"How much better might human communication be if……" — Jerry Spinelli
"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?"
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Jerry Spinelli
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149 Quotes by Jerry Spinelli
Jerry Spinelli has 149 quotes on this site.
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I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no…
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Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it…
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Peer pressure is just that: pressure.
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It (enchantment) started when the earth was born. It never stops. It is, always. It's just here.
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Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.
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And the more you love someone, the safer it is to be mad at them. Love can handle mad, no…
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Angels and crows passed each other, one leaving, the other coming.
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The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do…
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It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a…
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Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted,…
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I became a children's author by accident.
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I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.
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If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the…
— Surya Das
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Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said "Walk" the second you go…
— Ann Brashares
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling,…
— E. M. Forster
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Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In…
— Samuel Johnson
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You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.
— Christopher Marlowe
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His [Henry Cavendish's] Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects…
— George Wilson
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The occurrence of any event where the chances are beyond one in ten followed by 50 zeros is an event…
— Emile Borel
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This planet is an exquisitely arranged and interconnected system. What's controlled in one place is going to have consequences in…
— Marjorie Harris
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Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth,…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A realistic expectation also demands our acceptance that one's allotted time on earth must be limited to an allowance consistent…
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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[M]y fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and…
— George Washington
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It may not be improper, however, to remark two consequences, evidently flowing from an extension of the federal power to…
— James Madison
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