E. L. Konigsburg Quotes

After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.

E. L. Konigsburg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 10, 1930 - April 19, 2013

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ChildrenPeopleMeWorldKnowMeet

The instruments that bleed into each other are what creates the ambience. Once you start cleaning everything up, you lose it. You lose that sort of halo that bleeding creates. Then if you eliminate the halo, you have to go back and put in some artificial reverb, which is never as good.

Jimmy Page

GoodStartYouLoseBackCleaning

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

Jerzy Kosinski

ArtRelationshipsWayOthersHuman

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

Maynard Jackson

LiveBestPoliticsNot PerfectMeans

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

John Masefield

ManWantPraiseMaySomethingMade

I think when 'The Simpsons' first came on, there was an uproar. People got used to it. They realized the show's really funny, it's got a heart, so I think it's pretty safe.

Matt Groening

FunnyHeartPeopleThinkFirstSafe

Everybody's funny-looking.

Jeff MacNelly

Everybody

I don't want to be someone sitting in my rocking chair at the end saying, 'Well, I passed.' My mum used to say life isn't for sissies.

Michael Ignatieff

LifeSayingEndSomeoneChairWant

The audience for 'Lootera' is far less than for my other kind of films. Just because I pulled it off doesn't mean I will change my tastes. I love to watch masala films, and I love to sing, dance and say those larger-than-life dialogues. But whenever I get a chance, and I really feel the connect, I will do a performance-oriented film.

Sonakshi Sinha

LoveChangeDanceChanceFeelKind

Our military members should be able to defend themselves here and abroad.

Tomi Lahren

MilitaryDefendHereAbleAbroad

And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.

Mike Pence

PeopleWayFirstChristianityDeal

The 'World Wide Web', as people quaintly called the Internet in 1996, was more or less made up of text. There was no YouTube. There was no Facebook. There was, however, Usenet, a loose and difficult-to-navigate assortment of message boards.

Michelle Dean

PeopleWorldInternetMoreYouTube

My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.

Bruce Robinson

LifeGreatChildhoodHappyMeEarly

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