Top 80 Gary D. Schmidt Quotes
#1. Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.
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#2. There's no pleasure in getting to be an old coot unless you have some fun along the way.
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#3. That's the Teacher Gene at work, giving its bearer an extra sense. It's a little frightening. Maybe that's how people decide to become teachers. They have that extra sense, and once they have it, and know that they have it, they don't have any choice except to become a teacher.
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#4. It's not the solution, Mr. Canton. It's the path to the solution that's fascinating.
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#5. Maybe the Snowy Heron is going to come off pretty badly when the planes come together. Maybe. But he's still proud and beautiful. His head is high, and he's got this sharp beak that's facing out to the world.
He's okay for now.
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#6. Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.
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#7. A comedy isn't about being funny," said Mrs. Baker.
"We talked about this before."
"A comedy is about character who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. That's how I know."
"Suppose you can't see it?"
"That's the daring part," said Mrs. Baker.
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#8. So you just went in and told him to give you two Cokes and he gave them to you?" "No, I didn't just go in and tell him to give me two Cokes. I asked for a Coke for me and a Coke for the skinny thug sitting on the library steps.
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#9. She came over and looked at the picture. Then she took my hand.
You know what that feels like?
Like what the astronauts will feel when they step onto the moon for the very first time.
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#10. Past the back of a bunch of stores and an old bar that looked like no one who went in there went in happy.
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#11. Maybe this happens to you every day, but I think it was the first time I could hardly wait to show something that I'd done to someone who would care besides my mother. You know how that feels?
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#12. You don't have to say ridiculous things twice, Holling. Once is more than enough.
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#14. Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.
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#15. You can't imagine an actor ever becoming president of the United States, for example, which was true. We couldn't.
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#17. The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.
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#19. Joseph just listened. It was like he was dragging every word about Jupiter into himself so he could remember it and treasure it in his heart.
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#20. You can tell all you need to know about someone from the way cows are around him.
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#21. I know. That sounds like a lie. But Presbyterians know that every so often a lie isn't all that bad, and I figured that this was about the best place it could happen.
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#22. (The raindrops) played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow.
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#23. And she ran out of the diesel combustion and right to me and we held each other and we were not empty at all.
"Holling," she said. "I was so afraid I wouldn't fine you."
"I was standing right here, Heather." I said. "I'll always be standing right here.
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#24. Let the Art be brought back only for the good of the world. If it isn the hand of one who would use it for ill, in that world or this, then it will be upon you to destroy it - though its end means your own life-long exile. - Young Waeglim
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#25. There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.
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#27. If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.
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#28. I wonder why Holling had the fastest time," said Danny after the announcements - a whole lot louder than he had to. "Could it be because he was running away from two rats who were trying to eat him?"
"That might have a little to do with it," I said.
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#29. You know how teachers are. If they get you to take out a book they love too, they're yours for life.
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#32. You should be," she said. "Look what happened to Julius Caesar when he underestimated those around him." So we went out to the
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#33. So you want to tell me what a sixth grader was doing in the eighth-grade side of the locker room, in a eighth-grade fight?" he said.
"Winning," I said.
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#34. And I know it doesn't last for anything more than a second
sometimes there is perfect understanding between two people who can't stand one another.
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#35. Cooper looked at the house and tried to fix it in his mind like a painting that would never leave him. But its beauty was so think and so real that it could never be just a painting
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#36. He's falling into the water," I said. Lucas shook his head. "No, he's not. He's going wherever he wants to go.
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#37. In English, we were still on the Introduction to Poetry Unit, and I'm not lying, if I ever meet Percy Bysshe Shelley walking down the streets of Marysville, I'm going to punch him right in the face.
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#38. By the way, in case you weren't paying attention or something, did you catch what Mr. Powell called me? "Young artist." I bet you missed that.
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#39. You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all around you. That's what are can do.
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#41. The world is Trouble ... and Grace. That is all there is.
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#43. Spring break! Were there any two words ever put together that make a more beautiful sound?
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#46. How come when you're feeling good like this, something always happens to wreck it all? How come?
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#47. A comedy isn't about being funny ... a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all.
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#48. DOWNED HELICOPTER TRANSPORT STOP KHESANH STOP LT T BAKER MISSING IN ACTION STOP
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#49. You know, when someone has been crying, something gets left in the air. It's not something you can see or smell, or feel. Or draw. But it's there.
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#50. Mrs. Daugherty was keeping my bowl of cream of wheat hot, and she had a special treat with it, she said. It was bananas.
In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.
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#53. When Mr. Ferris found out about the Broadway play, Clarence didn't stop rocking during the whole lab.
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#54. OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.
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#55. Sometimes it's like that. You know something good is coming, and even though it's not even close yet, still, just knowing it's coming is enough to make you snort and nicker. Sort of. -Jack
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#56. Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.
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#57. When a girl holds a rose up to you, you run better, let me tell you.
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#59. Creativty is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.
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#60. Mr. Powell raised an eyebrow. 'I'm a librarian,' he said. 'I always know what I'm talking about.
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#61. Sheriff Gibbs, the vocabulary of the English language is the wonder of the whole world. Chaucer spoke it and Shakespeare and Winston Churchill. With such a precedent, you could possibly make better use of it," said Mrs. Perley.
"Huh," said Sheriff Gibbs
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#62. Doug Swieteck's brother wouldn't even come near me, and I would foil Mrs. Baker's nefarious plan. But
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#63. Did you find yourself?" "What?" said my sister. "Did you find yourself?" "She found me," I said.
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#64. There are times when she makes me feel as stupid as asphalt.
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#66. One day we ran all the way to Jones Beach, and if Mrs. Sidman hadn't sent a bus after us, I think we would have collapsed on the boardwalk and died.
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#67. It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother.
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#68. When you find something that's whole, you do what you can to keep it that way.
And when you fins something that isn't, then maybe it's not a bad idea to try to make it whole again. Maybe.
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#69. Even Doug Swieteck's brother couldn't cuss like that
and he could cuss the yellow off a school bus.
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#70. He felt it deep, like a stone too big to heft out of the garden. He just had to how around it and make do.
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#71. No matter what happens, there is always the business of the world to attend to.
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#72. Would you have left a guy being beat up to go find a teacher?' I asked.
My father, he wiped his hand across his face, and what was left behind was a smile.
Really, a smile.
'Not in a million years,' he said.
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#73. Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.
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#74. Don't look so surprised. You didn't think I'd spent my whole life behind this desk, did you?
And I suddenly realized that, well, I guess I had. Weren't all teachers born behind their desks, fully grown, with a red pen in their hand and ready to grade?
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#75. We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together.
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#76. He missed him like he would miss the sun if it fell out of the sky.
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#77. Sometimes
and I know it doesn't last for anything more than a second
sometimes there can be perfect understanding between two people who can't stand each other. He smiled, and I smiled, and we put the Timex watches on, and we watched the seconds flit by.
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#78. I almost cried. But I didn't, because if you're in seventh grade and you cry while wearing a blue floral cape and yellow tights with white feathers on the butt, you just have to curl up and die somewhere in a dark alley.
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#79. Lizzie Bright Griffin, do you ever wish the world would just go ahead and swallow you whole?"
"Sometimes I do," she said, and then smiled. "but sometimes I figure I should just go ahead and swallow it.
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#80. Christmas is the season for miracles, you know. Sometimes they come big and loud, I guess - but I've never seen one of those. I think probably most miracles are a lot smaller, and sort of still, and so quiet, you could miss them.
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