoir

It's not like you reach a point with your acting where you're like, 'I'm great! That's it!' You're constantly having to go,'That sucked. I wanna do that better.'

Luke Hemsworth

GreatBetterReachYouActingPoint

The older you get, I have to say, the funnier you find life. That's the only way to go.

Diana Rigg

LifeYouFindGoSayWay

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

Dean Koontz

GreatSaidTwoCentury20th Century

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.

Annie Lennox

JobWorryWeekStrikeUnionsGoing

What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.

Paul Wellstone

PowerPurposeIdentityOrganization

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Norman Mailer

SufferingSocialismLevelFunction

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