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Day Quotes by Jerry Spinelli
- In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as if it wasn't…
- You’ll know her more by your questions than by her answers. Keep looking at her long enough. One day you might see someone you know.
- She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.
- I am a mess. Like that MargieMocha, I am spilled across a floor, but there's nobody to mop me up. I have only one thing…
- If I get a new idea today—or any day—I won't run from it. I won't trash it. If it's something I really want to do—I'll…
- It was the day of the worms. That first almost-warm, after-the-rainy-night day in April, when you bolt from your house to find yourself in a…
- Ironic," Betty Lou said at last. "The cereus insists on sunlight---that's why it must be at the end of the yard. And yet it saves…
- Every day I hold my breath until I see her. Sometimes in class, sometimes in the hallway. I can't start breathing until I see her…
- As we meandered, she said my name three times: "Stargirl?" "Yes?" "That was better than TV." "It was." "Stargirl?" "Yes?" "Does the sun do that…
- How much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day?
- Why do we wrap things? Usually to protect them. The more fragile they are, the more important the wrapping. Your dream is prey to many…
- Throughout the day, Stargirl had been dropping money. She was the Johnny Appleseed of loose change: a penny here, a nickel there. Tossed to the…
- You know, there's a place we all inhabit, but we don't much think about it, we're scarcely conscious of it, and it lasts for less…
More Day Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong