Jack Prelutsky Quotes

I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Jack Prelutsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 8, 1940

Topics

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I'm an only child raised by a single mom. She's always been supportive of what I wanted to do.

Jessica Parker Kennedy

ChildMomSheAlwaysSingleBeen

I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to go find them. You have to make a conscious choice to go to the swamp or the desert or the abandoned summer camp.

Max Brooks

DesertThinkYouRulesFindChoice

You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.

Matthew Macfadyen

YouPlayNeverStartedWorrying

The mind and the body are inextricably entwined, and rarely are their inseparability clearer than when we're under some kind of mental pressure. The moment we start trying to learn a new skill, make a decision or otherwise think on our feet, our nervous system reacts - with accelerated pulse rate, increased respiration, even sweating.

Jeffrey Kluger

MomentDecisionMindStartThink

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

Stephen Ambrose

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I like to remain somewhat anonymous. I could never handle the whole Britney Spears syndrome of being noticed everywhere.

Rob Halford

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The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.

Robin Roberts

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Descriptions of inner, spiritual processes are much more liable to misunderstanding than descriptions of events in the physical world. Such misunderstandings arise easily because the life of the soul is in constant movement and because we fail to bear in mind that the life of the soul is very different from life in the physical world.

Rudolf Steiner

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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

Miguel de Cervantes

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Few people know that President Obama has used drone attacks many times more than Bush ever did. Obama's off the charts in terms of drone attack.

Jonathan Turley

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I was a chubby kid who got made fun of a lot, and I got fit in high school, and I stayed fit in my 20s, until my dad died.

Jonathan Van Ness

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Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

Deepak Chopra

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