Natalie Babbitt Quotes

I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.

Natalie Babbitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 28, 1932 - October 31, 2016

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The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Obama may be brilliant, but he's not a leader.

Sophie B. Hawkins

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I really don't know anything about music. I don't really listen to it. I don't know anything about the history of music.

Sia

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The script is very good because the things that happen in it are very believable to me. It doesn't presuppose that the world has changed very much. You don't have to think that you're in a different world.

Roger Spottiswoode

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It might look like some incredibly complicated map to get from English period films to American action anti-heroes, but it really is just about not having a plan.

Rupert Friend

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Ross Perot

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I was 10th of 11 kids in an alcoholic, abusive, poor family. We all want things that we can't have. And I found comedy.

Louie Anderson

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I think film can change lives. Doing 'Milk' changed mine, for sure. When I see that someone like Harvey Milk changed his life and the lives of many others in just eight years, I feel powerful. I go out of the cinema saying, 'Maybe there's something I can do, too.'

Diego Luna

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After finishing the gymnasium in Muenchen with 9 years of Latin and 6 years of ancient Greek, history and philosophy, I decided to become a physicist. The great theoretical physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, an university colleague of my late father, advised me to begin with an apprenticeship in precision mechanics.

Wolfgang Paul

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I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.

William Sanderson

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I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

Philip Warren Anderson

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I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.

Pierre Corneille

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