Gail Carson Levine Quotes

I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.

Gail Carson Levine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 17, 1947

Topics

SisterWantFirstActBigPainter

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.

Michael J. Fox

EducationShortAlwaysUpGetCome

I grew up a clumsy kid with bad hand-eye coordination. Yet here on El Cap, I felt as though I had stumbled into a world where I thrived. Being up on those steep walls demanded the right amount of climbing skill, pain tolerance, and sheer bull-headedness that came naturally to me.

Tommy Caldwell

WallsPainMeWorldToleranceBad

In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.

Jonathan Lethem

LoveBlackYouEverythingHole

The sheeplike nature of travel - being on a beach with thousands of other people is not my idea of fun. I also don't like being a tourist because you don't know what's really going on in a country.

Diana Quick

NatureBeachTravelFunPeopleYou

Put me on the Food Network - I'll be the funniest guy talking about food. I don't care.

Chris Cubas

FoodMeCareTalkingGuyNetwork

I think there's enough TV that makes people feel dumb out there.

Chris Gethard

PeopleThinkFeelEnoughDumbOut

One of the problems with any kind of talking about the media landscape is that we've just been through an unusually stable period in which, for fifty years, English language media was centered in three cities - London, New York, and Los Angeles - around a very stable group of people working in a relatively stable set of media.

Clay Shirky

New YorkPeopleProblemsLanguage

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

William Tecumseh Sherman

WarTryingWillCrueltyOverReform

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

Willie Mays

BaseballMeKeyPlayingDefense

My objective is to fulfil the dream of Bangabandhu through building a hunger- and poverty-free Golden Bangladesh being imbued with the spirit of the War of Liberation.

Sheikh Hasina

WarBuildingDreamGoldenSpirit

They say there's no second act in American lives. There's something there worth exploring. Giving up an idea of yourself, examining your failure, and seeing if that failure was the system's or yours. What does it mean to not turn out to be the person you want to be?

Scott Rudin

FailureYourselfAmericanGivingYou

A man in a suit looking put together and dapper is very attractive, but I also kind of like the I-just-rolled-out-of-bed, a-little-bit-of-scruff, effortless, not-trying-hard-but-still-sexy guy. If a guy spends more time looking in the mirror than I do, that's problem!

Nina Dobrev

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