Jack Prelutsky Quotes

I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.

Jack Prelutsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Quality without results is pointless. Results without quality is boring.

Johan Cruyff

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Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. You will be known as that character forever.

Maureen McCormick

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I've always thought of myself as a journalist; that was what I did.

John Sandford

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I drive my family nuts because when I watch something on TV, I'm likely to watch it with a bass guitar. But I don't plug it in!

Steve Capus

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The moment the world falls apart, you start forgetting history and wrongdoings in the past.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

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I'd like to be able to tap with my action this low without buzzing.

Stanley Jordan

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Trust is important in any relationship, not just a romantic one.

Stephanie Sigman

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British diplomats who worked in Iran during the 1980 hostage crisis are deeply upset by Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning film 'Argo,' which suggests they refused shelter to the group who managed to get out of the U.S. embassy.

Simon Hoggart

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The vanishing of David Tang is like the unthinkable diappearance of a magnificent palace on a mythical mountaintop. He was a dreammaker, pianist, adventurer, writer, entrepreneur, scholar, connoisseur, and a great friend.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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The French Revolution was a kind of 21st-century moment in the heart of the 18th century - and Alex Dumas, outstanding though he was, could never have risen the way he did if not for that. The French Revolution was the American Revolution on steroids.

Tom Reiss

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The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'

Tom Coburn

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One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours.

Rob Sheffield

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