Kate DiCamillo Quotes

I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.

Kate DiCamillo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 25, 1964

Topics

ThoughtI CanNowSeeNowhereGoing

I met a landlord who will pay you to move at the end of the week and let you use his van. That's a really nice kind of eviction. I met a landlord who will take your door off. There are 101 ways to move a family out.

Matthew Desmond

FamilyDoorEndWeekYouNice

The straight man has the best part. He gets to be in the show and see it, too.

Andy Griffith

BestManSeeShowStraightHe

We had all these things to deal with - houses full of people and John going to jail, guys from New York saying 'don't worry about anything.' So it was really confusing.

Michael Davis

New YorkPeopleSayingWorryNew

The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.

Robert W. Service

PeopleSocietyToughBetterYouGet

I teach songwriting a lot, and I always tell my students, 'You gotta write the little songs sometimes to get to the next big song in the chute.' You gotta write 'em to get to it. You never know what's going to be a little song or a big song.

Mary Gauthier

SongYouKnowSometimesTeachNever

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

Christiaan Barnard

LifeSufferingGoalPrimeOnlyYour

I don't think I ever once heard Mum utter a religious or spiritual sentiment, a considerable feat considering that she was married for 57 years to one of the most prominent Catholics in the country.

Christopher Buckley

SpiritualThinkCountrySheYears

As a baby boomer myself, I can tell you we are part of the have-it-all generation. We pretend never to age and often do our best to avoid sacrifice.

Anthony Scaramucci

AgeMyselfBestSacrificeBabyYou

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Thomas Mann

YouFindSmellIdeaEvenEverywhere

The number one way to get trust back is to pay your employees well and get them to speak well about the company.

Richard Edelman

TrustSpeakEmployeesBackWayPay

When God created the world, he didn't draw a line between Canada and America.

Marianne Williamson

GodWorldAmericaCanadaLineHe

Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.

Leslie Jamison

BeautyTruthProblemPovertyEasy

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