Malorie Blackman Quotes

Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.

Malorie Blackman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 8, 1962

Topics

ChildrenReadingFindDangerous

Inexperienced entrepreneurs often want to keep their plans secret, but this is never how I've seen any of the great companies get built.

Joe Lonsdale

GreatWantPlansNeverSecretSeen

I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as 'learning.' But I was disappointed in how quickly everyone wanted to get back to normal. It was as if we watched terrorism on TV for a while, then got bored and turned back to 'American Idol.'

Jess Walter

LearningOpportunityHumbleCulture

I believe in commitment to duty. That's how I've lived my life.

Jesse White

LifeCommitmentBelieveMy LifeDuty

We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.

Jerry Doyle

TodayChildhoodPovertyEnemiesAIDS

It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me.

Steve Carlton

MeSameSoundsAnywayQuotes

I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.

Stevie Smith

WomenPeopleMeSwimmingFishOld

People in Ireland take in the whole song. After a long history of great singers and songwriters and poets, they are able to consume the entire song - not just the external; they go inside.

Mary Gauthier

HistoryGreatPeopleSongLongGo

I grew up in New York City. I went to museums so much as a kid, and I guess I didn't realize how much it affected me.

Lisa Randall

New YorkCityMeNewMuseumsKid

It's impossible to redefine yourself and your life overnight.

Christina Aguilera

LifeYourselfImpossibleOvernight

With real estate, it's location, location, location. In public speaking, it's acoustics, acoustics, acoustics.

Christopher Buckley

Real EstateRealLocationEstate

I'm still trying to improve. Everything I can do to improve every part of my game - I'm going to do it.

Colin Kaepernick

GameTryingI CanEverythingImprove

I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.

Brittany Murphy

InspirationalChangeGoodTimeThink

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