Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

Memory doesn't come as a straight narrative. It comes in small moments with all this white space.

Jacqueline Woodson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MemorySpaceSmallMomentsWhite

I personally don't distinguish between artistic and commercial films.

Jiang Wen

BetweenCommercialDistinguishFilms

After 'Lost', I never need to take a job for the money again.

Matthew Fox

MoneyJobLostNeverNeedTake

Kissing Macaulay Culkin was like kissing a brother. It was really no big deal.

Anna Chlumsky

BrotherBigDealLikeBig Deal

Some writers such as John Cheever and Raymond Carver seem to draw artistic energy from analyzing the realm of their own experiences - their social circles and memories and mores. I'm one of those who draw creative energy from the opposite.

Amor Towles

MemoriesCreativeEnergyCirclesOwn

I always thought I'd become an immigration lawyer.

Su-chin Pak

LawyerThoughtImmigrationBecome

The Republican party has become as hostile towards its own base as the Liberals have always been.

Milo Yiannopoulos

PartyBecomeRepublicanAlwaysOwn

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.

Jose Saramago

BeginningDirectionThinkingWay

There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.

Debi Mazar

PassionFoodHeroMoneyPeopleGun

Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.

Antonio Munoz Molina

GoodPriceStrivingSometimesHigh

God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?

Philip Yancey

GodTruthWhyNakedWhy NotUs

My parents wished peace upon their firstborn child.

Shalom Harlow

PeaceChildParentsWished

I think higher ed in the U.S. is fairly healthy, and by global standards it dominates, and it makes people more productive. But a lot of our K-12 is a disaster. And the single most important reform would just be to fire the worst ten or 15 percent of teachers in the lot, and we would have massive improvements.

Tyler Cowen

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